Morse code in prog songs?
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Topic: Morse code in prog songs?
Posted By: DEzerov
Subject: Morse code in prog songs?
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:03
Currently listening to Caravan's Golf Girl and couldn't help but smile
when hearing the Morse code in the song. I can think of two other gems
that contain Morse code.....Hawkwind's Spirit of the Age and Klaatu's
Sub Rosa's Subway. Are ther others that I'm forgetting or haven't
heard?    ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:11
| The beginning of YYZ, for sure. |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:11
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the starting riff in YYZ by Rush is actually a morse code used in a Toronto airport. The whole story can be found in some Rush fan sites on the web. ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:12
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Kraftwerk - Radioactivity -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:13
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hey you beat me for a second!!! ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
goose wrote:Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:14
| Mike Oldfield - Amarok. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:16
I was thinking about that... Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales? ------------- 
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:19
No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:19
No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:22
Wow,thanks for the info...Although I don't think I would have liked to hear that Oldfield is dirty talking...   -------------
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:23
It was his last album for Virgin, don't forget.  |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:25
In that case,he is excused... The last albums before Amarok were awful,smart move to leave...-------------
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:35
| Genesis's Watchers is probably the most obvious. |
Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:37
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Watcher of the skies by Genesis.Right after the mellotron intro. ------------- What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop" |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:38
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really?! is that a morse code?!?! can you translate it?!?! I'm sooo curious!!!! ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:42
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Close To The Edge, perhaps? If anyone of you have watched "Wag the Dog" movie, there should be a prog act, who would put a morse code piece in his track, saying "Courage, Mom". ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: silvertree
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:59
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If I remember well, I think there's some Morse code on Roger Waters' "Radio Chaos". Can anyone confirm ? I don't remember well because I got rid of it at one point... thought it wasn't Roger at his best... |
Posted By: Progbear
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:22
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A mega-obscure one: “S.O.S.” by the Russian group Ariel. Also, didn’t Balaklava by Pearls Before Swine have some “naughty” message in Morse Code on one song? Oddly, the Canadian group Morse Code didn’t actually have any songs with Morse Code on them (though I haven’t heard any of the early Morse Code Transmission albums, just the later prog stuff). ------------- [IMG] http://www.denness.net/rpi/u/Progbear/fs/8/w/500/cp/2/s/5/si g.png"> |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:30
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Morse?
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: richeym
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:34
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Dream Theater - In The Name of God theres a section of Morse that translates to 'eat my ass n balls' |
Posted By: lordoflight
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:47
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what does the morse code in spirit of the age translate to ? |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 15:29
Always been called that and of course it makes sense to what the song is about. But translation???????????? |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 15:31
I've just clicked (to pun) I'm sure you are referring to sound of manual hedge clippers (as in -Billy- Shears), a very essential English gardening tool! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:12
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There's supposed to be some morse code in Strawberry Fields Forever -
I'll have to look it up as I can't remember what it says. I know it's
not really prog, but it's not far off. So what does the morse code in "Golf girl" say? |
Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:28
Will do a google search ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:36
Dunno... did a google search and found nothing....did find this though at http://listserv.ispnetinc.net/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9603e&L=boc-l&D=1&T=0&P=9111 - http://listserv.ispnetinc.net/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9603e&a mp;a mp;a mp;L=boc-l&D=1&T=0&P=9111 "Spirit of the Age - as well as opening with some morse code
Very interesting.... ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:42
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Morse code is the intro to the stunning Barclay James Harvest's song Science Fiction: Nova Lepidoptera, from the 1978 album XII! The message is: U.F.O.
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Posted By: lordoflight
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:43
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i tried a search too but found nothing. i think simon house was just playing around on his keyboard, it probably means nothing. quite original to use radio albania as a song intro
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Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 17:15
There's a song on Marillion's Brave,can't remember wich one.It's 11 mins long.Keysman Kelley does those neat little sounds during an atmospheric passage.You can hear it goes ''beep beep beeeep!'' and so on... ------------- What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop" |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 19:09
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yes! and i love it! ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: Biggles
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 19:19
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Yeah, what does the morse code in "Golf Girl" translate to? I can't even find anything that might be mistaken for morse code in that song. And what about "Watcher of the Skies?" What does that mean? ------------- The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe. http://www.last.fm/user/sbonfiglioli/?chartstyle=red"> 
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Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 19:39
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Slightly off topic but what a good name for an album by Steve Morse. 'Morse Code'. ------------- Eternity |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 19:39
yeah In the commentary for MP's Drums of Thought DVD, he mentioned a special "hidden nugget" that could be found somewhere in the studio version of ITNOG. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Morandar
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 21:34
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My free prog group (Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata) used Morse for a
drum pattern in our title track (also the second song we recorded). If you're interested, you can check it out here: http://www.ogd-project.org/02.OGD.mp3 - http://www.ogd-project.org/02.OGD.mp3 ------------- Dangerous to be closely minded by a closed mind. http://www.ogd-project.it - Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - the ultimate attempt at you will to listen. |
Posted By: Biggles
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 22:49
Are you sure it's at that point in the song? I checked out the rhythm using http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html - http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html , and that rhythm just doesn't seem to be there. ------------- The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe. http://www.last.fm/user/sbonfiglioli/?chartstyle=red">
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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 23:23
It's a really quiet part in the background. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/"> 
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Posted By: Gedhead
Date Posted: September 23 2005 at 23:43
| yyz |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 02:16
Yes, Mike approved it himself http://www.dtfaq.com/question/1075 - http://www.dtfaq.com/question/1075 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 06:59
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------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 08:37
The name is already taken by a french canadian band. Since 1970!------------- What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop" |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 08:43
in "Spirit of the Age" the morse code simply is "SOS" repeated again and again ("dadada dahdahdah dadada") -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Biggles
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 14:21
Ah, I hear it now. I thought it was the keyboards that were doing it, but there's that little clicking in the background I hadn't paid attention to. ------------- The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe. http://www.last.fm/user/sbonfiglioli/?chartstyle=red">
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 14:26
| Anybody: is the "morse code bassline" in Watchers actually morse code, or is it just referred to that because it sounds like morse? |
Posted By: Biggles
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 14:33
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Yeah, I think it's just cause it sounds like Morse. I tried to find a meaning for it yesterday, and the best I could get was VOKUU. ------------- The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe. http://www.last.fm/user/sbonfiglioli/?chartstyle=red">
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