Name songs or pieces of music with Morse Code in them! I'll start.

[bbernardini]

Rush - "YYZ" - The opening riff is the Morse Code for "YYZ".

Roger Waters - "The Tide Is Turning" - I believe the code is "The tide is turning, Sylvester", a reference to Sylvester Stallone.

[LynneSin]

1. S.O.S.

by Abba

[meegbear]

2. All of Radio Kaos has morse code in it ...

[bbernardini]

9. Indeed it does! Here's some more info I found...

The missing verse from "The Tide Is Turning", as played in Morse Code at the end of the album:

"Now the past is over but you are not alone, together we'll fight Sylvester Stallone. We will not be dragged down in his South China Sea, of macho bullshit and mediocrity."

[tuvor]

3. Planet Claire by the B-52's?

Sounds sorta Morse Codey at the start. :shrug:

[bobthedrummer]

4. "Planet Claire" sounds like it has Morse Code in it even if it doesn't

[Goathead]

10. Good call n/t

[teach1st]

5. Oh, Dear Miss Morse...

Pearls Before Swine

Oh Dear, Miss Morse,
I want you,
Oh yes, I do,
I want you.

This may strike you
Odd-I-ly
But I want you
Bodily

Don't blame me dear,
Blame McLuhan
His media
Were your ruin

Chorus:
Dit Dit Dah Dit
Dit Dit Dah
Dah Dit Dah Dit
Dah Dit Dah

[mr_hat]

6. Ba-ba-baba ba-ba-ba-baba is Morse Code for "I wanna be sedated."

[Goathead]

7. 'One' Metallica

At least the video. Clips from "Johnny Got His Gun" and they guy is Morse coding "Kill me" with his body. Haunting.

[CanuckAmok]

8. Dot Dash, by Wire.

[DBoon]

11. London Calling

I think there is morse at the end

[Squeech]

12. Oldie but goodie

"Western Union." I think the name of the artist was the Five Americans. (Not to be confused with Jay and the Americans.)

If you know it, it's destined to be an earworm for the rest of the afternoon, but a relatively pleasant one.

[CO Liberal]

15. Yes - That WAS The Five Americans

1966 or '67, if memory serves correctly.

[CanuckAmok]

13. Oddly enough playing right now: Cabaret Voltaire - "Code"

Winamp just "randomly" pulled it from my music file.

[CO Liberal]

14. "Morse Code of Love" - The Capris (1982)

It's a doowop song. The base line is Morse Code.

[MrBenchley]

16. Morse Code of Love

Dit dit da da
Dit dit da da da da
Dit dit da da
Dit dit da da da da

I sent my baby a telegram
Asking to be her man
Begging her to come back home to me
Oh I dotted the I's and I crossed the T's
And I'm begging pretty please
Honey honey, come back home to me

Baby I want your love
Baby I need your love
Honey honey come back home to me
Got to have your love
Can't live without your love
Honey honey come back home to me

It's an old doo-wop song by the Capris...

[CO Liberal]

21. Great Minds Think Alike, Bench!!

See my Post #14. :-)

[MrBenchley]

22. It seems so....

Glad to see you...how ya been?

[CO Liberal]

23. Not Bad

Still fighting the chronic back pain. I go in on Wednesday for a nerve study, and I have to have another discogram in a few weeks. The doctors are trying to figure out why I'm in so much pain one to five years after my accidents.

I don't go down into the Gungeon any more, because I got tired of beating my head against a wall.

And you?

[MrBenchley]

27. I'm doing pretty well....

It's amazing how uniformly dishonest the gun loonies are...

Did you see Salon today?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1690396&mesg_id=1690396&page=

[CO Liberal]

17. "SOS" - Abba

:-)

[bbernardini]

18. Just found this interesting article about it!

http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000059.html

[Tikki]

19. "Lucky Number"....Lene Lovich..

kinda sounds like there might be morse code in there.


Tikki

[XNASA]

20. "Western Union" by the Five Americans

[Richardo]

25. MY first thought, XNASA

Bah ba-bah ba-bah
Bah ba-bah ba-bah
Bah ba-bah ba-bah
Bah ba-bah ba-bah
etc.

[China_cat]

24. Beethoven's fifth

dot dot dot dash....Morse 'V'

[Paranoid_Portlander]

26. Which was borrowed by London Calling?...

... as mentioned by DBoon in reply #11. V for victory during WW II.

[China_cat]

31. I did not see that

Must have skipped right over it. Sorry.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

34. That's OK.

I just wasn't sure if there was a connection between Beethoven's 5th and London Calling.

[AllegroRondo]

33. Coincidence, I think

as Beethoven wrote this before the invention of the telegraph.

[China_cat]

35. Coincidence or not

it's still Morse code.

And it's the source of my dog's call name.

[fudge stripe cookays]

28. I believe there's one on "Eve" - Alan Parsons Project

"Lucifer" I think. It's been many years since I heard the album, but I seem to recall that one.

FSC

[Tom Kitten]

29. Kraftwerk..."Radioactivity"

Tschernobyl, Harrisburgh, Sellafield, Hiroshima
Tschernobyl, Harrisburgh, Sellafield, Hiroshima
Stop radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me
Stop radioactivity
Discovered by Madame Curie
Chain reaction and mutation, contaminated population
Stop radioactivity
Is in the air for you and me


.-. .- -.. .. --- .- -.-. - .. ...- .. - -..--
Radioactivity
.. ... .. -. - .... . .- .. .-. ..-. --- .-. -.-- --- ..- .- -. -.. -- .
Is in the air for you and me
.-. .- -.. .. --- .- -.-. - .. ...- .. - -..--
Radioactivity
-.. .. ... -.-. --- ...- . .-. . -.. -... -.-- -- .- -.. .- -- . -.-. ..- .-. .. .
Discovered by Madame Curie
.-. .- -.. .. --- .- -.-. - .. ...- .. - -..--
Radioactivity
.-. .- -.. .. --- .- -.-. - .. ...- .. - -..-- .. ... ..-. .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.-
Radioactivity is in
... ... --- ...
S O S

[miss_kitty]

30. The Inspector Morse Series

That's an 'M' in the opening. I also read an interview where the composer said he'd work character names into the incidental music, just to mess with people...

[Tom Kitten]

32. Hawkwind..."Spirit of the Age"

From the album "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"...It has the SOS message in the intro....

Great album...If you ever come across a copy (almost impossible to find on cd though), check it out!

I would have like you
to have been
deep frozen too
and waiting still
as fresh in your flesh
for my return to earth
but your father refused
to sign the forms
to freeze you
let's see
you'd bee
about sixty now
and long dead
by the the time i return
to earth
my time held dreams
were full of you
as you were
when i left:
still under-age

your android replica
is playing up again
it's no joke
when she comes
she moans
another's name

that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
it's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
and that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
that is the spirit of the age

i am a clone
i am not alone
every fibre of my flesh
and bone
is identical to ther others'
everything i say
is in the same tone
as my test-tube brothers'
voice.
there is no choice
between us
if you had ever seen us
you'd rejoice
in your uniqueness
and consider every weakness
something special
of your own
being a clone
i have no flaws to identify
even this doggerel
that pours from my pen
has just been written by
another twenty
telepathic men
it says:
o for the wings
of any bird
other than a battery hen.

but that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
that's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
it's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
adjust the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
unjust the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)

[Radio_Lady]

36. Suite from "Victory At Sea" -- NBC-TV show theme music

by Robert Russell Bennett

He used to come by my desk at NBC and tell me my real name was "Ariel" the water sprite. He was a very sweet elderly man...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. It was in Richard Rogers' score as well...

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

38. You're absolutely right, Goddess!

Composer: Richard Rodgers (ASCAP)

Arranger/Orchestrator: Robert Russell Bennett (ASCAP)

[edbermac]

39. Amarok by Mike Oldfield

Alledgedly he has the code FO, RB, for Fuck Off Richard Branson, the head of Virgin Records...

[IntravenousDemilo]

40. "The Night Was Alive" from the musical TITANIC, Act One

with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Peter Stone.

Every day from G-M-O-M
"Good morning, old man"
To G-N-O-M
"Good night, old man
My telegraph sends its messages to ships at sea,
Sending out its dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit...
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit...

I was young and shy, detached and sad,
Spent my days indoors, a home-bound land.
Hardly spoke, few friends,
I kept myself to myself,
Quite alone.

Then I found Marconi's telegraph.
It could span the planet's width by half --
Fifty yards, two thousand miles
The same!
Touch the spark...sound the tone...

And the night was alive
With a thousand voices
Fighting to be heard,
And each and every one of them
Connected to me...

And my life came alive
With a thousand voices
Tapping out each word
Like a thousand people
Joined with a single heartbeat.

Tapping out our dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit...
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Dit dit-dah-dit dah
Everywhere.

*******

Kinda sounds like us here, doesn't it?