[HN Gopher] Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)
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Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)
Author : xanderlewis
Score : 44 points
Date : 2025-01-23 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| kazinator wrote:
| > Tubular Bells was famously recorded at The Manor Studio
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| I think that's referenced in the 1983 Black Sabbath song
| "Trashed".
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| It really was a meeting
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| The bottle took a beating
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| The ladies of The Manor <---
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| Watched me climb into my car and
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| I was going down the track about a hundred and five
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| They had the stop-watch rolling
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| I had the headlights blazing I was really alive
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| And yet my mind was blowing
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Again_(Black_Sabbath_albu...
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| I was listening to this decades ago, and saw the note on the
| cover that the album was recorded at The Manor, so I put that
| together.
| kazinator wrote:
| Another British morse code in music story: in the title theme of
| the 1980s sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em", the rhythm of the
| notes is a deliberate morse code which spells out the title of
| the show.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Mothers_Do_%27Ave_%27Em#T...
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| What the Wikipedia page doesn't mention this, but I read long ago
| that the composer of the tune received only a small one-time
| payment for it and no royalties, despite the popularity of the
| show.
| xanderlewis wrote:
| See also the theme music of the television version of
| 'Inspector Morse', though perhaps that's not very surprising.
| Jordan_Pelt wrote:
| ...and the opening of the Rush song YYZ.
| flobosg wrote:
| A Canadian morse code in music: The intro of Rush's "YYZ" -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YYZ_(song)#Title_and_compositi...
| ahazred8ta wrote:
| A nearby VLF station was transmitting its 'GBR' callsign.
| ryandrake wrote:
| The article is about a studio device unintentionally picking up
| Morse code during recording. But that's not the only intersection
| between Mike Oldfield and Morse code. Oldfield also deliberately
| (and quite obviously, if you're listening for it) inserted into
| one of his later albums: a not-so-nice Morse code message[1] to
| Virgin Records founder Richard Branson, with whom he was at the
| time fighting over how he was being treated by the label and lack
| of promotion. At around the 48 minute mark of _Amarok_ , you can
| hear a synthesizer loudly tap out "F U C K O F F R B" in the
| recording.
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| 1: https://www.mikeoldfield.org/amarok
| hvs wrote:
| "VVV" in Morse code means "attention, incoming message".
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| Cool to see amateur radio and fldigi in a Hacker News article.
| xanderlewis wrote:
| Yep. I've seen it used in place of 'CQ' when testing
| propagation conditions to avoid other stations coming back and
| attempting a contact. It always reminds me of the Doctor Who
| theme: ...- ...- ...-
| TheOtherHobbes wrote:
| Radio pickup is a huge problem for audio electronics.
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| I used to live near someone with a CB radio, and the pitch of one
| of my synths would go up by a semitone when they were
| transmitting.
| gorgoiler wrote:
| The transmission signal path on the first map also looks an awful
| lot like the album cover for Tubular Bells:
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| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Mike_oldfield...
| resters wrote:
| the transmission in the recording is actually VVV GBR
| xanderlewis wrote:
| From the article:
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| > The decoded morse is actually slightly wrong - rather than
| 'MVV' at the start it should be 'VVV' but that's down to FLDigi
| not being 100% accurate. Anyone who knows morse can confirm
| what you actually hear is 'VVV GBR'.
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