Morse messages in songs, games, even buildings

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

0:00 Morse code & music 1:20 Visual Morse code 2:20 Secret military messages 3:45 A theme song entirely in Morse

[@Muzer0]

Out of curiosity why did you unlist this? Just because it doesn't have much to do with linguistics? I found it an interesting, if offtopic, video!

[@MegaMash77]

In the game runescape there's a song, called Norse Code, which contains a flute part that spells out R U N E S C A P E in morse code

[@Skeldoor]

As soon as I saw the video title I rushed to the comments to see if someone had mentioned this one ❤ RuneScape has quite a few morse references, even as recent as the latest ToA raid released has morse code hidden amongst Egyptian style carvings. Seers bank even spells out the word “items” with its open and closed bank stalls!

[@diabl2master]

It's a banger as well

[@jimroberts3651]

It took a few years for Morse code to evolve into its current form. In "The Planets" by Holst there's an obvious bit of Morse code and at first I though the strings were playing S O S. Then I realised they were actually playing H O L S T in Morse's first version of the code with a long dash for L.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

I never knew!

[@J75Pootle]

In which piece do they do this? The planets are some of my favourite pieces of music but I've never noticed this!

[@flaggerify]

I was surprised he didn't bring that up.

[@JBB685]

@@J75Pootlesame. I haven’t either!

[@q-tuber7034]

It’s in Mercury. The pattern is …..-.--. (Or if that’s unreadable: 5 dots, dash, dot, 4 dashes, dot.) Not clear what it means, but it’s not “Holst” (at least not as OP explains it). Leonard Bernstein, of all people, wrote: “I’ve always suspected some secret message in the music, but I’ve never been able to discover what it is.”

[@theantimatter]

I don't know if this is common knowledge, but: In the late 90's and early 2000's, one of the most used text message notification sounds was, bip bip bip / beep beep / bip bip bip which is the Morse code for SMS ... - - ...

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

Yes, I think it was before polyphonic ring tones were widespread

[@bloosy1771]

I remember that from the old Nokias.

[@superpieton]

It was di-di-dit da-dah di-di-dit.

[@AlexanderOnFire]

In the Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild the SOS morse code is used in the musical pieces of each of the Champions of the Divine Beasts. They are captured in those huge beasts and are sending signals for help. It is really a nice touch of indirect storytelling.

[@SOBIESKI_freedom]

Brilliant! I didn't know about the Frank Spencer theme being based on Morse code. Now I can never unsee (unhear?) it. Thank you!

[@newtscamander2461]

The POW Morse code stuff really got me. I’d seen the video of the man blinking but I never knew it spelled out torture. I don’t know why, maybe because I was expecting him to merely say “help,” but that genuinely upset me. The next example where they tried to tell POWs to hold on a little longer made me feel a bit better tho

[@robertlewis5439]

In the Hỏa Lò (aka "Hanoi Hilton") prison, the prisoners used a code system of knocks different from Morse Code (though the captured pilots would know Morse.) The alphabet was arranged in a 5x5 grid, leaving out the 'k'. The prisoners would knock the row/column of the letter they wanted to communicate.

[@maiabones]

I've been listening to Rush on repeat lately and have heard YYZ a few times a day for several weeks. I was pleased to see it included :D

[@LaTortuePGM]

lol yeah i was gonna say if yyz isn't included i'd riot

[@maiabones]

@@LaTortuePGM phenomenal song, phenomenal band. rip neil peart

[@Untoldanimations]

I've been jamming this song a lot recently and never thought to research what it's about. I just thought it was typical prog gibberish haha

[@davidbenson8127]

I'm surprised you've left out what is probably the most famous deliberate example: the "Mission Impossible" Theme. The 5/4 tempo results from treating dashes as dotted quarter notes, and dots as quarter notes. The resulting rhythm spells out "M-I", which is of course short for Mission Impossible.

[@californianorma876]

Never knew that!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@DuckPerc]

That's so cool that morse code for MI actually translates into a normal drum groove XD

[@hunterst.arnold6646]

In the game "Kirby and the Forgotten Land", there's scene where Kirby enters an elevator leading to laboratory of some kind. When they enter the elevator, the lights flicker on, making the sound you would expect fluorescent lighting to. This sound however spells out the letters EFILLIN in Morse Code. This is reference to a character in the game whom the antagonist wished to capture. Of note is that this spelling is based on the character's Japanese name of エフィリン, and that in the English localization, their name was changed to Elfilin, making the Morse Code inaccurate, most likely because the localizers had no idea the Japanese dev team have inserted this detail into the game to begun with.

[@Nimmo1492]

The standard SMS message tone on old Nokia phones spells out SMS in morse code.

[@sandradermark8463]

About V for Victory for the Allies and Beethoven's fifth (...- V in Morse). V is also the Roman numeral fiVe. Coincidence?

[@almostfm]

The Canadian 5 cent coin from 1943-45 (aka the "Victory Nickel") had the phrase "we win when we work willingly" spelled out in Morse code on the reverse just inside the rim.

[@MEGAMIGA]

Cool!

[@chrisjohnston3512]

I've had one of those since I was a kid and never realised that!

[@Moonbase59]

Thanks for this! I didn’t realize morse code was still used that much-in disguise. And probably for fun, thinking of people recognizing it only a long time later. Your subscription request at the end made me laugh out loud-well done!

[@J-W_Grimbeek]

Wait, so Beethoven's FIFTH symphony happens to be V in morse?

[@renatastec5212]

And V is number 5 in Roman Numbers... Beethoven would be amused to know, hehe

[@robertlewis5439]

Dun dun dun DUHH, dun dun dun DUHH. 3 short, 1 long.

[@grantofat6438]

Four notes of random lengths (long/short) has to be morse code for something.

[@msolec2000]

@@robertlewis5439 three short one looooong, three short one loooong

[@baronderochemont8556]

Fascinating as always! I’d add that Alan Parsons Project’s song named Lucifer also contains some Morse code at the beginning.

[@glenmartin2437]

Thank you. The Western singer, Johnny Cash, was a Morse Code operator and incorporated the code into some of his songs.

[@SgtFloofy]

“Lucifer” by the Alan Parsons Project has a prominent synth part spells out “Eve”, which is the name of the album the song is on. And the whole song is built from the rhythm of the Morse code.

[@henriquekatahira1653]

That’s fascinating. It’s the first binary code to become widely spread. I liked the way the FARCs used the Morse code encrypted into a song.

[@dhanakyt]

Except it's not binary. It's at least ternary, or rather quaternary, since the gaps between the taps also carry meaning, and there are short an long gaps as well.

[@henriquekatahira1653]

@@dhanakyt I didn’t know that. Thanks for the comment!

[@catlop15]

@@dhanakyt from wikipedia: Morse code is transmitted using just two states (on and off). Morse code may be represented as a binary code, and that is what telegraph operators do when transmitting messages. Working from the above ITU definition and further defining a bit as a dot time, a Morse code sequence may be made from a combination of the following five bit-strings: short mark, dot or dit ( ▄ ): 1 longer mark, dash or dah ( ▄▄▄ ): 111 intra-character gap (between the dits and dahs within a character): 0 short gap (between letters): 000 medium gap (between words): 0000000

[@dhanakyt]

@@catlop15 _Everything_ can be _represented_ as a binary code. That's what computers do. That doesn't mean that Morse code _itself is_ a binary code. If you read the quote carefully, you notice that the proposed binary representation uses _five_ different sequences to denote dots, dashes, short and medium gaps. This is one possible encoding, but definitety not the only one. Four fixed length sequences are, in fact, enough (e.g., 00 for short gap, 01 for medium gap, 10 for dot, 11 for dah, then conveniently the first bit encodes whether it is a gap or a mark, and the second bit encodes the length, 0 for short, 1 for long). The optimal encoding depends on the requirements, e.g., whether we optimize for total bit count, fault tolerance, or, as in the case of the representation in the wikipedia quote, the timing of the individual codes.

[@gnorung7769]

@@dhanakyt I really like your proposition for a completely binary representation of Morse code. Whether it is common practice or your own idea, it is a lot more elegant than the other example. As for whether it is binary or not, I would say the code itself, similar to an alphabet or a numeral system, is indeed binary, as in all characters are represented by sequences of two different symbols. I understand that in order to use the code to carry meaning, you need to use visual or temporal spaces, but I don't see how that differs from the binary numeral system in maths, where you still express numbers and operations with spaces and other symbols. Purely binary systems are only used in the Computer Science/Engineering (or probably in one branch of it, which I think would be computer architecture), but outside of that field, the definition of a binary system is a lot laxer. Yeah you require a tertiary element (time or a symbol for space) for the message to be understandable, but to say the gaps carry meaning feels like a bit of a stretch. Gaps certainly carry information, but it is the building blocks that carry meaningful information, which are certainly binary in their representation. I mean, I'm not entirely convinced either, but I feel like it boils down to how rigidly you define a binary system and I feel like Morse code would fit most definitions except the strictest.

[@Benjy52]

The Mission Impossible theme spells “MI” in Morse.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

Big omission :(

[@C0baltBlueJ]

I commented.on the previous video about the Propellerheads version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service having "OHMSS" repeating in Morse. There's also a good example in the game "Dear Esther" which uses "Esther" in Morse for the main theme, as well as a piece of music later which spells "Damascus", a frequently repeated theme in the game.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

Most prominent Morse code example I know of is in Neil Cicierega's "Piss"

[@jagoandlitefoot]

the band Public Service Broadcasting put out an EP a few years ago that was themed around the sinking of the Titanic; there's a song on it called "C-Q-D" that turns the Morse code into a repeating three-bar phrase and builds the song around it

[@noahlankford9527]

Great content as always

[@aliased_aryl]

Never thought I’d see the dream smp appear in a Dr. Lindsey video, but hey, I’m here for it

[@pinkreboot]

happy new year! great video😌

[@jackleylian]

The dream smp example you used is actually a song originally from the game Undertale! Pretty sure that that’s Fallen Down from the soundtrack

[@charlieking7600]

It definitely is, this is what actually scared me. Like it was heard by millions of people but only dozens of them actually deciphered the message. And I wasn't the one.

[@_peepee_]

hes talking about the blinking of the crown, not the song

[@zmaj12321]

I was wondering why I recognized the tune!

[@cinnamoncat8950]

​@@_peepee_ exactly, it was about visual Morse code in that part so while it's definitely cool someone pointed out that the music in the background is from Undertale, it doesn't really affect the video

[@j7ndominica051]

Hard to believe that those prisoners could actually decode the mesage without an ability to repeat or electronically enhance the beeps.

[@sparrowsion]

Mike Oldfield's Amarok has a rather pointed morse message about getting out of his contract with Virgin Records.

[@EilonwyWanderer]

They Might Be Giants has Morse in their track "Pencil Rain" -- there's an instrumental section where you can hear "ay ay ay ay canta y no llores" ("hey, sing and don't cry") which is from the traditional Spanish song "Cielito Lindo" ("Pretty Little Sky") 😁

[@lewis4200]

Your use of "speeded" rather than "sped" caught me off guard for a second. I had to check, and apparently both are correct - it's just that "speeded" sounds odd in my speech. It gave me an idea of something I thought might be interesting to cover though... (I'm a bit of a linguistics noob, so I may not be able to articulate this properly). It'd be cool to learn how/why certain words change in different ways depending on their tense (and why it can change depending on accent/country). For instance past tense words usually end in -ed. Such as watched, clicked and subscribed ;) Then there are irregular cases like ran, swam, drove. English and American tend to differ with -ed vs -t, learnt/learned, spelt/spelled, dreamt/dreamed. And finally there are the cases that aren't "grammatically correct" but are widely used in certain areas. I've heard plenty of Americans use "drug" in place of "dragged". And where I live in Scotland, it's not uncommon to hear "jamp" instead of "jumped". Hopefully that's clear enough to follow, just thought it'd be interesting to hear how such words evolve over time. Anyway, great video as always! Cheers!

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

Just be careful, sped as a noun won't go over so well.

[@lewis4200]

@@handlenot030 There's a clip of Conan O'Brien being corrected by Jennifer Garner for using either "snuck" or "sneaked" (can't remember off the top of my head). Then he whips out a dictionary to vindicate himself. You just reminded me of that haha.

[@lewis4200]

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Lol, no that's one that's probably best avoided.

[@Lindalindali]

glided/glid is another one

[@overlordnat]

I heard one of the cast of ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ say ‘jamp’ for ‘jumped’ once, so this form is/was occasionally used in Yorkshire - I didn’t realise it was Scottish too though.

[@mr51406]

Fascinating! Happy New Year and Bonne Année from Montréal. 🌟🍀 YYZ🇨🇦: it’s definitely “zed” in Canada. Rush are quite proud. There are so few differences between the Canadian and “Midwestern” American accents, many of us like to accentuate the few we have, Eh?

[@familydavison7923]

The red aircraft warning light on top of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria used to flash “Ons vir jou Suid Africa” in morse code. Maybe it still does, but I haven’t been there for years.

[@FredNagel]

I remember learning about this in primary school and have been fascinated by it. I'll have a look the next time I pass by!

[@bourbon2242]

You forgot London Calling by The Clash. At the end, you can hear the morse code for “SOS”, which I think is a very clever use of morse code considering the apocalyptic theme of the song.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

SOS has been used a lot because it's familiar. At least when it was a ringtone!

[@bourbon2242]

@@DrGeoffLindsey Even the name of the song, London Calling, would’ve been quite familiar to most listeners because it was borrowed from the name of a monthly listings magazine by the BBC.

[@mytube001]

@@DrGeoffLindsey I thought the ringtone was for messages and said "SMS", * * * - - * * *?

[@vincentstartuplarbin2786]

While we're at London Calling, is there any Londoner in the room able to tell "era" and "error" apart ? Like in "A nuclear erXXX, But I have no fear" 😊

[@bourbon2242]

@@vincentstartuplarbin2786 It’s error

[@lanasinapayen3354]

Happy new year Dr!

[@reggy_h]

It has been suggested that the theme to "633 Squadron" is Morse code but it isn't. It sounds like it should be though. The idea of hiding Morse code in music was used in a George Formby film "Let George Do It" where a German spy/ band leader was passing on secret messages through his music on the wireless. Relying on my memory there. I'm sure it was Morse code. Thanks for the video and particularly the Some Mothers Do 'Ave' Em example. I'm a radio amateur and I'm surprised that I didn't spot that.😄

[@ucojq]

Maybe a video on differences in verb (ir)regularity across dialects? e.g. "speeded" in your dialect vs. "sped" in mine?

[@oh2mp]

1988 song L.A. Mix - "Check This Out" contains "L A MIX" in morse code. I was in the army and on my way to a radio operator exam to another city and when someone from that garrison brought us from the railway station, the song was playing in the radio. It was the first time I noticed the code in the song. Quite a coincidence that on the next day we had those exams which really were messaging with morse code on radios.

[@oh2mp]

A little addition: "Army" in my previous comment means the Defence Forces of Finland.

[@TheOtherMwalimu]

Dr. Lindsey, truly, you're a wonderful genius. Thank you for teaching us.

[@scintillam_dei]

He didn't like your comment because it's a run-on sentence.

[@scintillam_dei]

Now he liked your comment because my backwards psychology worked.

[@dasvon]

Whether true to form or not, the British panel show , QI, notes their theme tume has (always had) a hidden Morse code message spelling out a website one may visit. QI has a small snippet video explaining just that as part of their Christmas 2016 season.

[@rjb29uk]

Was going to say similar about QI. I read somewhere that Howard Goodall incorporated a phrase something like "Stephen hero, Alan zero" in Morse code into the theme tune. The explanation for this was that the original concept was to have Stephen Fry as the captain of 'team clever' and Alan to be the captain of 'team foolish' or something along those lines. But in the end they had Stephen hosting and Alan just as a panellist with three guests competing against each other with no teams. But the hidden morse in the theme song remains, and I guess remained relevant as Stephen literally had all the answers when he hosted, and Alan's job was often to state the "Common Ignorance" answer to keep the show moving along.

[@thegreyarea-WPP]

My phone allows me to set my own vibration pattern, so incoming messages spell out my lady's name in Morse code. I was going to do this for certain contacts, but it couldn't be set individually on WhatsApp so now everyone's comes through with her name.

[@WayneKitching]

Nokia used to have a message alert tone that spelt out "Nokia Connecting people" in Morse code.

[@martybartfast1]

Frank'ly, I love it Sir! As ex mil and a user (rubbish hand now) it's so good to know others can still hear the dahs and dits. Last intro to the cypher was 2002 I think with ._._._ being allocated for the @ symbol. and how many know their phones are letting them know a Short Message Sequence of 168 inrypted characters has come in with 'Dit dit dit... dah dah .. dit dit dit. I thank you for your work sir, well put together and a solid voice delivery. m out

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

Thanks Matthew for your kind words. I had no idea about the @ symbol!

[@shef7074]

The last thing I expected was a Minecraft mention, yet here we are

[@Tony32]

After the BTS mention anything is possible 🤣🤣😜😜

[@shef7074]

@@Tony32 Geoff is truly a madlad

[@Tony32]

@@shef7074 🤣

[@helenbaumander3953]

The QI theme song. They reveal what is says in one of the Christmas episodes.

[@taylorizedfunster]

The title itself already sounds super exciting! Dr Geoff Lindsey talking about music is a good reason to stop doing anything else, sit down and listen 😅

[@scintillam_dei]

You should always preface his title and name with "The honourable," you knave.

[@zjokka]

1:31 have you SPEEDED the video up? Wow, looking it up I discover that both are ok. Probably 'sped' is more archaic. As a foreigner (do have a MA in English) I learned that everything we learned in school in the 80's in Belgium, was suffering from RP-itis too! The same process is happening in Dutch: strong verbs turn weak when they tend to become less common.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

1. 'speeded' and 'sped' have slightly different meanings and uses, BUT 2. I had to look it up and check because I wasn't sure myself!!!!

[@0cer0]

Radioactivity by Kraftwerk has the most unmissable Morse code ever.

[@davorzmaj753]

Yup. Being Kraftwerk, they don't stop at a word or two -- they have several lines of the song's lyrics in Morse. Hawkwind's "Spirit of the Age" has "SOS", but that's boring by comparison.

[@tvguts]

Fascinating video! One of my favorite songs right now is Mayday by The Go! Team, which starts out with morse code spelling out... well, Mayday! What else?

[@Rosesandtea]

The Glen Campbell hit “Wichita Lineman” has Morse code incorporated in it.

[@rosiefay7283]

0:54 This misrepresents the intended rhythm of Morse. It neglects the space between the dots and dashes of a character. That space lasts as long as a dot. With judicious use of articulation marks, this actually makes rhythms *simpler*. Dot is staccato quaver; dash is tenuto crotchet (held for three-quarters of its length).

[@Digital-Dan]

Many classical compositions, both traditional and modern, have sequences that are Morse-code-like. Whether this was an intentional thing or whether people just like dot-dash rhythms, I couldn't say. One explicit place where it shows up is a paean to the technology featured in a song sung by the radio operator on the Titanic, in the stage musical of the same name. "With my dit dit dah dit dah dit....."

[@MenelionFR]

Thank you as always, Dr. Lindsey. And I've even learned a new fact about English (I'm not native, unfortunately): I heard you saying "I speeded up the video" twice, and before I thought "sped" was the only correct past tense of "to speed". For those ignorant people like me: before the recommendation was to use "sped" but "speeded up", now both forms are correct no matter what (correct me if my source is wrong).

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

"Speeded up" is British, I think.

[@agoodwasteoftime]

I'm a fan of the kpop group txt, and all through their debut teasers they used morse code to spell out words, and i found it fascinating. I don't think they actually integrated morse into the melody of their debut song in the end, not that im aware of anyway, but at the beginning and in the bridge we hear the morse for CROWN. which is the english title of the song. Thanks to that i will now always know the morse for the word crown. -.-. .-. --- .-- -.

[@chrisjohnston3512]

Ordinary Day by Great Big Sea starts out with an SOS played by equipment from a Newfoundland Museum

[@ptorq]

In high school symphonic band I remember playing a piece by some modern (20th Century) composer whose name I cannot now recall, but the name of the piece was "Caccia and Chorale". In one section the score had the clarinets shrilling out -.. . --. over and over as a tribute to a friend of his whose initials were DEG.

[@janalu4067]

Brilliant!

[@roxieeyeleers4465]

Congratulations. I was excited to see your name flash on the screen! I have two short things: #1 My great uncle wanted very much to serve in WWII. He was told he was color (colour!!!) -blind. So he studied the colors on the flags with a friend. He quickly learned the order of the flags. He was accepted and he was a pro with Morse Code. After service he became a high school principal in San Diego CA!! #2 I love Louisiana and Georgia. Visiting a Plantation on one journey to the South, the guide mentioned that the slaves could sing loudly and pass on messages to each other, mainly to report an overseer who might try to grab them, and their voices even reached other plantations while they worked in the fields. I have been trying to find out what language they used, Cajun, French, or a made-up language. Does anyone know?

[@BodaciousWench]

‘Follow the Drinking Gourd’ was a code song to help slaves find their way north. I’ve heard of a lot more but can’t find my sources right now.

[@jimjjewett]

When he says he has "speeded up" the video, is that a personal quirk or standard British? For American me, it should be "sped" up, but I start thinking of so many cases where speeded could be used that it would not surprise me to learn my own usage is now the outlier.

[@MenelionFR]

I'm relieved to have read your comment, I even wrote my own one before seeing yours. I thought that's because I'm not a native speaker, that caught my ear. From what I read on the Internet, before the norm was "sped" but "speeded up" as a phrasal verb (only for British?), but now both forms are considered correct. Again, my source might be wrong, so please correct me if you know better. And yes, I stick to the American standard, so "correct" to me equals "correct in American standard English".

[@massimolisoni4990]

You just reminded me that I don't know what the Morse message in Wii Sports Resort was yet, after 13 years. Edit. Apparently there are 3 funny sentences about the use of the Morse code itself 😆

[@caterscarrots3407]

I tried learning morse code once, and it didn't really stick except the S and O(which I remembered from SOS). But now, I can remember the V as well(because of that Beethoven's Fifth thing). It's like I need something alongside the morse code in order to remember it well.

[@g_in_garage]

bruhhh not dream😭😭😭😭

[@HoosierRallyMaster]

I had a clothes washer that beeped out the code for Bravo Zulu when it finished - which is the hoist flag signal for "Well Done"

[@justincronkright5025]

I assume being a Q.I. Watcher, you'd have heard it being called a cypher (or cipher I guess for the U.S. - always kept myself with 'C's being more K-like with 'i's, but having 'cy' as a diphthong so can pronunce it more readily as '[p]sy'), instead of it being a code. Since codes work on semantics & cyphers are based on direct analogues for term to term translation.

[@reineh3477]

Mission Impossible theme, bass plays two long two short = M I

[@rjones6219]

The curious thing above Beethoven's fifth, those famous opening notes. Spelling V. Which is the Roman numeral for five

[@martinligabue]

I knew about a pretty simple one in Mayday by Fatrat where there's the simple sos

[@MEGAMIGA]

In Amarok, from the eponymous album, Mike Oldfield spelled F.U.C.K.R.B. . The RB in question being Richard Branson, because Mike Oldfield had to deliver two more albums and didn't feel like it...

[@dantemeriere5890]

This was truly fascinating.

[@greyt1]

Another interesting video, good comment section too. Tthank you. I have to subscribe now 👍

[@chapeljohn9462]

I'm a native speaker, but I happen to find that language can be really interesting when is broken down and explained, from the great vowel shift influencing modern English pronunciation, as well as giving us different accents that we all know and love today, to the Norse giving us words like skirt, skull, sky etc. The word 'skirt' is a good example of language becoming more enriched as time goes on, because the Norse word 'skyrta' meant the same thing as the old English word 'scyrte', which meant 'short garment'.

[@victoriayasmeen4105]

In Iron Maiden's Empire of the Clouds, which tells the story of the last flight of the British airship R101, you can hear the morse code for "SOS" being played on the drums partway through. I believe it marks the moment the ship's crew realises crashing is inevitable.

[@MPS186282]

The clapping at the beginning of Muse's "Starlight" spells "tits" in Morse Code.

[@mellion_tealeaf]

The Minecraft music is actually from Undertale, the original track is called "Fallen Down"

[@WizardOfArc]

I'm glad YYZ was the first song mentioned :D

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

My mum and dad used Morse code for a secret knock, if they needed to be sure who ti was talking/knocking on the door. My dad (Robert) would knock *-*, and my mum (Kay) would reply -*-, or vice versa.

[@GunnarMiller]

Kraftwerk's song "Radioactivity" spells out that very word kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH6VdZeonJaYfKs . The Clash's "London Calling" ends with "SOS" kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2S7ooCqltJkf5I The B-52s' "Planet Claire plays a long string of military code at the beginning kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4DNcq1_at90gtE Steely Dan's "King of the World" has a morse code break in the middle kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5vNZ4Sro8SAm5I Some say the beat of the "Mission Impossible" theme is "MI" repeated kzbin.info/www/bejne/rajTiYikZ8l5a8U .

[@bogdanieczezbyszka6538]

Muse - Starlight has a very *nice* message hidden in the drum beat.

[@jameswest509]

THE CAPRIS - "MORSE CODE OF LOVE"

[@imperiallegionnaire8344]

Yes' song Close to the Edge has morse code in it at around 4:50, although It's hard to make out what it says

[@Maurice-Navel]

Happy New Year!

[@Dukey8668]

Amarok by Mike Oldfield has "FUCK OFF RB" (in reference to Richard Branson) at about the 48 minute mark.

[@frozenthirdyear]

The Divine Beast music tracks in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have SOS and SAD in Morse in the background as well.

[@nersh46137]

Wouldn’t the ending of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em be an ellipsis?

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

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[@pidgeotroll]

I’m not sure if it was intended or not, but your explanation of the victory V ..._ made me think of the “victory” music line from Final Fantasy 7, the first 4 notes which are "..._".The remaining notes make "_ _ _._" or “VMK,” which is the only reason I’m unsure as to whether or not this was an intentional reference.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5K7ipSpap2SocU

[@FredNagel]

Dream Theater has a Morse code message in the song 'In The Name Of God', at the 5:50 point that spells out "eat my ass and balls" - my apologies for the foul message, it was apparently a joke by drummer Mike Portnoy 😂

[@GroovingPict]

Roger Waters's Radio KAOS album features morse code quite heavily, both on the album artwork and in the recording itself. The code on the cover spells out the name of the artist and album and a partial track list. But the morse code throughout the album is a bit more interesting; apparently the last bit of morse code heard on the album spells out a missing verse of the last song, The Tide Is Turning, which Roger left out probably because of the mention of a certain celebrity and might have been worried about legal action? It apparently goes: "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".

[@Tony32]

I wonder if "Siguen Ustedes" would have been better translated as "You're next" "You'll follow" sounds odd and ambiguous. A too literal translation.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

I was trying to get a bit closer to a word by word gloss for linguistic transparency

[@Tony32]

@@DrGeoffLindsey I see 👍

[@keksimus__maximus]

Honourable mention is the mission: impossible theme that spells M I in Morse

[@MrSpacelyy]

He actually said Vrijheid really well

[@splendidenglishgrammar]

The laughing sign in modern media communication is LoL. When I was a a radio amateur (call sign G4HED) we used the morse code for H I …. ..

[@superpieton]

Why do you say "when you were a ham"? Once you pass the exam, you are one... 😉

[@beepboop204]

[@MrEthanhines]

I believe the only true way to learn morse is by identifying the rhythms. I'm just starting but already I "hear" La-di-dah for K, "How dare you" for D, TaDa for A, Pa,pow,pow,pa for P, MaMa for M, others.

[@goldenheart3887]

YYZ IS ON HERE YAAAAAY

[@eliane2743]

What about the ending of the Black and White album by The Stranglers, released in 78? Am I the only one noticing morse code at the end of the song Enough Time? And if that is real morse code, what’s the meaning?

[@adjusttherain]

The Walten files has a song in bunnyfarm that spells SOS

[@JulianAlpsNews]

The theme of Heute, the main evening news on Germany's ZDF, formerly included the show's name in Morse code: .... . ..- - . or HEUTE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gquxdYGjn5mmobM

[@hellofromdavid]

_Planet Claire_ by the B52s starts off with overt Morse code...

[@TerryTheNewsGirl]

Ever heard the theme to BOD? Is that Morse Code or is that just me?

[@JohnFallot]

Coincidentally, I’ve tried my luck at writing a jingle with morse code. The idea was to set the name of the nonprofit I cofounded, “Prosocial” “Design” “Network”, in morse code at perfect 4ths and 5ths apart. The hope being it would convey our nonprofit’s vision of using information (embodied by morse code) to help make the internet a friendlier, more harmonious place (as illustrated by use of 4ths and 5ths). Of course, because of the words being different lengths, only the final 3 letters of Network “ork” are distinct at the moment! 😅🎶 (I said I tried my luck with music. I didn’t say I was successful 😂)