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Famous Songs, written in alternative formats
Posted by illuminatus on 3 February 2012 - 11:27pm.
Today, a friend and I were having a conversation about that there 80s hair metal and also about the fact that, come next Monday, Van Halen will be releasing a new album, A Different Kind Of Truth, again replete with Dave Lee Roth. Both of us being geeks, he sent me back a facebook post which simply read:
if ( $i->getup() && !getsmedown('anything') ) {
$this->jump('might as well');
}
Now, this got me wondering what other famous songs can be represented in alternative formats (not necesarily snippets of program code). And who better to ask then The Massive?
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Code?
Half the people on the board struggle to insert a picture into their posts.
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(<3 me)x2 - The Doors
<3+1 - Haircut 100
<3-0 - Bob Dylan
and of course,
_ _ _ _ _ _ - The Eagles
I do remember Bad Romance being done like this.
*off to a different tab for a minute*
Can't find it. Arse to Google. You can work it out. Lots of ooh's and aah's and stuff.
It was quite amusing. And probably a bit clever.
This anecdote does lose a bit in the telling.
I did a degree in computer science!
I used to be able to code in Fortran, Mike, Pascal and C++. Hmmmm. Not sure I can remember how to program in any of them these days.
But let's see if I can dredge some BASIC out of my head...
10 CLS
20 LET X=0
30 PRINT "NO "
40 LET X=X+1
50 IF X=12 THEN GOTO 70
60 GOTO 30
70 PRINT "THERE'S NO LIMIT"
(dreadful song, sorry)
Ah the days of Basic
where you'd toddle into WHSmiths, go to the ZX81, the Spectrum and the Oric and type:
10 CLS
20 PRINT "DARREN WILKINSON IS GAY"
30 GOTO 20
I was into more complex programming.
10 PRINT "Type your name"
20 Print """ IS A BIG GAY";
30 GOTO 10
Or something like that. The semicolon after the "PRINT" instruction made it go across the screen.
*grabs tippex*
oh, I'm such a geek. Trying to remember exactly how that would have coded. Like this?
10 INPUT "Type your name" A$
20 PRINT A$ " IS A BIG GAY ";
30 GOTO 10
And I thought we were so original
In Boots in Woking, we wrote something like "I prefer Woolworths" and then ran for it, as if we had committed the crime of the century. Sigh.
The real geeks used PEEK and POKE commands.
They could make *yourname* IS A BIG GAY pop up in random areas of the screen each time you pressed the spacebar.
These people are now very wealthy and running huge software companies.
If they're a bit lazy.
If they cracked down a bit, they're sitting on yachts in the Dutch Antilles having flogged their huge software companies for multi-millions at the peak of the tech boom ten years ago.
None of them are dentists.
uber geek mode
None of them IS a dentist.
"Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"
This isn't really what you meant, but it seems wrong not to mention it.
Lest we forget, the opening bars of Ronnie Hazlehurst's theme tune for "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" spell the title in Morse Code, minus the apostrophes:
Barrington Pheloung
at the risk of stating the obvious, did the same for the Morse theme BUT also inserted a spoiler in the form of a musical motif revealing the name of the killer, or even a red herring, in some episodes. Neat.
No
That kind of thing is EXACTLY what I meant - the example I had with the programming was just one
:)
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. "CHIMNEYSDELIGHT".
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 RAIN.
05 FILLER PIC X(17) VALUE "If the rain comes".
05 FILLER PIC X(28) VALUE "they run and hide their head".
PROCEDURE DIVISION
MUSIC CAREER.
PERFORM DOBEATLES 125 TIMES.
GOBACK.
DOBEATLES.
OUTPUT RAIN
Oh you are awful
But I like you. He will be a bit cross though, he's been gritting his teeth a bit of late I think...
Puzzled
In what way? I love stuff like this but I'm not sure how the notes spell out the title - other than a man having written the letters on the stave in biro.
Some Mothers
Each letter in the title is represented in Morse by a combination of crotchets (dashes) and quavers (dots).
More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7026637.stm
my attempt
"Lashes Tin Wet Trumpeter Times Four"
- one of Mark E Smith's best lyrics.
Abbey Road side closer
in Powershell
1..25 |%{if ($_ -le 20){"I want You"} else {"She's so Heavy"}}; "Arpeggio + wind noise"
Side one of Birds Of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra. In mime.
*Mimes furious wanking*
Don't let Colin H.
see this !
(you big tease Lenny).
The Fantabulosas finest single
L25 6EJ/L18 1
"Fuck You" in (American) Sign Language
Posted on this blog a year ago by badartdog...
(A bit more formalised than that comedian acting out "Don't Stop Me Now" which was posted recently.)
Torn by Natalie and Johann Lippowitz
This version at Amnesty International
Pop songs as Venn diagrams
There's a few books and websites of these (such as vennthattune.com). Can't post any from work (shakes fist skywards) but I'm sure the Massive can provide
Consider it done, sir.
Or as a graph
Yay!
Thanks Lennie and Helena for bringing a smile to my face!
"Wuthering Heights" - semaphore version
Sadly not the song; apparently someone wrote a book called that, too.
Starts one minute in:
Also includes "Julius Caesar" performed on an Aldis lamp, "Gunfight at the OK Corral" in Morse, and the smoke signal version of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
Shorthand
Anyone able to identify which song's lyrics are represented below in Teeline Shorthand?
Answer given below.
I have no way of checking this - it's all squiggles to me.
Answer: Apparently, it's "Creep" by Radiohead.
Friday I'm in Love
Available on a t-shirt:
An oldie but goodie