Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Mindblowing thing I've just noticed about the Opening Theme… Search for: This topic has 133 replies, 51 voices, and was last updated 9 months, 2 weeks ago by Jenuall. Scroll to bottom Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 134 total) 1 2 3 Author Posts October 21, 2016 at 9:27 pm #217283 (deleted)Participant …it’s got lyrics!!! Just sticking Can Of Worms on again through headphones, and although I’ve heard that piece of music probably thousands of times over 20 years I’ve only just noticed the vocal parts, namely HOWARD GOODALL SINGING THE NAME OF THE SHOW FOUR TIMES THROUGH A VOCODER. If you’re listening out, it’s during the triangular key changes in the second half of the theme. My brain has exploded. Altogether… # Red Dwarf # Red Dwarf # Red Dwarf # Red Dwarf* *previously unpublished lyrics (c) Noel Gay Music Ltd October 21, 2016 at 9:29 pm #217284 (deleted)Participant https://youtu.be/WvcaB0TWNLc Aha!!! Massively more prominent in this YouTube video of a phase-inverted version with the centre channel frequencies cut. I’m not going mad! Clear as day in that one!!!! October 21, 2016 at 9:42 pm #217285 Ian SymesKeymaster wat October 21, 2016 at 9:46 pm #217286 JamesTCParticipant I bet Gene Roddenberry wrote the lyrics. October 21, 2016 at 10:10 pm #217287 John HoareParticipant i’m a gibbering wreck what have you done October 21, 2016 at 10:16 pm #217288 International DebrisParticipant That’s literally the only thing I’m ever going to be able to hear in the theme now. Holy shit. October 21, 2016 at 10:43 pm #217296 cwickhamParticipant I still can’t hear it at all… October 21, 2016 at 10:57 pm #217297 (deleted)Participant It’s where the last pairs of “fun, fun” and “sun, sun” go in the end titles. It’s clearest the fourth and final time as it’s least obscured by other instruments. Vocoders aren’t the best messengers of diction at the best of times but it’s definitely there. The fact it’s buried so much yet would have been so fiddly and time-consuming to record hints to me that he may have originally intended it to be a bigger part of the piece. Either that or it was always meant to be a Ronnie Hazlehurst-style cryptic easter egg and we’ve just heard the punchline to a 27 year old joke. October 21, 2016 at 11:04 pm #217298 siParticipant The mind-blowing yet amusing thing is that me and my siblings have been doing exactly that (sans vocoder but in silly voices) for years, never realising that it was actually there. Yep, never un-hearable now. Going to have another look at that Gazpacho Soup ‘opening titles’ vid now. October 21, 2016 at 11:11 pm #217299 cwickhamParticipant Ah! OK, I can *sort of* hear the last one now. October 21, 2016 at 11:31 pm #217300 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Oh my. October 22, 2016 at 12:57 am #217301 JonsmadParticipant Can of Words. October 22, 2016 at 12:58 am #217302 JawscvmcdiaParticipant October 22, 2016 at 1:55 am #217304 MANI506Participant I was gonna ask for a time stamp but I heard it! October 22, 2016 at 2:09 am #217305 Tim ShawParticipant I’m stunned! This is like discovering the secret fifth housemate in The Young Ones. It was always there!! October 22, 2016 at 2:41 am #217306 Andy HollandParticipant Holy smokes! That’s actually incredible: a single G&T post has fundamentally changed the way I hear a theme tune I’ve heard regularly for over two decades. Darrell, how the smeg did you uncover this hidden gem? October 22, 2016 at 7:27 am #217307 DaveParticipant This deserves an article of its own. October 22, 2016 at 7:53 am #217308 Ben PaddonParticipant Bloody ‘Ell. October 22, 2016 at 10:02 am #217309 Ian SymesKeymaster Can’t hear it at all. I’m not saying it’s not there, but I’m going to need some more help in identifying it. Either that or this is an elaborate joke that I’m not in on. October 22, 2016 at 10:32 am #217310 Ian SymesKeymaster I stand corrected. October 22, 2016 at 11:03 am #217311 (deleted)Participant https://youtu.be/_s6oIVm10N8 – yes, I went there. Never mind that though, VALIDATION FROM ON HIGH!! October 22, 2016 at 11:26 am #217312 Seb PatrickKeymaster HOLY FUCK I clicked on that phase-inverted version, started listening, and thought “There’s nothing there, what are they on about?” Then BOOM: “REEEEED DWAAAAAARF!” October 22, 2016 at 11:44 am #217313 peepingsignalParticipant The fact that it took 27 years to find this is mind-boggling to me. This has been hidden for longer than I’ve been alive and now it’s suddenly been found, just like that. New layers to the theme are being discovered after almost three decades. I’m amazed Howard’s never told anyone. This also means Howard sings in every episode since Backwards, instead of just the three or four we thought he sung in. October 22, 2016 at 11:49 am #217314 Tanya JonesParticipant This is astounding, and Darrell’s welcome to stay. The rest of you; buck your ideas up. October 22, 2016 at 12:51 pm #217316 It’sMarilynMonroe!Participant http://i.imgur.com/UfsKJ.gif</img> October 22, 2016 at 12:53 pm #217317 Jonathan CappsKeymaster What the fuck October 22, 2016 at 12:58 pm #217318 It’sMarilynMonroe!Participant October 22, 2016 at 12:59 pm #217319 NoFroParticipant Incredible. October 22, 2016 at 1:00 pm #217320 RidleyParticipant Subliminals! October 22, 2016 at 1:34 pm #217321 siParticipant Did Rob and Doug know? October 22, 2016 at 2:19 pm #217322 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant Well spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska! I’m in the middle of planning a philosophy essay on the meaning of the self and personal identity and this has just amplified the existential Krysis … I mean crisis I was having. I need to go and have a lie down! October 22, 2016 at 2:38 pm #217323 cwickhamParticipant There is also a hidden message in the QI theme tune that nobody noticed for twelve years until it was actually pointed out on the show itself. We should probably start looking at the 2point4 children theme now. October 22, 2016 at 2:58 pm #217324 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Howard; if you’re reading this. You’re a fucking legend. October 22, 2016 at 3:21 pm #217325 Stephen AbootmanParticipant Just in case anyone missed the G&T retweet of this: Howard Goodall @Howard_Goodall 5 hours ago I am honoured & delighted my vo-coded message from the past has been cracked!???????????? October 22, 2016 at 3:22 pm #217326 Andy HollandParticipant Digital Spy have picked this up, Darrell: http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/red-dwarf/news/a811846/red-dwarf-theme-song-lyrics-no-one-knew-about …proving that Darrell will forever be remembered as the greatest Red Dwarf detective we didn’t know we needed… October 22, 2016 at 3:31 pm #217327 noknowncureParticipant Something to sing along to innit! October 22, 2016 at 3:32 pm #217328 International DebrisParticipant If you play every Blackadder theme synced up it explains proof that the first series was based on documented fact. October 22, 2016 at 3:38 pm #217329 John HoareParticipant “According to a forum on ganymede TV…” Digital Spy really are fucking useless. October 22, 2016 at 3:38 pm #217330 (deleted)Participant Alright, this is officially weird now. I wouldn’t mind so much but they’ve got it mixed up confusing the opening and closing songs (“underneath the lyrics”). Still, the second time this year I have initiated a Red Dwarf news story. If I get three do I win something? October 22, 2016 at 4:00 pm #217333 Seb PatrickKeymaster Fuck’s sake, Digital Spy. Did they even actually read what people were saying? Mental Floss (courtesy of my friend James) got it right, though: http://mentalfloss.com/uk/music/47667/secret-red-dwarf-theme-tune-lyrics-discovered-after-27-years October 22, 2016 at 4:22 pm #217334 (deleted)Participant Mental Floss can stay. For one exhausting year I used to co-run and co-edit a daily pop culture trivia/ephemera blog called Talk About The Passion with my old friend Ben (it was before clickbaity pop culture sites were that much of a commodity and pre-Twitter so it died on its arse, much like all the other stuff we spent years making and badly mistimed too early). Anyway, Mental Floss, along with QI, was the single biggest influence on it, so there’s a pleasing circularity to this. October 22, 2016 at 4:29 pm #217335 Pete Tranter’s SisterParticipant Am I going mental? I thought this was common knowledge. What sounds like over-zealous trombone wah-wah is a vocoder line mimicking ‘Red Dwarf’ four times. You can hear it really well in the stereo extractions I posted up not long ago. I’m disappointed in all of you. October 22, 2016 at 4:53 pm #217338 curtisParticipant I’ve only just got over the two closing themes revelation. Stop doing this to me! October 22, 2016 at 5:14 pm #217340 Seb PatrickKeymaster Am I going mental? I thought this was common knowledge. What sounds like over-zealous trombone wah-wah is a vocoder line mimicking ‘Red Dwarf’ four times. You can hear it really well in the stereo extractions I posted up not long ago. I’m disappointed in all of you. Good job you mentioned it before now! October 22, 2016 at 5:20 pm #217342 Pete Tranter’s SisterParticipant But it’s right there! October 22, 2016 at 5:35 pm #217343 Taiwan TonyParticipant Amazing. What happens if you play it backwards? October 22, 2016 at 6:21 pm #217345 pfmParticipant All these years…… *breaks down* My belief system has been torn asunder. > For one exhausting year I used to co-run and co-edit a daily pop culture trivia/ephemera blog called Talk About The Passion with my old friend Ben REM-related at all? :) October 22, 2016 at 6:27 pm #217346 Paul MullerParticipant Can’t quite make it out but it sounds like he’s singing ‘Red Worf’ – possibly in reference to Worf’s ‘Will Scarlet’ costume in the Star Trek TNG episode ‘QPid’? Bit obscure, Howard… Red W October 22, 2016 at 10:25 pm #217350 jellyscareParticipant REG WHAAAAARF src=”http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsS/tve19667-20090411-284.jpg” </img> October 22, 2016 at 10:29 pm #217351 jellyscareParticipant I’m never guessing how to do html tags again. Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 134 total) 1 2 3 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. 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