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  • #217283
    (deleted)
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    …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    *previously unpublished lyrics (c) Noel Gay Music Ltd

    #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!!!!

    #217285
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    wat

    #217286
    JamesTC
    Participant

    I bet Gene Roddenberry wrote the lyrics.

    #217287
    John Hoare
    Participant

    i’m a gibbering wreck

    what have you done

    #217288

    That’s literally the only thing I’m ever going to be able to hear in the theme now.
    Holy shit.

    #217296
    cwickham
    Participant

    I still can’t hear it at all…

    #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.

    #217298
    si
    Participant

    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.

    #217299
    cwickham
    Participant

    Ah! OK, I can *sort of* hear the last one now.

    #217300
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Oh my.

    #217301
    Jonsmad
    Participant

    Can of Words.

    #217302
    Jawscvmcdia
    Participant

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    #217304
    MANI506
    Participant

    I was gonna ask for a time stamp but I heard it!

    #217305
    Tim Shaw
    Participant

    I’m stunned! This is like discovering the secret fifth housemate in The Young Ones. It was always there!!

    #217306
    Andy Holland
    Participant

    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?

    #217307
    Dave
    Participant

    This deserves an article of its own.

    #217308
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Bloody ‘Ell.

    #217309
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    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.

    #217310
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster
    #217311
    (deleted)
    Participant

    https://youtu.be/_s6oIVm10N8 – yes, I went there.

    Never mind that though, VALIDATION FROM ON HIGH!!

    #217312
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    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!”

    #217313
    peepingsignal
    Participant

    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.

    #217314
    Tanya Jones
    Participant

    This is astounding, and Darrell’s welcome to stay. The rest of you; buck your ideas up.

    #217316
    #217317
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    What the fuck

    #217318

    #217319
    NoFro
    Participant

    Incredible.

    #217320
    Ridley
    Participant

    Subliminals!

    #217321
    si
    Participant

    Did Rob and Doug know?

    #217322

    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!

    #217323
    cwickham
    Participant

    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.

    #217324
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    Howard; if you’re reading this. You’re a fucking legend.

    #217325
    Stephen Abootman
    Participant

    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!????????????

    #217326
    Andy Holland
    Participant

    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…

    #217327
    noknowncure
    Participant

    Something to sing along to innit!

    #217328

    If you play every Blackadder theme synced up it explains proof that the first series was based on documented fact.

    #217329
    John Hoare
    Participant

    “According to a forum on ganymede TV…”

    Digital Spy really are fucking useless.

    #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?

    #217333
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    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

    #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.

    #217335

    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.

    #217338
    curtis
    Participant

    I’ve only just got over the two closing themes revelation. Stop doing this to me!

    #217340
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    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!

    #217342

    But it’s right there!

    #217343
    Taiwan Tony
    Participant

    Amazing.

    What happens if you play it backwards?

    #217345
    pfm
    Participant

    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? :)

    #217346
    Paul Muller
    Participant

    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

    #217350
    jellyscare
    Participant
    #217351
    jellyscare
    Participant

    I’m never guessing how to do html tags again.

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