Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/02/35-year-old-commodore-64-easte.html
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90s Glaswegian indie rockers Urusei Yatsura hid a ZX Spectrum program in one of their records that displayed the following.
I think Radiohead hid a slightly more advanced Spectrum program in one of their records too.
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Finally the cure for insomnia has been found.
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Pretty cool idea for the year1984, but the melody was terrible and I couldn’t dance to it. 
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The computer code scream is probably the best track on the album.
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Your lips to god’s ears.
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That’s freakin’ awesome!!!
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Easter egg, which I won’t spoil for you
I, on the other hand, will save you 17 minutes of your life:
You’re welcome.
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Reminds me of the last track of the Information Society album Peace & Love, Inc. “300,N,8,1”, hmmm, what’s this one? BRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZ!!! Thankfully I wasn’t on headphones. I dumped the text at one point, but I’m sure I’ve misplaced it. I wonder if I could do it again…
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This one frustrated me to no end because by the time I had a modem, I didn’t have one that I could convince to run at 300 baud. Despite many attempts I eventually had to just give up and read it online.
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I’ll save you the trouble:
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This is truly a wonderful thing. More of this sort of thing please.
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I think The Stranglers had a ZX Spectrum text adventure at the end of one of their records
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You might want to watch this.
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Is not Rick Astley. Am disappoint.
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Death Techno band
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Welcome aboard, comrade!
I don’t know which I like the most; the hidden message or the time and spent extracting it.
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the interesting thing is the process not the output. Bummer you thought it was 17 minutes wasted.
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Chris Sievey (subject of the wonderful documentary ‘Being Frank’) did something similar with his single ‘Camouflage’:
From wikipedia:
“While the A-side was a conventional single, the B-side contained what sounds like random noise. This noise was actually a series of three programmes for the ZX81. Two of these were 16 kilobyte and 1 kilobyte version of “Flying Train” a video game he created, which involved having to land a flying train onto a track while avoiding birds. The third programme was an animated music video for the song “Camouflage”. In order to play the video, the user had to record the B-side onto cassette tape, load the data from the tape into the ZX81, and then run the programme while playing the A-side at the same time, so that the music synchronised with the video.”
Thanks to the wonders of the internet here’s the music video:
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