History Main / TickTockTune

* The ABBA song "Like an Angel Passing through My Room" (featured on the group's final studio album, ''The Visitors'') includes a ticking clock sound effect synthesized by Benny Andersson on his Minimoog which is heard in the background throughout.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv3biyYpiC8 Countdown to Death (The Gantlet/Nirvana)]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} II''.

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* "Never Smile at a Crocodile" from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Appropriate, since [[TheCrocIsTicking the Crocodile swallowed a clock]].

* "Human Again" from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had a recurring bridge of "Tick tock, the time goes, The days pass, the cock crows," causing the song to clock in at nearly eleven minutes in total and ultimately be deleted from the film and replaced with the much more compact "Something There." When the song was restored for the stage adaptation and the film's special edition, all traces of this bridge were removed and the song placed in a slightly different part of the story.

* The first part of J.S. Bach's chorale {{cantata}} ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfkq-S7Vis8 Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?]]'' (BWV 8) has pizzicato strings that suggest passing time. Justified, considering the cantata is about wondering when one will die.

* The first part of J.S. Bach's chorale cantata ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfkq-S7Vis8 Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?]]'' (BWV 8) has pizzicato strings that suggest passing time. Justified, considering the cantata is about wondering when one will die.

''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' has "[[https://youtu.be/2zNXGrAJ8Nw Verify Your Clock]]", the theme for Sergey Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire. Considering he's a [[SanitySlippage batshit]] AxCrazy [[TheCaligula Caligula]] whose mad rule causes Russia to collapse into an anarchic wasteland, TickTockTerror would also be appropriate.

''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' has "[[https://youtu.be/2zNXGrAJ8Nw Verify Your Clock]]", the theme for Sergey Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire. Considering he's a [[SanitySliipage batshit]] AxCrazy [[TheCaligula Caligula]] whose mad rule causes Russia to collapse into an anarchic wasteland, TickTockTerror would also be appropriate.

* Sting's "Russians," a song about nuclear war, uses the ticking sound of a time bomb at the beginning and end.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'''s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnvEY6IeYJk Thunder Plains]]'' music uses metronomes.

* "No Son of Mine" by Music/{{Genesis}} opens with the sound of a ticking clock.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwCra_wMPY Hurry!]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTk83qis0w Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke]]" (Mokou's theme) from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Chaos Theory'''s bomb-disarming mission at the bathhouse, the beeping of the timers is integrated into the music, which gets [[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic more frantic]] as the clock runs down.

* ''{{Folklore}}'' has the rather creepy-sounding [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLMRXuRfFU Engraved Time]], the theme is played in the Endless Corridors, a bizarre realm where time and space is eerily distorted.

* "Human Again" from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' had a recurring bridge of "Tick tock, the time goes, The days pass, the cock crows," causing the song to clock in at nearly eleven minutes in total and ultimately be deleted from the film and replaced with the much more compact "Something There." When the song was ultimately removed for the stage adaptation and the film's special edition, all traces of this bridge were removed and the song placed in a slightly different part of the story.

This is when the music has ticking clock sound effects to it, or similar, such as instruments, metronome sounds, clicks, or even onomatopeia. This is sometimes used to make you remember that, yes, time is running and to hasten the pace.

* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': In "Ten Duel Commandments", where the count to ten is accompanied by the sound of a clock. The tune can be heard when Burr and Hamilton speak near the end of the song. The same ticking can be heard in "The World Was Wide Enough", since it's a DarkReprise.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid Prime}}'' has the [[LethalLavaLand Magmoor Caverns]]' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCZIb0fbt8 theme]], which is taken from Lower Norfair from ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid.'' There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBwafhQmQyQ the tune]] that plays during the [[TimedMission timed puzzle]] in the Chozo Ruins Energy Core as well as the puzzles in the Phendrana Drifts Observatory and Geothermal Core.

* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': In "Ten Duel Commandments", where the count to ten is accompanied by the sound of a clock. The tune can be heard when Burr and Hamilton speak near the end of the song. The same ticking can be heard in "The World Was Wide Enough", since it's a DarkReprise.

* ''[[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-5-6-with-the-felt The Felt]]'', an album centered around the TimeMaster gang from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', has [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/swing-of-the-clock-2 "Swing of the Clock"]], [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-broken-clock-2 "The Broken Clock"]] and [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/time-paradox-2 "Time Paradox"]].

* The track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WezpvuNPN1M "TVA"]] from the ''Series/Loki2021'' series -- used as the opening theme and the end credits theme of the first episode -- incorporates the sound of clocks ticking, which ties in with the show's time-travel themes.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpx5u1Ua-ZM Watchin' and Waitin']]" which is a song about watching to see how the boys' inventions disappear before Mom gets home. There's also one with a clock theme for Candace waiting by the phone for Jeremy to call.

* Creator/TheBBC's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MDL8CJFmcw news theme]]. Revised in 2013 with extra strings when the news moved to its new studios. The pulsed beeps that provide a "heartbeat" reveal the song's tempo to be '''exactly''' one beat per second (as shown by the on-screen countdown to the top of the hour), and are in fact intended as a reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal Greenwich Time Signal]] aka "the Pips", six tones, the first 5 each a tenth of a second long, the sixth a half-second long which are broadcasted on BBC radio every hour on the hour, with the long closing "pip" marking the top of the hour. When a Leap-Second is added to worldwide atomic clocks, a seventh pip is added, a sixth short beep before the final, now '''seven'''th, beep, of greater length than the preceding pulses.

* Music/{{Alabama}}'': Two songs from their catalog, 13 years apart: 1979's "I Wanna Come Over" (twice, between the intro and start of first verse, and again to end the bridge between the first refrain and second verse, to lead into "Is that what time it is ..."); and 1992's "I'm In a Hurry (and Don't Know Why)," where the tick-tock is used before the line "... shaking hands with the clock."

* ''VideoGame/{{Harmoknight}}'' has the theme of the Clocktower levels, which not only includes the ticking of a clock but also times its music to fit the clock's tempo.

* ''VideoGame/{{Harmoknight}}'' has the theme of the Clocktower levels, which not only includes the ticking of a clock but also times its music to fit the clock's metronome.