songs played backwards
Stale Kasmski
I am currently writing an essay and i was wandering if anyone had a list
of songs that take on a whole new meaning when played backwards.
for example "another bites the dust" by Queen sounds like it says I like
to smoke marijuana, when reversed. If you have any examples could you
please email me at
kas...@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au
Lugnut
kas...@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU (Stale Kasmski) wrote:
Well, there's the infamous Beatles track (the title escapes me at the
moment, but it's on the White Album) that mentions Paul's demise.
Then, the Anthrax song "1000 Points of Hate" sounds like it says
something about "Shove a broomstick up your ass"
The Beatles' "Free As A Bird" has a reversed message of "This is good"
at the very end of it.
And, according to Weird Al, since many of the greatest rock records of
all time were actually written by "Ancient astronauts", if you play
Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" backwards, it says
something like, "Hello! We would like to thank the ancient astronauts
who helped make this album possible. Thanks, we really appreciate
it"...
cam gib
And what about "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin -- what I heard from
friends was that the beginning of the track, when played backwards from
a few seconds on out, it goes "Welcome to Hell" or something to that
effect.
Any truth to this rumor?
cam gib
Eric Robinson
Stale Kasmski wrote:
>
> I am currently writing an essay and i was wandering if anyone had a list
> of songs that take on a whole new meaning when played backwards.
> for example "another bites the dust" by Queen sounds like it says I like
> to smoke marijuana, when reversed. If you have any examples could you
> please email me at
> kas...@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au
In the song "Nature trail to Hell" by Weird Al Yankovic off the album "Weird Al
in 3-D" there is a section in the middle that sounds like random words mixed on top of
one another, but, when played backwards, you can make out the line:
"Satan eats cheese wiz"
Pyro
Do you hear satanic messages when you play a record backwards?
There is just one way to answer that...ONLY IF YOU WANT TO!
Kathryn Ford
: Well, there's the infamous Beatles track (the title escapes me at the
: moment, but it's on the White Album) that mentions Paul's demise.
Is it at the end of Strawberry Fields Forever? I know the line is "I
bury Paul." (Although that song is on Magical Mystery Tour.)
And there's another Beatles' song - I think Revolution
Number Nine, containing the backwards line "Turn me on, dead man"
Cheers
Kathy
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sara dryzga
at the end of Strawberry fields forever, John does not say "I bury Paul"
he does say "cranberry sauce" he was just fooling arround and played it
really slowly and someone thought he said the paul thing. John was just
fooling around...again
John M. VerBurg
cam gib (jam...@usa.pipeline.com) wrote:
: And what about "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin -- what I heard from
: friends was that the beginning of the track, when played backwards from
: a few seconds on out, it goes "Welcome to Hell" or something to that
: effect.
Actually, I had a backwards copy of "Stairway to Heaven" that was
recorded off a reel to reel. I had it back in highschool along with a
whole bunch of backwards messages from groups such as S.O.D., Celtic Frost
and Venom. "Stairway to Heaven" played backwards near the line that goes
something like "something for the Mayqueen" sounds like "Oh my sweet
satan" But if I recall correctly, the message isn't all that clear.
I also remember playing a John lennon & Yoko Uno song backwards. I can't
remember the name. Anyway, If you played Yoko's vocal backwards, it
sounded like "I shot John Lennon" Of course I was 11 at the time and
probably wanted to believe it soo back, 'cuse then it would be cool..
Regards,
John VerBurg
Andrew Virnuls
There is also "Waterfall" by the Stone Roses, which, when played backwards,
mysteriously becomes "Don't Stop" by the Stone Roses.
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rgoo...@iafrica.com
I don't mean to be rude but I am personally sick to death of being told that
everything is evil. I agree a lot of songs do have satanic messages but you
can normally tell that from listening to it forward or looking at the group.
Everyone is always telling me that you can't listen to rock or metal because
it's satanic and I feel it is unfair to critize a whole style of music because
of a few people.
I mean music was made to be listened to forwards not backwards.
Please don't be offened, I do agree with you but I do feel it is one of the
things that gives rock unjustly a bad name.
Cheers
Debbie
Ike Naar
If you play "Silly Boys", from Klaatu, backwards, you get
"Anus of Uranus", from Klaatu.
The song "I'm only sleeping" by The Beatles has a very charming
'backwards' guitar solo in it.
And, speaking of The Beatles, if you play the end of "Rain" backwards,
you get the lyrics from the beginning ("When the rain comes, they run and
hide their heads").
The funny backing vocals in The Beatles' "Blue Jay Way" are the
refrain "sung" backwards.
If you play Nina Hagen's "Fisch Im Wasser" backwards, you get
Nina Hagen's "Fisch Im Wasser", i.e. the song is its own reverse.
The same holds for one of the Canones Diversi from J.S. Bach's
"Musikalisches Opfer".
Cheers,
Ike
cam gib
> I don't mean to be rude but I am personally sick to death of being told that
> everything is evil. I agree a lot of songs do have satanic messages but you
> can normally tell that from listening to it forward or looking at the group.
> Everyone is always telling me that you can't listen to rock or metal because
> it's satanic and I feel it is unfair to critize a whole style of music because
> of a few people.
> I mean music was made to be listened to forwards not backwards.
> Please don't be offened, I do agree with you but I do feel it is one of the
> things that gives rock unjustly a bad name.
> Cheers
> Debbie
Well. I didn't mean to imply that every record/tape, when gone backwards, would spit out all
those venomous words. . . . the guy on the left did.
A bad name? Rock 'n' Roll? It had already a bad name to begin with in the '50s, and those songs
were NOTHING but filler songs (well here and there, of course there are gems). Compare those
songs to today's music, and you'll get a shockingly stark contrast. And to think Rock N' Roll
had already inherited a bad name. Movies were made out of this thing of course.....
Don't worry. Rock n' Roll will live on. 40 years can't be wrong!
Here's to 40 more years of great Rock N' Roll!
cam gib
myst...@pacbell.net
I once listened to "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen backwards. During
the chorus it very clearly says, "It's fun to smoke marijuana, marijuana,
marijuana. It's fun to smoke marijuana, marijuana, marijuana."
It was hilarious!
Matthew Miller
In alt.music.lyrics, Lugnut (lug...@hotmail.com) writes:
: kas...@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU (Stale Kasmski) wrote:
: >I am currently writing an essay and i was wandering if anyone had a list
: >of songs that take on a whole new meaning when played backwards.
: >for example "another bites the dust" by Queen sounds like it says I like
: >to smoke marijuana, when reversed.
I am told it sounds more like "It's fun to smoke marijuana", but not very
*much* like that either. :)
: Well, there's the infamous Beatles track (the title escapes me at the
: moment, but it's on the White Album) that mentions Paul's demise.
I think you mean the mumbling at the end of "I'm So Tired". It is said to
be "Paul is (a) dead (man), miss him, miss him, miss him." (Whether the
`a' and the `man' are included depends on who you ask.) I've heard it's
really "Monsieur, Monsieur, let's have another one." Forward.
: The Beatles' "Free As A Bird" has a reversed message of "This is good"
: at the very end of it.
"That was a nice one!" And it is. :) I think it has something to do with
that ukelele bit, but I don't remember what.
ELO's "Eldorado" supposedly contains the message "He is the nasty
one/Christ, you're infernal/It is said we're dead men/Everyone who has
the mark will live."
And now for some *real* secret messages... :)
"Fire on High" from the Electric Light Orchestra's _Face the
Music_ is mostly instrumental, but contains the reversed message "The
music is reversible, but time--turn back!"
ELO's "Secret Messages", from the album of the same name, starts
with (reversed) "Welcome to the big show." (forward) "Secret messages"
(reversed) "Welcome to the big show." Methinks they're poking fun at the
yahoos who thought they found weird messages in "Eldorado".
From Frank Zappa's album _Them or Us_, "Ya Hozna" is *entirely*
backward. It is said that Moon Unit is the singer.
"No Anchovies, Please", a garbagey little trifle from the J.
Geils Band's _Love Stinks_, contains the message "It doesn't take a
genius to know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad".
Possibly the most infamous one: from "Empty Spaces" on Pink
Floyd's _The Wall_. What sounds like a barely-coherent conversation at
the beginning, when reversed, turns out to be "Congratulations, you have
just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to old Pink
care of the funny farm, Chalfonte."
From Styx's _Kilroy was Here_, "Heavy Metal Poisoning" contains
the backward message "Annuit coeptis, novus ordo seclorum"--Latin for
"God has favored our undertakings, a new order for the ages", found on
the back of one-dollar bills.
From Black Oak Arkansas's self-titled album, "Lord Have Mercy on
My Soul". During the spoken bit, listen for the whispering, "I need it, I
want it, I need it, I want it, good..."
Various bits of speech in the party conversation in the middle of
"Wild and Loose" from the Time's _What Time Is It?_.
Lines from Shakespeare's _King Lear_ in the Beatles' "I Am the
Walrus". Most well-known is probably the last line, "Sit you down,
Father, rest you."
Robotic semi-audible muttering towards the end of that long
instrumental bit in Pink Floyd's "Sheep" from _Animals_. Starts out with
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want..." and continues with
nonsensical gibberish. Lyrics...er...I'll look for them. :)
Probably the Beatles' "Revolution 9" from the white album should
also be mentioned, but why play it backward? There are plenty of odd
bits just playing forward! One of my favorites is the bit about going to
see the surgeon.
Okay. I'll stop. :)
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Rose Platt
You forgot the backwards lyrics at the end of "Detour Thru Your Mind" by
the B-52s. Anyone ever translate those? I can't remember what they say.
And let's not even start with the people who think backrecorded drum and
guitar tracks are cool....
--Silence
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain
The Baron
it is not a backwards play, but...
if you play "Erased, Over, Out" by Nine Inch Nails, from "Further Down
the Spiral" it can be heard to say "Erase Me" repeatedly.
The Baron
sorry, left out that if you play it at double speed.
oops!
Dennis Lovelady
"Joseph Blough" <Wei...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Another Beatles song, "Rain" (Past Masters 2) has the very first reversed
>tape, but I don't know what it says.
Hey, yeah. I hadn't remembered that one. I worked with it with my
sound editor, and it says something undescernable at the extreme end,
then "Rain If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads."
Thanks for the lead on that.
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