“Satan eats Cheez-Whiz” is played during the musical interlude on (what else?) “Nature Trail to Hell” (a parody commercial for a nonexistent slasher flick).
Never heard of the “too much time” mask, though.
Marilyn Manson has included a few backward messages in his songs. The two I can recall at the moment are at the beginnings of Tourniquet and Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes.
Tourniquet begins with a backwards recording of Manson whispering “this is my lowest point of vulnerability.”
Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes begins with a backwards recording of children singing “and to die with dignity, sing the …” Eeggs.com claims that it’s a clip from 1984.
I’d just like to know: is this backwards masking thing happening because the lyrics themselves being played backwards STILL make sense (which would be an impressive feat to me), or does the ‘backwards’ phrase ONLY show up when you play the album backwards? Like, somehow the record doesn’t produce any sound until it’s played backwards? Or is it something altogether where the singer basically speaks backwards and it sounds like mumbling when played forward?
That Stairway to Heaven link doesn’t really help since it’s fake.
According to the idiots who buy into this crap, your brain can decipher the backwards phrase as a forwards phrase and make you do crazy stuff.
In the case of the songs I mentioned, the backwards bits sounds like incoherent whispering and singing. Getting entire lines of songs to sound like something forwards and backwards and fit the song would indeed be quite a feat.
Yvan eht niaj!
doh, it turns out I can be incompentent backwards as well as forwards.
To his credit, Al Menconi used to do a demo in his seminars at Hume Lake Christian Camps. He’d play Stairway to Heaven backward (at the famous “masked” part), and put up 3 different sets of “backwards lyrics”. You could hear all three of them, showing that what you heard had way more to do with what you were told than with what was there.
I’ve taped a CD of it to reel-to-reel tape and turned around the tape, and you can’t understand anything but that “muwhy shweet shatin” bit that people get all riled about.
Meh.
Frank Zappa used a lot of backward recording effects on his albums. One specific one that comes to mind is from the song “Mother People”. The record label wouldn’t release the album unless Frank cut the last verse because it had the word “fuck” in it so Frank took the last verse, recorded it backwards and added it as the final track to the album.
Without having someone tell you first what you’re supposed to hear.
The Stairway to Heaven/“Toolshed” thing is hilarious, but I remember somebody here posting it seriously a few months ago.
The ending of the Judas Priest story is also amusing, as the band argued ‘It would be pretty stupid of us to tell our fans to kill themselves instead of buying our stuff, wouldn’t it?’
Right here courtesy of the Insane Clown Posse. (Warning: lyrics not work safe!) I have an MP3 version of this song that has been reversed and that’s exactly what they’re saying.
For those of you who don’t want to click the link, I’ll spoiler box the lyric:
(Reverse talking saying: Fuck the Devil Fuck That Shit
We believe in life legit If you diggin what we say, why you throw your soul away?)
This thread brings me back to 1985! Tipper, we hardly knew ye.