What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
You get your dog back, you get your truck back, you get your wife back, you get your house back…
Wasn’t there a Bloom County strip about backwards masking of Billy & the Boingers (er…sorry, Deathtongue (never can remember where the damn umlauts go in that)) where it ended up saying “Eat your spinach. Listen to your mother. Go to church.”?
Another musician who intentionally included backwards messages in his music was Prince. The song “Darling Nikki”, which was the center of a major controversy because of its sexual content, also contained a section of backwards singing. Surprisingly this never came up at the subsequent Senate hearings on the song. This may be because the excerpt, played backwards, was “Hello! How are you? I’m fine, 'Cuz I know that the lord is coming soon… Coming, coming soon!”. Presumedly the Senators didn’t know what to make of a Christian message hidden inside a song.
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Some comedy album really had a simular message on it. (Bobcat Goldthraut?)
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In the ***old *** days,if you wanted to record anything, you used a reel-to-reel tape recorder.Ocassionally, a tape would get twisted and play the other side. Like cassettes, reel tapes could be flipped to play the other side. The tape itself was divided into four tracks so that some recorders could recorder on all four tracks, but usually one used only two tracks on one side f(or stereo) and the other two was used when you flipped the reel over.
AHunter3, the sci.lang FAQ has, if I’m not mistaken, a guide to ASCII pseudo-IPA. From the extended-ASCII character set, which the Dope and IE6 support, if I get a chance to use any of those the authentic IPA way, I’ll use 'em!
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I had a four-track cassette recorder awhile back and I used to love to record things and listen to them backwards; everyday things like random TV transmissions, toilets flushing, and dogs barking were really cool when listened to backwards. I even recorded myself singing “Row Row Row Your Boat,” whose first line, when played backwards, sounds like “Toe Brew War War War.” 
Q: What do you get when you play New Age music backwards?
A: New Age music.
…and you throw up all that beer…
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ELO was later accused on anti-Christian messages in their music.
Jeff Lynne’s response was the album Secret Messages which had several bits of backwards lines (“Time After Time” has the title sung backwards).
One of them is “You’re playing me backwards”.
“although Lennon said it was actually “Cranberry sauce.” It’s deep enough in the mix that it’s hard to tell.”
Actually, Lennon said (at least on a million occasions when asked about the supposed “I buried Paul” thing), that it was clearly “I’m Very Bored” listen to it again, (perhaps speed it up a tad if you can and you’ll note that it is in fact, “I’m Very Bored”) The latest instance where he explained how that sentence got into (and stayed) in the song was in a late seventies issue of Rolling Stone mag. 
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“although Lennon said it was actually “Cranberry sauce.” It’s deep enough in the mix that it’s hard to tell.” <etc.>[/QUOUTE]
Actually, I have the bootlegs of the master tapes of the sessions for “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and it is isolated quite clearly in the mix, which does not fade out on the master, that he is indeed saying “Cranberry Sauce.” Despite what you may have read, there is irrefutable proof that this is what he said.
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Anyone remember the 2XL educational “robot” toy? It was basically just a 4-track tape player. The buttons you pressed to answer questions would switch you to another track, where it would say “That’s right!” or “Sorry, that’s wrong” or the equivalent. Well, if you put an ordinary tape into the toy and played the C or D track, you’d get the other side of the tape, played backwards.
First of all, I need to point out that Aphex Twin hid his face in one of his songs.
Now, I need to point out a few real-world examples of backmasking. Weird Al has hidden the phrases “Satan Eats Cheez Wiz” and “You must have a lot of free time on your hands” in his songs, and Denis Leary’s “Voices in My Head” has someone whispering during the intro “there’s a secret subliminal message hidden in this song; play it backwards; play it backwards; play it backwards.” I have tried for minutes on end to decipher it… to no avail.
That was a great lecture. The Physics wasn’t so bad, either
If I remember correctly, those phrases were actuall pressed into the vinyl of a couple of his old LP albums, near the label in the center, rather than backwards in the songs. I’ll check my old records, later, when it’s not 4:45 AM and I’m on my way out the door for work.
And a slight hijack: I had a Fostex 4-track cassette deck, and it allowed backwards playing of cassettes. I recorded a phrase, played it backwards, learned how to pronounce it backwards, recorded the backwards pronunciation, and then played the new results in reverse. The results were very recognizably the original phrase, but the envelopes of the phonemes (ie, their progressive pronunciation over time) were still backwards.
With enough practice and concentration, it would be possible to use this as a form of masking in a recording.
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