Subliminal Messages From Songs Played in Reverse

[True Noir]

Well, just lately I found out that one of my favorite singers, Utada, had a message in one of her songs called "Let Me Give You My Love". Tjhe message was:

Happy Man...
If you are dancing all night long
Dreams
Dance with me
You could hear it when you played the songs in reverse. I thought it was cool so I tried some other songs out and I researched. Hikaru Utada's "simple and clean" song, also the Kingom Hearts theme, had a message in her song saying

Tell me if you're different...

i searched and found some more artists such as Led Zepplin(sp.), Queen, Eminem, Britney Spears, and even the Pokemon rap had secret message in them when played backwards. I think this is extremely cool.

The best song I've listened to played backwards has to be "Simple and Clean". The song sounds smooth and beautiful when played backwards. Almost like a song that would be put in a movie soundtrack.

I just thought I'd share that. Has anybody ever given any care to listen to song played backwards?

[Yash]

I'll say it so no one else has to:

You have too much free time on your hands :p

[Kury Wagner]

Hao Asakura. . .hehe. . .

Has anybody ever given any care to listen to song played backwards?
Dude, yes. Practically everyone knows about stuff like this. Me and my sister used to record parts of songs on the computer, then increase the speed and reverse it. Funny stuff. . . but it gets boring quick. :shrug: Always fun though!

[Lord Dalek]

Isn't there an urban legend where if you play one of the Beatles songs backwards you get some sort of satanic ritual?

[Tienshin]

Isn't there an urban legend where if you play one of the Beatles songs backwards you get some sort of satanic ritual?

I thought that the satanic ritual or message was supposedly in Led Zepplins "Stairway to Heaven". I have come across several sites where people claim it is true in any case.

[SirLemming]

The Beatles ones often had to do with the supposed death of Paul McCartney. "Revolution 9", for example. The phrase "number 9" almost almost sounds like "Turn me on, dead man" played backwards. The thing is, though... that's a pretty easy phrase to come up with, and it's spoken totally normally. Anyone could say "number 9" and it would sound just as "convincing".

My favorite one so far is in Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". The chorus sounds kind of like "It's time to smoke marijuana" when played backwards. Whether or not it's true, it sounds funny.

[Kury Wagner]

The Beatles ones often had to do with the supposed death of Paul McCartney. "Revolution 9", for example. The phrase "number 9" almost almost sounds like "Turn me on, dead man" played backwards. The thing is, though... that's a pretty easy phrase to come up with, and it's spoken totally normally. Anyone could say "number 9" and it would sound just as "convincing".

My favorite one so far is in Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". The chorus sounds kind of like "It's time to smoke marijuana" when played backwards. Whether or not it's true, it sounds funny.
Weird! Isn't there also one about an Ozzy song. . . can't remember. . .

[Cyber E.]

FAPPO. (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=113257)

Britney Spear's message is easily the best. =[

[randomguy]

I'll say it so no one else has to:

You have too much free time on your hands.
We all do, Hao. We all do.

[Caffeine King]

How can I listen to them backwards?

I just tried on the computer but the songs that I have downloaded are .mp3's and not .wav's :shrug:

[SirLemming]

FAPPO. (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=113257)

Britney Spear's message is easily the best. =[Obviously the Pink Floyd one is real. The Beatles "I'm So Tired" one is ridiculous. The Britney Spears one is almost as ridiculous -- I didn't hear it at all until I read the supposed reverse lyrics.

[LightShadow1890]

No. Never tried.

Isn't there an urban legend where if you play one of the Beatles songs backwards you get some sort of satanic ritual?
I thought that the satanic ritual or message was supposedly in Led Zepplins "Stairway to Heaven". I have come across several sites where people claim it is true in any case.
Yeah, people were going bananas over what you hear when you play it backwards. You hear some weird stuff. Thing is, the writer was just making up words to get a song in.

I really don't have the technology, or the time.

LightShadow1890

[Mynd Hed]

At the end of a relatively obscure Incubus tune called Azwethinkweiz from their first EP (entitled Enjoy Incubus), there's a couple seconds of gibberish. Play that gibberish backwards, and you hear the lead singer intone, "Thursday night we smoked Indica... and Azwethinkweizm was BOOOOOORN!"

For those who don't know, "Indica" is a drug reference, referring to a relatively unknown (in North America, anyway) subspecies of the marijuana plant which is supposed to give a substantially different high. Myself, I wouldn't know. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. (-:

[True Noir]

Led Zepplin's(sp?) has to be the scariest one... (shudders). I wonder how they do that...?

[guinaevere]

I'm sure the Incubus shtick was recorded forward, and then played backwards when they laid that track into the song.

But as for the others, I dunno... if you're a songwriter, and can actually sit down and write lyrics that make some semblance of sense forward AND backwards, you deserve some kind of award. I just don't see it happening.

[Westlander]

For those who don't know, "Indica" is a drug reference, referring to a relatively unknown (in North America, anyway) subspecies of the marijuana plant which is supposed to give a substantially different high. You're wrong. Cannabis Indica is your friendly neighborhood Mary Jane. Nothing different.
I wrote a "backwards song" once (in Polish), it was done completely for fun and after playing it backwards I discovered that "Growl with us Pete" turned out as "Hey black Pete Jew" (ROTFL and a half)...And my friend who recorded it with me didn't know what some "backward" lines meant...Until he heard it.

[Frozen]

Anybody remember vinyl? Well, back before MP3's and CD's etc, I once played an LP backwards, and the only subliminal message I heard was "Congratulations, you have now ruined your stylus..."


That's a joke for our older members... ;)

[Pyro]

I have Simple & Clean. How do you play it backwards? I want to hear it.

EDIT: Nevermind.:sweat: A little self-reliance did the trick... I think it sounds weird backwards. I don't even know if humans can make those kinds of sounds forwards.

[mikestorm]

Well, if you truly had time on your hands, you could simply:

1.Record yourself slowly saying something, accentuating each word perfectly.
2.Reverse it, and brainstorm a half dozen words that rhyme with each syllable.
3.Pick from those words and string them together to form a sentence. As Zep showed us, the sentence doesn't have to make sense.
4. Write one of the greatest ballads in the history of the known universe - past, present, or future - to go with your newly written lyrics.

See? Easy!

[Carolina Red]

I think most of the time this is primarily coincidential that this happens, it's nothing intended. But the one for "Empty Spaces," man....

Although sometimes it is intended. If you play parts of the Mars Volta's "Enunch Provocateur" backwards you can hear Cedric Bixler recite a nursery rhyme and say some other messages.

[SirLemming]

Ooh, here's an obscure one I just remembered. On the Mortal Kombat 3 PC CD, there's a track with weird backwards talking. It's some sort of nursery rhyme about an owl and stuff. Since this was back in the day, my dad actually recorded it onto a casette, opened it, took the tape out, carefully rotated it, respooled it, and played the casette with the now-clear message.

[Muslim]

Click on the Forward and Reverse links to listen to the backtracked messages...............

Subliminal works in music industry >>> http://www.dubaibuzz.com/content.php?article.2

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[SirLemming]

Click on the Forward and Reverse links to listen to the backtracked messages...............

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LOL! I love how they've deemed Michael Jackson's "Beat It" to contain gibberish in that one line. I'm pretty sure there are lyrics.
So if I write a song that has the phrase "this won't" in the lyrics it means I'm actually saying "O Satan"? Wow.

Ever notice how all of these hidden messages have lots of odd word choices like "Oh", "Come on", and "yeah" repeated a lot?

'Yeah Satan, he organized, oh, he organized his own religion. Yeah, when he knows he should, how nice it was delicious, he puts it in a vet he fixes it for his son which he gives away.' Gasp! So that's what they were trying to say! I knew it had something to do with the vet.

Another interesting reversal is from the not so innocent nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle little Star', a recording was made from a 6-year-old girl and when played backwards the words 'I wish there were no Allah' can be heard.Oh give me a break.

The immensely popular 'Popeye the Sailorman' song also contains messages in reverse, but much more explicitly. Backwards the words 'Give me a f***.' and 'Give me a f*** now.' can be heard. Thanks to David Oates for this clip.
If by "explicitly" they mean "even if you were brainwashed for a million years into believing this you'd still barely be able to hear it."

[candy17]

My favorite one so far is in Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". The chorus sounds kind of like "It's time to smoke marijuana" when played backwards. Whether or not it's true, it sounds funny.
Actually, it's "It's fun to smoke marijuana". I visited a website about songs with hidden messages in them and thought this revelation was hilarious.

[SirLemming]

Actually, it's "It's fun to smoke marijuana". I visited a website about songs with hidden messages in them and thought this revelation was hilarious.It's whatever you think it is. I think it sounds more like "time" than "fun".

One thing I have to wonder about all this is, if these artists really wanted to hide Satanic messages in their music, wouldn't they make the messages a little more... coherent? I mean, some of this stuff is just incomprehensible. Like the "Hotel California" one I quoted above. Does Satan work most effectively through poor sentence structure?

The only one I'm anywhere near believing is the "Stairway To Heaven" one, because it's almost more bizarre forwards than backwards.

[The Wolverine]

Obviously the Pink Floyd one is real. The Beatles "I'm So Tired" one is ridiculous. The Britney Spears one is almost as ridiculous -- I didn't hear it at all until I read the supposed reverse lyrics.


That how all backmasing works.

You don't hear it until you see it in print.

[SirLemming]

That how all backmasing works.

You don't hear it until you see it in print.Or it's the power of suggestion.

[Kenshin]

me and my friend tested "stairway to heaven" backwards, its really hard to figure out what they are saying (because its backwards... duh...) but you can definetly hear them say something about satan a couple of times... creepy! :ack:

[The Koopinator]

Yeah, wasn't the Pokerap backwards rumored to be saying "I love Satan!" or something like that?

[tucsoncoyote]

Found a couple of Curious fun lines onf Busted's "Thunderbirds are Go" theme song..

Lost the Picture.. Lost the big one..

and about 2/3rds of the way through the reverse song.. I hear..

Sony is Evil...

yep I figured as much..

:coyote:

[SirLemming]

Yeah, wasn't the Pokerap backwards rumored to be saying "I love Satan!" or something like that?Yeah, that's on that page. Listen to it. It's a ridiculous claim.