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    Posted: August 21 2005 at 21:54

Not true.

But there are backwards messages in some of Waters's stuff, like Empty Spaces and Perfect Sense.  You can hear muffled human speech on those songs when you play them forwards, though.  Nothing threatening about the messages either, except for Waters screaming violently at someone called Stanley in the Perfect Sense messege!
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http://www.reversespeech.com/music_reversals.htm

A very cool site about this topic, with lots of examples...
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Well there are two types of this type of things in music, there is intentional backwards masking and one that you just listen to the song and try to make sense of the noise. the is the latter type, so its a load of crap. An intentional backward maskin is in ELO's "Fire on High" and has a very cool effect.

 



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Originally posted by tuxon tuxon wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I am firmly of the opinion that it's complete bo**ocks. Some people need to get out more.

However, I have heard an MP3 of it played backwards and some of the words sound vaguely like what's written above (mind you, they're so indistinct you could make them sound like pretty much anything you wanted to).

The first line is "there's a lady who's sure..." by the way.

 

the first line is.

"There's a lady who thinks she is sure.."

Are you sure?

That reminds of of an old Two Ronnies joke -

"name?",  "Shaw", "Shaw?","Positive"



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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I am firmly of the opinion that it's complete bo**ocks. Some people need to get out more.

However, I have heard an MP3 of it played backwards and some of the words sound vaguely like what's written above (mind you, they're so indistinct you could make them sound like pretty much anything you wanted to).

The first line is "there's a lady who's sure..." by the way.

 

the first line is.

"There's a lady who thinks she is sure.."
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I got these off the Internet somewhere. They are supposedly what Stairway says if you play it backwards: -

"Plaaaay backwards,
Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
Allll on track, all arriving
They all sing, and they are one.
Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
It stirs my sin; the river,
Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
All my life will end for him?
We're all out of signs,
I know I'm sorta shocked
To hear The Lord,
My God now will save me!
Oh I will n'er be saved,
Because I live with Satan..
One wish today;
That you'll all pray for
Three who will make it here late.
Pray now and you'll see..
The 'Lord' turned me on,
But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
Clothed in agony,
Lost at a height.
There's no escaping it,
Nor his woes..
Oh heres to my sweet satan,
The one whos little path would make me sad,
Whose power is satan,
Hell give you give you 666,
There was a little toolshed
where he made us suffer,
sad satan,
Ohohohoh...
"Family won't get loose,
They're offered me."
Always soothes the worker.
Always will be as we know now
"I see ruins," said he,
"the world they offered me?
Who wished the Lord's fall?"
If we lose feather,
Say you'll save me!

And no wimps can bend the rules..
And no wimps can do..

Hunt next to the shore,
'Cause they see all from there,
See here's the news,
Who walks with mute grief!
Perhaps no-one found thee...
"Heavy, lift me out,"
Spake the Reve,
"Someday, failed, we'll lose one line-up,
They've gotta leave forsaken."

And no wimps can do..
And no wimps can do...

He, who say the lords
Thoth have our laws,
Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
Over there,
He who should learn thee.
Any moot that serves by my sworn music,
I wish it with snow be shushed,
All for my mass's sake.
Hear why its sung,
here, oppositioner, Ohh..
He who should show
May make his show worthy,
To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
There's one chance - take his show.
Hold thy head,
Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
Who owns this earth built below?
Oh sweet Israel..."

Is this is biggest load of twaddle ever or is there something to it?

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Talking of backwards music, there's a bit in Kate Bush's "The Ninth Wave" which sounds like it's backwards, except I've heard it played the other way and it still sounds like it's backwards!

Anyone know what this bit is supposed to say?
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I think this rumour got started by Jimmy Page himself , so as to get even more records sold!

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I've also heard that the lyrics to 'Atlantis' by Pallas, when played backwards sound remarkably like:

"You fool, throw this album away, it's absolute rubbish"

Although this could be just another urban myth...
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

STOP PRESS

Apparently "another one bites the dust" backwards says "It's fun to smoke marijuana". Sounds to me like the person who discovered this must have been smoking a bit himself.
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I've also heard that the lyrics to 'Atlantis' by Pallas, when played backwards sound remarkably like:

"You fool, throw this album away, it's absolute rubbish"

Although this could be just another urban myth...
Funny, I could have sworn I heard that when it was played forwards as well
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I've also heard that the lyrics to 'Atlantis' by Pallas, when played backwards sound remarkably like:

"You fool, throw this album away, it's absolute rubbish"

Although this could be just another urban myth...

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STOP PRESS

Apparently "another one bites the dust" backwards says "It's fun to smoke marijuana". Sounds to me like the person who discovered this must have been smoking a bit himself.
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BaldJean,

You are of course correct - it is a load of old twaddle. However, if you did listen to the MP3, you would find it a lot closer to these words than you would think by just writing it down backwards. I guess it depends on how the words are actually sung (accent, phrasing etc). It also needs a fair bit of creative listening.

You can find a sample MP3 here http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm



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What?Isn't it a rock ballad?

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^ Thats a bit of a throwaway line for classic song, isn't it?
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let's be serious...Stairway to Heaven is nothing but a rock ballade...
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I got these off the Internet somewhere. They are supposedly what Stairway says if you play it backwards: -

"Plaaaay backwards,
Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
Allll on track, all arriving
They all sing, and they are one.
Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
It stirs my sin; the river,
Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
All my life will end for him?
We're all out of signs,
I know I'm sorta shocked
To hear The Lord,
My God now will save me!
Oh I will n'er be saved,
Because I live with Satan..
One wish today;
That you'll all pray for
Three who will make it here late.
Pray now and you'll see..
The 'Lord' turned me on,
But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
Clothed in agony,
Lost at a height.
There's no escaping it,
Nor his woes..
Oh heres to my sweet satan,
The one whos little path would make me sad,
Whose power is satan,
Hell give you give you 666,
There was a little toolshed
where he made us suffer,
sad satan,
Ohohohoh...
"Family won't get loose,
They're offered me."
Always soothes the worker.
Always will be as we know now
"I see ruins," said he,
"the world they offered me?
Who wished the Lord's fall?"
If we lose feather,
Say you'll save me!

And no wimps can bend the rules..
And no wimps can do..

Hunt next to the shore,
'Cause they see all from there,
See here's the news,
Who walks with mute grief!
Perhaps no-one found thee...
"Heavy, lift me out,"
Spake the Reve,
"Someday, failed, we'll lose one line-up,
They've gotta leave forsaken."

And no wimps can do..
And no wimps can do...

He, who say the lords
Thoth have our laws,
Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
Over there,
He who should learn thee.
Any moot that serves by my sworn music,
I wish it with snow be shushed,
All for my mass's sake.
Hear why its sung,
here, oppositioner, Ohh..
He who should show
May make his show worthy,
To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
There's one chance - take his show.
Hold thy head,
Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
Who owns this earth built below?
Oh sweet Israel..."

Is this is biggest load of twaddle ever or is there something to it?

the song begins with the lines: "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven". Now let's write this backwards: "nevaeh ot yawriats a gniyub s'ehs dna, dlog si srettilg taht lla erus s'ohw ydal a s'ereht". now let's compare this to the last two lines of your text. does it come anywhere close? not at all.
of course a phonetic analysis would be much better than an alphabetic one, but it would be too much effort for me to fill in the phonetic symbols. in any case: a big no-no. nothing but a hoax


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Sorry,sorry,"there's a lady who's sure"...

You're right,maybe it's just small talk...
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