Playing records backwards

[pleinster]

In the days of old, when music was recorded onto vinyl and there were actual things called albums (LPs even), it was said that if a Black Sabbath record was played backwards - one could hear evil commands being uttered! This was said of some punk rock and heavy metal records too.
It was then discovered that if ordinary pop records were played backwards...they sounded better.
It is, I think, for this reason, that we now have CDs and downloadable music - it cannot be played backwards for us to find that it sounds better that way (principally because most of it is so very poor and it can cause terrible sickness...possibly wrongly labelled "winter vomiting bug" or "seasonal disorder"). This is greatly to the advantage of "bands" like One Direction...who can succeed despite having only slightly less talent than dead mice in a blender (with a broken fuse). What?

It also occurs to me that while people back in the eighties were playing Black Sabbath records backwards in search of subliminal Satanic words, they were not listening to the actual words being sung (such as "My name is Lucifer, please take my hand"). Just saying...

Ok - I shall stop now..sorry....I was very bored!

 

[13lizanne]

Lol

 

[pleinster]

Lol

I'm in Central Scotland too, Lizanne...maybe that's where the humour comes from - nobody else is laughing, pal!

 

[nickm]

And Sergeant Peppers backwards said "Paul is dead"

 

[pleinster]

And Sergeant Peppers backwards said "Paul is dead"

Could also have been "The ball is red", " Polly's bed" or "Type 2 diabetes is reversible"....and..if it even did say "Paul is dead"...whichever poltergeist was in the studio got it's Beatles mixed up pretty badly.

I actually tried it once with a Judas Priest record supposed to say "do it, do it", interpreted by a particular lawyer as provoking two young fans to shoot each other! Kinda sounded like "oobie oobbie" to me. The lead singer once said...if he was going to put a subliminal message on the record it would be "buy this record". The late Bill Hicks didn't see two brainless metal head teens who thought their favourite band were telling them to kill themselves (thus denying the band more income, and themselves of their lives) no real loss...he said "What's the problem?" and saw it as natural selection. I'm not sure he actually meant it.
But, et's face it, if people go such length, playing their records backwards and figuring out what may or may not be being said subliminally...they have too much free time on their hands. That said, i really do think Bee Gees records do sound better backwards.

 

[Shar67]

I once tried it it said supercalifragalisticexpladious is said it to my girl now she is my wife

 

[pleinster]

I once tried it it said supercalifragalisticexpladious is said it to my girl now she is my wife

Ha! Love it. I just played a Rush single backwards and it said "congratulations, Shar".

 

[Doriand]

In the days of old, when music was recorded onto vinyl and there were actual things called albums (LPs even), it was said that if a Black Sabbath record was played backwards - one could hear evil commands being uttered! This was said of some punk rock and heavy metal records too.
It was then discovered that if ordinary pop records were played backwards...they sounded better.
It is, I think, for this reason, that we now have CDs and downloadable music - it cannot be played backwards for us to find that it sounds better that way (principally because most of it is so very poor and it can cause terrible sickness...possibly wrongly labelled "winter vomiting bug" or "seasonal disorder"). This is greatly to the advantage of "bands" like One Direction...who can succeed despite having only slightly less talent than dead mice in a blender (with a broken fuse). What?

It also occurs to me that while people back in the eighties were playing Black Sabbath records backwards in search of subliminal Satanic words, they were not listening to the actual words being sung (such as "My name is Lucifer, please take my hand"). Just saying...

Ok - I shall stop now..sorry....I was very bored!

This reminds me of the time I was driving my elderly mother around and forgot it was on this FM station playing rap and hip hop and thankfully the expletive language was left out! All the lyrics she was hearing was:" Yo,mutha!....Yo, mutha......!" Her response to rap music was: "at least they write songs about their mothers!"....