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Reply #60 posted 08/31/08 5:41pm

mydrawers

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tangerine7 said:

yo could someone tell me why this works on a record player using your fingers to drag backwards and not on computer softeware in reverse..? the software is just fine cuz i can for example take missy elliots song 'work it' load it in same software and reverse it and you plainly hear 'put my thang down flip and reverse it' but not darling nikki..only works for me on record player strange
i wish like heck i could post an mp3 file so yall could hear
hasta luego


IT DOES work on computer software. Here is a link:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...9ZKM-0bauM

In my opinion, it sounds better on the turntable though.
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Reply #61 posted 08/31/08 8:35pm

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mydrawers said:

IT DOES work on computer software. Here is a link:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...9ZKM-0bauM

In my opinion, it sounds better on the turntable though.

yes it does work.. and i agree it works better on tables.
have you read my posts i said thats what i tried it on first... the problem was i had load one of my darling nikki track that had an error thats why i didnt believe u
i have so i had to go the tables and do it that way so i did hear it
then afterward i found a usable file and did it on my comptuer software
and it worked. hey i really am more intrguied than ever with this now. ive heard this since i was a kid but never even messing around it didnt touch playing with this... my point is at first few posts i couldnt understand why the funk my software wasnt doing it then i did the tables and then i realised i had an error in a mp3 file. but its all good now
so thank 4 bringing it up my drawers. blackguitartistz,who did dude has did threads bout this but i say again i just never wanted to mes with it. anyways u get it now what my problem was at first bad file.
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Reply #62 posted 08/31/08 11:41pm

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blackguitaristz said:



Thanx langebleu..NOW for all ya'll that have questions, ^^^, here are many of my examples and descriptions regarding Darling Nikki, The Time's "onedayi'mgonnabesomebody", "Let's Go Crazy", etc. in the links langebleu was so kind to put together. There is a backmask on the track 1999 where P sings " Say Say 2,000 party over oops out of time" but THAT one, I can't
make out. What gives it away is that P sings "say say" which doesn't make a lick a sense, which is usually a giveaway that there is a backmasking going on in that spot. And P only sings it once in the song. In the other lyric, later on in the song, P sings "THEY say 2,000 zero zero" which DOES makes sense and not "Say Say". With all of the other stuff on that album and P's history for backmasking during that period and beyond, I can hear something there when reversed but unlike the other examples I have given in the past, which are very clear..this one isn't. Someone actually told me about this one back in 86 and it made sense right away that it would be there, cuz I ALWAYS noticed and wondered why would P sing "say say" and then sing "They say". I know many people don't believe or undersatnd backmasking. That's cool. I know it exists and it has for decades. I do it myself, musically and lyrically, in my own songs and productions. There's some folks on here that actaully own some of my stuff where at least on one track, there is a backmask.


Ok, the Let's Go Crazy one I don't really buy into. I can agree it sounds like , "I was f@##&t" followed by indecipherable sounds then "girl stella" but you have to REALLY want it! Are you hearing something more (other words, etc) that makes it clear to you? And how can you be sure it's backmasking and isn't just phonic coincidence? There are no clues that there is something there when played forward (at least not that I hear). Help!

I can't make anything out on 1999 at all. I always figured the "say say" was P telling Dez, JJ, Lisa to sing the chorus. shrug The reverse recording msgs such as on Girl, Darling Nikki, Baby I'm a Star are of course easy to figure out. Is One Day I'm Gonna Be Somebody backmasked or reverse recorded? I don't have a digital copy of that song so I can't hear it...
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The backmask on Let's Go Crazy is wicked...I can clearly hear "When I was a fa#@&*, there was a girl named Stella." Then he says something else but it's too hard to hear. With the rumors that always followed P about him being gay, there is no way that was coincidence. it's when he says "There's something else...the afterworld." The Time's "onedayi'mgonna" is the scariest one that I ever heard from Prince. The "We Don't Like New Wave" in reversed...man,, I was hip to hearing backmasking from since I was a kid with The Beatles and of course, Led Zeppelin. Parliament has a reverse thing on "Prelude" on the "Clones of Dr.Funkenstein" album. Ever since I was 8 and 9 years old, I could spot when something was recorded in a different way in music. I could hear it in Hendrix's solos, the ones that were recorded backwards. It was a different sound. And I loved it. It has influenced me greatly. Musically and lyrically. But that Time backmask is something else. It's hella spooky. Waaaay spookier than the Darling Nikki one. And what's interesting, they both include laughter.
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Reply #63 posted 09/01/08 1:32am

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Wow, that is really cool. I always wondered about that segment of the song. Thanks for sharing (although its old news to some). Now I'm wondering about other songs...list please.

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Reply #64 posted 09/01/08 9:19am

LittleNicci

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You guys wanna hear something REAL SCARY? ....


"Nikki" is probably 50 now, with a couple of Adult children..... now THAT'S what's really scary.....


I'm not quite 50 yet dear and only have one adult child - a girl would you believe it and of course she is funky !!! and wild
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Reply #65 posted 09/01/08 9:22am

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mydrawers said:

You guys wanna hear something REAL SCARY? ....


"Nikki" is probably 50 now, with a couple of Adult children..... now THAT'S what's really scary.....


I am certain she isn't a day over 47. cool


44 actually
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