When"Kiss" is reversed, within the within the first 30 seconds of the song playing backwards (during the part where Prince sings "You Don't Have To Be Rich To Be My Girl" at the end), you clearly hear the following: "Ssik" ("Kiss" said backwards sounds like "Sick"); You then hear Prince CLEARLY shouting "The Lord Is In My Life;" "The Lord is Coming Soon For You"

Everytime I play this song reversed it sends chills up my spine eventhough it's not a satanic message. But I can't help but wonder if and why would these artists do this intentionally?

In 1987 on the now defunct T.V. show "Eye On L.A. / Eye On America," the host Chuck Henry did a story on teens committing suicide after playing Vinyl records backwards. The most notorious albums that were played backwards were those by Led Zepplin, Megadeth, and Metallica (The same songs you guys talked about here were also mentioned on that show back in 1987).

It was when Chuck tested songs by Prince (and other artists) to see if there were hidden messages in his music, that I heard for the first time Kiss's hidden message.

Fourteen years after I saw Chuck Henry's report about about "Kiss", in 2001 a found a recording of it (from the "Under The Cherry Moon" soundtrack), copied it to my .... and I tested it for myself, reversed it, and sure enough I heard what Chuck was talking about ..... it freaked me out for days when I tried it .... I recorded it to a cd and quickly ran and told other people about it. I had even told someone about "Kiss" in a chatroom. That person just happened to have the song on his computer, and when he played it the way I suggested it (reversed through the sound recorder program), all he kept saying was "Oh my gosh...""Oh my gosh!" He was shocked out of his mind.

Again, what you here is "Sick"; and "The Lord is In My Life"; "The Lord Is Coming Soon For You"

In my opinion, if this was a deliberately intended, it is one heck of an eerie backwardmask to hear eventhough it's message is good (I think). And then as a Christian myself, I must question ... who is he calling "The Lord"? Is he referring to Jesus or Satan? --We may never know for sure this answer, but one thing I can speculate is this: It was rumored during the 1980's that Prince became a Christian after he'd been involved in some religious cults, (this is before he changed his name to a symbol and converted to being Jehovah's Witness) ...

Now I love the guy as much as anyone so don't take this as idle criticism but more speculation. I've read the comments of more than a few people who've met Prince face to face (Michael Jackson, Rick James, former associate Karen Kratinger, etc) who say that at times he gives them the creeps with his aura. Apparently, MJ commented during Purple Rain's success that he thought Prince's talents had come from the Devil himself as some sort of Faustian pact ('The Rise and Fall of Michael Jackson'). Now I put most of these comments down to pure jealousy for the most part but I must confess that occasionally I've felt some 'bad energy' (spooky electric?) listening to a few tracks like 'Temptation', the Lord's Prayer during 'Controversy' and sometimes the slowed down voice he has used in various tracks like 'Bob George' and the narrator in TRC. What do you think?

blackguitaristz said:

I've also heard that as well. Well, if you remember in the song, I Would Die 4 You. He included the following lyrics," I'm your Messiah."

MsLegs said:

Another blasphemous line. It speaks in the bible about "false prophets". People claiming to be Christ himself and to take heed of these people. Why oh why would P sing that about himself? I can clearly see why Dez booked when he did.

MsLegs said:

Another blasphemous line. It speaks in the bible about "false prophets". People claiming to be Christ himself and to take heed of these people. Why oh why would P sing that about himself? I can clearly see why Dez booked when he did.

blackguitaristz said:

Precisely.

. It's a quick fix, and a pretty self centered approach to repentance.

Angelic1302 said:

When a thread hits to close to home, the purple cool aid drinkers want it censored. Well isn't that special.

his backward track on Darling Nikki. He does NOT say God, but he says "lord". Like u, I asked in that post, is he refering to Jesus or to satan?

Some of you think way to hard.
lol =] Prince is human and not evil ; now if you want to see evil .. meet my mother.

christos7 said:

With Repentance, there's no quick fix and its not like Fast Food. Come Judgment Day the realization of this will come to fruition.

This thread makes me question the mental sanity of some of the american posters in here.....

Sorry to say

blackguitaristz said:

wow; blackguitarist i am loosing respect for you by the minute. You are exposing yourself as a religious nut PLEASE SAY YOU ARE NOT BEING SERIOUS.

I HOPE you are being sarcastic.

That song is from the point of jesus.

blackguitaristz said:

From the Purple Rain tour:

"I'm so confused. I'm so confused."

"Don't be confused. There's only one Lord, Jesus."

I'm not even religious myself, but we should at least make sure we're looking at all the evidence here, huh?

He's not, but I am. & I long to throttle you.

attention, there is one thing i would like to say people...christ, IS dead.

he died on the cross. so hearing that backwards, don't make it evil.

blackguitaristz said:

I haven't tried it in years. I was so shocked at the time that I threw away the single (bought it many times over again). I'm pretty sure it's the part where he sings "say say, 2000 zero zero party over, oops out of time". Play that part backwards and experiment with the speed. Ask yourself this question, why "say say", why that line? It's "yes, yes" backwards. I seem to remember the rest sounding like, "he's dead, christ is dead" And, why do we have to "say" it? Why the chant-like chorus? Why this and the apocalyptic theme of the song? The two parts I remember having backmasking were the deep voice in intro and the "say say" part. I forget which said what and I'm honestly not in a big hurry to go hear it again. The shit freaked me out then and I'm not sure I want to hear it again now.

I think it was a puzzle, a game. I don't think he took it that serious and neither did those of us who noticed. I'm actually more surprised that period hasn't been discussed more on the org. Maybe it's the fact that album art is so small these days, compared to a record cover. Have you ever looked at the 1999 cover upside down. It looks like an arrow pointing down and 666. The arrow also looks like a penis and yes, there's something shooting out of it. The guy was really dabbling with some deep sex/religious/demonic themes. I think it's brilliant and a little scary, oh and probably the coolest synth record of the era.

FarrahMoan said:

I just tried it with Sound Recorder in Windows (had to convert the MP3 file to WAV first though).

Actually this is the scariest one!

Whenever the chorus plays, it sounds exactly like "Devil, devil is..."

eyewishuheaven said:

We can look at it ALL, player. At least we've got your ass thinking. I can see u know "Oh no...this shit CAN'T be right...(panic) Oh wait..., wait...yes, yes,..what about from the Purple Rain tour...I'll clear this is up RIGHT now!"

blackguitaristz said:

I confess! I came off like a jerk! Sorry about that.

But I am thinking, and it just doesn't add up for me. Not being religious, I was always struck by Prince's religious iconography, maybe moreso than someone who is religious (because it was unexpected and unusual to me). Like the Lord's Prayer in Controversy - the song was groovin' anyway, so why put it in there unless he really meant it? Or the gospel of The Ladder? Or the voiceover in the Purple Rain tour I mentioned. Or to be totally literal, how about The Cross?

I'm not tryin' to pull this whole thing down (becuase I actually do find it very interesting, and I'm not completely sure I'm right!). I'm just tryin' to understand...

eyewishuheaven said:

No need to apologize man. Really, I was just fucking with u. And what you're saying is valid.