I just downloaded this program to my computer called Audacity. I don't how many people have heard of this program but apparently it allows you to listen to songs in reverse to decipher hidden meanings in songs. This was my first time using it so I was screwing around with different songs and could make out some but the rest was gibberish.Anyway, I listened to P's God song and it sounded like in reverse....." We love you all" or "All the Same". I don't know what it means but strangely I felt comforted by it. Anyone ever tried this or believe in backmasking in music?
P.S.
Listen to Nirvana's Smells like Teen spirit: In the beginning, it sounds like he is saying " I hate you"!
Led Zepplin's" Stairway to Heaven" made refernces to Satan.
P.S.S. No smart ass comments I just found out about this! Lol!

Audacity

Listen to New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle". When reversed, you can hear clearly "Jarvius Lovesexy will be baaack"

zaza said:

Most backward messages discovered in the past have been just coincidence.
For example when Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust' is played backwards it sounds like he is singing 'It's fun to smoke marijuana' but if anyone records themselves saying 'Another One Bites the Dust' and reverses it it has the same backwards message (I have tried it myself). So it was just a natural coincidence.

There are bands that have done this deliberately though (as P did on Darling Niki) but this was probably done to gain attention through causing controversy.
And maybe just for fun

zaza said:

I think many of you were cruel and unnecessarily mean to that child. There was such venom to someone so young who was trying to get an understanding of an music Icon. You could hide behind the safety of the internet where you could say and do many things without having to face the reality of being the bullies that some on here were.

jimmyrogertodd said:

I really like your gentle personality. Brings a lot of balance to this place.Very humble, always laid back and polite.

jimmyrogertodd said:

Not me - I never said anything mean to him and I always helped him via orgnotes when he wanted
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Has anyone ever heard the backwards messages on Carrier Dome,Syracuse 30:3:85 concert? Back in the day i only had it on video and so i recorded the audio to a cassette tape..an then took the tape to bits a put the spools back in but back to front. It sort of worked,but was very distorted.

Prince songs with hidden message:

Girl 12 inch version,
Darling Nikki,
Baby I'm A Star,
Alphabet Street (video),
However Much U Want (song by Mayte),
The One (video)

edit more here:
http://prince.org/msg/7/205822url
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thedance said:

Girl (the B-side)


The funny thing about "Baby I'm a Star" is it is naughty and they play it on the radio. I always want to call the station and ask if they know what it says.

However Much U Want (song by Mayte), ... what is said ??


Girl (the B-side 12 inch long vers) .... its a song called boy

zaza said:

yup, it is good and it is free! It is good for converting WAV files to MP3 or the other way around.

It is also good for making ring tones. As most MP3s and WAV flies are too large to be used as a ring tone you can use Audacity to edit the files down to a size that can be used. It also lets you pick the section or sections to use.

I used to have a prince scream. But it scared people.

madison said:

However Much U Want

{Backwards message}

Prince: Mayte, darling, I'm diggin' your set, but a..
I think we need 2 leave something 4 the babies of the New Power Generation
What do U think?

Mayte: Cool, what do U wanna do?

Prince: However much U want

Mayte: Get up then, boy!
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ElCapitan said:

right, here's the hidden messages from 'The One' video, some secret writing at the edge of the black "dialogue signs" during the Chaplin intro. Very difficult to read, but Vc61 and MsJamieStarr figured it out on Hq....:


(1) Mayte was Nefertiti and was Anhkaten so you are my slave

(2) Come back my son and rule love Prince and the Revolution

(3) Stavros is what Jesus died on not a cross

(4) Jesus is King Jesus is King Jesus is King

(5) Stavros is what Jesus died on not a cross

(6) Wendy Lisa Sheila Cat Susannah Rhonda Marva

(7) Jesus is King Jesus is King Jesus is King

(8) Come back my son and rule love Prince and the Revolution

(9) Mayte was Nefertiti and was Anhkaten so you are my slave

credits: taken from housequake.com

and this thread also: http://prince.org/msg/7/205822url?&pg=2
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In the Alphabet Street video:



"Don't Buy The Black Album, I'm Sorry",

just in case you didn't know.....

If you look at the lyric booklet to the Love Symbol album you can see the supposed hieroglyphics have a bunch of messages. Most noteably "don't buy the black album"

housequake82 said:

isn't one "Prince's favorite food is stewardess"

thedance said:

Irresistible Bitch - http://prince.org/msg/7/326217

I heard that ernestsewell's screen name has a hidden message is you say it backwards while spinning counter clockwise while balancing a glazed donut on your head while holding a soft pretzel in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other!

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I don't have a soft pretzel to try it..

zaza said:

well take a normal one rap it i a moist paper towel and microwave low for 15 seconds.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I just ate that pretzel

zaza said:

well at least we know you are not G W BUSH.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

zaza said:

oh no are you choking? Maybe you are Bush!

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Impossible..

zaza said:

yeah, I can tell, you spelled "impossible" correctly.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

jimmyrogertodd said:

I agree. He was a little over-enthusisatic at times, but compared to some of the certifiable nuts on this site, he was hardly worth the scorn.