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Backmasking first became famous with The Beatles. Just before the band's break-up in 1970, DJ Russell Gibb initiated the infamous Paul Is Dead urban legend (a rumor that Beatle Paul McCartney had died) by playing certain Beatles records backwards to reveal hidden messages. One album in particular, The Beatles (aka The White Album) was said to contain backwards messages. Intentional gibberish at the end of "I'm So Tired" supposedly is

"Paul is dead, man, miss him, miss him..."
Likewise, the repeated words

"Number nine, number nine, number nine..."
in "Revolution 9" are supposedly

"turn me on, dead man, turn me on, dead man..."
backwards.

The most famous alleged backward message in a rock and roll song is based on a lyric from the song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. When the words

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on"
are played backwards, some claim it sounds like

"Oh, here's to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan ... He'll give those with him six six six (666); there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan."
However this is only really discernible to most listeners if one has read the words beforehand.

The Eagles' "Hotel California" supposedly contains a backward message from the opening lyrics that goes

"Satan, he organized his own religion...well, he knows he should...so nice it was delicious...it cooks it in a vat he fixed for his son whom he gives away."
Yoko Ono recorded "Kiss Kiss" after the death of John Lennon: Forward: "Anata, daiteyo". (Translated: Darling, hug me) Backwards: "I shot John Lennon"

John Lennon's "Imagine" Forward: "Imagine all the people." Backwards: "The people war beside me."

The runoff groove in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band contains a backmasked sample which sounds like "Will Paul be back as Superman?", often considered to be a clue in the infamous Paul is dead rumours.

The title of Queen's funk-rock hit "Another One Bites The Dust", when played backwards, sounds vaguely like

"It's fun to smoke marijuana."
British heavy metal band Judas Priest was sued over a 1985 suicide pact made by two Nevada schoolboys. One of the two boys survived, and the lawsuit by their families claimed that a 1978 Judas Priest album contained hidden messages. The words "Do it" were allegedly audible when the record was played backwards, and the letters S U I (supposedly for "suicide") are in the sleeve artwork. The case was dismissed after evidence was introduced that the boys had grown up in "violent and depressed" surroundings, and after the band demonstrated that other, nonsensical, backwards messages could be found if one exercised enough imagination. Judas Priest members also commented that if they wanted to insert subliminal commands in their music, killing their fans would be counterproductive, and they would prefer to insert the command "Buy more of our records".

Another alleged deliberate backwards message by Iron Maiden is on the live version of the song "Drifter", which is on the B-side of their second single, "Sanctuary," saying: "I want you to sell your soul to Satan!" However, this was later proved to in fact be bassist Steve Harris using another microphone saying,

"(th)'anks a lot! See ya guys, see ya 'morra. Cheers!"
The Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship song "A Child Is Coming," from the 1970 album Blows Against the Empire, includes the line "it's getting better" repeated over and over. Allegedly this says "son of Satan" when played backwards.

Yet another well-known example is Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time", which played backwards reveals messages that some people claim sound vaguely like "sleep with me, I'm not too young," "smoke marijuana," "we love it," "Satan is an enemy of Christ," and other presumed satanic-sounding stuff.

Even the nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" does not escape criticism: playing it backwards will supposedly result in one of the lines becoming

"I wish there was no Allah".
A recently discovered sample of alleged backmasking is Nirvana's unusually optimistic song, "Come As You Are." When the main chorus is played backwards, it is claimed to say

"I love Satan, I'm there for Satan, I'm there for Satan."
Yet another song, "2112-Grand Finale" by Rush, has a part which says "Rush is with Satan," three times in reverse.

Other artists accused of backmasking include AC/DC, Black Oak Arkansas, Styx,and Prince. Styx and Prince would later put deliberate backmasking in a couple of their songs to poke fun at the controversy.

"In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins features the words :"I want so many women, I do... yeah" When the chorus "I can feel it in the air tonight" is reversed. This may or may not be a little bit of fun on Phil's part.

The Pokemon Rap, has a reversed part as well. The words "Gotta Catch 'em All, Gotta Catch 'em All...", become

"I love Satan, I love Satan..."
A funny but unintentional backmask in The Carpenters' cover of "Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft" by Klaatu says

"That's not the way and video sends the message", a play on how messages should not be sent (like subliminal).
Paul McCartney and Wings' "Band on the Run" Contains a rather prophetic message when the main chorus is played backwards

"Marijuana(x4), the law, law will banish us, (some gibberish), marijuana(x2)
It is prophetic because McCartney would later be banished from entering Japan after they found some marijuana in his luggage.




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Deliberate backmasking
Several musicians have deliberately recorded backward messages into their songs, as a way of making an artistic statement, and also to have fun at the expense of their critics. Unlike unintentional, alleged backward messages, which result from playing normal lyrics backward, deliberate backward messages are usually unintelligible noise when played forward.

On Pink Floyd's rock epic The Wall there is an intentional backwards message halfway through the track "Empty Spaces":

"...congratulations. You've just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont"
which refers to former lead singer Syd Barrett, who suffered a breakdown years earlier. On Roger Waters' 1991 album Amused to Death, he deliberately recorded a backward message critical of film director Stanley Kubrick, who had refused to let Waters sample a breathing sound from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Biolich have a hidden message in the beginning of "Twin Faced Exorcism" that states "and you walk properly into the area". In the track "Morals Like Frozen Piss" there is a backwards message that says "there is nothing wrong with killing people". "Morals Like..." title is an exeprt from Thought Industry's song "Horsepowered". It is also rumored that their track lengths and other samples reference the bible and other significant events.

The Beatles produced two of the first instances of backmasking in popular music in 1966, first on "Rain," the B-side of "Paperback Writer," which contains the first line of the song played backwards at the end, and again on "I'm Only Sleeping", which contains a backwards guitar line in the middle.

Another early example of deliberate backmasking, and possibly the first ever parody of backmasking, was found in the 1970 song "Gotta Find a Way" by Bloodrock. Played backward, that part of the song says,

"Anyone who is stupid enough to play this record backwards deserves what he is about to hear"
and excerpts from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky."

A few Christian rock musicians in the 1980s included deliberate backmasking with a gospel message as a lighthearted way of poking fun at the concern over backmasking—concern which was often being promoted by the same fundamentalist evangelists who were also attacking Christian rock. The Christian rock group Petra in their song "Judas Kiss" included the message

"What are you looking for the devil for, when you ought to be looking for the Lord?"
Another Christian rock musician, Randy Stonehill, included the backward message "He shall reign forever" in his song "Rainbow." The Christian heavy metal band Stryken (not to be confused with Stryper) put a warning label on their album to warn listeners that the album contained numerous backward messages urging the listener to accept Jesus Christ as personal savior.

The techno music group Information Society, in their cover of the Gary Numan song "Are 'Friends' Electric?", concealed the message

"Obey your parents, do your homework, winners don't do drugs"
in an homage to the comic strip Bloom County.

The end of Prince's track "Darling Nikki" contained:

"Hello, how are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know that the Lord is coming soon, coming, coming soon"
following (or, in reverse, followed by) thirty-three "hah"s.

Not all intentional backward messages poke fun at concerns over backmasking. On their 1994 album Born Dead, heavy metal band Body Count intentionally put in a backward message on the song "Killing Floor," which when played backwards says, "Body Count, motherfucker. Burn in hell!" Black metal band Darkthrone put a backward message at the end of the seventh track of their Transilvanian Hunger album, which said, "In the name of God, let the churches burn." The Cradle of Filth song "Dinner at Deviants Palace" consists almost entirely of ambient sounds and a reversed reading of the Lord's Prayer (being able to say the Lord's Prayer backwards was perceived in the middle ages as a sign of being a witch).

In the Pantera song "Avoid the Light," speech that has obviously been reversed can be heard during the intro and outro portions of the song. When played backwards, the singer, Phil Anselmo says

"Satan's wrath is the only choice. His stillborn army is impeccable."
In the opening moments of Marilyn Manson's "Tourniquet", a clearly audible backwards voice says,

"This is my lowest point of vulnerability".
The Sisters of Mercy's "Vision Thing" includes a reversed quotation from the film Apocalypse Now:

"Only the Americans would build a place like this in middle of the jungle. Only the Americans would want to."
Their earlier song "Burn" has an entire verse reversed.

At the Drive-In's song "300mhz" from the Vaya album has an entire verse backmasked.

The musical group tomandandy scored several pieces for the film version of The Rules of Attraction which were designed to be harmonic when the scenes occur both backwards and forwards (a technique which happens several times in the movie).

Dread Zeppelin, a reggae Led Zeppelin cover band featuring an Elvis impersonator named Tortelvis, features some deliberate backmasking on their 1990 album Un-Led-Ed. At the beginning of the track Moby Dick, a reverse-speaking voice says "Whis (?) My name's Elvis." When played forward, it says "Trouble is going to come... to you".

The 2002 Missy Elliot song "Work It" features in the chorus features the line "I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it," played twice forwards then twice backwards, though many listeners still puzzled over the meaning of the backwards part.

ID Software's PC game Doom II includes a secret message. The final boss, the Icon of Sin, makes an incoherent "Satanic" speech, which, when reversed, says

"To win this game you must kill me, John Romero."
If a no-clipping cheat is used, the player can walk through a wall and see Romero's bloody, severed head on a stake. Romero was a programmer for the game; he put the backwards message in to get back at the artists who put the image of his head on the final level, which they thought they could sneak into the final version without him noticing. Unfortunately, the artists found out about the secret message before the release of the game!

In Def Leppard's song, "Rocket", there is an intentional backmask revealing a preview of another song, "Gods of War", on the album Hysteria: "We are fighting with the gods of war"

Also A Perfect Circle's song "Renholder" has a backward message in it. We can clearly hear one of the composer's name - Danny Lohner. Note that the title "Renholder" is backwards for "Re: D. Lohner".

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Parodies of backmasking

The manual for the popular sound program SoX pokes fun at subliminal messages.The Beatles parody band The Rutles features a backward message in their song "Piggy in the Middle" (itself a parody of the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus"), prior to the bridge: played backwards, it reveals "This little piggy went to maaaaarket," spoken in a stereotypical Beatles voice. The Rutles' spinoffs of backwards messages didn't end there. In their mockumentary All You Need Is Cash, the words to "Sergeant Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" (a song that exists in name only), is supposed to reveal the message "Stig has been dead for ages, honestly" (referring to the rumor that the Rutles' guitarist Stig O'Hara was dead—a reference to the Paul Is Dead rumors). In fact, as the narrator (Eric Idle) points out, it's much more similar to "Dnab Bulc Strad Ylno Srettur Tnaegres



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