Aspies For Freedom

I recently watched a video on subliminal messages in music. I personally cannot say for myself if these are true. I want your opinion on this subject.

Well, in my opinion, if you reverse something, slow it down then caption it, even the most garbled sounds will sound like what is written.

You mean backmasking? I think most of alleged backmasks is unintentional. Some are intentional ("The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!" in ELO's "Fire on high"). The weirdest (probably unintentional) backmask ever is "Turn me on, dead man" in "revolution 9" by Beatles (how the hell could they make "turn me on, dead man" out of "number nine")?

I am for years in search for the most clearly sounding unitentional backmask (i.e., the backmask must be unintentional but sound clear). My current candidate is Linkin Park's "Numb", which, played backwards, is another song, clearly unintentionally backmasked - but some parts sound very clear. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=62gfCHum7j0

gibson man,
  This is one of those things that pop up every few years, mainly touted by religious fundamentalists as evidence that "Rock Is Evil". It's *always* the same stuff cited, too: Revolution 9, from the Beatles' White Album (1968), Stairway To Heaven, from Led Zeppelin IV, and a few others that are between 30-40 years old.

  Here's an interesting article about back-masking.

  My favorite take on the subject, though, is from a 1984 Bloom County comic; a man comes into the office of the Bloom Beacon, talking about back masking, and presenting a transcript "from the latest Debby Boone single": "Devil Bunnies! I snort the nose, Lucifer! Banana! Banana!" In the next strip, Milo Bloom listens to a Billy Joel record backwards, and comes up with: "No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney"; the man's response: "A SATANIC RIDDLE!"

  Which is about the same degree of credibility that I give it...  ;-)

  -BobB

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