The trouble with this argument is that they are occurring far too regularly, in long grammatically correct sentences, for them to be dismissed so easily. The second point he makes is that it is next to impossible to write a song that says something forwards as well as backwards. This we agree with. This theory was made popular by fundamentalist Christians. In the early to mid 80s there were many preachers on the church speaking circuit claiming that backmasking was the work of the devil.
They claimed that satan was possessing the minds of the singers to produce these backward messages, many of which promoted satan, drugs or free sex. Conveniently these backmasked messages also seemed to reflect the lifestyles of the bands who had these messages in their songs.
Now there is a new and more plausible, albeit somewhat radical, theory for backmasking. The theory of reverse speech states that language is bi level — forwards as well as backwards. That it is a natural function of the human brain. As the brain creates the sounds of speech it creates them in such a way that 2 messages are spoken at once.
Forwards from the conscious mind and backwards from the unconscious mind. The unintentional backmasked messages in music were the first signs to be discovered of this far greater phenomenon. Here are some examples of back masking. The tracks play forward once, and then backwards twice at different speeds.
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Activate Search. Scroll to Top. It was Thomas Edison, who, whilst working on two other inventions discovered a method to reproduce sound with the invention of the gramophone in and he was the first person credited with being able to capture sound and play it back at his In the meantime, another individual who cited playing records backwards as a useful tool was Aleister Crowley, the infamous magician and theatrical occultist.
He bought it into the public arena when he extolled his students who wished to become The use of playing music backwards became even simpler when the technology for recording sound was revolutionized by the 9 Fritz Pfleumer's invention of the of magnetic tape for sound recording in This gave artists and producers the power Once this new invention became the norm for recording music, backmasking began to evolve rapidly.
In the autumn of the group An article entitled At a later date, in , legislation was passed unanimously by A number of musical artists continue to use backmasking to this day in order to draw attention to their music. You will find below different examples of backmasking in music, all using a variety of expression from the obscene to the rhetorical and comical. Message: When the rain comes, they run and hide their heads.
This is the very fist documented instance of backward masking used in a song. Message: Turned out nice again. Message: Paul is a dead man man miss him miss him. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont then a voice in the background adding Roger Carolyn is on the phone!
Message: Annuit Coeptis, Novus ordo seclorum. This backmasked message was in reply to efforts to place warning labels on music that contained explicit lyrics and the album was to ridicule the restrictions that Christian groups were calling for on popular music as previously mentioned.
Message: the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout down came the rain and washed the spider out, out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
Message: You should brush your teeth. Another slap in the face for those looking for backward messages. Message: You must wait for the rest of the non-believers, if you disagree you will sleep. Forward: Music with background gibberish. Another heavy metal band from North Carolina known for their differing style of music and technically gifted music composition playing backward messages to attract attention.
Message: Now tell me about your miserable little lives. I do not subscribe to your superstitious, narrow minded flights of paranoia. I and people like me will always prevail!!
You will never stifle free speech in any country in the world because we will fight forever forever a little faded. Forward: Lie back and dream of me red death to set you free we turn the screws to make you die soft flesh and razor blades Golgotha ace of spades steel needles kiss your pretty eyes.
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