Playing music backwards?

[summie]

Has anyone heard of the technique used to play music backwards? Apparently, it' called 'back-maxing' and it reveals a lot of hidden lyrics and words that you don't hear when the music is played normally...anyone heard of it?

[hhope1]

Yes, I've heard of it. I've never tried doing it though.

I think there are a lot of free software programs out there that will play music backwards for you. I've heard it called Backwards masking though and a lot of deejays use it in their programs.

I've heard of one program called OTS Scratch that can do that for you but again never tried it.

[summie]

Well, I've had access to a tape with songs that were backmaxed...And the things they were saying...Oh, boy, where pure evil and satanic! Some scary stuff I tell you...

[sugarglider]

It's kind of a sixties and seventies thing, isn't it? In those days you could play records backwards very simply just by spinning the turntable in reverse, or with some record players you could flip the stylus (the thing with the needle on it) around in the other direction so it kind of dragged back on the record, rather than reading it forwards.

There are a few famous examples - a section of "Stairway to Heaven" played backwards supposedly contains an extended Satanic message. I've heard it and it's very convincing too - quite spooky. Also, if you play part of "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" backwards, you can hear "We'll f*** you like supermen", or so the mythology says.

[noodlebunny]

Yeah, "back-masking." You never know what you will find!

[igismalls]

Yes I've heard of this. There are a lot of groups that have done this. Apparently Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden have done this. If anyone is interested in finding which songs are "backmasked", I suggest that you just google it, there's a lot of results :)