Backmasking Questions

I reckon that some messages are intentional. The Beatles messages are intentional, the Weird Al ones are and so are a lot of other ones. But, Led Zeppelin say they’ve nothing to do with the Stairway To Heaven message, and Judas Priest went to court because of a message found in one of their songs.
About your first question, I like the way that if you play the song backwards with no lyrics, it just sounds like a load of old rubbish, but when you put the lyrics on, you’re like “Oh! It’s oh so obvious now!”
And going back to the Judas Priest song, they were taken to court because of the backward message “Do it, do it” that two boys found on the song, and believed it was telling them to commit suicide because the lyrics book had the letters: S. U. I. inside it, and the boys believed this meant “suicide”. So, maybe your mind can decipher what the messages mean and how they can influence us.
If you’ve taken the time to read this, thanks.

i am a britney spears fan and when i heard the message on your backmasking page i thought there would be some more secret messages in other songs. i tried with oops i did it again and it had several messages in the 1st minute

Hey there, well i enojoy the site, i find it really interesting this whole idea of backmasking, but dont you think its a big waste of time. yes it is neat but still who would put so much effort into writing lyrics that when played in reverse have messages. sometimes satanic.. i don’t know
anyways the other night a friend told me to get the song Are you experienced by jimmi hendrix, cause he said it sounds like parts of it are recorded in reverse, so we played it backwards and near the end you can slighhtly hear the words ” Can You Hear The Message” found that pretty neat..Anyways keep up the great work and keep an eye out for those “Subliminal Messages” :)

hey i think you have did a great job.. because those of you who are christians, you’d understand what im trying to say. the devil is behind all these things, he makes such music look and sound as if they’re oh-so-nice and nothing to do with being satanic, evil or anything like that. but instead- when you play it backwards, its actually such a freaky surprise! its part of a prove that the devil uses “good” things to cover up for his ways to get people to worship him. how can someone be so coincidental, as to write the lyrics in a “nice” way, but end up becoming so evil when its heard the other way? only the devil could do this.. watch out people, believe in christ while you can because only then would you find how much god loves us.

Well, I think this backmasking thing is coolbut, I don’t think it has anything to do woth the devil or satan or anything like that, I don’t really believe much of those things that i can’t see.. but when you talk about this it seems that the dialog or discussion or whatever is much like that if you talked about spiritism… so I think that all things whit devil or satan is a bunch of bullshit, but anyways this stuff is heavy and fun to laugh at, so if you find something, why don’t share it with others?

Very good job putting together those songs. I think most of those messages were on intentionally put in there by the bands (the Led Zeppelin especially, despite their denial), but I think a couple are coincidence. I am very religious but I don’t think the messages are made satan or the devil; it would be pretty foolish to think so. I think the majority of it is just bands (like the beetles) trying to have some fun and the rest being coincidence.

Jeff:
I think you have a cool site.I am not sure if the messages are intentionally put in,with exception to the ones that are scrambled speech when played fowards.There is a good website you might want to check out,
it is called reversespeech.com and is produced by an expert who has supposedly discovered reverse speech not only in music,but in everyday conversation.David John Oates is an interesting guy.Check out the site and tell me what you think.Also,anyone else reading this message should check out the site as well.

I think its pretty much obvious whats real and whats fake, lets look at this one.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/daftpunk.php

I looked at it while the words were on screen so i could hear what was supposedly being said. Later on i played it to my roomate with the monitor off and all he could hear was “random gibberish and beeping sounds” after wards i showed it to him with the words and he could hear it.

Id say the words being there definitely make it more obvious

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to deliberatly backmask a message into a song? Try it yourself: come up with an interesting phrase, and now find something to say, tape, play backwards, and have your message come up.

There are countless examples in psychology of the human mind trying to find patterns where patterns do not exist. Things like The Bible Code and Backmasking are, taken seriously, just a few steps away from tin foil hattery.

I remember an exhaustive episode of Ideas (CBC Radio 1) on this issue over a decade ago. While I’m no expert, I’m highly skeptical there is even anything left to discuss here if one does a survey of the literature. (And I think I saw the first Flash application of this 5 years ago)

But we can all have a laugh/strap on tin foil hats if we like.

Hi, I am a 15 year old boy from Norway, Trondheim. And I jusr whant to say that I find “Backmasking” very interesting. I’m just curious, where can I get this program you use to backmask?

I must say i’m absolutely amazed and taken aback when i first bumped into this website. I got the creeps at first. i’m sure most people do.. but in fact, this website, the whole backmasking thing, has inspired me to do a further research about it. I found lots of interesting related materials and i’ve used both and especially this site, for my speeches to both my college mates & youth group.

Both of my audiences were astonished and shocked. I suppose they have never realised this would ever occur in music. Most of them came back to me for the link to this website. I’ve been really encouraged when one of my youths came to me and told me, after listening from this website, he didn’t enjoy wordly songs anymore. He was determined to tell this to all of his friends who have yet to know.

I’ve bookmarked this link and up to now, i think i’ve been in and out of this website for about a couple of times for this whole week. I listen to it over and over again. By the way, i do enjoy this blog you have, jeff. Great job.

A few years ago i was listening to the platinum collection of Queen. And for the first time in my life i heared the noise when the song started so i tought there was somthing wrong with my stereo.
So i went over to my computer and put the cd in there and when i put the song on there i had the same noise.
I keept lookign and tryign to filter otu the noise btu nothign seemed to work so i opened my mixing software and tryed playing it backwards.
It was a long shot but it payed to try it out.
So i played the sogn backwards and i heared Freddie Mercury say: “God workes in misterious ways”.
For all the years i have been a fan of Queen i never noticed the noise in the beginning of the song.
The thing i didnt think of that moment was that it was the exact same date the Freddie Mercury died.
So i think there is some truth in the message in the song God realy workes in misterious ways.
I know what i heared and it was so clear as i woudl say it out loud, but when i told my girl friend a few days later she tought i was crazy so i played the song for her and she also heared the noise in the beginning so i told her watch this.
And the moment i played the song backwards her mouth fell open andshe just stared at the computer screne and asked me to play it again cous she could not beleave her own ears.
I hope you guys wont laugh at this but i know what i heared when i played the song and i know it is as real as me sitting here writing this message on your site.
I would defenetly recomend to play this song backwards to all of you.

Hi. Just found your site, it’s interesting. I remember looking into this a bit years ago, before PCs (even CDs actually) came along and simplified the whole procedure. I lost interest in the whole topic when I bought an LP by Girlschool which had an obvious backward message on it, so I played it backwards. The message was “Oi you, don’t you know you’re ruining your needle!” Put the whole thing in perspective for me and the whole topic lost its mystery. FYI, in those days of vinyl, there was two ways of doing it- either use a magnetic drive turntable and manually run the LP with yer finger on the label (this was even before rap and ’scratching’- pioneering stuff!), or for the more serious, use a belt drive turntable and flip the belt to a figure-8 so it played backwards.

in stair way to heaven it also says i wihs it would snow with the wall would rock me as i sleep all in the same part then later on it says once chance i hate you

P.S. I have learned how to say names backward. I tested my theory at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. If I said my name backward into their unique taperecorder it came out as you would say it normally. I’ve given my whole family their name backwards and in fun sometimes when my granson calls me he’ll say it’s rethgualS eeL sucraM. You can have a lot of fun with this renliM ffeJ!

Hi this is awesome, i heard about backtracking and backmasking in music several years ago (counting… 8 years) .. I`m muslim by the way and honestly speaking i wouldnt have expected a non-muslim to take interest in something like this but you`ve proved it.. Let me just clarify my assumption before you take offence..

Reason being is because its prohibited to listen to music in my religion islam as it is stated in our holy book that the devil challenged allah (our lord) to lead mankind astray with music, these subliminal messages really do complete the jigsaw puzzle.. i`ve added your link on myspace.. I must say you`ve done a really good job and i`ll be looking forward to hearing more of the shizzle that goes on behind music… Thanx!!!!! Read this article too

http://www.angelfire.com/d20/kolim/

[Hey Jeff,]
[In Three 6 Mafia’s song, “Gotta Stay Fly”, there’s a women’s voice in background. She’s saying, “You are God-You are King-Lucifer!” If you don’t belive me, check it out yourself! Also, before Juicy J’s part in the song, he says, “Lucifer!”, to where you can’t hear it! Check it out, you’ll see!]
[-Ryan]

I just found a new song saying things backwards the song is “we will rock you” by Queen. It says “we where we where we…nigers”. and around the end of the song(which is the begining played forward) its “stepping on nigers like…”. I dont think I should say it!

To clear things up.
Back masking is an audio technique in which sounds or voices are recorded on a track backwards that is meant to be played forwards.
Back masking is a deliberate act when an artist puts a message in his or her music that can only be heard when it is played backwards, whereas a backwards message is usually unintentional.

Many musicians have deliberately recorded backwards messages onto their songs, usually to avoid being censored, making artistic or social statements or just having fun at the expense of their critics

You can tell the difference between the two because when a song has been back masked, it doesn’t really make alot of sense played forwards, wheras the famous songs that you have accused of backmasking are simply backwards messages and are completly coincedental. The only problem here is that people have too much time on their hands. Anyone with any amount of creative interpretational skills can pick messages out of any song.
The answer? Go and try something better and more worthwhile doing than sitting at home and playing music backwards, and stop accusing Jimmy Page of being a satanist.

I listened to Christina Aguilera Genie in A bottle backwards it says:
I am not (gibberish) a slut, rub the bottle to get me out!

I think the britneys ” Sleep with me I am not to young” is funny because she denied being a slut when the contraversal video came out!

Hey ‘um,someone’ its got nothin 2 do with satan or anything stupid like that, most of them u hav 2 b told wot it sez 2 work it out, and then there r the deliberate 1s. Jeez stop gettin worked up u christian freak!! keep serchin 4 em jeff its really kool

I was Listening To Some Of Them Reverse Messages and
one of ‘em says ‘I Love You Said the Devil” & It Got Me
To Thinkin. Have You Ever Had Somebody make You
DO somethin You Didn’t Want To Do Because They
Loved ya. I Think The Devil Makes Ya Do it Cause
He Loves Ya. He Been Speakin To Me Some At My Site.

It’s more a question the a comments… what’s do you use to play your songs backward

All I have to say is that you should stop trying to find hidden messages about dead bassists like Paul or “satanic messages” from Led Zeppelin that really sound like “ook kerplok stat una makro”. In reality, it doesn’t sound like anything. Please, just enjoy the music. That’s why it was made, not to make you stay indoors for three days straight going “oh, I think I heard him say something about Satan. I must exploit him and forget that I have no life by listening to him backwards and posting the evil messages on the web.”

I definitely think the backmasking in The Beatles’ songs and Led Zeppelin’s songs, as well as some others, are real. That was the new “trend” in the music making business at the time of The Beatles. The other day, Stairway To Heaven came on the radio and my mom was singing to it. She told me and my sister that there are satanic references when the record was played backwards. We have an old record player at home, so we hooked it up and played my dad’s old Led Zeppelin record. Sure enough, we heard it! It was freaky, but very cool…the concept, though, not the actual message.

After seeing the trailer for the movie, Across the Universe, I researched some of The Beatles songs and the stories behind the songs. That is when I decided to look up something about subliminal messaging and backmasking. Across The Universe is a new movie coming out at the end of the year, using a ton of Beatles songs and names. The whole soundtrack is Beatles songs and the character’s names are Jude, Lucy, Doctor Robert, etc. It takes place in the 60s and has to do with the rock-and-roll/drug scene at the time. Sounds really good, you should check it out!

I think the concept is actually a really cool idea, even if they are talking about death and destruction :p For people who think that some of the 1960s or 1970s backmasked songs are just coincidence, it’s so clear that they recorded those on purpose. Sure, they sound “garbled”, but they are supposed to! That’s the point of a “hidden message”! Although I think that the newer artists who made fun of the idea by putting stupid messages in their own songs are ruining it. Cool idea, but now overdone.

Well anyway, I found your site so informative and really interesting. It sparked my interest in music and conspiracies, that’s for sure!!

Yep, backmasking really pays off. Think of all the songs that openly have satan as subject, like Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the devil”. Then, as a band decide to be really original and wrap up the same message into an arduous process that will ruin listeners equipment as well as their interest in the songs you worked really hard for to produce and distribute. And for what purpose? ‘Buy our records?’ ‘Come see our shows’? Or even ‘Check out our website’? No, it’s some infantile comment about satan or some esoteric or nonsensical message you can read anything into. Yes, somehow it all makes sense now.