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1  3:10am 19/06/04        
Internaut
Interesting site here about Backmasking.

http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm

The Pink Floyd one is real, but the others, I dunno, seems like they're stretching a bit?
2  8:47am 19/06/04        
defy the tyrannous stars
I don't trust suspicious flash files that require me to turn my volume up.
3  4:49pm 19/06/04        
The Emperor<br> Almighty Bastard
Hm. I've heard the rumor a hundred times, but never actually heard it reversed for myself. Interesting.
4  6:37pm 19/06/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
Probably fake.

Cool nonetheless.
5  6:42pm 19/06/04        
defy the tyrannous stars
The "Hit Me Baby One More Time" one is the most amusing.
6  6:46pm 19/06/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
Ha ha ha ha that's fucking awesome the Led Zep one isn't fake, I recorded it myself and tried.

However the sound does require some doctoring in order to make some syllables more pronunciated than others and to cut out nonsense syllables. There's also easily more than one interpretation of exactly what the backwards singing sounds like.

There's little more to this than novelty, though; it's not unreasonable to assume that in the countless millions of hours of popular music produced you could play some of it backwards to find distinguishable messages. And it's not hard to make them sound sinister when you're playing something backwards.
7  6:51pm 19/06/04        
Internaut
I agree Theren. It's cool though, how Pink Floyd added a real message to their song..