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[A_Student2011]

I was recently doing a project where I used Gorillaz as an example for a project and I accidentally found out that some of the songs are supposing to have some secret lyrics. In a certain part of some of their song, if you were to reverse the song you can hear some new lyrics. These lyrics have been sung and then played in reverse, then hidden in some of their song.

Apparently the songs that have some reverse lyrics are in Feel Good Inc. and Dirty Harry. I have reversed the songs and I could slightly hear what they were supposed to say, but not as clear as I thought is was.

I know there is a Weird Al Yankovic song that has some reverse lyrics in the song I Remember Larry. If you reverse a certain part of the song you can hear these words:
"Wow you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands."

Is there any more of these secret reverse lyrics in any more songs?

Edited by A_Student2011, 26 May 2011 - 02:35 PM.

[Jon S]

Haha i know Zeppelins 'Stairway to Heaven' is supposed to have satanic messages when you play it backwards. Its one of those things that when you have the transcription of what its 'meant' to be saying you can hear it but without it, i doubt you would pick it out.

Also, Another one bites the dust, by queen is meant to sound like 'it's fun to smoke marijuana' when played backwards.

I think theres a couple more like this using beatles songs and others, but they aren't really hidden on purpose, more like coincidence.

[Starclassic]

Apparently 'hit me baby one more time' by Brittney Spears has the lyrics backward "Sleep with me I'm not too young." Freaky.....

[Baran Gueltekin]

I've also read from an interview of Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page that the beginning melody song Kashmir -which is the main melody in the song- was composed with the inspiration of playing Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony reverse. They just made slight changes and this is how they got the melody says Jimmy Page. Truth or urban legend? I don't know. This is what Jimmy Page says...

[rhythmboy]

 Baran Gueltekin, on 30 May 2011 - 12:17 AM, said:

I've also read from an interview of Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page that the beginning melody song Kashmir -which is the main melody in the song- was composed with the inspiration of playing Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony reverse. They just made slight changes and this is how they got the melody says Jimmy Page. Truth or urban legend? I don't know. This is what Jimmy Page says...

Highly likely to be true.

Taking a melody and playing it backwards - the actual notes, not necessarily the sounds - is a very common composition technique, even used within the same piece to create variety in the melody. It's a standard technique also used in 12-tone serialism, 1960's minimalism (not the techno kind) and 'process' or 'math' music.

Almost every decent MIDI sequencer has a reverse function you can apply to sequenced lines. Look for the reverse command in menus labelled 'transform' or 'process' or similar.

[funkington]

The rumour that Paul McCartney actually died in a car crash in 1966 is said to be backed up by reversed lyrics in some of The Beatles songs. One of the main examples is the suggestion that the words spoken by John Lennon in the final section of the song 'Strawberry Fields" are, "i buried Paul". Another example is the "turn me on, dead man" phrase that can be found when 'Revolution Number 9' is played backwards.