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Subject: Re: Backmasking in-depth
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Date: 18 Jan 90 22:53:52 GMT
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Regarding Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" have the accidental backmask of
"Start to smoke marijuana," I think that it might have actually been done on
purpose.  The reversed message only comes up later, when the chorus becomes
more slurred, and sounds something like, "Ana wam bites da dast"  If it
was done on purpose, I think it would be easy to take "marijuana" and
reverse it so it sounds like "Anawam" (which forwards would sound like "Mawana")
Anyway, the slurred "anawam" could be changed a little to sound like 
"another one" and then the song could be built around those lyrics.
I think the song is putting a correlation between smoking marijuana and
biting the dust, as in "marijuana is bad" type of stuff, not SUPPORTING
marijuana smoking.  However I've heard religious tpoics on this, saying
something like, "Marijuana kills brain cells, muddles your thoughts...
(etc.)...so that's why Satan wants you to 'Start to smoke marijuana' ".
Personally I think that's stretching it a bit, to just pull out of the 
air that Satan is behind all of this.  But the "Stairway to Heaven" stuff
is just plain weird.  I don't know what to think.  More later...


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