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From: ain14922@merrimack.edu
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Subject: Re: Backmasking
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Date: 19 Jan 90 11:34:48 GMT
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In article <4098@helios.TAMU.EDU>, john@stat.tamu.edu (John S. Price) writes:

> I know of a few bands that have used on one occasion or another.
> Alot of this I got at a Christian Brainwashing Camp one summer.
> 
> There is a song called "Number Nine" (I think, by the beatles?) that
> if you play the chorus backwards, it says something about Satan.

  Looks like the xtian brainwashing camp did its job :-)
  The Beatles song you refer to is called "Revolution 9."  It contains about
1,000,000 backwards noises, mostly sound effects but also some voices which
are, as far as I'm concerned, far too garbled to make any sense whatsoever.  I
have heard it backwards and, to tell the truth, I could hardly tell the
difference.

> 
> Pink Floyd, the Wall has some backward masking on it, although it 
> is a joke.  During the song "Empty Spaces," there is some garbled
> lyrics, that, if you play backwards says
>    "Congratualtions.  You have found the secret message.  (something else 
>    I can't remember)"  

  Just for completeness, the rest of it goes "...send your answer to Old Pink,
care of the funny farm, Chalfont."  It is a reference to original band member
Syd Barrett.  This message is actually quite clear.

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Douglas D. Linder                  AIN14922@merrimack.edu
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