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From: joel@decwrl.UUCP (Joel McCormack)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Backwards music
Message-ID: <1339@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 23:04:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 23:04:20 1985
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- I saw a television progamme a few months ago, where the presenter
- was listing, and playing pieces of records backwards 

I saw the same show...got the strange down-home religion channel when they
had some guy on talking about backwards masking.  Most of it was pretty
hokey - someone would hear x, the guy would tell them no, they
really should hear y, and replay it, and sho nuff, the hosts heard y.

- What kind of jerk plays records backwards anyway ??????

Calm down.  Some gropus do put perfectly intelligible messages backwards in
their albums.

Electric Light Orchestra has a song on either Face the Music or Eldorado
that has stuff backwards.  "The music is reversable, but time is not.  Turn
back, turn back." or something like that.

Pink Floyd also put backwards stuff on one of their albums (The Wall?).
"Congratulations, you have discovered the secret contest.  Send you answer
to Big Pink..." or something.

These are perfectly clear messages, as they were originally spoken
completely normally, then played back backwards and mixed into the master.

(I don't recommend playing records backwards.  Use a tape.)

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- Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra}!decwrl!joel
		 joel@decwrl.arpa