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Over the years there's periodically been a lot of noise raised by fundamentalist types about "subliminal hidden messages" - always bad - revealed when songs are played bacckwards.

 

One famous example is of course Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven", which is supposedly chock-o-block of 'evil satanic messages' when played backwards.

 

Well, it's very easy to find whatever you're looking for in the ambiguous noises of songs played in reverse, especially when you 'know' what to listen for. For example, the three S 's in close proximity in the lyric "It'S juST a Spring clean for the May Queen" from Zeppelin's Stairway can sound like "666" if you're looking for it.

 

Me and my friends used to enjoy playing all sorts of "establishment approved" songs backwards back when this was popular and shortly discovered that you can find all sorts of nefarious things in backwards lyrics if you're looking for them in any song.

 

So, with that preamble out of the way, what has been heard in Rush songs played backwards?

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What you're after is referred to as "backmasking". Google that + RUSH and get this...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4aOK_Eu3g

 

"Saw who's upon me, (To be with us!)

To us I keep a known lock.

Swami...usher me!

Saw who's on me. (To be with us!)"

 

:fury:

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Start at 2:15 to hear 2112's Attn: All Planets...We have assumed control" bit forward. Then it plays backwards to reveal this...!

 

"RUSH is with Satan...RUSH is with Satan..RUSH is with Satan!

If you ever mess with us you'll understand why..."

 

ETA: :fury: :fury: :fury:

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Start the backwards Tom Sawyer at 1:40 to hear Geddy proclaim his love for TRF...

 

"Man, a nerd-love engagement! Man, don'y say 'nything, you pussy-wop! Man who loves your doggie nose..."

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Oooh! At 4:34 he says "pssshrt shnicknackty!" That is kind of like saying "Kill all kids", no? Edited by rftag
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I'm still waiting for any kind of respected study that shows 1) our brains are capable of somehow unscrambling and understanding these messages and 2) that these messages are somehow more likely to cause us to obey them due to being backwards than a message played normally. Until then I couldn't care less.
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I'm still waiting for any kind of respected study that shows 1) our brains are capable of somehow unscrambling and understanding these messages and 2) that these messages are somehow more likely to cause us to obey them due to being backwards than a message played normally. Until then I couldn't care less.

Are you saying the science behind back-masking might be in question? :o :o :o
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I'm still waiting for any kind of respected study that shows 1) our brains are capable of somehow unscrambling and understanding these messages and 2) that these messages are somehow more likely to cause us to obey them due to being backwards than a message played normally. Until then I couldn't care less.

Are you saying the science behind back-masking might be in question? :o :o :o

I definitely lol at the idea of science here. I'm amazed that anyone takes this seriously. Let's look at it backwards for a moment (yes, pun). Where are the vast armies of satan worshippers that have fallen prey to these messages?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5d0tkEHUA

 

For message hunters with lots of time on their hands.

 

 

:popcorn:

 

Why does that sound suspiciously like video game music? :LOL:

 

Honestly that's pretty cool sounding. The drums are bizarro sounding but both the guitar and bass still sound like Alex and Geddy.

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I'm still waiting for any kind of respected study that shows 1) our brains are capable of somehow unscrambling and understanding these messages and 2) that these messages are somehow more likely to cause us to obey them due to being backwards than a message played normally. Until then I couldn't care less.

Are you saying the science behind back-masking might be in question? :o :o :o

I definitely lol at the idea of science here. I'm amazed that anyone takes this seriously. Let's look at it backwards for a moment (yes, pun). Where are the vast armies of satan worshippers that have fallen prey to these messages?

It's as if those that subscribe to the idea of back-masking aren't scientific thinkers?
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I'm still waiting for any kind of respected study that shows 1) our brains are capable of somehow unscrambling and understanding these messages and 2) that these messages are somehow more likely to cause us to obey them due to being backwards than a message played normally. Until then I couldn't care less.

Are you saying the science behind back-masking might be in question? :o :o :o

I definitely lol at the idea of science here. I'm amazed that anyone takes this seriously. Let's look at it backwards for a moment (yes, pun). Where are the vast armies of satan worshippers that have fallen prey to these messages?

It's as if those that subscribe to the idea of back-masking aren't scientific thinkers?

Maybe the producers of ancient aliens can bring us subliminal evil: exposing backwards messages in music that is 30 years old.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5d0tkEHUA

 

For message hunters with lots of time on their hands.

 

 

:popcorn:

 

Why does that sound suspiciously like video game music? :LOL:

 

Honestly that's pretty cool sounding. The drums are bizarro sounding but both the guitar and bass still sound like Alex and Geddy.

 

The riff at 3:25 is very cool.

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Imagine listening to one of Alex's La Villa rants backwards!

Alex isn't a complicated fellow. His La Villa rants backwards ALWAYS refer to having not one but TWO banana cream pies.

 

Seriously though, play La Villa backward and you'll hear The Necromancer. But if you play The Necromancer backwards you'll get By-Tor & the Snowdog. That's how damn complex, meticulous, and sinister Rush are!

Bunch of demon worshipping imps they are!

 

:blaze:

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Imagine listening to one of Alex's La Villa rants backwards!

Alex isn't a complicated fellow. His La Villa rants backwards ALWAYS refer to having not one but TWO banana cream pies.

 

Seriously though, play La Villa backward and you'll hear The Necromancer. But if you play The Necromancer backwards you'll get By-Tor & the Snowdog. That's how damn complex, meticulous, and sinister Rush are!

Bunch of demon worshipping imps they are!

 

:blaze:

:haz: LATEM si HSUR! :haz:
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