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Aside from backwards messages (which is a seperate page), bands have found other interesting ways to hide things in their music or in their album covers.
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"Limelight (Moving Pictures)," Rush
"All the world's indeed a stage We are merely players" is a shoutout to a line in As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
dayna
"Radioactivity ," Kraftwerk
At the start of this song you can hear Morse code. All of this morse code translates into the first verse of the song which starts a while after the Morse code ends.
Clever Name
"Sleep Dirt," Frank Zappa
This album is said to all be instrumental. But at the ending of the song with the same name as the album you can hear two voices: "Heh! Gettin' tired? No, fingers got stuck!" Those are the only lyrics.
Clever Name
"Hot Poop," Frank Zappa
When it reaches 15 seconds there’s some reversed lyrics which are alternate lyrics to another song on that album called “Mother People”.
Clever Name
"Hot Poop," Frank Zappa
When it reaches 15 seconds there’s some reversed lyrics which are alternate lyrics to another song on that album called “Mother People”.
Clever Name
"Harry, Your A Beast," Frank Zappa
Around the one minute mark there’s some reversed lyrics.
Clever Name
"Tradition Feed," Biffy Clyro
Tradition Feed is a hidden track on the album infinity land. In the CD liner notes you have all th e lyrics to all the songs (except tradition feed because it’s a hidden track obviously). But behind where the disc is you can see the lyrics to Tradition Feed.
Clever Name
"Only If," Enya
Although the lyrics are apparently ' Ooh go doe bay mwa', it sounds more like 'Abandonnez-moi' ('abandon me' or 'leave me alone' in French). Enya does sing in French for part of this song too. Considering her problems with a stalker and a car crash (exactly 7 weeks before Princess Diana's death) in the late 1990s, no wonder Enya simply wanted to be left alone at the time. Also Only If played backwards sounds even more French - mentions of 'Bordeaux' and 'merci' (a town in France and 'thank you').
Tel_dis_music
"First of the Year (Equinox)," Skrillex
The main vocal in this track is an edited sample taken from the song "Equinox" that Skrillex released under his real name, Sonny Moore, a few years earlier. The specific lyrics are "For you I give and give away my unhappiness in colour, for the abandoned hearts to see them." You'll have to reverse and slow down the track if you want to hear them clearly.
Nat
"Steam Machine," Daft Punk
If you listen with headphones, you can hear the robot voice saying "Elodie Bouchez" faintly throughout most of the song. She is is the wife of Thomas Bangalter.
AG
"Hey Jude," The Beatles
In the middle of the song you can hear someone faintly say "F**king he’ll"
Clever Name
"Yellow Submarine," The Beatles
During the instrumental with all the SFX you can hear Lennon say "Paul's a queer" instead of "all is clear."
Jim Y
"I'm A Loner and You're Eating My Brain," Erica Wang and the Dead
At the beginning of the song, you can hear bassist Bo Hweemuth chanting something. Listen closer, and you can hear him chanting these words: "Buy, sell, trade, squash Pork, fat, cut, smash Gold, yen, mark, pound Short, coal, oil, war!"
DJ Yokohama
"Another One Bites The Dust," Queen
When this song is played backwards you can hear the phrase "its fun to smoke marijauna" everytime the chorus says 'another one bites the dust'
Randy
"Blessed With a Curse," Bring Me The Horizon
At the start of the song, you can faintly hear a man speaking through static; he is reading from Revelation 20.
Nat
"Concrete and Gold," Foo Fighters
Right at the end of the title track, which closes the CD - there is a few seconds of silence and then Dave Grohl shouts out, 'F*** you, Darrell!'. This seems to be a playful jab at Darrell Thorp, who helped record the album. He said that the Foo Fighters were fun to work with, so that indicates that little outburst is really just a studio joke.
Shout It Out Loud, Brotha!
"O Come All Ye Faithful," Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
I Bought the CD "Caroling At Ephesus" by this group. This familiar carol is the 24th and last track on this generally melodious and well preformed collection. The first time I played the disc, I was sure I was hearing one of more dogs barking outside at what I eventually noted to be 20 seconds and 49 seconds into the track. On playing it the second time I noted that, coincidentally dogs seemed to be barking outside again. The third time I still at first thought that dogs were barking outside then quickly realized it seemed too much of a coincidence. So I played it, listening close to the speakers to note where the barking sound was coming from, and found it to be definitely on the disc, not coming from outside. It was only after noting all this that I first noticed that the CD cover shows a dog in front of these singing nuns. So maybe it was dog barking heard on the track. But I sort of thought the sound resembled somewhat the barking of a smaller dog than the one pictured. After the two background barking-like sounds on the track, I heard on listening closely and noted other extraneous background sounds, some resembling human speech, some more obscure. In any event no such extraneous sounds, whether from dogs, people, or whatever, seem to do anything to enhance the musical quality of the track. And I found no similar background sounds on any other track of the disc.
Karen Smith
"O Come All Ye Faithful," Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
I Bought the CD "Caroling At Ephesus" by this group. This familiar carol is the 24th and last track on this generally melodious and well preformed collection. The first time I played the disc, I was sure I was hearing one of more dogs barking outside at what I eventually noted to be 20 seconds and 49 seconds into the track. On playing it the second time I noted that, coincidentally dogs seemed to be barking outside again. The third time I still at first thought that dogs were barking outside then quickly realized it seemed too much of a coincidence. So I played it, listening close to the speakers to note where the barking sound was coming from, and found it to be definitely on the disc, not coming from outside. It was only after noting all this that I first noticed that the CD cover shows a dog in front of these singing nuns. So maybe it was dog barking heard on the track. But I sort of thought the sound resembled somewhat the barking of a smaller dog than the one pictured. After the two background barking-like sounds on the track, I heard on listening closely and noted other extraneous background sounds, some resembling human speech, some more obscure. In any event no such extraneous sounds, whether from dogs, people, or whatever, seem to do anything to enhance the musical quality of the track. And I found no similar background sounds on any other track of the disc.
Karen Smith
"Fire on High," Electric Light Orchestra
The beginning of the song contains the backwards message "The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back, turn back, turn back, turn back" underscored by some twilight zone-esque music.
Evan
"Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)," Raspberries
After the song completely fades out, you can hear the intro to "Go All The Way" very low. This is on the vinyl LP "Starting Over" and not on the CD.
Gregory Hulak
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