Backmasking??!
Question:
Backmasking??
I know that Backmasking is a secret message revealed in a song when it played backward, but how do the Bands do that?? & Do they do that to show the other side of them????
Answers:
The main reasons are (a) as an internal joke, either among the band or between the band and fans (b) as a way of increasing hype for a particular song (c) - because it adds value to the song in musical terms - e.g. the Beatles song "Rain" replays its intro backwards as it fades out. It sounds quite interesting.
Doing it is very easy, actually. In the days of tape, it was just done by playing the masters in reverse and recording the result. Now, in the digital era, even you could do it! Just use a free app called Audacity or even Windows Sound Recorder.
The whole topic tends to be blown way out of proportion - all the various "Satanic" messages in rock music are just nervous hype from certain conservative quarters. (In 1982, fundamentalist Christian pastor Gary Greenwald held public lectures on dangers of backmasking, along with at least one mass record-smashing.)
My favourite real backmask is Pink Floyd's 1979 song "Empty Spaces", which says:
"Congratulations. You've just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont."
Hear it here:
http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm...
"Weird Al" Yankovic in "I Remember Larry", makes fun of the whole subject with the backmasked remark, "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands"!
Other examples are at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_bac...