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The song speaks degradingly about angsty teenagers who look for backwards messages in music, and contains the lyrics "Play that record backwards / Here's a message yo for the suckas / Play that record backwards / And go fuck yourself." Moby "Machete" "I have to say goodbye." [62] Appears midway through the song. Motörhead
A well-known alleged message is found in Led Zeppelin's 1971 song "Stairway to Heaven". The backwards playing of a portion of the song purportedly results in words beginning with "Here's to my sweet Satan" (listen ⓘ). [87] Swan Song Records issued a statement to the contrary: "Our turntables only play in one direction—forwards."
Play Me Backwards is an album by the American musician Joan Baez, released in 1992. [2] The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording . [ 3 ] Baez supported it with an international tour.
Media controls on a multimedia keyboard. From top; left to right: skip backward, skip forward, stop, play/pause. Media control symbols are commonly found on both software and physical media players, remote controls, and multimedia keyboards.
The song was the UK B-side to the band's worldwide hit single "Livin' Thing", issued in blue vinyl. It was also later included — in an edited form minus the backwards vocals — as the flip side of the United States hit single "Sweet Talkin' Woman" in 1978.
The song plays over the end credits, and, if played backwards, it not only contains the aforementioned recipe, but also McCartney himself saying "oh, and by the way, I'm alive". [99] "Paul Is Dead", a track on the 1995 Yo La Tengo album Electr-O-Pura.
In April 1982, the Consumer Protection and Toxic Materials Committee of the California State Assembly held a hearing on backmasking in popular music, during which "Stairway to Heaven" was played backward and self-described "neuroscientific researcher" William Yarroll claimed that the human brain could decipher backward messages.
Occasionally, record labels would use a reverse tape song on the B-side of a single, to ensure that only the A side got radio play. One example is "Noolab Wolley" by the US group The Yellow Balloon ; A-side “ Yellow Balloon ” was a big cheery harmony-drenched slice of sunshine pop that went to #25 in Billboard in the spring of 1967.