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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Backmasking</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/style/default.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/style/backmasking.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <meta name="description" content="A collection of music clips, half of which are reversed and demonstrate backmasking." /> <link rel="canonical" href="https://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/"/> <script src="../scripts/jquery/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#embedcode").click(function(){ $(this).siblings("code").slideToggle("slow"); $(this).toggleClass("active"); }); if (top !== self && document.referrer.match(/digg\.com\/\w{1,8}/)) { top.location.replace(self.location.href); } }); </script> </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div class="center"> <br /> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <div id="current" class="box"> <div class="instructions"> <h2>Jeff Milner's Backmasking Collection</h2> <p>Click a song to load music clip</p> <p id="recommendation">Recommended: Listen to the music first then click "Show Reverse Lyrics" for backwards message text.</p> </div> <ul id="list"> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/stairway-to-heaven-backwards.html">Stairway to Heaven</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/imagine-backwards.html">Imagine</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/im-so-tired-backwards.html">I'm So Tired</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/my-name-is-backwards.html">My Name Is...</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/pokemon-rap-backwards.html">Pokemon Rap</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/empty-spaces-backwards.html">Empty Spaces</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/baby-one-more-time-backwards.html">...Baby One More Time</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/nature-trail-to-hell-backwards.html">Nature Trail to Hell</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/another-one-bites-the-dust-backwards.html">Another One Bites the Dust</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/hotel-california-backwards.html">Hotel California</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/revolution-9-backwards.html">Revolution 9</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/fire-on-high-backwards.html">Fire on High</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/break-on-through-backwards.html">Break on Through</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/beat-it-backwards.html">Beat It</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking/paparazzi-backwards.html">Paparazzi</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="content" class="widecolumn"> <div class="post" id="post-1"> <h2><a href="http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Stairway to Heaven Backwards Background Info">Backmasking</a></h2> <div class="entrytext"> <p>Years ago someone told me that if you played Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven song backwards that you could make out "satanic messages". It is <strong>not</strong> my opinion that Led Zeppelin and the other artists here were given some kind of evil power to make these backwards sounds have a satanic message. And, no, I did not create this to show the evils of Rock and Roll. Instead I made this flash piece for two reasons:</p><ol><li>I was new to flash and wanted to be better at it and</li><li>The reverse files sound cool.</li></ol> <p>The way I made these sound clips was first to get a copy of the original versions. For example I took my copy of Stairway to Heaven (I tried it once with a live version but I couldn't hear the message clearly) then opened it in a sound editing program (I used Windows Sound Recorder—but you can use the open source software Audacity), and reverse it. Crop to the place with back-masking sounds. That's it.</p> <g:plusone></g:plusone> <p class="postmetadata alt"> <small> Created by <a href="http://jeffmilner.com">Jeff Milner</a>.<br /> <a href="../trackbacks.htm">Related Blog Entries</a><br /> <a href="http://jeffmilner.com/index.php/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequenty Asked Questions</a> </small> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="center">  <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <br /> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1985886-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body> </html>

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