Subliminal messages

Dear Tuners,

This may not actually be a tuning related subject, but I am fasinated by
this, and I have been since I was about 12.

In 1990, when I attended Aotea college, I was a very troubled youth.

One of the things that I found consolance in, was my music, and altho I
wasn't aware of the alternative tuning music, recorded and available, I had
many favorite bands.

To list them all would probably take many, many hours of my time-I have VERY
many.

But, one day, I was listening to "A Night at the Opera", by Queen, and there
is a song called "In love with my car" by Roger Taylor and I heard-at least
I thought I heard a tiny subliminal "squeek", which sounded like Freddie
Mercury's voice saying "goodbye".

This occurs in the last 7 seconds or so of the song, leading into "Youre my
best friend".

It is very noticible, well, for a better choice of words, "more" noticable,
when you turn the balance up, and the bass and midrange bandwidths down, and
the treble up.

Since then, I have found all sorts of subliminal messages in:

-The Beatles
-Pink Floyd
-Split Enz
-Queen

One night, a friend and I played "another one bites the dust" backward, and
we heard quite some interesting lyrics.

Really, though, this is nothing so special, if one wanted to say, for
example, "Eat my shorts you purple grapefruit", as a subliminal message, we
could just play the recorded sound backwards, and see what sort of lyrics it
sounded a LITTLE like.

Then use these as lyrics.

Thus, we have a "double negative" situation, the backwards of backwards is
fowards.

Then, I got to woundering, could I split up the tape into little slices (as
in "granular synthesis"), and put every third peice to the end and reverse
the group of these which collected.

We could iterate the procedure, and see what happens.

Any ideas?

Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@pop.ihug.co.nz> wrote:

>Really, though, this is nothing so special, if one wanted to say, for
>example, "Eat my shorts you purple grapefruit", as a subliminal message, we
>could just play the recorded sound backwards, and see what sort of lyrics it
>sounded a LITTLE like.

If you didn't see the movie "Amadeus" then I recommend it. Mozart was
under a table with a buxom young thing and came up with a whole heap of
lines which said backwards were various suggestive remarks. It worked
too, he married her.

As regards "Eat my shorts you purple grapefruit" backwards, you will
need to get someone who speaks German to tell you what it says.

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