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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
When played backwards, the songs "665" and "667" reveal a song about Santa Claus. [55] Matthew Sweet's 1999 album In Reverse includes reversed guitar parts which were played directly onto a tape running in reverse. [56] For live concerts, the guitar parts were played live on stage using a backward emulator. [57]
Directly before the lyrical section, there is a hidden message isolated on the left channel of the song. When heard normally, it appears to be nonsense. If played backwards, the following can be heard:
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The album version contains an opening with a backwards message; in reverse, a masked heavy voice (that of ELO drummer Bev Bevan) says, "The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Ostensibly, this was Jeff Lynne's shot at backmasking hysteria, after satanic allegations were made against their song " Eldorado " by ...
I've never actually listened to any of the songs (although that is beside the point if it is reliably sourced), but just because something is spelled backward does not mean that it is heard that way when played backward (i.e., playing "No not now" doesn't necessarily render "Won ton on" auditorily).
Claims were made by anti-rock-music activists during the early 1980s that the song's lyrics were Satanistic and contained hidden backwards messages.The line "I try so hard to make it so" when played in reverse was alleged to be "Satan moves through our voices". [4]
The orchestral intro to the song is played backwards and is an early example of what would be Lynne's trademark ELO production style. [ citation needed ] The beginning and the end of the number contains backwards samples of a Mozart symphony, and in the bridge section there is a distantly heard piece of backmasking , with Lynne singing, "Hello ...