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Aside from backwards messages (which is a seperate page), bands have found other interesting ways to hide things in their music or in their album covers.
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 32 entries in this section.
"Kid A," Radiohead
Be sure to pop open the Jewel case that your CD came in when you purchase this. Hidden inside the tray is an illustrated booklet that you can look at while you listen to the CD and ponder the meaning of it all.
Agrimorfee
"The Number of the Beast," Iron Maiden
Another Derek Riggs addition on the cover. Look very closely at the people dancing in the flames--Not all are dancing. There are quite a few there in various sexual positions.
Heather Loeffler
"Powerslave," Iron Maiden
The old Derek Riggs Maiden covers always have something hidden. The Powerslave cover has Mickey Mouse in the hieroglyphs. You have to look very closely and carefully for it. It is located in the bottom right corner just above the sphinx on the left and beneath the first jackal. Either check it out on the original vinyl or on the cd cover (you'll need good eyes or a magnifying glass). You might see it on a very good scan on the web.
Heather Loeffler
"Waitin' For A Train," Beck
At the beginning of the song for the first 30 seconds, the man says "I'm an alien from another sphere. The thing I like about the Earth is the range of colors, fantastic to mundane, brilliant to dull. As I was penetrating the ozone, I perchance to notice the orange peel like quality of light playing upon the ocean. I got to go right now. Someone is videotaping me in my spaceship."
Mickey D.
"Bet On It," Zac Efron
When you play most of the song backwards, you can hear "Bet on us," and in part of the song, you can hear "Ay gvalt!" Overall, "Bet on It" sounds Yiddish when played backwards.
Rachel
"One of These Days," Pink Floyd
The distorted voice is saying "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces"
Ra'akone
"I Remember Larry," Weird Al Yankovic
Around 3:10 on the song, is a backwards message. Played backwards, you hear Al tell you "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands"
Ra'akone
"Tomorrow Never Knows," Phil Collins
Listen to this remake of a Beatles song. When it ends, turn the volume up high. For about 30 seconds, an echo-y version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" plays, but you need the volume and it's on the same track. He was warming up his voice when he sung this, and put it in as a joke.
Ra'akone
"Strawberry Fields Forever," The Beatles
Listen to the end. After the fade-out/fade-in, you hear a low, distorted voice, saying "Cranberry Sauce." But it easily sounds like "I buried Paul", contributing to the "Paul is Dead" rumor of the late 60's.
Ra'akone
"I am the Walrus," Beatles
In the fade-out of the song, you'll hear the Tragedy of "King Lear" Act IV, Scene VI from a BBC radio program where they say 'Bury my body' and 'O untimely death'.
Paul Warren
"Love Bites/Hysteria," Def Leppard
At the very end of the song the same voice that says "If you've got love in your sites, watch out, love bites" also says "Jesus of Nazareth, go to Hell."
Kelly
"Love Bites/Hysteria," Def Leppard
At the very end of the song the same voice that says "If you've got love in your sites, watch out, love bites" also says "Jesus of Nazareth, go to Hell."
Kelly
"Story so far," New found glory
well, at the end of it new found glory forgot to shut the mic off, so it goes on for like about 20 more minutes and then goes into the beginnin of understatment for a second then some other weird song
someone
"So Yesterday," Hilary Duff
if you play the part where it goes, "At least not today, not today, not today, cuz-" and reverse it, it says, "Hail this Nazi lane, Nazi lane, Nazi lane..." (FYI: i don't like Hilary, so i called it it.)
Someone
"Cemetery Drive," My Chemical Romance
If you strip the song (taking out headphones/earbuds slightly and tilting it until you can no longer hear the lead vocals) you can only hear the back-up vocals. It says a message that makes surprising since when put together...
Someone
"Licensed to ill," Beastie Boys
If you fold the album cover in half along the length of the airplane, it looks like a smashed out joint
Ronnie
"Work It ," Missy Elliot
I put thing down, flip and reverse it is actually reversed in each and every chorus in the song, the reverse lyrics are the same as the line before the reversed lines. The backwards line later in the songs say "Watch the way Missy like to take it backwards" in reverse right before the line "I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want"
Below Average Dave (badave.com)
"Paperback Writer," The Beatles
Listen carefully to the backing vocals during verse 2. They are singing "Frere Jacques"--no lie!
Agrimorfee
"Man that you fear," Marilyn Manson
The beginning of the song when played backwards contains lyrics that can be understood as referring to snakes, homosexuality, witchcraft and the line 'they all stare'.
tictacs941
"I Gave You My Bullets, You Gave Me Your Love," My Chemical Romance
On the outside of the CD, where the duplication warning normally is, it says, "Unauthorised duplication is a violation of applicable laws and will result in Gerard coming to your house and sucking your blood."
Rhiannon
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