Post by gato on Mar 2, 2021 10:55:50 GMT -5
I was doing one of my "replacement lyrics" things on the Beatles' "Rain."
Ordinarily what I do is bring up a site with the lyrics spelled out, and then work from there. I did that with Rain and found the last line of the song written on the site was gibberish. Same thing on every site.
That's when I realized that for the last 55 years, I have been mentally assigning a sensible lyric on that line, based on what I thought I heard ... but what actually played on the recording was John's voice being played backwards.
I was aware of other instances where various lines were "backward masked," (see "Paul is dead," fiasco), but didn't realize this song had it as well.
Backwards part comes in at about 0.35 seconds into the 56 second video.
Ordinarily what I do is bring up a site with the lyrics spelled out, and then work from there. I did that with Rain and found the last line of the song written on the site was gibberish. Same thing on every site.
That's when I realized that for the last 55 years, I have been mentally assigning a sensible lyric on that line, based on what I thought I heard ... but what actually played on the recording was John's voice being played backwards.
I was aware of other instances where various lines were "backward masked," (see "Paul is dead," fiasco), but didn't realize this song had it as well.
Backwards part comes in at about 0.35 seconds into the 56 second video.
