AFI Backwards?

You've probably heard The Beatles played backwards. I mean, hasn't everyone, what with that ridiculous rumour in the sixties that Paul Was Dead? But now I've discovered something entirely amusing (at least to me). When you play AFI backwards--and I haven't done this myself, mind you, just heard the clips on the Internet--a lot of their backwards stuff really sounds like things The Beatles said in their backwards stuff. Or at least...it does to me. Here's a link to a site that has some of the songs backwards...

And what do you hear? Probably a lot of mumbling that sounds like demented German, eh? Some people--not me, not me--think that he's actually saying stuff. And just what is he saying?

1. Supposedly, when you reverse the song "...but home is nowhere", he's saying "It hurts", "You must hear me", and then supposedly he's screaming "No, no!" at one point. If you go to that site, you can listen to it, but I really can't hear any of it. Stupid conspiracy theorists. 2. At the end of "This Time Imperfect", he actually does sound like he's saying "I wish I was...", but then again, you have to wait through the entire part where there's nothing audible. My recommendation is, just drag your little thing in Windows Media Player to the end of the song and then it'll probably be there. It also gets sort of cut off, so it sounds more like "I wish I wa..." 3. Someone on some message board swears that the end of "This Time Imperfect" says "Death is the only way out", but I've never heard it. 4. There is a clip on that site that has a very short clip where he supposedly says "The answer is the end" a few times. Yeah, I can hear it, kind of.

If you want, you can listen to the clips and send what you heard to me at more_depressed_than_davey_havok@yahoo.com

My Own Experiments

So far, I have found that recording things on the Sound Recorder and then simply reversing them works well, although you really have to mess around for a long time before you can say something. "Sophie" backwards sounds more like "oppress", so if you want to record it and play it back and have it be "Sophie", it has to sound more like "Eefoes", and then it will come out sounding not exactly like "Sophie", but more like "Sophee". My name doesn't work. It ends up being a jumble of syllables that sounds like demented German. So, some names work better than others, and singing songs is...entertaining to say the least. "Bennett" has to be said "Tenneb", and even so it comes out more like "Behnett". Yeah, those're my experiments. If you have a computer, a microphone, and a way to hook them up to eachother, then it will work splendidly and you'll have hours of fun being completely insane.

Backwards Stuff and What They Come Out As: ***Tenneb: Beh-net ***Neh Ear Day: Ah-dree-enne ***Neet sug ah: Ah-gu-seen ***If you want to make "a yellow submarine" work, it has to be "a nero masalaya"...interesting, eh? But it actually sounds like "a yallow summorine". ***