Like salt and pepper on our food, we also like a little mystery
and intrigue thrown into our lives from time to time. You can look for
it anywhere, even in music. Of course whether you actually find
something of substance is another matter, but the journey is what's fun
anyway.
A Dutch filmmaker has been busy digging holes around the Bavarian town of Mittenwald. He is convinced that a musical manuscript has an encoded message that tells where lost Nazi gold is buried. Well, so far, he hasn't found the gold, but he hasn't given up yet.
In 2010, Dr Jay Kennedy historian and philosopher of science at the University of Manchester claimed that he had cracked a secret musical code Plato had used that was embedded in Plato's writings. Of course, I am skeptical since I have seen no other reports on this. Maybe the code
turned out to be a bust. Something like, 'Honey can you pick up a loaf of bread on the way home?'. Or, 'Aristotle has big ears and a crooked nose.'
Back in the 1960s John Lennon got stoned and mistakenly and serendipitously (a happy accident) put in the Beatles sound tape backwards in the tape player. He found that playing sounds backwards actually can sound pretty cool. (It's probably a good thing John Lennon was not a Commercial airline pilot or a brain surgeon.) The Beatles were the first ones that started consciously using backward sounds as musical art.
Of course, this led the way for the whole back-masking musical urban lore. This started off with a bang with the 'Paul McCartney is dead' rumor in the 1960s. In the Beatles song Revolution 9, you can hear the phrase 'Turn me on dead man' over and over if you play the 'number nine' phrase backwards. The Beatles did not even stick with back-masking. Listen closely to the end of I Am the Walrus. It sounds like the Blue Meanies are singing something like 'Oom-Pah, Oom-Pah.' You can hear them distinctly singing 'Everybody smokes pot.'
Back-masking reached its hysterical peak in the 1980s where it really turned into a musical witch hunt. You know if you play music backwards, you will hear sounds. However, it becomes something like looking at a Rorschach ink blot test. What you see (or hear) is not necessarily going to be what I see (or hear) when reviewing the same piece of art.
Some of the bands that were accused of back-masking horrible messages like Electric Light Orchestra actually started putting in some back-masked messages just to tweak their accusers. These were tongue-in-cheek messages just making fun of the whole messed up affair. Some groups use back-masking as a gimmick to try to sell more music. Some do it as a joke. Here are some examples to check out for yourself.
Sometimes mysteries are hidden in plain sight. I remember going out to eat when Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks song was just out. A four-year-old at the next table was humming and singing the song. It was chilling. The guys in the group look like clean-cut young guys that could be cutting the old couple's lawn a couple houses down. The song itself sounds like it could be on Sesame Street or something. However, the lyrics are about a school shooting.
Yeah! He found a six-shooter gun in his dad's closet,
With the box of fun things.
I don't even know what, but he's coming for you.
Yeah, He's coming for you!
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, faster than my bullet.
I remember being disappointed the day I realized the smooth velvety Bobby Darin Mac the Knife song was about a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer.
On a sidewalk, blue Sunday mornin'
Lies a body just oozin' life
Some, someone's sneakin' 'round a corner
Could that someone be Old Mack the Knife?
It is true that sometimes there can be deeper hidden meaning in music. However, more often than not, it is usually a jokester pulling someone's chain. At the end of The Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, John Lennon was said to have kept repeating the phrase 'I buried Paul'. However, McCartney spilled the beans on that myth. Lennon was actually saying the lackluster, non-mysterious phrase 'cranberry sauce'. I doubt that Dutch filmmaker will ever find lost Nazi gold. However, he might have a better chance uncovering a secret message that says 'Hitler has bad breath'.
A Dutch filmmaker has been busy digging holes around the Bavarian town of Mittenwald. He is convinced that a musical manuscript has an encoded message that tells where lost Nazi gold is buried. Well, so far, he hasn't found the gold, but he hasn't given up yet.
In 2010, Dr Jay Kennedy historian and philosopher of science at the University of Manchester claimed that he had cracked a secret musical code Plato had used that was embedded in Plato's writings. Of course, I am skeptical since I have seen no other reports on this. Maybe the code
turned out to be a bust. Something like, 'Honey can you pick up a loaf of bread on the way home?'. Or, 'Aristotle has big ears and a crooked nose.'
Back in the 1960s John Lennon got stoned and mistakenly and serendipitously (a happy accident) put in the Beatles sound tape backwards in the tape player. He found that playing sounds backwards actually can sound pretty cool. (It's probably a good thing John Lennon was not a Commercial airline pilot or a brain surgeon.) The Beatles were the first ones that started consciously using backward sounds as musical art.
Of course, this led the way for the whole back-masking musical urban lore. This started off with a bang with the 'Paul McCartney is dead' rumor in the 1960s. In the Beatles song Revolution 9, you can hear the phrase 'Turn me on dead man' over and over if you play the 'number nine' phrase backwards. The Beatles did not even stick with back-masking. Listen closely to the end of I Am the Walrus. It sounds like the Blue Meanies are singing something like 'Oom-Pah, Oom-Pah.' You can hear them distinctly singing 'Everybody smokes pot.'
Back-masking reached its hysterical peak in the 1980s where it really turned into a musical witch hunt. You know if you play music backwards, you will hear sounds. However, it becomes something like looking at a Rorschach ink blot test. What you see (or hear) is not necessarily going to be what I see (or hear) when reviewing the same piece of art.
Some of the bands that were accused of back-masking horrible messages like Electric Light Orchestra actually started putting in some back-masked messages just to tweak their accusers. These were tongue-in-cheek messages just making fun of the whole messed up affair. Some groups use back-masking as a gimmick to try to sell more music. Some do it as a joke. Here are some examples to check out for yourself.
Sometimes mysteries are hidden in plain sight. I remember going out to eat when Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks song was just out. A four-year-old at the next table was humming and singing the song. It was chilling. The guys in the group look like clean-cut young guys that could be cutting the old couple's lawn a couple houses down. The song itself sounds like it could be on Sesame Street or something. However, the lyrics are about a school shooting.
Yeah! He found a six-shooter gun in his dad's closet,
With the box of fun things.
I don't even know what, but he's coming for you.
Yeah, He's coming for you!
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, faster than my bullet.
I remember being disappointed the day I realized the smooth velvety Bobby Darin Mac the Knife song was about a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer.
On a sidewalk, blue Sunday mornin'
Lies a body just oozin' life
Some, someone's sneakin' 'round a corner
Could that someone be Old Mack the Knife?
It is true that sometimes there can be deeper hidden meaning in music. However, more often than not, it is usually a jokester pulling someone's chain. At the end of The Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, John Lennon was said to have kept repeating the phrase 'I buried Paul'. However, McCartney spilled the beans on that myth. Lennon was actually saying the lackluster, non-mysterious phrase 'cranberry sauce'. I doubt that Dutch filmmaker will ever find lost Nazi gold. However, he might have a better chance uncovering a secret message that says 'Hitler has bad breath'.
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