Backward Masking, does anyone do it anymore?

[DrewPeterson7]

Ok, maybe a better term would be commercialized instead of profit. I should have made myself clearer on that statement.

Well, commercial music has ALWAYS been commercialized. And didn't the beatles crack the top 40 maybe a decade and a half ago, when they released that new single? I was in high school, so while I wasn't really following the charts, I remember a LOT of people buying beatles albums for a year or two there...

Anyway, as I think has been adequately demonstrated here, if you look at today's charts to lament the commercialization of music, most of the top-40 material from 30 years ago has proven itself just as forgettable. That's nothing new. That doesn't mean there isn't plenty of great music still being made.

 

[legionserial]

The music charts say nothing about the state of music today, only the state of the listeners.

 

[MCI2424]

Are y'all really trying to pretend that Yes and Genesis music was somehow all over the radio back in the 70s?

Here's the top twenty commercial songs from 1973. Except for Flack, Gaye, Preston and Edgar, it's pretty lame. Somehow they didn't list "Siberian Khatru"

01. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree » Tony Orlando & Dawn
02. Bad Bad Leroy Brown » Jim Croce
03. Killing Me Softly With His Song » Roberta Flack
04. Let's Get It On » Marvin Gaye
05. My Love » Paul McCartney & Wings
06. Why Me » Kris Kristofferson
07. Crocodile Rock » Elton John
08. Will It Go Round In Circles » Billy Preston
09. You're So Vain » Carly Simon
10. Touch Me In The Morning » Diana Ross
11. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia » Vicki Lawrence
12. Playground In My Mind » Clint Holmes
13. Brother Louie » Stories
14. Delta Dawn » Helen Reddy
15. Me And Mrs. Jones » Billy Paul
16. Frankenstein » Edgar Winter Group
17. Drift Away » Dobie Gray
18. Little Willy » Sweet
19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life » Stevie Wonder
20. Half Breed » Cher

This is THE list I remember. God, todays stuff is so much less annoying in so many ways. Living through the 70s, I have to say that all the drugs saved our asses in a big way.

 

[fat_fleet]

I'm not sure what the point being made here is. what gets airplay depends what air you are listening to.

the point being made is that the popular music of the early 70s was better than recent popular music because of it's enduring quality. this has nothing to do with our personal tastes and what we choose to listen to. you like satellite radio, i personally don't even listen to the radio. my lists (and i assume Todzilla's) were taken from a Billboard chart or something similiar.
and before anyone gets all upset and asks if continuing popularity is really a gauge of a song's worth, i'm going to insist that it is a pretty significant one... more significant than me just saying what i like is good and what i don't like is bad.

 

[StevenT]

I only know of one song where there was intentional backwards masking...In "I am the walrus" John admited and confirmed the fact that Paul really died on November 14, 1964.
The ones in "Stairway to Heaven" was just Satan speaking to us.

Beatles first used on Revolver album for the song "I'm Only Sleeping", also used it on the song "Rain" (whole end of song is backmasked).

Quickly some of my favorites to do it were Beatles, Hendrix, and Syd Barret (Pink Floyd)

 

[ez_willis]

That's the most idiotic statement I've read here recently.

and that's REALLY saying something!

 

[dodgeaspen]

Beatles first used on Revolver album for the song "I'm Only Sleeping", also used it on the song "Rain" (whole end of song is backmasked).

Quickly some of my favorites to do it were Beatles, Hendrix, and Syd Barret (Pink Floyd)

From what I understand Rain was the first backwards song. I've heard that Lennon put the reel on backwards by mistake and after listening thought it was cool. Don't know how true that is but that's what I've heard.