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I'm putting on a night where the theme is 'backwards'. Need some tunes to play between bands and I can only think of A couple of songs. Help me ilx!

the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:02 (fourteen years ago)

1. Stone roses - don't stop

the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:04 (fourteen years ago)

Radiohead - electioneering

the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:05 (fourteen years ago)

Inflatable Boy Clams - Snoteleks.
Chumbawamba - The Police Have Been Wonderful.
one of the songs off of Camper Van Beethoven's "II and II" album, can't remember which one.
Napoleon XIV of course.

Danielle Dax's tune "The Spoil Factor" has a great backwards loop for a rhythm track.

Coil's live version of "Backwards" (from Live Three) is awesome but not actually backwards.

sleeve, Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:13 (fourteen years ago)

DJ Quik - Medley for a V (last verse)
Missy Elliot - Work It

Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:25 (fourteen years ago)

Husker Du - Dreams Reoccurring

zappi, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:40 (fourteen years ago)

Husker Du, dreams reoccuring
Beasties, paul revere
Hendrix, are you experienced?
Beatles, because

Spectrist, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:41 (fourteen years ago)

oh, zappi got there first (unless thread is read backwards)

Spectrist, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:43 (fourteen years ago)

all of Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness by Teenage Filmstars

a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 18 June 2011 09:47 (fourteen years ago)

David Bowie - Move On (= All The Young Dudes reversed)

willem, Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:28 (fourteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle, Tiab Guls
Lewis & Gilbert, Airmail <---- bassline from Wire's "Go Ahead" backwards
Chrome, Read Only Memory <---- actually uses a loop of PiL's "Fodderstompf" backwards!

... there are a LOT of these, don't have the time right now though

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:06 (fourteen years ago)

Number nine, number nine...

Iago Galdston, Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:17 (fourteen years ago)

The Lines-Respit is Stripe backwards.

nerve_pylon, Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

is anything on Neu! 2 actually backwords, or just sped up/slowed down?

maximum biker daddy realness (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

eels - efils good

Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

Studio - Radio Edit

David Bowie - Move On

...that whole Avey Tare record...

bentelec, Saturday, 18 June 2011 14:30 (fourteen years ago)

A nice bit near the start of Mission of Burma's 'Secrets'

For some reason I have an mp3 of Mogwai's 'Stanley Kubric' that's been reversed on my iTunes... I could send you that?

Or get Audacity (free) and just reverse some songs yourself!

Circlework de Soleil (S-), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

ol dirty - shimmy shimmy ya

out comes stanley, Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

Backward-looped recordings on both

The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"
The Clash, "London Calling"

Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

opening of Metallica's "Blackened" is played backwards

why i am an anarcho-sandwich artist (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

guitar solo on Alice in Chains' "Brush away" also recorded backwards

why i am an anarcho-sandwich artist (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

The ending to Cranberries' 'Free to Decide', which is reflected in the video.

Uses Ragefaces To Reflect Her Dissatisfaction (MintIce), Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:46 (fourteen years ago)

Sugar Magnolia by Pop-O-Pies

everything, Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

Syd Barrett - "Dominoes"

Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 18 June 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

Side b of the first sonic youth ep, on cassette, is all backwards.

dlp9001, Saturday, 18 June 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA237HBcemA

nicegeoff, Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

Byrds- mind gardens

blank, Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:50 (fourteen years ago)

the Clash - "Mensforth Hill"

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

eno moebius roedelius - tzima n'arki

blank, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

Think that's probably supposed to be
Radiohead - electioneering Like Spinning Plates

Z S, Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

Deborarobed by Tyrannosaurus Rex-second half is backwards.

Mrs Quill, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:25 (fourteen years ago)

gah, opened this to post "deborarobed"!

And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:03 (fourteen years ago)

pain teens - "desu evol yaw"

And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:08 (fourteen years ago)

butthole surfers - "hay"

And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:13 (fourteen years ago)

That Resonance Radio show, xollob Park

Mark G, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:21 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ayz2QV4Pas

美国有很多丰富的傻瓜 (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 14:33 (fourteen years ago)

Lee Perry, Evol Yenoh

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 14:44 (fourteen years ago)

Chuck Wagon: "Rock And Roll Won't Go Away"

Mark G, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

La Dusseldorf, Sentimental

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://youtu.be/UlqZiRIAXbA

solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)

Duh, which is Heaven's End by Loop

solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

Lothar and the Hand People - "Sdrawkcab"
The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping" (backwards guitar solo)

+plenty more Beatles songs besides those already mentioned: "Rain", "Revolution No.9" (I suspect), etc

Paul, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

much of the music (more than one instrument? bass & keys etc?) on Bowie - "Subterraneans" sounds like a backwards loop

Paul, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

A guitar bit near the beginning of The Who’s “Magic Bus” from Live at Leeds is backwards on some versions.

Jazzbo, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

if you need/want a real subtle allusion to the theme, play a song about Merlin

Paul, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 17:03 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV76EztOdeE

_ANML_, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

Lewis & Gilbert, Airmail <---- bassline from Wire's "Go Ahead" backwards

my fave tune on thread

Paul, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

There's a bunch of backwards babble at the end of Borads of Canada's Happy Cycling.

Don't forget all those tunes with backmasked messages either ... natas teews ym ot sereh ...

cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

tom d. mentioned chrome's "read only memory" a few days back, but lots of chrome songs include backwards passages or parts, often as bridges between sections. reversed drums in the 2nd half of "chromosome damage", the backwards voice that frames "slip it to the android", the extended "TV as eyes" outro, etc.

And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

I believe the standard line on backwards guitar solos on record is that the Beatles on "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" were there first.

Now, "Revolver" was released on August 5th, 1966, so how do you explain this, which was released on the second Nancy Sinatra album in May 1966?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj_Bt5vZoLQ

Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 11:25 (two years ago)

Did we fail to discuss the bass solo in "You Can Call Me Al"?

; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 11:29 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7sbpGxeDas

buzza, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 11:55 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IPn05MYURQ

buzza, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 11:58 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkh9gV4l578

buzza, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 12:10 (two years ago)

When we were kids, my brother and I had Prodigy songs taped on to cassette, and bizarrely, Charly (the version on Experience) was recorded backwards. Freaked the shit out of us!

Duane Barry, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 12:21 (two years ago)

michael rother - klangkörper
steve fisk - tongues
cherubs - kick me
paid reach (kassem mosse) - colddrinksnreverse

massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 12:26 (two years ago)

I believe the standard line on backwards guitar solos on record is that the Beatles on "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" were there first.

Now, "Revolver" was released on August 5th, 1966, so how do you explain this, which was released on the second Nancy Sinatra album in May 1966?

I went to my original vinyl copy of that album to check if that was the original mix of "Sand" and it is, so this is a good question. It should be noted that "I'm Only Sleeping" came out in the US on the Yesterday and Today album released in mid-June '66, so Nancy & Lee beat the Beatles by a matter of weeks.

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:08 (two years ago)

So the Beatles didn't invent everything after all.

Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:12 (two years ago)

I'm guessing that's Billy Strange playing on "Sand"

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:20 (two years ago)

When he plays backwards he’s Billy Normal

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:28 (two years ago)

Bit of googling suggests it was Glen Campbell, that would be something!

Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:29 (two years ago)

psychic paramount - megatherion for the ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Cf8Bogv7E

fpsa, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 20:29 (two years ago)

Neubauten's cover of "Sand" apparently a big influence on My Bloody Valentine.

henry s, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 20:33 (two years ago)

Side 2 of Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze was mastered backwards, some say accidentally.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 December 2023 18:06 (two years ago)

Top 100 tracks with reverse sounds

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 7 December 2023 23:35 (two years ago)

The Clash, "Mensforth Hill"

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 December 2023 23:38 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPCeNyRs1BI

Wreckless Erik Satie (SlimAndSlam), Friday, 8 December 2023 03:58 (two years ago)


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