Turn Me On, Dead Man

If you've been grooving on Gaylord's Fake Beatles series as much as I have, here's another little treat courtesy of the internet: The Backwards Beatles.

The blog Echoes In the Wind recently posted a rumination on the old Paul Is Dead hoax, and tacked on a slew of late Beatles classics reversed for your enjoyment. Originally remastered by another blogger, Obscure Pop-Culture Reference, the songs sound just as melodic backwards as forwards, and after uploading them to my ipod earlier this week, they have made my morning commute a bit more surreal. However, as last year's 365 Days post will remind you, the Beatles are evil and backwards masking can steal your soul!

For ultimate listening pleasure, try not to decipher which song it is beforehand. Enjoy!

Nug Mraw A Si Ssenippah
Etik Rm Fo Tifeneb Eht Rof Gnieb
Ybgir Ronaele
Surlaw eht Ma I
Ynop A Gid I
Llih Eht No Loof Eht
Enif Leef I
Reverof Sdleif Yrrebwarts
Seiggip
Rehtegot Emoc
Yrc Ybab Yrc
Gniylf
Niar
Swonk Reven Worromot
Sdnomaid Htiw Yks Eht Ni Ycul
Gnol Gnol Gnol
Nos s'erutan Rehtom
Esuaceb
Nus eht Semoc Ereh
Efil eht Ni Yad A
Esrevinu eht Ssorca
9# Noitulover
Gnipeels Ylno M'I

And in a lame mash-up idea, I am jonesing for someone to play these over the top of Wizard of Oz instead of that other thing (though maybe playing Wizard of Oz backwards at the same time would break your brain).

Image via The Bootlego Beatles.

Comments

[Colin The Culture Hunter]

Gaylords stuff has been one of the highlights of this blog. I wonder if they'll ask him over to give his lecture on Beatles Day ( July 10th) here in Liverpool?

Nice of you to post some backwards Beatles tracks - there is one "Beatle" track you may have overlooked that would have been fun for the uninitiated- why not post McCartneys "Band on the Run" in a backwards format and you will soon recognise that Sir Paul really was giving his fans pretty strong clues to what he was smoking between takes!!!!!!

[Paul]

Thank YOU!! This just made my year!!!

[dougie]

try running prince's "purple rain" (the album) backwards and you'll find a couple intentional surprises as well. specifically "darling nikki" and "let's go crazy"

[Colin the Culture Hunter]

Try this page if this sort of thing interests you- the Band on the Run one is here for you as is plenty of other stuff that in my opinion clearly shows that some people certainly can read a little too much into this phenomenon and find things that arent there . Paul McCartney certainly has a sense of humour though!

http://www.reversespeech.com/music_reversals.htm