Songs with hidden messages?

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I think Dave Barry/Bill Hicks summed up my thoughts nicely: If you listen to a record backwards you deserve to hear messages from Satan. On topic, there's always "Turning Japanese", which is supposed to be a song about masturbation.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I remember someone mentioning a dance song with one of Hitler's speeches in it, but backwards. And in German obviously.

Reminded me of the Gwen Stefani song 'Long Way To Go' which has snippets of the Martin Luther King speech in.

 

[xChevelle24]

A Boy Blushed Red....Living In Black and White by underOATH is about a one-night stand with the girl next door.

You're Not Alone by Saosin is about dealing with deaths of your loved ones

Rain by Trivium is about being depressed and dealing with it

Waking The Demon by Bullet For My Valentine is about bullies and how the band was bullied in high school

 

[soulasylum85]

not so much a hidden message as a misunderstanding. bruce springsteens born in the usa is played as a patriotic song but is exactly the opposite. he is singing about vietnam and how the war took his family and friends and destroyed so many lives.

example:
born down in a dead mans town
the first kick i took was when i hit the ground
end up like a dog thats been beat to much
til you spend your life just covering up
born in the usa

that sounds really patriotic now doesnt it.

sorry its just pisses me off when people dont listen to lyrics and completely miss the meaning of a song

 

[blindey]

Have you ever heard a song and thought something like, "hey that sounds like something nasty", well heres your chance to tell us about it. I'll start it off.

I was listening to "Drift away" and thought he might have been talking about games and gamers

Yeah, like SoaD's Mezmerize disk was through and through full of hidden metaphors that NONE of my friends got and thought I was joking, even though we learned that shit at school and they took the same classes as I did...

Learned what at school? You can't put subliminal messages in things

Everyone already knows this but play Another One Bites The Dust by (I think) queen and it says "It's fun to smoke marijuana".

No, it doesn't. Backmasking (what you're referring to, playing songs backwards) and that type of thing is impossible. It is our brains filling in the gaps of chaos to make something recognizable and in tandeom with influence. Noone shows a song backwards, it's always like "dude, did you hear, it talks aboout satan in stariway to heaven if you play ti backwards" and then OHSHI-- IT DOES when you would not have heard that yourself. It's just like that one thread/news item I remember where there was this woman who said she heard like "praise Allah" or something in a baby's toy. It didn't, she just thought it did, reflecting some subconscious processes within her, and soon she posted it to youtube and then...OMFG everyone thought it said that because of the prior priming.

 

[Lord George]

Life on Mars actually has a hidden message about aliens shaped like mickey mouse coming from Mars to eat us and turn us into a source of food to power their giant mouse army, who shall launch their attack on earth from Ibiza and Norfolk, the only one who can stop them is the lawman.

Well thats what I took away from the song anyway.

 

[Fingerprint]

I am the Walrus - The Beetles

More hidden meanings there than you can shake a poetry class at. But mostly I think it's about betraying one's art to be used by the music industry. The title refers to Lois Carrol's poem the Walrus and the Carpenter (in Alice in Wonderland). Seriously the whole song's a hidden meaning goldmine though.

On the nasty note, it also includes the lyrics:
"boy you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down"

Actually the Beatles "I am the walrus" has no hidden meanings at all. It was written purely because their songs were being "interpreted" in schools. So for a laugh they wrote possibly the weirdest song they ever recorded.

 

[Mozared]

not so much a hidden message as a misunderstanding. bruce springsteens born in the usa is played as a patriotic song but is exactly the opposite.

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sorry its just pisses me off when people dont listen to lyrics and completely miss the meaning of a song

You just reminded me of "Wish I were American" by the Planet Smashers. Exactly the same case with that song.

"So this is America
Leaders of democracy
Don't ruin my euphoria
And tell me what I do not see"

 

[megapenguinx]

I am the Walrus - The Beetles

More hidden meanings there than you can shake a poetry class at. But mostly I think it's about betraying one's art to be used by the music industry. The title refers to Lois Carrol's poem the Walrus and the Carpenter (in Alice in Wonderland). Seriously the whole song's a hidden meaning goldmine though.

On the nasty note, it also includes the lyrics:
"boy you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down"

Actually the song is about drugs. The walrus being the dealer or something to that effect. We had to analyze it one day in english class for the full 3 hours.

 

[Pimppeter2]

***** get in my car

Is aactually a request for peace in the middle east

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

In DragonForces "Soldiers of the Wasteland" the singer says something along the lines of
flying on winged vaginas.


The first time I heard it I thought I was hearing things. I wasn't however.

And in In Flames song "March to the Shore" I think that they are calling soldiers killers and singing about fallen ideals.

You were. There isn't anything about winged vaginas. Sorry to piss on your bonfire.

Anyways, I know that Kanye West's song 'Homecoming' is in fact about Chicago and not a woman. Although there's some dispute about whether he says 'My name is Wendy' or 'My name is Windy', in context it makes sense for it to be windy (As in 'The Windy City')

 

[HentMas]

I don't know what´s the name of the song but it goes like

"I was gonna clean my room... but then I got high"

I SWEAR THAT SONG IS ABOUT DRUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

ha ha

 

[Sparrow]

I don't know what´s the name of the song but it goes like

"I was gonna clean my room... but then I got high"

I SWEAR THAT SONG IS ABOUT DRUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!

ha ha

I thought that song was about flying :O

Life on Mars actually has a hidden message about aliens shaped like mickey mouse coming from Mars to eat us and turn us into a source of food to power their giant mouse army, who shall launch their attack on earth from Ibiza and Norfolk, the only one who can stop them is the lawman.

Well thats what I took away from the song anyway.

That and German will be the worlds widest spoken language in 2012.

 

[psychedelic2]

how about revolution #9 by the beatles?
its a it has satanic bits in it e.g. "satan look at me please"

there are also mentions of paul mccartney's supposed death, but you can only hear this stuff when its backmasked.

Awesomeness =D

 

[KaZZaP]

Hit me baby one more time says "Sleep with me I'm not too young" backwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4kQBDoy70

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

In DragonForces "Soldiers of the Wasteland" the singer says something along the lines of
flying on winged vaginas.


The first time I heard it I thought I was hearing things. I wasn't however.

And in In Flames song "March to the Shore" I think that they are calling soldiers killers and singing about fallen ideals.

You were. There isn't anything about winged vaginas. Sorry to piss on your bonfire.

Anyways, I know that Kanye West's song 'Homecoming' is in fact about Chicago and not a woman. Although there's some dispute about whether he says 'My name is Wendy' or 'My name is Windy', in context it makes sense for it to be windy (As in 'The Windy City')

I know that it isn't in the lyrics but the guy says it, I swear. Im not the only one who has heard it either.