{"id":204,"date":"2010-08-18T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=204"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T02:14:23","slug":"the-world-today-more-backmasking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"The World Today: more backmasking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite songs of all time is World Today by Filter, from The Amalgamut album.  The song starts off very dark and foreboding but with the lyrics &#8220;I like the world today&#8221;, like an unsuspecting  faun being stalked by a lion.  There are a lot of other sounds embedded in the background like Native American chanting; many sounds I can&#8217;t identify.  It builds into a wall of sound.  It sounds great cranked-up and on a good sound system.  The lossy mp3 on this site doesn&#8217;t do it justice.<\/p>\n<figure><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/rssotw.invertedsky.net\/play\/144\/audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Sorry. Broswer can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t play audio.<\/audio><figcaption>Filter &#8211; World Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this song are a couple of passages with backwards (backmasked) lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>The first passage he (Richard Patrick) sings &#8220;what a hell of a price, what a hell of a price&#8221; (1:05), which is immediately followed by the backmasked version of the same thing.  It&#8217;s almost as if he&#8217;s pointing to it and saying, &#8220;here&#8217;s what it sounds like in reverse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/rssotw.invertedsky.net\/play\/145\/audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Sorry. Broswer can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t play audio.<\/audio><figcaption>worldtodayexcerpt2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is the same passage in reverse:<\/p>\n<figure><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/rssotw.invertedsky.net\/play\/146\/audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Sorry. Broswer can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t play audio.<\/audio><figcaption>worldtodayexcerpt2-reversed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little more clear at the end of the song:<\/p>\n<figure><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/rssotw.invertedsky.net\/play\/147\/audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Sorry. Broswer can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t play audio.<\/audio><figcaption>worldtodayexcerpt3-reversed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second passage is towards the end of the song and starts at the 4:00 point:<\/p>\n<figure><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/rssotw.invertedsky.net\/play\/148\/audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Sorry. Broswer can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t play audio.<\/audio><figcaption>worldtodayexcerpt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in reverse it is:<\/p>\n<figure><audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"http:\/\/rssotw.invertedsky.net\/play\/149\/audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Sorry. Broswer can&#8217;t\/won&#8217;t play audio.<\/audio><figcaption>worldtodayexcerpt-reversed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the world today&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing surprising in the passages with the reversed lyrics, but since it&#8217;s a favorite I thought it would be nice to at least <em>know<\/em> what they are. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite songs of all time is World Today by Filter, from The Amalgamut album. The song starts off very dark and foreboding but with the lyrics &#8220;I like the world today&#8221;, like an unsuspecting faun being stalked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[46,45,30,29],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-backmasking","tag-filter","tag-hidden-messages-in-songs","tag-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}