Pornography reversed - secret message

The Cure - Pornography reversed - secret message

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[SlowPulseBoy]

es la radio inglesa BBC 2, si escuchas el final puedes oirlo

no se que dice exactamente solo entiendo algunas palabras sueltas, si alguien lo tradujera se lo agradeceria

[materns72]

My belief is that they were wanting to create a chaotic, dislocated (read foreign) and all-round unpleasant experience to start the song with.

How better to do that than mix a couple of distorted audio tracks of everyday banal talk?

I Instantly feel from the beginning of the track that I am an outsider to whatever is going on, and as such, the effect is well created.

Almost being able to pick out words of coherence here and there, but never getting the actal messgage is key to this song

[theozwart]

ofcourse no secret message! in the early eighties some fools believed that in some parts of music, specially heavy metal, were secret messages. Bollocks!

[DellianaoftheSea]

This is my acid trips of old! :P

[killmestop]

Wow, thanks for this. Years ago I broke my record player trying to listen to this track backwards. lol

[HawK047]

@materns72 I had a bad trip the other day. My friends were doing fine, laughing and all.

Pornography is the closest thing to the insanity, fear, adrenaline and corruption that went through me.

It felt as if my friends were leaving me to die, laughing and talking an strange language while at it.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

According to Robert Smith, it's just a sample of a random radio show that happened to be playing during the Pornography recording sessions. The recording was also played backwards.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

i have a bootleg of shows where the sample is played unadorned by music-very weird

[gorillaz21st]

Wooooeeee...sounds even creepier! Me likes.................hey hey Go BBC 2! Woop woop! :P

[1981thecure]

This is great.! But to hear real strange, their is a unreleased track called 'AIRLOCK' also recorded in 1982..and has to be their strangest songs I have ever heard. Lots and Lots of drug use during this period of the band. But what GREAT!!! BAD ASS!!! MUSIC!!!!!!!!! SMITH,TOLHURST,GALLUP

[samueljaros]

A couple of days before the Pornography tour reached its chaotic self-destructive climax in Brussels in June '82, the band played in Lyon (France) and for some technical reason the back-up tape couldn't be played. So Robert counted the band in 1-2-3-4 (!) and babbled for a few seconds into a sample-and-loop pedal and they used that instead. Guess what: babble played backwards still sounds like babble... (or alternatively like elbbab or something).

[iancurtis51880]

Yeah, 'poor joe' is the only phrase I was ever able to make out in the 20+ years I've listened to this song. It really is one of the most bizarre songs any band has ever recorded, I think. Love it.