Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards

[Piazzaslight]

Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#0

Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:57pm

Whenever I rewind a song in a cast recording of mine to a certain part, I always discover that a little moment of a song can sound great when played backwards. I sometimes find myself playing a particular moment in a cast recording just so I can rewind it and listen to it backwards.

Some examples:

"But I'll only have one life, not two" from Aspects of Love sounds great backwards.

Numerous little moments on Les Miz make me want to cry when played backwards.

What are some of yours, if any?

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[Holly Therese]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#1

Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:58pm

I don't think I've ever played anything backwards, but now I'm curious!

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[Yero]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#2

Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:59pm

I listened to Over the Moon backwards.. it's REALLY freaky. It sounds like a satanic chant.

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Updated On: 7/24/06 at 10:59 PM

[shiksa_goddess]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#3

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:00pm

Most of my friends think it is insane that I mess around with my recordings like that, but one song that I really enjoy backwards is "Role of a Lifetime" from Bare. Also, if you take it down two keys, Michael Arden sounds like Josh Groban.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#4

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:02pm

How does one play something backwards?

[FindingNamo]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#5

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:06pm

I knew a girl who played her "Lennon" bootleg backwards and it said "I buried Paul."

And then she died.

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[Piazzaslight]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#6

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:07pm

yankeefan007: How I do it is that I put in a CD in my CD player. When I get to a moment, I press the button that lets you skip from song to song. I play my CDs backwards by holding the backwards button down. Then, you can play something backwards. I hope that helps.

MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza

"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel

[cturtle]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#7

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:39pm

the beatles' REVOLUTION is awesome backwards.

RIP glebby <3

[I<3bway]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#8

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:43pm

I played Today 4 U in slow mow, and angel sounds like he's about to raise hell.

[sisterberthe]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#9

Posted: 7/24/06 at 11:47pm

Yero, you want to hear something really freaky? "Play The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" backwards...

[frontrowcentre2]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#10

Posted: 7/25/06 at 12:49pm

Well there is that segment in teh first act finale of STEEL PIER when the hero reverses time and the orchestra literally plays a few bars backwards. (On the OCR it does dound like they are playing a tape backwards.)

Years ago there were rumours of satanic messages back-tracked into rock albums. I think its more the power of suggestion. A friend insisted that if you played "Another one bites the dust" backwards they were saying "It's fun to smoke marijuana." Well, I was in a radio station then and we played it backwards and it said: "tsud eht setib eno rehtonA."

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[SDav 10495]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#11

Posted: 7/25/06 at 2:09pm

I remember playing the title song of Phantom backwards a long time ago...it was kind of exciting actually. Haven't tried anything else, though.

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[ThankstoPhantom]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#12

Posted: 7/25/06 at 2:15pm

The title theme to POTO backwards sounds like the music from Defying Gravity when she's rising.

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Updated On: 7/25/06 at 02:15 PM

[rocky2428]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#13

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:09pm

"I knew a girl who played her "Lennon" bootleg backwards and it said "I buried Paul."

And then she died."

That's damn funny!

[EponineThenardier]

re: Little moments in showtunes that sound great when played backwards#14

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:13pm

"I Dreamed a Dream" sounds really cool backwards.