Subliminal lyrics

[thermidorthelobster]

In the Scissor Sisters song Return to Oz, there's something which sounds strongly like a subliminal lyric about half way through, at the words "The wheelies are cutting pavement" at 2:21 on the CD version.

I've tried playing it at double speed (it sounds like slowed-down speech), also at half speed, and backwards, but can't make sense of it.  Nor can Google find it.  But it does sound very much like a subliminal lyric.  Any ideas?

[lee celtic]

In the Scissor Sisters song Return to Oz, there's something which sounds strongly like a subliminal lyric about half way through, at the words "The wheelies are cutting pavement" at 2:21 on the CD version.

I've tried playing it at double speed (it sounds like slowed-down speech), also at half speed, and backwards, but can't make sense of it. Nor can Google find it. But it does sound very much like a subliminal lyric.

 Read into it what you will

[muddyweb]

:lol:

Cheers Lee... that made me laugh :-)

[muddyweb]

Not subliminal... just some obscure references :


The wheelie's are cutting pavement
And the Skeksis at the rave meant to hide  (Reference to the “bird men” from the movie “The Dark Crystal”.)
Deep inside their sunken faces
And their wild rolling eyes
But their callous words reveal
That they can no longer feel
Love or sex appeal
The patchwork girl has come to cinch the deal  (Reference to the book “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, by L. Frank Baum.)


"'Return To Oz' is a heartbreaking ballad that allegorises the crystal meth dependency that has ripped the heart out of New York's gay club scene. "The grass is dead, the gold is brown, what once was Emerald City's now a crystal town.""


Google is ace :-)

[Reaper]

A good subliminal message is from the first few seconds of
Salt n Pepa's  Lets Talk About Sex. the first lyrics are "Spinderella, cut it up one time" if you play them backwards they say "Your the only one I'll ever need"

[thermidorthelobster]

That's the bit I'm thinking of, Tim, but if you listen at the beginning it sounds like slowed-down speech playing in the background.  (If you speed it up during playback, it just sounds like most of the other Scissor Sisters songs :) )

I've found a few Pink Floyd subliminals, like the thing about the funny farm in Chalfont on Empty Spaces (The Wall, played backwards).  And "Mysterious Lady" from Queen's One Vision (sped up). Plus there's always the good old "It's fun to smoke marijuana", from Queen's Another One Bites The Dust, played backwards, although that's not so much subliminal as just funny.

[muddyweb]

Nah, nothing there... it's just a load of reverse reverb on the vocal track... used to make it sound 'funky'


(Gues what industry I used to work in ;-))

[thermidorthelobster]

Ah well, I have trouble enough understanding the meaning of the normal lyrics, let alone anything subliminal  :oops:

[the loon]

In the Scissor Sisters song Return to Oz, there's something which sounds strongly like a subliminal lyric about half way through, at the words "The wheelies are cutting pavement" at 2:21 on the CD version.

I've tried playing it at double speed (it sounds like slowed-down speech), also at half speed, and backwards, but can't make sense of it.  Nor can Google find it.  But it does sound very much like a subliminal lyric.  Any ideas?

got subliminal tyres on my 90 they keep saying
"spend more money on your vechicle spend more money on your vechicle"

Is my 90 possesed should I call a priest?

 :twisted:

[thermidorthelobster]

No, they all do that, it's installed at the factory  :(

[Bulli]

Thats what it is! damn. And we all take the p*** out of chavs for putting toys and crap on their nova's ..I must have spent the national debt of sub saharan africa on mine!

[thermidorthelobster]

..I must have spent the national debt of sub saharan africa on mine!

So it's *your* fault about the poverty thing then?  :twisted:

[Maddy]

Well, sadly I have seen the film 'Return to Oz', and the Wheelies are rather menacing.

I bought the Scissor Sisters for my daughter for her birthday, tho I think I should have read the lyrics, or even just the song titles before I gave it her.

Why they reference the Skeksis from the Dark Crystal, I did wonder as that film was nothing to do with Oz, and in my opinion, way superior.
BTW the subliminal lyric in Queen's 'One Vision' was actually 'Gimme, Gimme Fried Chicken' at the end, it is very clear although I don't think it was quoted in the lyrics, I could check, I have it on vinyl somewhere ( vinyl, wots that then!?)