Backwards Messages in Songs

on Dio's Holy Diver there are some garbled noises in the fade out at the end. if you play those backward it says "I am the crucified" . When this album came out, I got the cassette and my auto-reverse tape deck would change directions but the head didn't click over to the other side of the tape, so we listened to a lot of stuff backward. not always on purpose.
 
my favourite backwarRAB messages is from the first Soundgarden LP. track called 665 for obvious reasons.

Santa, I love you baby
My Christmas king
Santa, you're my king
I love you, Santa baby
Got what I need

i've read claims Cornell goes on to ask for a bike in the unintelligible stuff at the very end of the track following the reversed Santa blurb above. either way, far more hilarity than most of the 'devil' messages 'found' in most tracks.
 
Another pretty good one comes from the beginning of the They Might Be Giants song "I'll Sink Manhattan". If you play it backwarRAB it says:

Thanks a lot guys, from the NYPD, we love you.
 
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