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5 February 2010
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I was monkeying around with the individual tracks on the Sgt Pepper Reprise and I noticed this weird bit of banter between John and Paul right before the vocals kick in. It must have been really buried in the mix, because I can’t hear it on the album version, no matter how hard I strain my ears. Anyway, I thought it was fun, so I’m sharing it here:
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20 December 2010
Offline That version with the chatter is only available on the mono pressing of Sgt. Pepper . The Stereo version does not have it.
If you like that kind of stuff, play the entire album along with the White Album . Both of those have the most difference between mono and stereo copies.
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Offline The Rock Band multi’s and isolated channels of the 5.1 mixes are great for hearing isolated words and sounds that otherwise were buried. Its quite amazing how much was put into songs that sound quite straight-forward. There is a tinkling bell going off throughout All Together Now i never noticed until hearing it isolated. Only A Northern Song is complete chaos with all thats going on (rambling chatter, piano’s being played without much thought on what exactly) – and you get to hear Paul’s shocking dreadful trumpet playing in all its glory, and its quite fun hearing it being so awful.
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11 November 2010
Offline PeterWeatherby said
I was monkeying around with the individual tracks on the Sgt Pepper Reprise and I noticed this weird bit of banter between John and Paul right before the vocals kick in. It must have been really buried in the mix, because I can’t hear it on the album version, no matter how hard I strain my ears. Anyway, I thought it was fun, so I’m sharing it here:
That’s interesting. Thanks for sharing! 
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Works for me. Pretty interesting stuff. Their voices are so good!
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31 March 2008
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Thanks! I’d never heard that before. Is it possible to isolate Paul’s shouting at the end? I’ve always wondered what he says.
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5 February 2010
Offline Joe said
Thanks! I’d never heard that before. Is it possible to isolate Paul’s shouting at the end? I’ve always wondered what he says.
No, unfortunately, it sounds like they were all recording on the same mic/track for that one. This is what I hear at the end, though:
All (singing): … hearts … club … band
Paul: Wooo!
John: Oooh … oh my God , it kills me
George (singing): band-band-band, band, band, band
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1.41pm
28 January 2013
Offline The find is interestnig. I went to hear the released version of the song with the music full blast, and I could hear some of the chatter, however like said it is barely audible. I guess you never notice something on a song unti it’s pointed out.
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12 December 2019
Offline It is cute when John dashes-in on the right channel (on the stereo) and says:”byyeee”.
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Offline BeatOfTheBrass said
It is cute when John dashes-in on the right channel (on the stereo) and says:”byyeee”.
Which is the second song on the album where John says “bye”’, the first being ‘She’s Leaving Home’, conveniently also the second last song on the side.
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8.52am
2 May 2013
Offline How plausible is the possibility that Sgt Pepper (Reprise) contains backwards lyrics deliberately?
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7.32pm
1 December 2009
Offline Old Soak said
How plausible is the possibility that Sgt Pepper (Reprise) contains backwards lyrics deliberately?
I don’t find it plausible at all, reversed result sounds something closer to “…facE mishnaS” than “fake mustache” to my ears. And the detail about Paul going incognito in France is irrelevant, since this hypothetical “fake moustache” could as easily refer to the cardboard one included with the album.
I wonder: Has anybody recording artist, in either rock or avant-garde music, ever experimented with this sort of laborious deliberate backwards messaging? Like a) compose lyric, b) record lyric and play tape backwards, c) try to transcribe what the backwards tape seems to say, and d) record these new words/sounds onto tape, so the original lyrics will be re-approximated if *that* recording is played backwards. Lot of work! I imagine it’s been done, even if only experimentally.
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Old Soak said
How plausible is the possibility that Sgt Pepper (Reprise) contains backwards lyrics deliberately?
I don’t find it plausible at all, reversed result sounds something closer to “…facE mishnaS” than “fake mustache” to my ears. And the detail about Paul going incognito in France is irrelevant, since this hypothetical “fake moustache” could as easily refer to the cardboard one included with the album.
I wonder: Has anybody recording artist, in either rock or avant-garde music, ever experimented with this sort of laborious deliberate backwards messaging? Like a) compose lyric, b) record lyric and play tape backwards, c) try to transcribe what the backwards tape seems to say, and d) record these new words/sounds onto tape, so the original lyrics will be re-approximated if *that* recording is played backwards. Lot of work! I imagine it’s been done, even if only experimentally.
David Lynch taught his actors to speak backwards, then for the film he replayed it in reverse so they sounded un-reversed (but in a weirdly stilted way).
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1 December 2009
Offline Sea Belt said
vonbontee said
Old Soak said
How plausible is the possibility that Sgt Pepper (Reprise) contains backwards lyrics deliberately?
I don’t find it plausible at all, reversed result sounds something closer to “…facE mishnaS” than “fake mustache” to my ears. And the detail about Paul going incognito in France is irrelevant, since this hypothetical “fake moustache” could as easily refer to the cardboard one included with the album.
I wonder: Has anybody recording artist, in either rock or avant-garde music, ever experimented with this sort of laborious deliberate backwards messaging? Like a) compose lyric, b) record lyric and play tape backwards, c) try to transcribe what the backwards tape seems to say, and d) record these new words/sounds onto tape, so the original lyrics will be re-approximated if *that* recording is played backwards. Lot of work! I imagine it’s been done, even if only experimentally.
David Lynch taught his actors to speak backwards, then for the film he replayed it in reverse so they sounded un-reversed (but in a weirdly stilted way
Ooh, you’re right, thanks! (I never did see “Twin Peaks”, but I remember “The SSimpsons few years afterward doing a parody of that backwards-dream bit.)
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Offline @vonbontee — I imagine pulling this off with music + lyrics would probably be more difficult than just an actor speaking lines. On the other hand, I don’t think the Beatles first recorded backwards then reversed the playback, as Lynch did.
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14 December 2009
Offline Sea Belt said
@vonbontee — I imagine pulling this off with music + lyrics would probably be more difficult than just an actor speaking lines. On the other hand, I don’t think the Beatles first recorded backwards then reversed the playback, as Lynch did.
No, the Beatles never seem to have done that….but there’s, really, very little reversed vocals at all in the Beatles canon – all I can think of are “Rain ” and the bits in “Blue Jay Way “.
Incidentally, here’s a little Beatles remix thing I constructed years ago with audio software, using the rhythm track from “Reprise” plus a whole bunch of other isolated tracks from 1967; it’s got bits from every one of “Sgt. Pepper ‘s” titles (as well as the inner groove, backwards and forwards) and is about two minutes long, so I named it “Two Minute Pepper”
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