NPR did a bit quite a few years ago about Easter eggs found in the dead vinyl or deadwax space, that space between the end of the music and the label on each side. While listening to it, I learned that LeD ZePPeLiN III (I'm pretty sure it was only the original pressings) has quotes from Aleister Crowley, inscribed by hand on each side. Jimmy Page had a huge fascination with the well-known occultist, so it was no shock to me. Much to my surprise, I checked my copy, handed down from my father, has those inscriptions. 🤘🏻🎸
The message on “The Wall” refers to the question in the lyrics in a nonexistent song titled “What shall we do now?” It may have only been in the original pressings.
The Wall isn't the only looping Pink Floyd album. That technique was used repeatedly across albums. Meddle subtlety featured the same wind sound effect looping around. The Dark Side of the Moon features an even subtler heartbeat sound. After the Wall, The Final Cut loops radio chatter as someone flicks through a radio.
Roger waters went on to use the looping in all his solo albums as well. I think the best use is in Radio KAOS. The beat for the first and last songs is made out of morse code, that morse code actually contains it's own secret message. That morse code then loops around to the beginning of the album as well
I had the Python one. The album 'Out of the blue' by ELO contains the song 'Stepping out' which is not about a drifter like people think. It is a follow up to the song 'Mission' on their previous album. The last few bars of Mission are the same as the first few bars of Stepping out. Mission was about aliens coming to Earth Stepping out is about a man leaving Earth for the stars (and possible finding a new planet to live on) before floods come. The next side is all about rain. The line 'I'm gonna see the world, like a rolling stone' is not about him being the rolling stone but seeing the Earth as a stone rolling through space. And then of course there is Moonchild by King Crimson the lyrics of which nobody gets. I have broken down each lyric of this on a different site.
It's worth analyzing the song “Lateralus” by the band Tool. Really! Especially if you're interested in its mathematical and rhythmic subtleties and how they interact with the lyrics.
Ugly Kid Joe – America’s Least Wanted – There’s spoken word poetry that sounds like a deep kind of rumble. When using “high speed dubbing” with the cassette – then the audio is legible. I’m going to listen to the album on a streaming service to try and find the track. Maybe only available on cassette.
German band "Die Ärzte" did a hidden track on their album 13. It is hidden before the first track on the CD, so you have to start play, hit pause and then rewind before the 00:00 mark. Works because the CD Audio standard contains a starting point, that doesn't have to be the beginning of the audio on the CD. Not all players support it, and don't ask me how bored I was as a teenager to notice that back in the days. My guess is I noticed that it took a little longer after hitting play than on other CDs, because it has to seek to that later position instead of playing from the outermost part of the CD immediately.
It kinda started with the Alister Crowley. Like throwing glass shards where barefooted Christians carelessly walk. Abscent of the gospel message, the whole world wants to be as morally perverted as Crowley. If you haven't a clue what I'm ranting on about, if it seems reverse and backwards, it's that you're infected with Crowley just as English rock stars and half of Europe. Instead, Jesus, God, and redemption should make sense to you, but your ears are all garbeled after learning the listen to the twisted words of this immoral generation, one that calls evil good.
There's a vocoder voice at the end of ELO's Mr Blue Sky that sounds like "Please turn me over", indicating to play the other side of the record or tape. Being at the end of the third side of Out Of The Blue, it therefore works if you're playing the album or the 7" single.
The album "Origin" by Evanescence (It has a red cover) is an oddly pressed CD, because it doesn't contain a table of contents pressed to the disc… So many CD players struggle to play it when you first pop it into the CD player. But when the first track starts playing, hold rewind, and it will go back BEFORE the first track for a few seconds of laughing and talking from the band members. Neat little Easter egg. Could be why they couldn't include the table of contents, or may have been an oversight during the early mastery from the band's home studio at the time.
Trouble is my dad’s auto start and auto return deck would have missed many of these and that’s 70s tech. My recent purchase is all manual cue so that’s progress.
@adjustableplaid
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
NPR did a bit quite a few years ago about Easter eggs found in the dead vinyl or deadwax space, that space between the end of the music and the label on each side. While listening to it, I learned that LeD ZePPeLiN III (I'm pretty sure it was only the original pressings) has quotes from Aleister Crowley, inscribed by hand on each side. Jimmy Page had a huge fascination with the well-known occultist, so it was no shock to me. Much to my surprise, I checked my copy, handed down from my father, has those inscriptions. 🤘🏻🎸
@SallowTheJugger
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
So what is the greatest musical secret of all time???
@mobri2a
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
The message on “The Wall” refers to the question in the lyrics in a nonexistent song titled “What shall we do now?” It may have only been in the original pressings.
@BrokenSymmetry1
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Play Hendrix's 3rd stone from the Sun at 78rpm and the alien voices are in real time.
@Legend1O1
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
You did literally spend years working on perfectly recreating old portal only for it all to turn up weeks later
@Legend1O1
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
The Wall isn't the only looping Pink Floyd album. That technique was used repeatedly across albums. Meddle subtlety featured the same wind sound effect looping around. The Dark Side of the Moon features an even subtler heartbeat sound. After the Wall, The Final Cut loops radio chatter as someone flicks through a radio.
Roger waters went on to use the looping in all his solo albums as well.
I think the best use is in Radio KAOS. The beat for the first and last songs is made out of morse code, that morse code actually contains it's own secret message. That morse code then loops around to the beginning of the album as well
@malcolmgriggs-v8m
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
I had the Python one. The album 'Out of the blue' by ELO contains the song 'Stepping out' which is not about a drifter like people think. It is a follow up to the song 'Mission' on their previous album. The last few bars of Mission are the same as the first few bars of Stepping out. Mission was about aliens coming to Earth Stepping out is about a man leaving Earth for the stars (and possible finding a new planet to live on) before floods come. The next side is all about rain. The line 'I'm gonna see the world, like a rolling stone' is not about him being the rolling stone but seeing the Earth as a stone rolling through space. And then of course there is Moonchild by King Crimson the lyrics of which nobody gets. I have broken down each lyric of this on a different site.
@Åməårå_LåVəÿ
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
It's "how far from my love"❕
@FrancoisDaoust-o2q
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
I'm sure you're aware of the sound that only dogs can hear at the end of the Sargent Peppers Hearts Club Band vinyl album ❤❤😊
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@ok4ym4kj4f
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
It's worth analyzing the song “Lateralus” by the band Tool. Really! Especially if you're interested in its mathematical and rhythmic subtleties and how they interact with the lyrics.
@scott3744
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
We should start a support group, or a replacement fund, for your poor stylus…
@darkdogstudios
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
In Mike Oldfields Amorak album there is a Morse code message “fuck off RB” aka Richard Branson
@DannyD714
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
another thing about monty python's "matching tie and handkerchief" is that both sides are the B side, there is no side A.
@Rych
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Rammstein's "Reise, Reise" album has a hidden track before track 1 on CD that you have to "rewind" the disc to hear
@magikjoe3789
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Side 1 of the album Belief by Innocence fades into rainfall for the runout groove, playing indefinitely on a manual turntable.
@davidhague3270
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Too much monkey business.
@AdamJ-G.P.S.-InfiniteSpaceTime
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Ugly Kid Joe – America’s Least Wanted – There’s spoken word poetry that sounds like a deep kind of rumble. When using “high speed dubbing” with the cassette – then the audio is legible.
I’m going to listen to the album on a streaming service to try and find the track. Maybe only available on cassette.
“Same Side” – Tk 8 👍 very start of track
@svenlakemeier
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
German band "Die Ärzte" did a hidden track on their album 13. It is hidden before the first track on the CD, so you have to start play, hit pause and then rewind before the 00:00 mark. Works because the CD Audio standard contains a starting point, that doesn't have to be the beginning of the audio on the CD. Not all players support it, and don't ask me how bored I was as a teenager to notice that back in the days. My guess is I noticed that it took a little longer after hitting play than on other CDs, because it has to seek to that later position instead of playing from the outermost part of the CD immediately.
@ZEGO24x
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
I wouldnt even play the White Stripes forward…
@gertsy2000
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Being the proud owner of a 1983 Sinclair ZX Spectrum the Radiohead stuff was so cool!
@bonjonbovi328
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
There is a Henny Youngman (The King of one-liners) album that has three grooves on one side.
@whimpypatrol5503
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
It kinda started with the Alister Crowley. Like throwing glass shards where barefooted Christians carelessly walk. Abscent of the gospel message, the whole world wants to be as morally perverted as Crowley. If you haven't a clue what I'm ranting on about, if it seems reverse and backwards, it's that you're infected with Crowley just as English rock stars and half of Europe. Instead, Jesus, God, and redemption should make sense to you, but your ears are all garbeled after learning the listen to the twisted words of this immoral generation, one that calls evil good.
@d00dieb0x
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Jerobeam Fenderson and also Aphex Twin included oscilloscope music into their tracks.
@bradjones1977
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
There's a vocoder voice at the end of ELO's Mr Blue Sky that sounds like "Please turn me over", indicating to play the other side of the record or tape. Being at the end of the third side of Out Of The Blue, it therefore works if you're playing the album or the 7" single.
@JayrosModShop
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
The album "Origin" by Evanescence (It has a red cover) is an oddly pressed CD, because it doesn't contain a table of contents pressed to the disc… So many CD players struggle to play it when you first pop it into the CD player. But when the first track starts playing, hold rewind, and it will go back BEFORE the first track for a few seconds of laughing and talking from the band members. Neat little Easter egg. Could be why they couldn't include the table of contents, or may have been an oversight during the early mastery from the band's home studio at the time.
@johncollier9280
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Ron Geesin's album Right Through contains a short backwards message hidden in the middle of a song when played backwards says "jacket pocket".
@Spaghettaboutit
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Glad Jack White reigns supreme as the record holder for most novelty tricks on a single vinyl. He’s always been a champion of analog media.
@mordy91
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
6:38 That is literally and deliberately the mandela effect in the making
@greedyready1
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Trouble is my dad’s auto start and auto return deck would have missed many of these and that’s 70s tech. My recent purchase is all manual cue so that’s progress.
@joevonwolfenstein21
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
Dude , we're gonna need you to eliminate the foreground sound so we know what the message says . Particularly with the Wall .
@Bay_Trekker
November 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
That's wild! I remember programming early computers using audio cassettes! It makes perfect sense for someone to hide a program on their tape!! 😁