10 Albums With Actual Hidden Messages

7. Roger Waters Back Masks His Hate Of Stanley Kubrick

As co-founder, bass player, singer and songwriter in Pink Floyd, Roger Waters has been party to a lot of the claims of backmasking and evil Satanic messages that gets up the backs of crazy fundamentalist types with too much time on their hands and a weird obsession with spinning vinyl the wrong way. Not all of those claims are entirely without merit, however, as the Floyd themselves actually did insert some secret messages into their songs, probably inspired by the baseless accusations that they already had - what delicious irony - and Waters himself did so in order to air some dirty laundry, on a track from his 1993 solo album Amused To Death. Roger Waters had a 1993 solo album called Amused To Death? Apparently so. And that's not even the half of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTXHUfEiks

In case you can't make it out, that hidden message in full - which you can hear in the song Perfect Sense - is "Julia, however, in the light and visions of the issues of Stanley, we changed our mind. We have decided to include a backward message, Stanley, for you, and for all the other book burners." Strong stuff! And allegedly directed at one Stanley Kubrick, visionary director of such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, films which Waters had hoped to sample the dialogue and sound effects of for the album. When Kubrick refused, Waters acted the way any rational adult would - by calling him a Nazi, secretly, on his record. That'll learn him.