'A common urban legend has it that the chorus of Another One Bites the Dust, when played in reverse, contains the messages 'it's fun to smoke marijuana' and 'start to smoke marijuana'. Perhaps it would be better to simply write about the backmasking controversy, with some facts ripped from backmasking, and not make a statement one way or the other. I am unwilling to make the edits myself, because of the aforementioned edit war I bet lots of people have this page on their watchlist, and will pounce at the slightest change.

I have to wonder why no-one here has done so already. We could perhaps cite this article at the Wall Street Journal, from January 2006, in which a spokesman for Queen's record label expressly denies the presence of backmasking. This is true, but says who? User:Feline1 can't cite himself. The encyclopaedia cannot state that there is no deliberate backmasking, without a source to back this up, even if it is obvious to one and all that would be no different from writing that 'Another One Bites the Dust is a catchy song with a good beat'. I think this stems from a fundamental misunderstand of Wikipedia's nature. After all, it is just a load of reversed word sounds. I guarantee if you played the backwards sample to someone without telling them what to hear, they wouldn't have a clue. It will sound a bit like it, but that's because you've been told what it is supposed to sound like, and the power of suggestion is obviously huge. fuddlemark ( fuddle me!) 23:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC) Just to add my two penceworth, but I don't think it sounds *remotely* like 'It's fun to smoke marijuana'. By the way, Feline1, I assume you didn't intend to accuse an opponent in a content dispute of 'vandalism' just there. I'm quite sick and tired of the continual vandalism and rubbish on this article about this!- feline1 17:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC) Oi! What's all this, then? You can't really be seriously moved to edit war over whether the article says 'doesn't countain backwards masking' or ' really doesn't contain backwards masking', surely? Pull your heads in, the pair of you, or I'm turning this encyclopaedia right around and you'll just have to miss out on your holidays this year. There is precious little other instrumentation on the tape to confuse the matter (just drums, and bass guitar + guitar playing the riff.)Even if someone is congentially deaf, they can double check by reading EMI's published 'off the record' transcriptions of the multitrack tapes (in the 'Queen Greatest Hits - Off the Record' sheet music book). Nobody went into the studio and recorded a vocal with the tape running backwards, to embed a 'subliminal message' into the record. When playing the record forwards, there are no audible backwards vocals: there is only a forwards vocal. Deltabeignet 06:52, 29 January 2006 (UTC) I'm sorry, but this is just fantasy and nonsense. Besides, we explicitly call it an urban legend, which should be discrediting it enough. Finding a reliable source where someone else has isn't. Debunking urban legends is original research. However, that isn't demonstrable fact unless we have record of a denial from Deacon or Mercury. also there's a weird al song that when played backwards says 'chewbacca likes to eat cheese' or something stupid like thatДЄnd contrary to what the message says, it is NOT fun to smoke pot, it's bad for you and illegal (this is there for those who don't know) CoolKatt number 99999 Speaking of Weird Al and backmasking, if you play 'Nature Trail to Hell' backwards, there is deliberate backmasking that says 'Satan eats Cheez Whiz' CoolKatt number 99999 Auch come on, it's PURE COINCIDENCE that if you play the lyric backwards, it sounds VERY VAGUELY like 'it's fun to smoke marajuana' - Deacon wrote the lyric because of what it sounded like sung forwards! there's nothing actually recorded backwards on the recording - it's just Mercury singing it forwards.- feline1 12:10, 4 October 2005 (UTC) Of course it's a coincidence. another bites the dust works when you do that. is to record the lyrics of youself saying it and then reverse it. the best way to see if a subliminal message is 'lagit' is that how you spell 'lagit?' never mind. It's crystal clear not like that stairway to heaven thing. I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid 21:18, (UTC)

8 Grammys: How does a song lose to an album? (For that matter, how does Bob Seger beat anybody?)ДЄnyone else think that is so-called 'subliminal message' of marjuana smoking pleasure is a very big stretch?.

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