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enough. They can be displeased with their personal-
ity or can be burdened by their own perfectionism. In
many cases, self-destruction leads to suicide or hav-
ing suicidal tendencies.
What people perhaps tend to forget is that they, just
like the rest of us, are real people with real problems.
Despite having multiple sexual partners, enormous
amounts of money, and popularity, deep down they
all want is to be loved. Even famous people suffer
from loneliness and crave for love in the truest sense
of the word. They want to be loved for who they re-
ally are and not for the famous persona they have
created, as rock artists.
In America, The Institute for Bio-Acoustics Research,
Inc. (IBAR) was hired to evaluate “Suicide Solution”.
Not surprisingly, they found subliminal lyrics that
weren’t included in the copyright “lead sheet”. Sub-
liminal lyrics are sung at one and one-half times the
normal rate of speech and are not grasped by the first
time listener. However, they claim the subliminal lyr-
ics, “are audible enough that their meaning and true
intent become clear after being heard over and over
again.” What are some of the hidden subliminal lyr-
ics? Here’s a sample “Why try, why try? Get the gun
and try it! SHOOT. . . SHOOT . . . SHOOT” — followed
by hideous laughter!
But, that’s not all! IBAR’s analysis of “Suicide Solu-
tion” found something else — Hemisync tones, which
result from a patented process that uses sound waves
to influence an individual’s mental state. The tones
have been found to increase the rate at which the hu-
man brain assimilates and processes information.
Anyone who has studied hypnosis knows the key ve-
hicle for hypnosis is repetition. The subject is usually
asked to repeat a phrase over and over until their con-
scious mind is in a hypnotic, suggestive state. While
under hypnosis, people have little or no control over
their actions. Many times they don’t even know what
happened. In San Antonio, Texas, a sixteen-year-old
boy while listening to Pink Floyd’s album The Wall
went into a trance-like state. Without warning, he
suddenly jumped up and brutally stabbed his aunt to
death. According to the police report, there were no
drugs involved — just the music! The boy claimed the
music hypnotised him and he does not even remem-
ber the killing!
The main ingredient of rock music is repetition. An
overwhelming, repetitive, driving beat. That steady,
repetitive beat can place the listener’s mind in a dan-
gerous state of suggestive hypnosis. And that danger
is frightening when you consider the words fed into
that impressionable young mind!
Jimi Hendrix, among rock’s greatest guitarists, who
choked to death on his own vomit in 1970 due to a
drug overdose, said, “Atmospheres are going to come
through music because music is a spiritual thing of its
own. You can hypnotise people with music and when
you get people at the weakest point you can preach
into their subconscious whatever you want to say.”
RIP
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The SCORE Magazine | April 2009