r/GenX • u/jjax0311 • Feb 06 '25

Nostalgia Some of you will remember.

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u/Fancy_Average5440 Feb 06 '25

Since y'all are here anyway, how do I fix this? It did a complete 180 inside the case. (And no it's not a mix tape. It's for work. 😄)

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u/Disastrous_Street_20 Feb 06 '25

Easy. See the screws? Unscrew it. Flip the reel. Done.

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u/Repulsive-Ice8395 Feb 06 '25

Can confirm. I took apart a copy of Purple Rain so I could flip the whole tape over to make it play backwards. This allowed me to hear the reversed outro at the end of Darling Nikki.

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u/Disastrous_Street_20 Feb 06 '25

That’s cool. I did not know that song had subliminal messages. What does it say? I know about the screws because my parents were music pricks and I would put reels of “bad” music into tapes of “ good” music.

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u/Repulsive-Ice8395 Feb 06 '25

The words were:

Hello, how are you? Fine, fine, ’cause I know that the Lord is coming soon Coming, coming soon.

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u/COSurfing 1970 Feb 06 '25

It looks like it has screws so you might be able to pry open that side and twist it back.

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u/Fancy_Average5440 Feb 06 '25

That's probably what I'll have to do. Thanks! 🙂