Enough already, i found it. Well, you did, you just didnt know it.

[Aiden Rigel]

Thanks to khemystri for whatever he did to this damn song, but since it almost sounded like words, he thought he was supposed to reverse it. I reversed it back, and seconds later laughed my ass off.

http://rapidshare.de/files/22384588/Tool_Viginti_Tres_re-solved.mp3.html

I don't even have to tell you what it he's saying, it's way too easy to hear it now. Funny how i finally found this today.

[Cucumber_11]

Rapidshare is crap. Can you post it on YouSendIt?

[claypool]

its not that clear...what do you hear?

[sumsh]

Oh, yeah. That's totally obvious.

[fugitive538]

oh, yeah, now i hear it is just distorted noise. Nice job, people. How could i believe that it was saying an actual word...
It is all clear now. I'm dying happy. :-)

Okay, english is not my first language. Are you really making anything out if this?

[MisterMudd]

I have no idea what you are hearing. Could you please share what you think it says?

[whitewater]

Sounds like: Smithers is __________

[theDEXorphan]

i can't get it from rapid share.
chose another host please.

i'm willing to bet it says something about my hands smelling like my mother. because they do! i have to wash them 40 times a day. they won't stop. taunting me. you smell it don't you. i know your thinking about my hands. my mother she......

[Cucumber_11]

*tightens your screw*

There you go mate, it was a bit loose.

[foma]

am I hearing 'this is shit'?
not really sure...

[thumphrey05]

the last word sounds like "satan"

[Aiden Rigel]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jq7953

I've read peoples guesses at other mp3 fuckups of this, and yeah, it's ridiculous what people SWEAR they can hear. But fine, just keep assuming they're all fake and the song somehow has a point as-is. Trust me, this is exactly what Tool would do with this, and it's nothing conspiracy related at all. They're just being total smartasses again. Fuckin dicks.

I'm just waiting for someone to get it, just because it annoys some people on here who aren't force fed the answer (not specifically people in this thread, i have been lurking), and cause i wanna be pretentious too.

Its really not that hard to hear it. Listen for a death-metal-hard-core-GRRRRR-OOOGHHH-I-AM-EVIL type of voice, whispering something harmless. The first half of the mp3 is noise, yeah, it's in the second half.

[swivelman]

So is there a consensus on what it is? I don't hear anything that clearly at all.

[Jimmeny]

Can hear smithers is a....

[dvn]

He says "This is the secret"

-dvn

[swivelman]

He says "This is the secret"

-dvn

Why, I do believe you are correct.

[thumphrey05]

He says "This is the secret"

-dvn

sounds right to me

[Jimmeny]

don't hear that at all tbh.

[Nate-Dogg85]

this is the dumbest thing ive ever heard.

[Nate-Dogg85]

and if the hidden msg is 'this is satan', then why did they name the track viginti tres?

[whitewater]

The first word has two syllables. "This" only has one.

[Jimmeny]

the two syllables are 'this is', I hear that bit, it's the 'a secret' I can't hear.

[M.Luther]

yea that voice is saying this is shit.

[inSin]

smithers is a soldier?

[Liam]

"this is the shit"

[MisterMudd]

i can't get it from rapid share.
chose another host please.

i'm willing to bet it says something about my hands smelling like my mother. because they do! i have to wash them 40 times a day. they won't stop. taunting me. you smell it don't you. i know your thinking about my hands. my mother she......

I could have sworn it said "I constantly burn my penis with red hot cigar butts" or was it "I make little race cars out of my poop".

[PriceisRight]

i def heard satan

[Muladhara]

"Tell us the truth"?

[sysyphus]

"This is a mistake"

[TiVa]

this is ... (i can hear the secret too, but that's maybe cuz i have read it here...)

[Count_Grishnackh]

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."

[orangedarkblue]

Sounds like: Smithers is __________

I hear 'Smithers was fooled.'

It has been revealed to us that Mr. Burns has told Waylon Smithers his father has been killed by a tribe of Amazonian women. This could possibly result in him being gay.

Apparently, Burns also at one time informally promised Smithers the position of executive vice president at the powerplant so he could get his stem cells.

Furthermore, Burns has also refused to make Smithers his heir, insisting that it would be a far greater honor for him to be buried alive in the same casket when he dies.

I tell you people, MJK is revealing to us that unquestioning homer-erotic love for your boss / guru is wrong! Virginty tres means too much virginity, i.e. Smithers way over the top virginity, saving himself for mr. Burns.



MJK has also revealed to the crowds on 4/6/06 that he likes eating waffles. You can take that one to the bank.

[Aiden Rigel]

"You're worshipping SATAN!!!"

I mean come on, i heard it the first time i played it. I even downloaded it myself to make sure i upped the right file, the SendSpace one definitely is.

I wouldn't sound like a dick about this if stuff like this wasn't so quickly ridiculed. It's so obvious Tool hid something in that piece of crap song.

[Muladhara]

"You're worshipping SATAN!!!"

I mean come on, i heard it the first time i played it. I even downloaded it myself to make sure i upped the right file, the SendSpace one definitely is.

I wouldn't sound like a dick about this if stuff like this wasn't so quickly ridiculed. It's so obvious Tool hid something in that piece of crap song.

I can't hear that.

Oh well.

[orangedarkblue]

"You're worshipping SATAN!!!"

I wouldn't sound like a dick about this if stuff like this wasn't so quickly ridiculed. It's so obvious Tool hid something in that piece of crap song.

Yeah, it's obvious, but I'm sorry dude, I still hear 'Smithers was fooled.' And I'm not even 100% joking, if you remember Keenan's days in the military. At West Point Military Academy a Tool is someone who follows rules and regulations to the letter, simply because they are rules. Tools do not think for themselves and as a result, are often manipulated into doing the dirty work of others. Waylon Smithers is the ultimate TOOL.

But anyway, all this sort of adds up the same thing as what you hear - MJK saying don't be blinded by blacks and whites, open your eyes to the shades of gray.

[orangedarkblue]

So you're racist against everyone but aliens?

Thats right! read this http://xrl.us/alienpetition , dude!

[#Notion]

'This is Satan'

[Juzblome]

"Smithers is a shiteater"


That's what the dirty MPEEpee sounds like to me.

[TJP]

"This is a mistake"Yes Yes Yes

[theDEXorphan]

I could have sworn it said "I constantly burn my penis with red hot cigar butts" or was it "I make little race cars out of my poop".

steve B. Rocks!!!!

[theDEXorphan]

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."

nothing wrong with a lil dissociation

[theDEXorphan]

i hear "this is satan". this is also shitty as hell quality and it really is nothing. what ever you did to make it sound like this is rediculus. i'm sure if you fuck with it more you can make it sound like "my grandpa is my girlfriend.

[Lysander]

I've listened to this twenty times, and i don't hear anything even remotely close to "this is Satan", "you worship Satan", or "I like to have heathen gay ass sex with Satan when my kid has gone to bed". All you metalheads who want so badly for Tool to be a bunch of Satan-worshiping blood drinkers (he said "vampire" in 'Vicarious' didn't he? And blood! It's so obvious!") just shut the hell up, please, thanks, bye. Believe me, there is no "this is" in that sample. I wanted so badly for "this is a mistake" to be right, because that would be so classic Tool, but that's not what it says. The closest thing that I can come up with is "Smithers is a soldier", which--I mean, I can kind of see it as a blistering condemnation of members of hte Military who have unquestioning loyalty to their superiors for no other reason than they are superior, but honestly, I'd rather not go down that route because once I do there is no going back and I'll start seing crop circles and doubt the moon landing and suddenly I'll need a tin roof and aiieeee. It's probably much more reasonable to guess, and it's an un-ending source of hilarity to me that no one's even thought of this yet, that the message is something in Latin, given the Latin title of the song itself. One rather important question: what part of the song is this from, and how was it extracted?

[DON IOTAE]

Smithers is a stranger

[Artistic Sickness]

its totally Adam fucking with the guitar, completely distorted beyond guitarness... and he's making it kinda almost sound like it might just almost may be something.
But it's not.
It's sound.
And it's the perfect thing to make people disagree on what it is... cause it's technically nothing.

[Vondruke]

Smithers, proceed.

[Verboten]

Here's Maynard's ??????

[count niggula]

heh heh, maybe its like a cat wistle type thing. i was playing and my cat just walked into the room, giving the stank eye to my speaker

[count niggula]

other than that, i cant hear anyhting of it. wonder what it said to my cat....

[Choice Breath]

Sounds to me like he says "Smithers is a stranger". Very deep.

[theDEXorphan]

and doubt the moon landing

it's actually officaly known now that the moon landing was shot in a movie studio and directed by stanley krubrink. the reason being that they did not have the technology to film anybody on the lunar surface.

more on this at: myspace.com/illuminatimurdock

[theDEXorphan]

I thought it was "the system is down." Despite my dislike for SOAD.

du do dut da the system ---- is down

[jdub420]

i hear this is satan

[blafuckbla]

i believe i hear go fuck yourself.

[hushypushy]

I thought it was "the system is down." Despite my dislike for SOAD.

hearing "the system is down" reminds me of strong bad, not really soad, since when do any of their songs ever say "the system is down", just because two words are the same doesnt promote a reference.

[lonelydumptruck]

Although I remain skeptical about any hidden meanings in this song (and especially from this file), when i listen to it with headphones I hear something like "lucifer, lucifer, satan" which could be deep if you think about it way too hard. Regardless, it is nowhere near clear enough to be certain. Also, i really hope you kids aren't serious about hearing "smithers" anything, cause that's just crazy talk.

Edit: upon further listening, i recant my previous statement. Now i hear "you say Lucifer's Satan" which makes a whole lot more sense. It also fits in a screw-you-bible-thumpers-just-'cause-someone-doesn't-agree-doesn't-make-them-evil sort of way. Just my .02. (I still admit that the track is way too fuzzy to be at all conclusive)

[opiated]

its totally Adam fucking with the guitar, completely distorted beyond guitarness... and he's making it kinda almost sound like it might just almost may be something.
But it's not.
It's sound.
And it's the perfect thing to make people disagree on what it is... cause it's technically nothing.

Spot on, man. This track reeks of Pareidolia Syndrome, which, by the way, has a small link to the number twenty-three.

[dygi123]

I can hear "Cut that bullshit! There's no hidden message"

[Luosdasa]

wow... this is really, truely, very funny

[æmoeba•°·.]

I can't figure out the links, and one of them doesn't work. Someone help me out please. With a good link.

[swampyfool]

du do dut da the system ---- is down
Dancing robots.
Dancing robots.
FOOTBALL!!!
I can't really keep that up for that long . . . (http://www.sendspace.com/file/s8fp2z)

[swampyfool]

I can hear "This is Satan," but I echo the request for an explanation of where in the song this came from, and what was done to modify it. For all I can tell, this isn't really in the song.

[Terry21]

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."

Haha!!!

[Ranger10000]

I dont know what everyone is hearing... i dont hear this thing start with a "S" at all ... i dont hear smthers anything... I can't shake hearing

"Kind of a machine gun"

Thats all i hear... try listening for that

[orangedarkblue]

Dancing robots.
Dancing robots.
FOOTBALL!!!
I can't really keep that up for that long . . . (http://www.sendspace.com/file/s8fp2z)

LMAO !!!

[Lysander]

Read sometime, I said that's the CLOSEST to right out of all of the suggestions in this thread, that it sounds to my ears. I still think a Latin phrase is more likely though.

[swampyfool]

LMAO !!!
Strong Bad rules.

[tooltomus]

Smithers isn't Satan! I hear it! Now the song really makes sense to me.

[Janos]

Who is Smithers?

[Lysander]

A snappy dresser, a hit with the ladies, a great friend to children. We mourne his passing.

[swampyfool]

Who is Smithers?
He's from The Simpsons.

[theDEXorphan]

i hate you guys

[scaredsquirrel]

Ssssssssssssan Fransissssssscoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooo





Honestly, I am really sure about this.

[swampyfool]

i hate you guys
Yeah, well at least our moms aren't on the cover of crackwhore magazine!

[Yogho!]

uhm... the last word is Stranger so stfu with your "you're worshipping satan crap"

[theDEXorphan]

hail satan!!!!

[SilentThinker]

I hear "Smithers _isn't_ a soldier."

If we were to agree on "... is a soldier" we would lack one syllable, which fits with "isn't".
So this is about not allowing gays in the military, a laudable message to send.

How was this audio clip extracted? Is it the entire song fastforwarded or what, what, what?

[RedMetalSox]

Ok so I can see where prople are coming from when they hear "Smithers Isn't a soldier"
But what the hell would this mean?

I hear something more like "They say this isn't a soldier" or "They say this is in a soldier"
And I'm not 100% on "soldier" it could be something else, though its the loudest to hear its broker up and distorted to clearly hear soldier.

All this talk about there being more to the album, he could be saying "this isn't over"

[Yogho!]

it doesnt say anything its just some noise but you ppl WANT to hear some awesome "sublimal" msg

[SilentThinker]

"it doesnt say anything its just some noise but you ppl WANT to hear some awesome "sublimal" msg"

Sure, but it's a hoot to contemplate and talk about, isn't it? Furthermore, no monkeys are killed in the process; the angels are happily serene again.

[Inner_Eulogy]

I clearly hear "this is satan"

[Chris Myth]

"smithers is gonna sing" or "smithers is gonna sink"

i doubt its actually smithers but that's what it sounds like

[seaofmushroom]

"Save the receipt"

Seriously... I didn't even read anyone's interpretations until after I listened to it several times, that's what I heard. And for the record, I love the album and never believed in the "hoax" theories, but hearing "save the receipt" was both hilarious and a little creepy to me.

I saved my receipt - did you?!

[theDEXorphan]

ahhh fuck! i didn't save my recipt!!! now i'm screwed!!!

[ParryPerson]

hahaha, you guys are funny.

[fivenichols]

I heard "This is the secret."

But I also heard

"Ascension."

and

"Ascisco."

[damonsin]

are you serious... 3 pages of posts and nobody guessed "jesus is satan"

[Matt8]

fuck my receipt is long gone

[EulogyCallinMe]

ok what i hear is "smithers was framed"
i dont hear "a soldier" but i can kind of hear is maybe "smithers is strange" or ".. a stranger". but to me the "smithers was framed" is what i hear. basically i hear smithers.. but i really dont know what that means or why they would go to such great lengths to put a simpsons joke on the cd in a cryptic manner. seems like a waste of time to me, especially if they had another segue to put on there instead.

[Semp]

Smithers is satan
or possibly, the biggest secret of all...

Smithers is straight

[Semp]

it's actually officaly known now that the moon landing was shot in a movie studio and directed by stanley krubrink. the reason being that they did not have the technology to film anybody on the lunar surface.

more on this at: myspace.com/illuminatimurdock

Also, you do realise that the moon landing "documentary" on that page is a piss-take, right?

[theDEXorphan]

piss-take??? what do u mean?

[paraflux]

piss-take = fuck-with

[theDEXorphan]

piss-take = fuck-with

i really don't think so. it's pretty legit.

[haloslippingdown]

I think many people, ala this post, are wearing these new invisible clothes:

Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so exceedingly fond of fine new clothes that he spent vast sums of money on dress. To him clothes meant more than anything else in the world. He took no interest in his army, nor did he care to go to the theatre, or to drive about in his state coach, unless it was to display his new clothes. He had different robes for every single hour of the day.

In the great city where he lived life was gay and strangers were always coming and going. Everyone knew about the Emperor's passion for clothes.

Now one fine day two swindlers, calling themselves weavers, arrived. They declared that they could make the most magnificent cloth that one could imagine; cloth of most beautiful colours and elaborate patterns. Not only was the material so beautiful, but the clothes made from it had the special power of being invisible to everyone who was stupid or not fit. for his post.

"What a splendid idea," thought the Emperor. "What useful clothes to have. If I had such a suit of clothes I could know at once which of my people is stupid or unfit for his post."

So the Emperor gave the swindlers large sums of money and the two weavers set up their looms in the palace. They demanded the finest thread of the best silk and the finest gold and they pretended to work at their looms. But they put nothing on the looms. The frames stood empty. The silk and gold thread they stuffed into their bags. So they sat pretending to weave, and continued to work at the empty loom till late into the night. Night after night they went home with their money and their bags full of the finest silk and gold thread. Day after day they pretended to work.

Now the Emperor was eager to know how much of the cloth was finished, and would have loved to see for himself. He was, however, somewhat uneasy. "Suppose," he thought secretly, "suppose I am unable to see the cloth. That would mean I am either stupid or unfit for my post. That cannot be," he thought, but all the same he decided to send for his faithful old minister to go and see. "He will best be able to see how the cloth looks. He is far from stupid and splendid at his work."

So the faithful old minister went into the hall where the two weavers sat beside the empty looms pretending to work with all their might.

The Emperor's minister opened his eyes wide. "Upon my life!" he thought. "I see nothing at all, nothing." But he did not say so.

The two swindlers begged him to come nearer and asked him how he liked it. "Are not the colors exquisite, and see how intricate are the patterns," they said. The poor old minister stared and stared. Still he could see nothing, for there was nothing. But he did not dare to say he saw nothing. "Nobody must find out,"' thought he. "I must never confess that I could not see the stuff."

"Well," said one of the rascals. "You do not say whether it pleases you."

"Oh, it is beautiful-most excellent, to be sure. Such a beautiful design, such exquisite colors. I shall tell the Emperor how enchanted) I am with the cloth."

"We are very glad to hear that," said the weavers, and they started to describe the colors and patterns in great detail. The old minister listened very carefully so that he could repeat the description to the Emperor. They also demanded more money and more gold thread, saying that they needed it to finish the cloth. But, of course, they put all they were given into their bags and pockets and kept on working at their empty looms.

Soon after this the Emperor sent another official to see how the men were ,getting on and to ask whether the cloth would soon be ready. Exactly the same happened with him as with the minister. He stood and stared, but as there was nothing to be seen, he could see nothing.

"Is not the material beautiful?" said the swindlers, and again they talked of 'the patterns and the exquisite colors. "Stupid I certainly am not," thought the official. "Then I must be unfit for my post. But nobody shall know that I could not see the material." Then he praised the material he did not see and declared that he was delighted with the colors and the marvelous patterns.

To the Emperor he said when he returned, "The cloth the weavers are preparing is truly magnificent."

Everybody in the city had heard of the secret cloth and were talking about the splendid material.

And now the Emperor was curious to see the costly stuff for himself while it was still upon the looms. Accompanied by a number of selected ministers, among whom were the two poor ministers who had already been before, the Emperor went to the weavers. There they sat in front of the empty looms, weaving more diligently than ever, yet without a single thread upon the looms.

"Is not the cloth magnificent?" said the two ministers. "See here, the splendid pattern, the glorious colors." Each pointed to the empty loom. Each thought that the other could see the material.

"What can this mean?" said the Emperor to himself. "This is terrible. Am I so stupid? Am I not fit to be Emperor? This is disastrous," he thought. But aloud he said, "Oh, the cloth is perfectly wonderful. It has a splendid pattern and such charming colors." And he nodded his approval and smiled appreciatively and stared at the empty looms. He would not, he could not, admit he saw nothing, when his two ministers had praised the material so highly. And all his men looked and looked at the empty looms. Not one of them saw anything there at all. Nevertheless, they all said, "Oh, the cloth is magnificent."

They advised the Emperor to have some new clothes made from this splendid material to wear in the great procession the following day.

"Magnificent." "Excellent." "Exquisite," went from mouth to mouth and everyone was pleased. Each of the swindlers was given a decoration to wear in his button-hole and the title of "Knight of the Loom".

The rascals sat up all that night and worked, burning more than sixteen candles, so that everyone could see how busy they were making the suit of clothes ready for the procession. Each of them had a great big pair of scissors and they cut in the air, pretending to cut the cloth with them, and sewed with needles without any thread.

There was great excitement in the palace and the Emperor's clothes were the talk of the town. At last the weavers declared that the clothes were ready. Then the Emperor, with the most distinguished gentlemen of the court, came to the weavers. Each of the swindlers lifted up an arm as if he were holding something. "Here are Your Majesty's trousers," said one. "This is Your Majesty's mantle," said the other. "The whole suit is as light as a spider's web. Why, you might almost feel as if you had nothing on, but that is just the beauty of it."

"Magnificent," cried the ministers, but they could see nothing at all. Indeed there was nothing to be seen.

"Now if Your Imperial Majesty would graciously consent to take off your clothes," said the weavers, "we could fit on the new ones." So the Emperor laid aside his clothes and the swindlers pretended to help him piece by piece into the new ones they were supposed to have made.

The Emperor turned from side to side in front of the long glass as if admiring himself.

"How well they fit. How splendid Your Majesty's robes look: What gorgeous colors!" they all said.

"The canopy which is to be held over Your Majesty in the procession is waiting," announced the Lord High Chamberlain.

"I am quite ready," announced the Emperor, and he looked at himself again in the mirror, turning from side to side as if carefully examining his handsome attire.

The courtiers who were to carry the train felt about on the ground pretending to lift it: they walked on solemnly pretending to be carrying it. Nothing would have persuaded them to admit they could not see the clothes, for fear they would be thought stupid or unfit for their posts.

And so the Emperor set off under the high canopy, at the head of the great procession- .It was a great success. All the people standing by and at the windows cheered and cried, "Oh, how splendid are the Emperor's new clothes. What a magnificent train! How well the clothes fit!" No one dared to admit that he couldn't see anything, for who would want it to be known that he was either stupid or unfit for his post?

None of the Emperor's clothes had ever met with such success.

But among the crowds a little child suddenly gasped out, "But he hasn't got anything on." And the people began to whisper to one another what the child had said. "He hasn't got anything on." "There's a little child saying he hasn't got anything on." Till everyone was saying, "But he hasn't got anything on." The Emperor himself had the uncomfortable feeling that what they were whispering was only too true. "But I will have to go through with the procession," he said to himself.

So he drew himself up and walked boldly on holding his head higher than before, and the courtiers held on to the train that wasn't there at all.

[theDEXorphan]

ummmm....

[Semp]

i really don't think so. it's pretty legit.
It's a "mockumentary". It's not serious. You seriously think that Stanley Kubrick filmed a fake moonlanding at the behest of Nixon, and then Kisenger and Rumsfeld, amongst others, gamely agreed to talk about that and also the subsequent hunting down of the crew involved by more troops that were involving the first Gulf War?

And if you do, well, I'm sorry, but you've been punk'd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_%28documentary%29)

The tone of the documentary begins with low key revelations of NASA working closely with Hollywood at the time of the Moon landings. Over the course of the tale, Karel postulates that not only did Kubrick help the USA fake the moon landings but that he was eventually killed by the CIA to cover up the truth. First hand testimony backing these claims come from Rumsfeld and Dr. Kissinger, which lend credence to the story.

It is finally revealed that this is a mockumentary as the end credits roll over a montage of blooper reels, with the main participants laughing over the absurdity of their lines or questioning if particular ones would give the joke away too soon.

It's entertaining to see this film in it's entirity presented alongside the likes of Loose Change. At first I thought maybe it was an intentional comment on the tendancy of conspiracy theorists to credulously follow any semi-authoritive voice, but now I'm not so sure.

[Semp]

I think many people, ala this post, are wearing these new invisible clothes:

<The whole damn story>

Y'know, you could just have said "the emperor's new clothes" and spared us the entire story which I'm sure everyone's pretty familiar with.

[theDEXorphan]

well then i'm a jack ass... sorry. i was mis lead. not the first time this has happened. dam sure it won't be the last. but i'm still gonna leave it on the site. just because. it's fun.

[swampyfool]

Quantum- your avatar is uncalled for.

[holotrope]

"This is a CD" or "This is ascending" is what I hear. Either a joke or serious, you pick.

[theDEXorphan]

Yeah, well at least our moms aren't on the cover of crackwhore magazine!

hay were all proud of her. she worked really hard to get where she is today.

[Dark Globe]

i thought i heard M J's Gay...... seriously.....
or M J K

ore could have been maynards gay..... idk, im just mumbling..
could have been hail satan!

[swampyfool]

hay were all proud of her. she worked really hard to get where she is today.
Woah . . . Talk about your delayed reactions . . . You know I love you, though, right DEX?

[haloslippingdown]

Y'know, you could just have said "the emperor's new clothes" and spared us the entire story which I'm sure everyone's pretty familiar with.

If you know the story already, then don't read the story I posted. :) So, you know it, don't read it. I don't think you actually read the whole thing again, did you?

[theDEXorphan]

Woah . . . Talk about your delayed reactions . . . You know I love you, though, right DEX?

you and me baby... forever.

i actually kept reading it whenever i clicked on the page, but i finally figured i'd respond.

[Inner_Eulogy]

I hear "Smithers _isn't_ a soldier."

If we were to agree on "... is a soldier" we would lack one syllable, which fits with "isn't".
So this is about not allowing gays in the military, a laudable message to send.

How was this audio clip extracted? Is it the entire song fastforwarded or what, what, what?

Anything to do with Smithers is COMPLETELY RETARDED

[theDEXorphan]

smithers is a panty wearing man kabob who eats caviar out of rectal caverns. thats what i hear now that you all have enlightened me with you smithers babble.

[HelenA]

I CANNOT believe there are three pages of this!!!! Why don't we just admit it - we have NO idea. You guys are funny as hell. Truly - it beats Big Brother every single night! Life is good.

[lighterbandit]

I slowed it down and removed the background noise in my mixing program, and I still can't hear anything that sounds like anything. you guys are crazy. I saved it if you don't beleive me.

[Inner_Eulogy]

I slowed it down and removed the background noise in my mixing program, and I still can't hear anything that sounds like anything. you guys are crazy. I saved it if you don't beleive me.

Well, not that this justifies a damn thing but, he did say he played it backwords as well.

[theDEXorphan]

I slowed it down and removed the background noise in my mixing program, and I still can't hear anything that sounds like anything. you guys are crazy. I saved it if you don't beleive me.

i don't believe you!!! and i think it says smithers smells like my mother!!!

[Sea of Lies]

Smithers is satan
or possibly, the biggest secret of all...

Smithers is straight

Yeah... thats what im hearing.. Smithers is Satan.... just repeat endlessly the song and it's pretty clear that the last word is eiter Satan or Straightened... both can be talking bout Smithers... :P

[rottenvicious462]

I keep hearing "smithers is a shiteater"

[Mister Moltar]

its probably just someone having a bowel movement thats massively distorted

[remember_forget]

its probably just someone having a bowel movement thats massively distorted

Talking asscheeks sending subliminal messages.

[Sagacious Foetu]

for some reason i hear the first word as "Maynard"

[fabienne78]

"Smithers is a stranger"

That's what I hear.....

[Aequitas]

Honestly, "This is the secret" is probably the most likely thing for them to put on this track because they know us oh so well, and knew if they put something in the track that sounded slowed down and/or backwards, we'd move heaven and earth to figure out what it is. What better punishment for such fanboyishness than to have the secret message be "This is a secret"?

[Chronicle0]

Honestly, "This is the secret" is probably the most likely thing for them to put on this track because they know us oh so well, and knew if they put something in the track that sounded slowed down and/or backwards, we'd move heaven and earth to figure out what it is. What better punishment for such fanboyishness than to have the secret message be "This is a secret"?


Excatly what i was thinking.

[Phorty]

maynard said it best at street scene 06 " its just rock".
stop overanalyzing the music and enjoy it for what it's meant to be.

[Nietzsche's Dead]

"smithers is a machine-gun"

Honestly, I have no idea how you can here "this is a secret". The first word (that is, if this is even the correct way to listen to it. Perhaps it's not backmasked at all?), starts with an "s", and while the 'ending part' does sound similar to secret, i distinctfully hear a "g" sound.

Idk.

Just my interpretation. But honestly? I think it's all bullshit :)

I think it's meant to be heard forwards - and I don't think it's human.

[funderballz]

I heard "smithers isn't a stranger".

[couldbe]

maynard said it best at street scene 06 " its just rock".
stop overanalyzing the music and enjoy it for what it's meant to be.
well first a band wouldn't put a single incomprehensable word in an all sound effects track if they didn't want people to do this so stop with the lectures already. If there were no hint of it being a word, no one would be "overanalyzing" it. Just the same, if it wasn't mentioned that there was a puzzle in the album art, no one would delve deeper into searching for that... it's meant to be looked into whether you like it or not.

Anywho the reason I came to post and maybe resurrect the thread, is that on wikipedia a while back when people were searching for alternative things derived from the #23 i found this: There are 23 cents (music) in a Pythagorean comma.

now the 2 links it gives are as followed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cents_%28music%29

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma

now hopefully someone with knowledge of music theory can shed some light on the subject but they seem to have to do with tuning and pitch. I know people have speed the clip up and even reversed it, but has anyone messed with the pitch?

[akela]

Hello everybody,

Long time reader, first time writer (so please have mercy).

I usually don't mess with Tool songs, 'cause I'm not an expert in technical music alteration stuff, but Viginti Tres got my attention. As I said, I'm a completely dillettante in audio edition, but I played a little with the song, mainly just for fun.

I messed with pitch, speed, sampling rates and so on - rather at random, trying to clear this weird voice in the second part. I think people who say they hear "francisco" are somewhat right. However, in my alterations I hear rather two than one word, it almost sounds like "francis costa" or something like that. I don't know if anybody posted about it - if yes, I'm really sorry for missing the right thread - but maybe it's supposed to be somebody's name, not a place or other message? Well, Francis or Francisco could be a name, right? Did anybody research over this?

Btw: I think this song will be not so easy to crack. It seems like tempo, speed and those other stuff change constantly, dynamically during the song - for example this "fransico" thing can be heard a couple of times, but when speed is changed the voice is still slow in some places and in other it's too fast... Do you guys get the same impression?

[Liquidity Trap]

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."

By now, it's so cliche to drop this quote.

[eternalnuisance.com]

smithers is a stranger, who the fuck is smithers? Mr. Burns homosexual servant? Or someone else...... *cue creepy music*