The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.
One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.
Hotel California Played Backwards
By James Grahame
It used to be relatively easy to play reel-to-reel tapes and records backwards. Alas, the digital revolution (ouch, bad pun coming) made it next to impossible to spin the latest Britney Spears album in reverse -- CD and DVD players typically play short "forward" snippets in reverse order when you hit the rewind button.
This is an incredible pity, because there was serious fun to be had searching through songs like Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California, sniffing our strange backward-masked messages that may or may not have been there. Luckily, Jeff Milner has taken a handful of well-known songs and reversed bits and pieces of them so we can hunt for scary Satanic messages and other such silliness. He reports "Years ago someone told me that if you played Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven song backwards that you could make out 'satanic messages'." The one that surprises me most in this collection is Britney Spear's Hit Me Baby One More Time. C'mon. Everyone, like, knows she's evil.
