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In fact, many many years ago (when rock-'n-roll, punk, etc. was born) there have been many investigations (yes, real investigations by goverments, courts, etc.) to this stuff and to the very same groups and songs which are listed in this thread. These investigation came after some youngster killed himself and left a note saying that he had to do it because the song X from group Y (can't remember exactly) told him todo so when you played the song backwards.
This group had been brought to court and it was quickly decided that there was nothing to worry about and that it was only the rich imagination of the youngster that killed him.
How was this determined? After many rediculus words and comments fired to eachother (rockgroup vs concearned parents), the judge had enough and demanded to listen to that particular song. What happend? The singer of the rockgroup gave the judge the reversed lyrics of a part of the song, the judge listenend and 30 secs afterwards he ruled that all this was pure crap. What did the singer gave to the judge? Simply the reversed lines: "Bake an egg, etc... etc..." Can't remember exactly, but it was VERY clear that the judge, and everybody else in the court, only heared what they were told to hear and thus these reverse song-stuff is complete "suggestive".
Yes I saw this on a recent rock n' roll documentary/history program on BBC2 (in the U.K.) The singer made reverse lyrics up for a different song he had made before hand and you could hear what he ment for you to hear. So the judge knew that this kinda thing could easily be suggested to be there but it's not if it wasn't suggested.
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Like I said, without knowing WHAT you SHOULD hear, you'll hear nothing!!!
It's still scary that certain things can make your mind hear things you wouldn't if you weren't thinking about that certain thing.
