Veronica Tangent - Tomorrow Never Knows (rare live performance of the Beatles' song)

Tomorrow Never Knows © Lennon/McCartney This recording © 2002-2011 (Younie/Fuse) The only known example of a 'crab canon' in rock. This studio-manipulated live performance of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is the same whether played forwards or in reverse! From the 2003 album "Veronica Tangent Does the Beatles". Original liner notes: Tomorrow Never Knows *A Palindrome by Dr. Fuse (©2002) Here...finally! It's a new 'live recording' from a Miss Veronica. Straight off the 'on' presses, she would like to reveal to you its inscrutable complexity, inner detail and structural make-up. Sexy! [My note, please: palindromic retrograde; a song that is identical forwards and backwards] Says Veronica Tangent: "This recording's like i-Math. After the beginning starts, the center ring ends the beginning [backwards and forwards, identical, is it? How wonderful! Truly! It's truly wonderful how it is identical forwards and backwards], beginning the end, centering the start, beginning the aftermath." "I liked recording this tangent", Veronica says. "Backwards and forwards, identical! Is that song a retrograde palindrome? Ick! (Please note my sexy make-up, structure and detail.)" In her complexity, inscrutable [it's yours to reveal, too]; like wood, she presses on. The oft-straight Veronica...amiss from recording evil anew...It's finally here! (2002©) Fuse Doctor, bye! Palindrome "A"* These liner notes were inspired by the Crab Canon chapter in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". The passage written by Hofstadter can be read forwards or backwards sentence by sentence; the first sentence is the same as the last, the second sentence the same as the second-last, etc. These notes take the challenge up one level; the first WORD is the same as the last word, the second word the same as the penultimate, etc. There are a few tricks [i.e., cheats!] - see if you can find them! www.veronicatangent.com

Added 29 Jul 2026