AaronMg

Led Zeppelin backwards satanic message?

Apperently if you play a certain part of Stairway to Heaven backwards, you get some satanic messages.

Click here and play the song backwards and see if you can make it out. Then, play the song backwards once again and read the reverse lyrics.

It sort of sounds familiar, but it also sounds like a coincidence

Ike

Rob Gardiner

Here's a neat trick for those of you with the BEATLES - SGT. PEPPER CD.

Rip the last few seconds of the final track A DAY IN THE LIFE. Forwards, it sounds like nonsense. Backwards, it sounds like:



(Tried to post sound clips to my webspace so you all can hear but forgot my FTP password )

Jim_F

If you play Revolution 9 on the White Album backwards, "number 9" sounds like "Turn me on, dead man." This may be an indication that Paul was dead at the time (at least it has been noted by one of his colleagues that those freaks was right when they said that)

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BrentPollard

It is all coincidence and nothing more. If you get different people singing or speaking the same lines you will not likely get the same results. For Zep or the Beatles to get a particular sentence to sound a certain way when played backwards would have taken waay too much time and effort.
Now if Satan himself inspired the lyrics for Stairway to heaven then it becomes more plausible.

Brian Perry

When I was in college, I went to a seminar that talked about "backmasking." They offered three explanations and examples of each:

1. Coincidence. There are relatively few words, let alone sentences, that make sense spoken backwards. However, there was a good example - Queen's Another One Bites the Dust when played backwards, sounds uncannily like "start to smoke marijuana."

2. Artist intent. As mentioned, the Beatles (#9) did this a few times, as well as ELO and other groups.

3. Divine influence. I found out later in the seminar that the whole thing was being sponsored by a Christian organization that believed the devil had placed messages in certain songs when played backwards. Stairway to Heaven sounded like "here's to my sweet Satan," and so on. But it wasn't clear--you could just as easily have heard "the moon is made of cheese." It was all the power of suggestion.

PhilBoy

I pooched a stylus running STH backwards with a reversable drill... :b

There was a book I read once about theories of mathematics involved in building the great pyramid... I think it finally proved that if you look hard enough for anything... you will find something.

simplicity is genius...

Bill GrandPre

If you play "Stairway to Heaven" backwards, you'll hear something that very clearly sounds like "I wish it would snow". It's certainly not Satanic and I'm confident that it's accidental (I mean, is it worth it to purposely backwards-mask "I wish it would snow?") but that's actually what it sounds like.

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jeff peterson

I don't think I've ever heard that the Beatles did this intentionally...What's your source?

Garrett Lundy

Billy Joel's hit "Scenes from an Italian restaurant" when played backwards at half speed contained the sinister satanic riddle:

"No matter how thin you slice it / It is always bologna"



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