The song "Stairway to Heaven" by the group Led Zeppelin is the most popular song in rock history. One line of the song, says, "you know sometimes words have TWO MEANINGS." They should know — the song is drenched in satanic backmasking! One part when played forward, says: "Yes, their are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on." But when played backwards, you clearly hear: "IT'S MY SWEET SATAN . . . Oh I will sing because I live with Satan." This is the number one song in rock history! Just a coincidence — not hardly!
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Did you know that if you read out the bible backwards you can hear this message:
"Yo, this is Moses giving major props to the gang for all their support and ideas while I was writing this book! I especially wanna big-up my main man and bro Aaron for his killer idea of tithing (we're gonna be rich dude!), and for that stuff about the talking snake! Crap, that was some strong weed that night! Peace. Out."
(In Hebrew, obviously!)
Careful, listening to rock music can lead to *GASP* DANCING!
The horror, the horror....
When I was at school in the 80s these Xstian asshats where going on about this. Please don't drag backmasking up again!!!
Next week from Terry Watkins:
"Do your neighbours eyebrows meet ? - How to spot werewolves".
There's tech out there that can reverse CD audio tracks.
That being said, I can think of cooler things to backmask, possibly weird inside jokes...
Actually, the line is "words have NO meaning" - sort of like the crap you posted.
As for playing the song backwards, I wouldn't know. I've never owned a stereo, phonograph, casette player or any other audio device that offered that feature. I guess they're available only from fundie retailers.
Congratulations, you've just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont.
Even if this were true, the only people who listen to stuff backwards are obsessed loonies with an agenda, like Terry Watkins. Does he figure that the 99.9999% of us who have only listened to it forwards are somehow going to be brainwashed by hearing a "satanic message" played backwards?
You can hear anything you want in a bunch of garbled, backwards English. Your brain likes to try to make sense of things, and if you tell it what to hear, it'll hear it.
Fail.
Terry Watkins backwards is sniktaw yrret which is actually ancient "Atlantean" for "idiot with too much time on his hands"! Get a life!PS If by some fell chance Terry Watkins does come here. "Lucifer Sam" was Syd Barrett's damn cat that tore up the house. Listen to the Goddamn songs before coming up with something stupid and satanic, asshole!!
Backward masking? Wow, this IS a blast from the past!
"One line of the song, says, 'you know sometimes words have TWO MEANINGS.'"
Actually, the line is, "There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure/'Cause you know sometimes words have no meaning ."
Even if backmasking were real (which it isn't), it's a little hard to give this guy any credit for what he claims the music says backwards when he obviously can't even hear it right when it's going forward. Seriously, it doesn't get much more pathetic than that.
Sheesh, what's with all this 'words have no meanings' crap? The only thing Watkins got right were the lyrics - it IS 'two meanings', and here's the official Led Zep site to prove it:
http://www.led-zeppelin.com/EMl4.html
This is actually pretty cool if you do listen to it. Whether intentional or not, you can fairly clearly make out:
Oh here's to my sweet Satan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven#Backmasking_controversy
If you play part of The Rutles song "Piggy in the Middle" backwards, it say's "This Little Piggy Went to Market".
Hey diddle-diddle
Actually that stairway to Heaven thing is pretty funny if you listen to it, you can make out the words they're supposed to say. The thing is he also says, 'He had a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan' so I think it's clear it's just an amusing little coincidence ... unless ofcourse you're telling me Satan had a little toolshed where he made the Zep suffer, oh you are ??? NURSE !!!
I thought this back-masking stuff was pretty much disproved in 1990 when Judas Priest were found not guilty of putting backwards messages in their song 'Better By You, Better Than Me' telling their fans to kill themselves.
Just like a fundy to drag something everybody's forgotten back into the open again for their own twisted purposes.
I thought that it was the Beatles who sold best in the music world. Anyway, for me, that song is just a critic against the consumistic and selfish society we live in. But again, if you want to look for problems where there aren't............
Apparently if you reverse the Man With The Long Black Tongue's dialogue in the Insane Clown Posse song "Echo Side" (his dialogue is clearly reversed speech), it's a prayer to God.
Terry Watkins, I banish thee to Hell for making me admit I have listened to Insane Clown Posse. And for being a joy-killing prat.
I remember when this first became big. Some pratt actually claimed our subconcious can understand backwards speech and (get this) our subconcious only deals in truth. That's the sort of shit these people spread in forward speech and we're supposed to take them seriously.
It's a laugh and a sound effect, nothing more, they run instrumentation backwards too. The Beatles chopped up a loop of pipe organ music and randomly spliced it back together so some passages were backwards and used it as background noise on "For the Benefit Of Mr Kite". Is that evil? Forget I asked that, don't want to hear from you again.
To be fair, the song was written and recorded long before CDs, in the vinyl era, so it could have been intended to be played backwards.
Not that I'm saying that was actually the intention, mind you. This is an ancient urban myth, is all I'm saying, although trust a fundie to latch on to it decades after everyone else forgot about it.
*groan*
Look. Led Zeppelin is not evil. Anyone can listen to them, they won't turn into satanists. Maybe if they were a parody they'd become the "Stanists" from My Immortal (Lulz), but still. Fail.
Besides, Misty Mountain Hop is better.
@ Often Partisan:
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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