Led Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven backwards.

[tanya88]

I'm kinda new on here so I don't know if anybody has posted this before but i was surfing the net and I found this website. http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm
Its about the Led Zeppelin's song stairway to heaven. when you hear the song back ward you could hear a satanic message. It says like here's to my sweet satan or something like that. It freak me out. What do you guys think?

 

[rgbivens]

Wow...that is wierd...the other ones on that site are really wierd too...wow...

-Grant

 

[jayadeva444]

Hey,

The first thing I think is whoever discovered this probably sometime in the 70s had way too much time on their hands... about the actual backmasking though, as a Zep fan you hear a lot about it, personally, I'm sure there's no way that they could have done it on purpose, seeing as purposeful backmasking is nearly impossible and they just weren't that smart... so i dont think it was purposeful on their part, I think it was accidental. But who knows? Jimmy Page had a lot of occultic (sp?) influences, so some people claim it was put in there by the devil himself... I just think its accidental, and also, you cant even tell what to listen for if somebody doesnt tell you, so again, who knows? Maybe some guy just said that it said "my sweet satan" and people believed it... It just seems to be one of those "unsolvable mysteries."

 

[Jetgirl]

I'm kinda new on here so I don't know if anybody has posted this before but i was surfing the net and I found this website. http://www2.memlane.com/jmilner/stairwaybackwards.htm
Its about the Led Zeppelin's song stairway to heaven. when you hear the song back ward you could hear a satanic message. It says like here's to my sweet satan or something like that. It freak me out. What do you guys think?

Eh, when you play it backward you ruin a perfectly good LP, IMNSHO.

Edited to add: Pretty funny site though.

 

[RobRoy]

They were talking about this stuff in the '70's. They have no credibility. Thing is, with many of the songs they are playing backwards, if they would just look at the REAL lyrics in the song, they would have plenty of ammo against the moral message of the song

Unless the "hidden phrases" are crystal clear - which they are not - it is pure coincidence that some words played backwards sound "kinda like" other words. This thing was a shtick to get money and that is it. I didn't know it was even still around.

 

[Faith In God]

They were talking about this stuff in the '70's. They have no credibility. Thing is, with many of the songs they are playing backwards, if they would just look at the REAL lyrics in the song, they would have plenty of ammo against the moral message of the song

Unless the "hidden phrases" are crystal clear - which they are not - it is pure coincidence that some words played backwards sound "kinda like" other words. This thing was a shtick to get money and that is it. I didn't know it was even still around.

...well, that doesn't bode well for the song...

who knows? maybe God made Zepplin reveal some of the nature of his music.

 

[tanya88]

I found this other website. It really freaked me out! Here's a link http://www.geocities.com/muslimtruth/backmasking.html

 

[Caylin]

...well, that doesn't bode well for the song...

who knows? maybe God made Zepplin reveal some of the nature of his music.

I was unaware that Led Zepplin was so evil...

 

[spidywebdude]

i love lep and jimmy page and i think this was bye acident i mean u repeats himself and sounds so odd

 

[TommyDude]

ok, lets see BOTH sides of the fence here, on one hand there are millions of songs out there, with millions of diffrent lyrics composed in diffrent ways, now if you take all of them and play them backwards one after the other your bound to find ones that contain something in them just by sheer chanceit's random coincadence that just some phrases backwards mean something else and thats coming from a musician i know it's easy enough to happen without even realizing it
now on the other hand it IS possible to sometimes hide messages in songs. The Beatles did it with the whole "Paul Is Dead" thing so really no one can answer but the artist who performed and recorded the material in question
i believe there is also hidden messages in some Metallica songs?

 

[SpaceProg]

Did you hear the 'Satanic message' before or AFTER you were told there was a satanic message in the song?

The human mind is a tricky thing. It likes to make patterns and understandable phrases out of random images and sounds.

There's intentional backmasking like in ELO songs and some Pink Floyd songs, but they're very much understandable. The Led Zepplin type and others that are mentioned... I wonder if it's just people hearing what they want to, or DON'T want to hear.

 

[Nathan David]

Backmasking is a myth. If you were to listen to "Stairway to Heaven" backwards before anyone told you what it says you wouldn't hear any words, just the strange sounds of music and singing played backwards. But if you've been primed to hear something your brain plays tricks on you and you think you sort of here it.

If you want to hear a real backwards message, listen to "Empy Spaces" from Pink Floyd's The Wall. They recorded a spoken message backwards on there. Played normally, it sounds like a tape running backwards.

 

[SpaceProg]

Or the beginning of "Fire on High" from ELO's Face the Music.

 

[Caylin]

Backmasking is a myth. If you were to listen to "Stairway to Heaven" backwards before anyone told you what it says you wouldn't hear any words, just the strange sounds of music and singing played backwards. But if you've been primed to hear something your brain plays tricks on you and you think you sort of here it.

If you want to hear a real backwards message, listen to "Empy Spaces" from Pink Floyd's The Wall. They recorded a spoken message backwards on there. Played normally, it sounds like a tape running backwards.

For real? What does it say?

 

[SpaceProg]

If I remember correctly, it's something like. "Congratulations! You've found the secret message! To get your prize, mail your answer to Pink at the Funny Farm!"

Give or take a line... Memory cheats.

 

[SpaceProg]

In ELO's Fire on High, the words were:

"This song is reversible, but time isn't. Turn back. Turn back! TURN BACK!"

 

[Caylin]

If I remember correctly, it's something like. "Congratulations! You've found the secret message! To get your prize, mail your answer to Pink at the Funny Farm!"

Give or take a line... Memory cheats.

LOL really? Thats pretty funny.

 

[wibble]

Hi, I'm new to this forum.

It's interesting that I stumbled on the backmasking thread. I have looked into backmasking extensively, and I have some opinions about it. My first exposure to it was from Assemblies of God evangelist John Muncy. I heard a tape where he played many songs backwards, but he told you what the backwards message was before you heard it. So I always thought that was a bit deceiving since he already deciphered it for you. However, I started listening to other songs backwards and came up with my own interpretations. I found Satanic messages in some of them without being told what they were before listening.

I'm a musician, and I decided to listen to some of my band's songs backwards to see if we had any backmasking. We did! Some of it was unclear, but other parts were crystal clear. We had one song that said backwards, "I want you to believe in this, I'm born again, I'm saved."

My theory on backmasking is that somehow, our subconscious mind works forwards and backwards, so sometimes a song can say something intelligible both directions. I don't think it's because of a supernatural influence directly. But if there are Satanic messages, it's probably because the artist has some connection to Satan worship or the occult, which Led Zeppelin did. (They lived in the home of a deceased Satanist.) I don't think the Devil inspired Robert Plant to say things like "Oh my sweet Satan, the one whose little path, it makes me sad, whose power is Satan." I think this came out through his subconscious, just as backward messages came out through our songs.

Backward messages really just show where an artist's heart lies.

 

[Faith In God]

Hi, I'm new to this forum.

It's interesting that I stumbled on the backmasking thread. I have looked into backmasking extensively, and I have some opinions about it. My first exposure to it was from Assemblies of God evangelist John Muncy. I heard a tape where he played many songs backwards, but he told you what the backwards message was before you heard it. So I always thought that was a bit deceiving since he already deciphered it for you. However, I started listening to other songs backwards and came up with my own interpretations. I found Satanic messages in some of them without being told what they were before listening.

I'm a musician, and I decided to listen to some of my band's songs backwards to see if we had any backmasking. We did! Some of it was unclear, but other parts were crystal clear. We had one song that said backwards, "I want you to believe in this, I'm born again, I'm saved."

My theory on backmasking is that somehow, our subconscious mind works forwards and backwards, so sometimes a song can say something intelligible both directions. I don't think it's because of a supernatural influence directly. But if there are Satanic messages, it's probably because the artist has some connection to Satan worship or the occult, which Led Zeppelin did. (They lived in the home of a deceased Satanist.) I don't think the Devil inspired Robert Plant to say things like "Oh my sweet Satan, the one whose little path, it makes me sad, whose power is Satan." I think this came out through his subconscious, just as backward messages came out through our songs.

Backward messages really just show where an artist's heart lies.

wow. nice input.

 

[Anti-Fear]

I think its ********, just someone's imagination