However, with 20 years between the movie and the song , it is easy to speculate that a ban on playing Stairway could have originated elsewhere. Take a deep dive into the innovative recording history of Led Zeppelin, in this newest addition to the fan-favorite "All the Songs" series. However, the legend of exactly why it is banned in guitar stores actually goes much deeper than the comfortable combines of a local music shop. The reason for this popular nickname could come from a number of sources, which we will explore below.
This is where it gets interesting. These back-masked messages were largely popularized by Christian radio host Michael Mills in the early s. However, this was not the last time the song was used to please the Dark Lord. Skip to around if you are in a hurry, but unmistakably, you will hear Kyle Gass play the Forbidden Riff in order to appease the devil.
This is incredibly believable, as anyone who has ever stepped foot into a guitar store will agree that amateur attempts at famous guitar riffs can sound just like nails on a chalkboard. Think about it, no matter how down to earth they are, most young guitarists continue to play their instrument because it gives them a feeling of pride and joy.
Why would they want to spend so much studio time doing something so dumb? The song has been reported to employ a technique of encoded words and double meanings similar to those used in Black Spirituals in which some songs were used as maps and other lyrics served to alert plantation slaves of an impending break for freedom. These requirements included windows and a door that opened to the north toward a secluded structure that was to serve as an oratory.
In the forward lyrics she sees signs on the wall but cautions that words can have more than one meaning. The bird that sings from the tree tells of thoughts that are misgiven. When we consider the complementary nature of the song, it appears to be partially a song of hope for all those who according to the legends once suffered at Boleskine. The guy from ReverseSpeech. I personally don't hear it. This site says that speech played backwards contains different messages, subconsciously placed there, and often has the truth or what we are really trying to say.
Supposing this is true, Jimmy would be telling us of his Satanic ways the song was also written by Robert Plant as well, and I can't find anything to say that Plant had anything to do with Satan. I, personally, don't believe in God, Satan, Heaven, Hell, or that reverse speech contains subconscious messages. But think about this - a video of someone running forwards reversed. They run backwards, i. The thing that you have to remember is that on one of his later solo albums, Robert Plant also did a song called "If I Were a Carpenter", which was clearly a pean to Jesus.
So even if people dabble in the occult, they can still be Saved. And for those who don't believe, it just shows that people - even Led Zeppelin artists - can change over time. I can't be sure about the rest. Also, you could damage your stylus reversing a record like that, it's designed to pull, not push Im 16 im sad i missed Led Zeppelin.
One personally I don't think led zeppelin was intended for year children. Two its a fact that the brain can't process music backwards and forwards there is just too much information. Three the song isn't necessarily written for satan but about satan.
Lastly buy a dictionary. My friend and i were looking for what was satan backwords and its played three times so we looked for the only word that was played three times and that was "there's" i love Led Zepplin and i think its really stupid to like someone until you hear satanic messages in their songs then be all like omg eww gross i hate this person now. I would love to have a record player and this record just to prove my parents wrong and show them that I for once have been right!
I wish i could prove this and be sure, i really want to know so i am not going to read the full lyrics until i get a chance to hear the full song backwards in person because then i won't know what i'm listening for.
Thanks for your information Jeff. That yoko ono thing just scares the shit outta me. Don't ask me stupid flaming questions either like 'what God do you worship? My message to you all is With the sheer number of languages out there, we could reverse ANY audio and find a message backwards in a different language - how many of us actually know all the languages currently in use on the planet? This is why I'm telling you not to fear any of this. Sorry, if I'm insulting anyone, but some people here are mixing up Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in this forum.
Robert Plant was the singer who created this song because he wanted to give up the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll life and become a Christian. As many people know he has his own soft rock Christian band.
He was the one who wrote the song. Jimmy Page was the Guitarist and did not write this song. He does own a house that was owned by Aleister Crowley, but who cares. When I heard about this I thought it was cool and didn't care. People are mixing up the words. It is crazy how if you look at the phrase "And She's buying a stairway to heaven" turns into "Play backwards".
The words just don't fit in. Led Zep and Stairway to Heaven still rule and this is just something interesting that someone found one day. I suppose people who listened to this song backwards there would also be wondering "Why are there "Christianic Messages" in a song about Satan? I can't find my vinyl copy of Stairway to Heaven but when I do, I'm going to rig my record player to play backwards.
When I hear it myself, I might have my suspicions. Do you have any idea how many English words sound like Satan when played backwards? This sounds kinda sad but me and a mate of mine spent an hour saying words into a mic and then playing them backwards, we found no less than 24 words that sounded like Satan! The whole song backwards makes LESS sense than the song forwards!
If I may make a comment to "faithfulservant", you said that we were made in god's image and that we should therefore be able to understand songs backwards when they're played forwards. What a pile of cr p! I agree with you fully, your mind interprets the gibberish that you hear into words that make a weird message. The message is a simple coincidence, I have seen so many versions of interpretations on the internet that it's lost it's novelty.
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Did yeht fi looc yllaer eb d'ti esac siht ni revewoh. There are some songs that only sound like backwards messages when you see backwards lyrics. I heard about this site by my brother, who sent an email called 'Fun Links', I would not really call this fun, since it gave me me the creeps.
I know that some of you say that it is stupid to freak out from hearing this backwards-played song, but it just happened. Maybe it is because a 'Satanic' message hidden by the 'great' Satan, oh no, I'm not a follower of Satan, dun get the wrong idea or just the thought that Led Zep actually spent time making this song make sense in both ways.
But I got curious all the same, and now I can't wait to hear the whole song. Now, I did follow the lyrics when I heard the thing for the first time, but since I actually have to listen to any song like a hundred times before I can actually remember the words, I had no problem listening to it again and not remember what I've just read.
Yes, it makes a lot of sense when you read the lyrics, but when I played it again, I was like "What the heck are they talking about? Everything else was like hearing a Japanese talking to me, actually a Japanese would make more sense for he's saying actual words or sounds. Just like 'Another One Bites The Dust', it sound in backwards, to me, "It's sad to Lilli Warana", the last two words are Arabic words, which means something like "those behind us". So, you see, you can hear whatever you want, I'm not denying that some words actually make sense, but I just believe that you people are filling the blanks in, or translating the gibberish you're hearing into whatever sounds familiar to it.
But then, now that I'm thinking more about it, I doubt what I am saying but I if I play it again, I will hear the same sounds that I cannot understand. Pokemon Rap threw me a bit off, because it sounds exactly like what I've read, but to think about it Who ever thought that people would actually try to play the songs backwards?
Maybe some would do that for chuckles, wondering how stupid singers would sound, but did somebody actually spent all that time to make a song understandable both ways and did not announce it? Seriously, if the people who wrote them were Satanists, don't you think they would tell the world the backmasked msg of their song, to show that they are loyal followers of 'Satan'?
Or were they thinking that they would brainwash people into following Satan that way? I mean, come on, think about logically, without being stubborn about it. What is the benefit behind the whole thing? Anyway, I just felt like writing this thing down to calm myself down. This site was a real eye-opener, so I would like to thank you JM for bringing this whole thing up. And, unlike some people who posted before, I am glad that everybody is commenting about this, even those called 'Morons', it makes things interesting and gets you thinking and it is always better to know what people think about something before making up your mind since a lot of times, you may change the way you look at things when you find a better way.
Final shout, the people who are throwing away the records and everything that refers to Led Zep I think it is just like racism. Everybody got their beliefs, and whether Led Zep are indeed Satanists I am not saying they are or not, that does not make their music any less great for whoever think they are great, since I've never actually listened to any of their music.
Throwing away their music just shows, and I don't mean it to offend you it's just a fact, that you are close-minded. Good music is just that Backmasked msg or not, it does not matter, you are listening to it forward, who give a hey about what it sounds like when you are playing it backwards.
If the words 'Satan' in a backwards-played song makes you throw away tapes, CDs, records and make you stop listening to music, then you would be sitting in silence all your life. I know they say "Look for hidden meanings in life" but this is a step too far. Heck, we all make those mistakes and not everybody's mothertongue is English, and I'm one of them. So please be grownups and show some respect.
If you did take your perspective from that version of the song, you have to slow it down just a little more to hear it all clear. I heard it best when I slowed it down in Windows Media Player to, surprise,.
Zeppelin made a damn good song, and coincidence shouldn't change that, and the guy says in the email 2nd Sentence, First Paragraph. Easily heard if you know what to look for I think I've made my point good day!
Also your mind cannot translate backwards words, you only make them sound as close to a known words, and note that when a word is translated backwards it add more or less sylables. So with that being said it's not real, its a creepy coincidence, people know the facts before you make these snap judgements, yes I was very creeped out, but I wasn't going to change my opinion on a song before I knew the truth behinmd the music.
Final Verdict: Coincidence! I'll have to hear it for real. I hear MP3 artefacts even if I downloaded a kbps version. OGG has not this problem. Red Hot Chili Peppers is a good example. I don't say a kpbs can't sound better than a 96kpbs OGG with some types of music, but it's not as lossy.
There are hundreds of different stylus that are not made the same, and some will self-destruct or destruct the record. Instead, someone could try to record it with a cassette recorder and to reverse the head or to use a 4-track head and invert the wires. For better quality, don't use a CD. That's practically DVD quality. I find good tapes to sound better than a CD While less detailed , certainly because CD players people have are often cheapo Sony and the like.
We can't say if it's intentionnaly made or not. We have NOT to look at the lyrics to really hear it. Normally, tunes make NO sense reversed. And voices sound like fade outs if there's no intention. Also, some "intended" messages, forward played, are not pronounced as the lyrics are telling. OGG is the way to go. Finally, If you want to hear it correctly, use CDex to extract "stairway" form the CD, go in some WAV editor to reverse it, and play it with Foobar to slow the song without changing pitch.
Use OGG to send it to someone. CDex can encode them. I never listened to an LP for 10 years, and I was too young to remember how was the sound. Also, anybody knows someone with a laser turntable?
I know National Archives Library of Canada has some. People that believe in God may not put the devils number on the hand, or forehead. If they do they are no longer Gods children, therefor they can not enter heaven. I think that by these songs its the devils way to make people prays him through songs without even knowing that they are doing it. PS: can you send me the whole song through e-mail? These lyrics were placed diliberately and artfully. There is no beauty in Satanic worship, nor is there worth in this tribute to the fallen angel.
To say this was coincidence is like saying that a Western author accidentally alludes to or draws ideas from ancient Greek texts. A fool speaks "coincidence". Comment posted by J.
The song has a secret message backwards, sure, but i think that Zepplin did this, if it was on purpose, to show that you can go up and down on the stairway, from heaven to hell, depending on your actions. They do say quite a bit that you have 2 paths, as are cited in previous posts.
Even if you are going to throw out your discs or cds, dont tell others to. Zep is, and probably will continue to be, my favorite band. It would take years and thousands upon thousands of takes to get it right. I think if it sounds like anything, it is merely coincidence. Maybe a passage or two could be done deliberately, but no more. Thats my two cents anyway. Can anyone explain the lyrics both forwards and backwards, they don't really make any sense either way.
After listening to the short clip bustle in your hedgerow I thought it was rather freaky. I have been a Led Zep fan since I was 16 and I will continue to love their music regardless of the result of this debate. I would like to hear the full backwards version though, just out of curiosity. I don't really care about this Led Zeppelin was a great band and anyone who obsesses over wheter they are satanic or not needs to 1.
An as others have said you can make it sound what you want it to sound like, with lyrics inrfont of you of course your gonna think thats what its saying. My fiend and I have said things into his computer, played them backwards and we both come up with different things for what its saying. Also a friend of mine told me that the actual satanic message is not it is Scientists misuderstood i suppose.
Just to let u know. Good job jeff, keep up the good work To all you other F-bags I think Led zeppelin didnt want to tell the world "what" they wanted to say backwards If they did then why reverse it??? Secondly,its too much to not be a coincidence He also mentioned that when he started writing the song the pen didn't stop Satanic or unaware satanic influence????
This is the main quetion to answer I recorded my own voice singing the lyrics to Stairway to Heaven and then reversed the recording. Actually, I beleive it is just the coincidence that the phonetics of these lyrics sung and then played backwards suggests the satanic message.
Although, without the lyrics, neither the Led Zeppelin version nor mine sound very satanic. Of course this does not dispel the notion that Robert Plant may have been possessed at the time he wrote this song and that this possession had the intelligence to drive Robert Plant to compose a song that sung backwards would have this effect.
Thanks for your site. The human brain apparently not only understands backwards messages, but places them in everyday speech. You all do it, believe me. Now I do like both bands, they are my favorites, and rock is the only music I listen to. Rap, hip-hop, and all that gay fuck music is overrated. Did Led Zeppelin state that they get high on drugs, go to clubs, rape women, and shoot and kill people for their "homies"? No, it was just their beleifs, in reverse.
You people are allowed to state your beleifs aren't you? Why not them. Does the fact they are rock stars single them out and they aren't allowed to say they are satanists?
This news, no matter how it echoes in my head, does not stop me from listening to Zep. Since I am now looking at this threw rose colored lenses now I will do an experiment. I will let ten people listen to my version which is the "If there's a bustle" verse reversed and slowed down slightly. The ten will have no knowlege of this except that mabey they heard someone say it said something backwards once.
I will ask them each to write what they hear. The one whose little path would make me sad. Whos power is satan. There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad satan.
A word for word match up of around percent would be optimal but my guess is around percent. I was like "that kinda sounded like satan but the rest are not real words" personally to me the toolshed bit is a far stretch and the second and third "satan"s are actually like that guy said before "sey" and your mind fills in the rest. There is no possible way to write a song this long that makes sense forwards and backwards.
Not without years of work and a degree in math and music. The song while clearly understandable in the front-wards version more understandable than most songs. Is very difficult to understand when played backwards. I couldn't hear even the clearest backwards lyrics the "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now" until I read them, so it clearly is just the mind making connections.
They have an intrest in the occult yes, this is where the odd lyrics come from a book on Irish Mythology I believe. But they don't seem to have an intrest in the evil of occult. This is shown by their references to "Lord of the Rings" a true satanist would likely consider this not to be a good source of occult magic, I think ;.
I severly doubt that these backward messages are anything but an extremely unlikely co-incidence. These do happen, and most of the population believe in evolution which is way the hell more unlikely than this. Someone said that they stopped listening to Led Zeppelin because of these "messages". That is sheer folly But they deny this heartfeltly Why put it in a song publicly and then bother to deny?
Finally, concerning one "Faithful Servant", you seem to be the reason that people don't like Christians. Christians are supposed to be helpers and teachers that bring the word of God to others and help all independant of their beliefs. You sound like the hate mongering Catholic church of the 14th?
You are likely closer to Satan than you would ever believe definatly closer than Led Zeppelin. A band recorded a song that was really popular and if you play it backwards you can sometimes make yourself believe you hear the word "satan". This is sure the sign of the end of our times. My generation is doomed! Satan is taking over the world through classic '70's rock and roll! Get over it people. It's not that big a deal. Reading all this really bugs me. I didn't sleep too well last night.
No lie. But because I'm young, probably the youngest person here, it's obvious I wouldn't be able to get the idea out of my mind. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not a hardcore Led Zeppelin fan. I don't even know why I got so into this song. But, I heard so much of the famous "Stairway to Heaven" song and my dad playing it at random on his guitar. I love music, especially rock. So, I heard it one day on the radio, didn't remember any of the lyrics but liked it.
So I went out and got the song from someone and listened to it. Over and over again. I loved this song so much. It was mind-blowing to me. I don't know why. But the feeling you get from it, is a soft, nice, happy feeling. I thought I had an idea of the lyrics, what they meant I mean. I had this song in my head for I read somewhere when you play it backwards it's got satanic messages. I'm a believer in God, I go to church, and I try to follow him. But I since I'm a lost kid, I don't have a very very strong faith, sadly.
But, of course I don't worship satan. Anyways, I listened to just a portion of the song backwards. It freaked me out. Reasons why 1. How would What does it mean?
Is it like some kind of joyous song to satan in it's entirety? I thought about it for a long while. I just thought maybe listening to the song was a sin after a while.
But, I don't think it is. I definatly don't worship satan, I'm a confused person but.. Anyways, the song could just exemplify just religion. The song mentions "two" alot. Two choices. The only choices are two. One way, the song seems to kind of Or at least that's how I heard it. I'm not lying though, the piper, heaven, the may queen, reason, "changing the road your on" meaning being saved maybe. He'll give those with him , there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.
Years ago someone told me that if you played Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven song backwards that you could make out "satanic messages". It is not my opinion that Led Zeppelin and the other artists here were given some kind of evil power to make these backwards sounds have a satanic message. And, no, I did not create this to show the evils of Rock and Roll.
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