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There is the all to infamous lyrics to Stairway....

http://www.stargate.net/zeppelin/features/sth-reversed/index.html

*grabs Bible*  :o
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That's a joke of course. Right? ? ?  ;)  I know it is. Just that....

It sounds like sooooo real and stuff, man.  :o

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Some of the more famous examples of backward masking are songs by Led Zeppelin ("Stairway To Heaven"), The Eagles ("Hotel California"), The Beatles (numerous songs), Prince ("Darling Nikki"), E.L.O. ("Fire Is High"), Front 242 ("Masterhit"), Pink Floyd (I'm not exactly sure which song, but it's from "The Wall"), and others. Blondie's "Call Me", when played backwards, says, "We want out...we want out...we want out". Petra spoofed backward masking at the beginning of "Judas Kiss": when played backwards it says, "What are you looking for the devil for, when you ought to be looking for the Lord?".  I'm very fascinated by the use of subliminals in music.
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But as realistic as the one site posted the backwards lyrics to "Stairway", that one wasn't done intentionally by the group.

Was it?  ???  If so..... Have they officially spoken of it anywhere?

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Have you ever actually listened to it backwards?

Thanks to my unusual record player, which plays things backwards, I have.  Yes, you can hear Led Zeppelin sing "My sweet Satan, if, and I stress this, you really stretch.  If I hadn't already been told about it, and knew just where to play, and what to listen for, I would never have heard it.  As for it possibly ever affecting people who listen to the song normally being influenced by it?  No way.
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I have heard some songs before that had reverse lyrics and it was done intentionally. I think Pink Floyd had some, Beatles, Ozzy and some others I don't know the names of.
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The Beatles and Frank Zappa definitely used backward masking. Ozzy didn't, although he's been accused of just about everything. The apparent backward message in 'Stairway to Heaven' has never been substantiated. Certainly the band denies it. The thing is, if someone convinces you there's a backward message in a song, chances are you'll hear it whether it's there or not. There's a backward message on Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind" album in between the songs 'The Trooper' and 'Still Life', but it's just some silly doggerel that their drummer Nicko said while he was drunk. Of course backward masking is redundant now, as you can't play CDs backward.

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What is it you will hear you may be asking?

"Jesus of Nazareth...Go to Hell..."

Remember now, this is heard when the song is played FORWARDS, NOT backwards.  Still, I feel it qualifies for this topic.

But guys, there really is no need for anti-Christian messages thrown in for giggles is there?  Leaving that little bit out at the end, and 'Love Bites' is one awesome tune!

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Just one -

You're wrong.

That isn't the line.  Keep in mind, the title is "Love Bites."  Joe Elliott has just finished singing "Just as you've got love in your sights, watch out!  Love bites!"  At this point, Mutt Lange came in saying, "Yes it does!  Bloody Hell!"

THAT'S what you're hearing.  This has been covered endlessly in many a Def Leppard debate, and the guys really wish it had been clearer, but the line is simply "Yes it does.  Bloody hell.", said by Mutt Lange, the producer, the same guy who gave us "Gunter Glieben Glouten Globen"

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My thoughts are that it's producers having fun, like Disney animators that throw a quick nude in w/o the knowledge of others.End Quote

Here's a good site regarding that:

http://www.snopes2.com/disney/films/films.asp

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Here's a good site regarding that:

http://www.snopes2.com/disney/films/films.asp
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Just one -

You're wrong.

That isn't the line.  Keep in mind, the title is "Love Bites."  Joe Elliott has just finished singing "Just as you've got love in your sights, watch out!  Love bites!"  At this point, Mutt Lange came in saying, "Yes it does!  Bloody Hell!"

THAT'S what you're hearing.  This has been covered endlessly in many a Def Leppard debate, and the guys really wish it had been clearer, but the line is simply "Yes it does.  Bloody hell.", said by Mutt Lange, the producer, the same guy who gave us "Gunter Glieben Glouten Globen"
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Here's a good site regarding that:

http://www.snopes2.com/disney/films/films.asp
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Wow,I never knew Donald Duck could curse racial slurs? ??? -howard-

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I just don't see how there CAN be differing viewpoints about what it says, when the band themselves AND Mutt Lange have both publicly stated that it's what I've stated it is.  But, people believe what they want to believe, and want to believe that there is something sinister in it, so they will always say so.

As for me, I'll believe the source.

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I recently, as 1) an enxperiment and 2) a joke, I used cool edit to help me redo Britney Spears' "Cinderella" backwards and see what the hell he would be saying backwards. Here are the lyrics:

FORWARDS

I'm sorry for runnig away like this
And I'm sorry I've already made my wish
Ohhhh, but Cinderella's got to go

BACKWARDS

Who zoo us realm sins
Let's go ohhh-ohhh
Sh**, Morocco rame
He had unflossed
Umps did my bottle
Ray who?
Runny, floss with Tums
Tums!

::) It was bizarre beyond all means. ::)

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It was bizarre. I knew that no matter how brilliant and lyricallly sophisticated Britney's songs are, they would never contain any real backwards messages.

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The Beatles and Frank Zappa definitely used backward masking. Ozzy didn't, although he's been accused of just about everything. The apparent backward message in 'Stairway to Heaven' has never been substantiated. Certainly the band denies it. The thing is, if someone convinces you there's a backward message in a song, chances are you'll hear it whether it's there or not. There's a backward message on Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind" album in between the songs 'The Trooper' and 'Still Life', but it's just some silly doggerel that their drummer Nicko said while he was drunk. Of course backward masking is redundant now, as you can't play CDs backward.
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But beyond it all, we have all heard extremely clear lyrics played straightforward that are as bad as any supposed reverse lyrics!  AC/DC's Highway To Hell, for example!  Black Sabbath's N.I.B. as another.  Far too many to name!

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'Highway to Hell' is not Satanic. It's a metaphor for touring the US nine to ten months of the year in order to make the scene there. If that's the most "Satanic" song you can come up, you need to try harder.

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Last year I found out that on the 1980 J. Geils Band album "Love Stinks" play a song called "No Anchovies Please" backwards after hearing a strange foreign speaking language and backwards the jibberish says...She he used to like chicken sh*t instead of Chicken salad.  Something like that anyway.  I also know as do many that the Beatles "Revolution #9" on the White album says "Turn me on dead man".  
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I found this buried and since this WAS who I was when I first joined....so, has anyone else ever heard these backwards incantations?

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(Fade in) Donkey Kong la la
Fell on his piano
She's just a bar of soap

You evil fish! It's backwards
You're a sleepy symphony, Bob :P
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That is really funny, thanks for the laugh!!

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Interesting topic.  Yeah, I guess I too went through a short phase of fascination with backwards masking and the like.  I found the most intriguing to be the ones which appeared to be an unintentional and coincidental result of playing seemingly sensible lyrics in reverse.  As opposed to the instances when the artist(s) obviously and intentionally tossed in some unintelligible jibberish when played forwards, which would say something like, "Hey kids, buy all of our records!  And by the way, praise be to Satan!"  Ha!!!  A little less 'spooky', wouldn't you say?  

I've heard, or at least heard of, about every one mentioned in the replies up to now.  Forgive me if I missed this one being mentioned.  It was brought to my attention by a friend from work a few years ago.  The difference being, this is not backwards masking.  It is just something that you might not notice unless you are actually listening for it.  

If you listen carefully towards the end of Def Leppard's 'Love Bites', you hear what sounds to be a kind of deep, mechanical sounding voice uttering some words of some nearly unintelligible sort.  I suppose it is best heard by playing the compact disc and using a decent set of headphones.

What is it you will hear you may be asking?

"Jesus of Nazareth...Go to Hell..."

Remember now, this is heard when the song is played FORWARDS, NOT backwards.  Still, I feel it qualifies for this topic.

I was kind of surprised by this myself.  Not what I expected from a Def Leppard that it seemed to me had become much more 'pop' and 'bubble gum' from their earlier efforts like 'High and Dry", still my fave Def Leppard release because it is seemed more raw and real, and less 'polished' by overdone studio 'enhancements'.  Can't deny the overwhelming popularity they achieved with their later efforts though!

Nonetheless, I will always hold them in high regard.  Not so much for their music as for their loyalty to a friend.  At the top of their success, as we all know, drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a horrendous car accident.  Undoubtedly pressured by the record execs to replace him and move on, the boys from Def Leppard flatly refused.  They had grown up together and been friends long before being successful musicians.  They risked everything for their friend and band mate, sitting idle for two years of his rehabilitation.  They found a way for him to continue as the band's drummer.  And upon their triumphant return to the scene, enjoyed a richly deserved return to the top!

How big is that?  It doesn't get any bigger.  What would have happened to Rick Allen had his band mates and, more importantly, friends, deserted him?  Would his despair become unbearable?  Would his will to live be lost?  It is certainly quite possible.  But his friends stuck by him, refused to continue without him, encouraged him that he would play again, and made it happen!  I don't care if their next effort is "Def Leppard Remakes Love Ballads from the 1970's"!  They will always have my deepest respect!

But guys, there really is no need for anti-Christian messages thrown in for giggles is there?  Leaving that little bit out at the end, and 'Love Bites' is one awesome tune!

Any comments?
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i remember when the whole "stairway" backwards making first came out, i heard the heres to my sweet satan,and he will give you 666,and some others i don't remember,i don't know if its just coincidence,but i was reading a biography book about led zeppelin,many yrs ago, and they were going over all their albums and briefly explaining how some of the songs came to be,and i remember them talking about "stairway" and how robert said that it just "flowed"he wrote the lyrics the first time and never changed them, and the song just kinda happened, kinda  gave me the chills when i read it.
     hummmmmm......................
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I write and that's NOT unusual for music or poetry.