Mountain Hopper Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I am sick and tired of people saying if you play stairway backwards there is a subliminal message. Does anyone else beleive this? I think it's BS but I could be wrong and I don't care if I am. I would still listen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LadyRaven Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 No, nothing has ever been proven and the band says there's nothing there. It was just a bunch of shit started by christain conservatives. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrZoSo Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 No, nothing has ever been proven and the band says there's nothing there. It was just a bunch of shit started by christain conservatives. I believe it must have been a bitch to write in the first place. Never mind backwards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zepsteve Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 i actually played it backwards when i was a teenager, and there really streching the truth i heard what they were trying to say it was but its not coherent is the best way to describe it. Besides that did any of these dickheads play a carpenters record backwards to see if there were any messages. I think not.some people, need to get a life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peep Solero Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 The thing about this piece of rumor is that you can only "hear" some kind of satanic mumble if there are captions- so basically hear it without what it's supposed to say and you hear nothing. I think I even read something about this by some psychologist, something about the eye catching the word and making the ears hear it- self persuasion type of thing. but it's an interesting idea- the thought that Led Zep sold their soul to Satan for fame, fortune and talent...I guess that people with less talent and drive are scared of people who do have it- so they have to make it un pure and evil to feel better about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zero Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 no i do not. the final nail in the coffin is the fact that if you play the live versions of the passages in question backwards you get the same results as you find on the studio version. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ally Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Playing a record backwards mmmmm , I remember the coalition doing this and it begs the question. What were they smokin' ? I gotta tell ya,,,, we did a lot of wild and crazy things back in the day, but that weren't one of them. We found it much easier to.. just pick up the needle.. when we wanted to play a song again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zephyrus Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 play any song with vocals backwards and it will sound satanic. there's a fair number of backwards messages in Pink Floyd and Roger Waters songs, there's a couple on The Wall a few on Ummagumma and one on Amused To Death, and they all sound satanic and mostly unintelligible when they are played forward. in order to get anything even remotely clear enough to understand when played backwards it would make a noticeable racket in the music when played forward. the fact that Stairway has none of this tells me there's no backwards message there. and if there was, who gives a shit? if you're worried about a rock band turning your teenager into a satanist, then there's other bands you should be worried about before you go after Zeppelin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tyedye Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Some people will believe almost anything Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black_Dog Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 nah i've listened to it backwards and i don't hear any subliminal message. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Swan Song Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 (edited) It works... I have done it at a friends house because I have Led Zeppelin IV on vinyl. You have to start playing it backwards after "is there a bussle in your hedgerow" verse Edited January 22, 2008 by Swan Song Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dragster Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well, that's a different thing because she's not trying to get out there with her own music. I'm talking purely as a musician. Is this thing going around.....................AGAIN?????! I've heard this for E O N S!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kat24 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I've never believed it and I never will. It's a rumor and it's bullshit . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Z88 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 No, no i don't. I've never nopticed anything in there. And the band as always denied that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lzfan715 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 No, it is not there and I don't believe it for a minute. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
boogie Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 i also played it backwards in the 70's, kind of creepy hearing voices backwards, but thats all i heard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveboy Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 As Peep Solero said above, you don't hear anything unless you have the supposed words next to you and are reading it while you listen. It just sounded like a bunch of garbled crap the first time I heard it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jimmy's A Legend Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 It works... I have done it at a friends house because I have Led Zeppelin IV on vinyl. You have to start playing it backwards after "is there a bussle in your hedgerow" verse how do you play a vinyl backwards????????????? ok then what is the bog secret? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cactus Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 It's all the power of suggestion. If someone were to listen to it for the first time backwards, without being told what to listen for, the would have a very very hard time picking out intelligible words. But once you tell them what to listen for, they will hear it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ledzeppelinfan1 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 No, nothing has ever been proven and the band says there's nothing there. It was just a bunch of shit started by christain conservatives. I'm a Christian and i'm not being rude but just to let u know it wasen't started by Christians it was started back in 1982 by rock critics. and the message is just a bunch of bull crap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lzfan715 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 No, it wasn't start in the 80s by rock critics. She is right, a group of conservatist Christians got together in the 70s and reviewed some albums, this being one. I'm not saying this to stereotype Christians. In every religion there are bad representatives of it, it isn't anything against Christians. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black_Dog_90 Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 No. At first I was shocked when I heard it for the first time. But I don't believe it's intentional. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deborah J Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Playing a record backwards mmmmm , I remember the coalition doing this and it begs the question. What were they smokin' ? I gotta tell ya,,,, we did a lot of wild and crazy things back in the day, but that weren't one of them. We found it much easier to.. just pick up the needle.. when we wanted to play a song again. Totally relate. Never wanted to play the records backwards. To awesome forward:-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
_Lena_Zep Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Totally relate. Never wanted to play the records backwards. To awesome forward:-) It's no use listening to Stairway backwards when you have such a great song forward! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
_Lena_Zep Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 It's better not to waste time while trying to find any hidden message.Simply enjoy the masterpiece. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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