- The whole thing is bullshit and people are just hearing what they are told to hear.
Ockham’s Razor.
- You’re imagining things.
And #5 isn’t a “possibility”, it’s a question.
THat is the way I see it.
It’s totally for real, I swear! In a dorm room in Oneonta, N.Y., I once tried playing the LP backward and I suddenly heard clear instructions in an English accented voice on how to gain power over the winds and rains. No joke!
Was that before or after the acid kicked in?
That’s true. I guess I assumed that simster was asking about “Stairway” in particular and not about backmasking in general. It was a faulty assumption on my part.
The world I live in makes more sense and is less frightening.
Dude, all I know is that before that happened, the creepy chick who lived in the next building made me eat some pills off of a Buffy St. Marie album cover and then stare at a poster of Che Guavera for an hour with the Necronomicon balanced on my head…
If you played one of those songs for me and told me the chorus is “I am playing patty-cake with Satan,” there’s a pretty good chance I would hear that- even if the chorus was actually “I am eating strawberry shortcake.” The Internet is full of websites about misheard song lyrics, and this is no different.
No. But it’s never existed in the sense you and your sources say it did.
And almost all of them are jokes. That ought to tell you something.
I was asking specifically about Stairway - but the more interesting question is the ‘backmasking’ trope in general - when did it get started?
I clearly remember my parents listening to a Christian radio program in which the clown on the air was claiming this about a Beatles song. The closest I can narrow it down is late 1960s to early 70s, but I think the former.
In the realms of ‘Hearing what you’ve been told to hear’ - there’s a whole swag of Bollywood songs given the treatment.
Some people who played the Sgt. Pepper album backward claimed they heard “We will fuck you supermen” in the run-out groove. According to Beatles Monthly, it was just the Beatles making some chatter that was then mixed up and distorted. They were actually saying things like “Thanks for listening,” and “We’ll see you soon.”
Before going there I’m guessing one will be about “My looney bun is fine” and “who put the goat in there.” Those things are hilarious.
On the nosey. Haven’t seen it in quite a while, it’s even funnier than I remembered. I’m going to record and play it backwards, find out what the real message is.
That was great!
You could test it out by closing your eyes and opening them every few seconds.
BTW,
I love some of the movies and music that comes out of Bollywood, not to mention the many beautiful women.
If you play Black Sabbath songs backwards, they say stuff like “Praise the Lord Jesus, our saviour!”
There is a real psychological effect known as backward masking, but it has nothing to do with sounds being played backwards. Real backward masking occurs when one very briefly experienced stimulus is very quickly followed by another different one. In some circumstances the subject will not be consciously aware of having experienced the first stimulus (despite the fact that they undoubtedly would have been, if it had not been followed by the second) but the first stimulus can still have experimentally detectable subliminal effects on their behavior (although these effects are generally very trivial and short lived).
My guess is that someone who had heard about backward masking and its possible subliminal effects, perhaps in a psychology class, but had misunderstood or failed to remember much about it, except for the name, and then heard about backward playing tapes being used in some music (as by The Beatles), mistakenly thought that the word for this was “backmasking” and that it could have subliminal effects. They stared using the term that way, and it somehow caught on. (Of course, Satanic, or other, messages played backwards do not have any subliminal effects at all. They are simply not understood.)
Well, sara20, no one else posting to this thread believes in this stuff. Now what? You came to this messageboard and started this thread to ask if StH has satanic messages - no, it doesn’t; if you believe it does, you are buying into silliness. Next?