Does Led Zeppelin's "stairway to heaven" in fact contain secret satanic messages?

You’re just making words up now, arent you? :smiley:

Of course, I’d listen to a band called “the dipthongs” or the “Obstruents” - but never together.

(swoons) Can I join your cult?

I need money first. :slight_smile:

Does anyone remember laughter?

[Satan]

Mwa! MwaHAHA! Mwa HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!

[/Satan]

Play that backwards. :wink:

Judas Priest said at their own backwards masking court case that, if they were to include a subliminal backwards message on one of their songs, it would simply say: “Buy more Judas Priest records”.

See post #10:

I agree with your analysis.

Ride the Sausage! RIDE THE SAUSAGE!!
It’s the SHIT!!!:eek::smiley:

So the word “there’s” in reverse can end up sounding like “satan.” That makes sense. I’ll bet something upwards of 50% of pop songs have the word “there’s” in them.

“Satan” is probably easy to assemble from backwards sounds, and that’s why people find “satan” so often, but never “the devil,” “Prince of Darkness,” “anti-Christ,” or any other term Christians use for their boogey man.

Yes, that does seem to fit.

“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on.” >> “Here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make us sad, whose power is Satan.”

“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.” >> “He’ll give those with him 666. There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.”

Everywhere it sounds like “Satan” in the backward recording coincides with “there” or “there’s” in the proper, forwards recording.

Or “it’s.” I think the “say-TAN” ones are “there’s” or “there” + s-word (eg, “there still”), and “it’s” are the “SAY-n” ones.

When someone finds “Beelzebub” in a backwards mask, I’ll pay attention.

BTW: here’s what it sounds like when someone does deliberately speak backwards (skip ahead to :40 if you are impatient). The warped effect was achieved by having the actor speak his lines normally, record them, play them backwards, and have the actor memorize the backwards gibberish. When the scene was filmed it was done backwards, the movements as well as the lines (this is why Agent Cooper sits so still), and then edited into the show with the footage reversed, to give it that creepy feel.

Here’s somebody’s reversal of the above scene, so you can hear what actual backwards speaking sounds like.

This is just offered for comparison with the reversal of “Stairway to Heaven.”

As a matter of fact, yes! Rush records, on the other hand…

And what’s all this about blackmasking songs anyway? Didn’t that die out with Al Jolson?

It’s “Aleister.” Not “Alister.”

And the man (Crowley) was not a Satanist, but a Thelemite - in fact, the founder of Thelema, a religion in which Satan plays no role whatsoever.

So even if Page was a total Crowley nut - and I’m absolutely not saying that he was - why in the balls would he write a song praising Satan?

It’s obvious to me, Satan didn’t like being shut out of Thelema, so he corrupted Page and made him write a song singing his backwards praises.

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