# Stairway to Heaven and other Songs with hidden messages **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115 "2005-06-20T20:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/41 "2005-06-21T15:41:38Z")
There really should be a way to play digital music files like mp3 and Ogg Vorbis backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/42 "2005-06-21T15:42:01Z")
> [@The-Fonz](#): > > But it is understandable that it could be unintentional if it were only a string of words or a sentence, but it is a whole entire paragraph. It’s an incoherent paragraph that, even if you think the words really match up with what Plant sings (I don’t), don’t make any sense and don’t seem to have anything Satanic in them. It’s in your head. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/43 "2005-06-21T15:42:23Z")
> [@The-Fonz](#): > > Im sure many of you have heard songs such as Stairway to Heaven… Any mention of Stairway To Heaven deserves the mandatory [“_Stairway To Gilligan_” by **Little Roger and the Goosebumps**](http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~pennywiz/Funhouse/gilliganE.html) (flash) link. Perhaps there’s a collaboration between Sherwood Schwartz (spawner of Satanic sitcoms) and Led Zep (spawner of Satan hard-rock music) > [@Jojo](#): > > Does anyone know who won that Pink Floyd competition… Any mention of Pink Floyd deserves the mandatory [Dark Side Of The Moon / Wizard Of Oz](http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/info/oz.html) sync match…as if Alan Parsons & Pink Floys really planned such a thing ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/44 "2005-06-21T15:48:02Z")
**Wintermute** , I went to the same kind of school! I clearly remember some of the entertaining assemblies they had to warn us about this sort of thing. I also have a very enjoyable book called “Why Knock Rock?” which I picked up at the Humane Society thrift store for fifty cents, which will tell you lots of the evil messages in case you weren’t listening. Best fifty cents I ever spent. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/45 "2005-06-21T15:50:28Z")
Well, stap me vittles. If you’re using Linux, alsaplayer does it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/46 "2005-06-21T16:01:07Z")
I remember hearing somewhere (sorry, no cite, I’ll see if I can’t find one) that if you play _Dare to Be Stupid_ backwards, you can hear Weird Al saying, “Satan east Cheez-Wiz” and “You have too much time on your hands.” ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/47 "2005-06-21T16:14:21Z")
My favorite acuusation of backmasking was by a PE teacher in Spencerport NY, author of a book called _PG: A Parent’s GUide to Rock’n’Roll._ He gave his students extra credit if they could find messages, so of course they came up with a huge list, compiled at the end of the book. Kenny Rogers’ “Lady” apparently has the message “I’m not adverse to Satan” in it. Now that’s middle-of-the-road. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/48 "2005-06-21T16:36:38Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I remember hearing somewhere (sorry, no cite, I’ll see if I can’t find one) that if you play _Dare to Be Stupid_ backwards, you can hear Weird Al saying, “Satan east Cheez-Wiz” and “You have too much time on your hands.” I thought it was “Nature Trail to Hell,” but I’m probably wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/49 "2005-06-22T02:47:56Z")
I’ve got two songs here with obviously reversed segments. I can’t make a whole lot of Bloodhound Gang’s _Lift Your Head Up High_. It’s kind of chanted: “Devil Chocolate _?_ Chef Boyardee _?_ _?_” _Backmask_ by Mindless Self Indulgence has a bit near the end. It’s a very motherly voice saying “Clean your room. Do your homework. Don’t stay out too late. Eat your vegetables. Put away your toys. _?_ _?_ Get dressed for church.” The _?_'s are just too obscured by the music for me to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115/50 "2005-06-22T03:22:06Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I thought it was “Nature Trail to Hell,” but I’m probably wrong. Eh, I knew it was one of his songs. Kenny Rogers is a minion of Satan? That I can buy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stairway-to-heaven-and-other-songs-with-hidden-messages/309115.md?page=2)