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Oct 21, 2014 · Conspiracy theorists often find ‘secret’ lyrics by playing records backwards. BBC Culture picks apart the myths to find the best subliminal meanings.
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- Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven" When my best friend first played this record backwards, I was 14 and seducing his sister in his parents' bedroom. The eerie crackling helped to set the mood, but when the words "Here's to my sweet Satan" echoed through the speakers, I thought he said "Santa" and started to laugh and ruined the mood.
- Styx, "Snowblind" If you play this song backwards for about 33 minutes, you'll finally understand the hidden message: "Satan moves through our voices."
- The Beatles, "Revolution 9" During my backmasking heyday, I played my aunt's Beatles album backwards just for the hell of it, so imagine my surprise when I heard: "Turn me on, dead man...
- Slayer, "Hell Awaits" Slayer didn't need to jump on the backmasking wagon, and I didn't need to listen to their hidden message - "Join us" - over and over to purchase their 1985 album.
Sep 8, 2023 · From the truly creepy to the positively absurd, the hidden messages rumored to be inside these songs have led to a lot of fan theories.
The backwards message references Nathanael "Brad" Dunham, who was missing at a concert. As people began to spread the rumor that he was dead, the band jokingly included this message in the song. Franz Ferdinand "Michael" "She's worried about you, call your mother." Right before the second verse.
- Eagles – “Hotel California”
- Led Zeppelin – “Stairway to Heaven”
- AC / DC – “Highway to Hell”
- Queen – “Another One Bites The Dust”
- Beatles – “Revolution 9”
- Pink Floyd – “Empty Spaces”
- Linkin Park – “Announcement Service Public”
- Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
It’s not only on Halloween that you can expect the devil to be up to no good in the background. For example, with the superhit “Hotel California” by the Eagles, when played in reverse, the secret message says: “Satan he hears this. He had me believe. “Incredible or verifiable? Was the ruler of Hell involved in making the Eagles’ Greatest Hits album...
The cult rockers Led Zeppelin have long been said to have sold their souls to the devil. And myths blossomed, ones that couldn’t be more infernal and Halloween-ish. Apparently, it’s not Robert Plant but someone else who is said to have waved the inspired pen in his hand when he wrote the text for “Stairway to Heaven”. When played backwards, the wor...
Satanic messages are said to be hidden in the legendary song “Highway to Hell” and the AC / DC album of the same name. The assumption is obvious, but you don’t necessarily have to hide anything in a song that is about the expressway to Hell. The lyrics are by no means about the devil and dark forces. Rather, it’s about the highway from Bon Scott’s ...
If you repeat something over and over, it doesn’t make it any truer, but it doesn’t make it any less likely either. Freddie Mercury was said to want to encourage his fans to consume intoxicating substances. Proof of this is said to be the iconic song “Another One Bites The Dust” from Queen’s 1980 album “The Game”. If the lines of text of the chorus...
One of the most stubborn conspiracy theories that has remained, for what has felt like ages, is the claim that Paul McCartney had been dead since 1966 and had been replaced by a doppelganger. According to myth supporters, he died in a car accident. And there was already proof: someone had played “Revolution 9” backwards from the White Album and dis...
It’s not surprising that Pink Floyd worked backwards messages into their psychedelic songs. Take “Empty Spaces” from 1979, for example. It contains a passage that is hardly understandable when played forwards because it cannot be understood. Only by backmasking can you make out the devilishly message: “Congratulations. You have just discovered the ...
The spooky community always expects something satanic and dramatic with messages that are hidden in the songs that are played backwards. But Linkin Park send us a very different kind of message in their song “Accouncement Service Public”. When playing in reverse, the line “You should brush your teeth and you should wash your hands” can be heard. Hy...
In their legendary song “Smells like Teen Spirit”, the grunge rockers from Nirvana allegedly placed two backmasking messages at the same time. You should rather speculate for yourself whether they have something to do with the devil and whether the two messages can be identified at all. The first hidden message relates to the bank robber John Dilli...
Oct 14, 2021 · Missy Elliott. From Prince to Slayer, these are some memorable (and some tenuous) hidden messages in song. For decades, artists of all genres have played around with reversing parts of their songs and playing them backwards.
Jun 3, 2024 · Have you ever played a record backwards, hoping to discover some hidden message from the artist? If so, you are aware of the popular recording technique known as backmasking, in which the artist deliberately records words or phrases backwards onto a track that is supposed to be played forwards.
