Some time ago I received an email from a professor at York University. He asked if he could use part of my Stairway to Heaven backwards site/idea for a class. Here is the conclusion of his experiment.
Jeff-
I have now given my lecture on perception, and the Stairway to Heaven was a real hit. Before I played it backwards, (and after they had listened forwards a few times), I distributed sheets of paper with the “words”. Half the class got the Satan stuff, and the other half got my own words, which have nothing to do with Satan or religion. I realized at the outset that my words did not fit quite as well as the Satan ones, but some lines fit very well. The demo went perfectly – those who had the Satan words could “hear” the backwards lines very well, and those who got my words, could hear at least some of my lines well. Interestingly, those who “heard” my words had a very difficult time hearing the Satanic words later on when I played it again.
Thanks again so much for your [help]. It has really helped me make a very important point about the nature of perception and how we actually construct our percepts.
Cheers
Jim
Here are the comments that were recovered:
Mr. HH says:
Wow! My friend stubled across your site on google and thought it was cool. News flies in middle school, so in two days everyone was going to the backwards messages. PROPS!
-whh
larry says:
Hey i love your site!
Have any more songs that have backward messages? I look forward to hear them.
Larry
stewygrif says:
dude your stuff is awesome and you
should try nto get more led zepplen and pink floyd. cant wait
stewygrif says:
i dont think the pink floyd 1 was true well i belive it just not as much as i want 2 because normally there are piane notes at the beginning but in reverse at the end(because its in reverse as you no) there are no piano notes.
stewygrif says:
i dont think the pink floyd 1 was true well i belive it just not as much as i want 2 because normally there are piane notes at the beginning but in reverse at the end(because its in reverse as you no) there are no piano notes.
stewygrif says:
hey dude on my nam is if you click on forward then really fast click on reverse the it is slim its eminem the reverse part sounds lis a backbackgrund music part
-sean
P.s. i said the dude your stuff is awesome 1 and the pink floyd 1
lyor says:
yo! i heard the backward songs thingie.. and i can hear a thing! just blaublahlau, i went to your site cuz first i tried to reverse stairway to heaven myself, recording it and reversing it, and didnt hear anything, and i still cant hear!! hit me one more time backwards sounds cool but i dont get a thing! can u tell me what they say?
yxan says:
click the button below play backwards, and you will see the song text.
The piano tones in pink floyd is there, if you listen closely, but they are reversed so they dont sound like a piano.
Austin says:
Hey,
I went to your site with the backmasking songs and it wont work for me. every time i go to the site it just shows a blank screen. Could someone pls help me?
from- AMC
penguin_78 says:
I went to a talk at a book festival recently where the lecturer (author Simon Singh) played the same Stairway to Heaven lyrics you have. Singh then played it backwards. My friend and I heard the word ‘satan’ but that was all. Singh asked the audience how many people heard the word ’satan’ and about one in five people put their hand up.
He then asked who heard “oh my sweet satan [etc…]” (exactly as on your site) and we all had a bit of a chuckle because there was no way anyone heard all of those lyrics.
He put the backward lyrics on the projector and played it again and, honestly, everyone (100+ people) heard every single word.
He was demonstrating how the brain wants order and understanding. So what you hear initially is correct: a whole lot of gobbledygook. When the brain has something (lyrics) to connect with that gobbledygook it ‘fills in the gaps’ to make sense of the words.
I find it interesting anyway: whether deliberate, accidental, real, or imagination.
Thanks for putting together this website. I’ve enjoyed listening to all the songs and entertaining my friends with the Led Zepplin lyrics.
Purly says:
While reading some of the comments I got this idea, what if someone sung the backwards lyrics, recorded that and played it backwards, would the real lyrics be hidden in there?
adam says:
just so u know on the japenese pokemon rap thing the “yo” and “yeah” backwards are saying “yes” in japenese
adam says:
also….on the hotel california backwards it believe it should say: “Satan hears this. He had me believe in me.”
Denkun says:
hey jeff
i heard all your subliminal messages and ara fasinating but maybe i have something that it may interest you i found some satanic messages to from black sabath and of other groups but specialy from the latinamerican singers if it interest you send me and email.its
rijelmx@msn.com, so i can show you the amreican subliminal messages and the latinamerican subliminal messages.ill be waiting
Rijel.
cire6 says:
Listen to Bob Marley’s Dont worry be happy backwords, its crazy
Spencer says:
I read a book about this… I guess Rush’s “Anthem” also has this… the third verse of the song backwards I guess is “Oh satan, my sacrifice you know it is you are the one I love’ Or something like that.
ji0n says:
September 9th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
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After Listening/Reading Some Of Your Entries, I Was Itching To Contact You, But The Blog Had A Special Block Denying Anonymous Comments.
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ji0n says:
September 10th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Try Black Eyed Pea’s Songs. Escpecially The, “Don’t Lie” One. I Think They’ll Say Something There. But I’m Not Sure. I’m Just Guessing By The Tune. ^_^
rogpy says:
September 11th, 2005 at 5:36 am
Finding messages in backwards lyrics is similar to finding animal shapes in clouds. If you look at enough clouds, you will eventually find a pretty convincing elephant. Here are my own backwards lyrics for the infamous Stairway to Heaven passage. It comes out as a kind of prayer:
Lord, Lord hears, to mock we’d Satan (though on all-ill path) who’d make me sigh, whose power is fake!
Heal, give those within sick, sick, sick.
They’ll want all he’ll too share, where he made us offers at fate.
OK, so it doesn’t make perfect sense, but neither does the “original.” Some parts sound better: for example, the original’s first “sweet” is really “queet,” which I have as “mock weed.” “Sick” is closer phonetically than “6″; and “was a” (little toolshed) has no “s” sound — I have “want all.” We have a tendency to fill in letters, particularly consonants, when we listen.
Here’s another possibility, an analogy between the devil and a garden:
Lord, Lord, hear us to mock weed Satan.
The lawn all-ill path, wood maybe sap, whose flower is fake.
Hew, give dose within sip, sip, sip.
They’ll all heal, too, share where he made us supper that sate.
You may hear the original more distinctly, or it may be that, having heard it, it’s harder to hear it differently.
If I can find a second, or third meaning within the message (and the professor above could find yet another), then it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a much larger number of people listening to many songs backwards can find some unintended messages. The fact that people keep coming up with messages about Satan and marijuana means nothing, except to indicate where their minds are at!
I also thought the Yoko Ono quote to be quite funny, given that the song (the flip side of Starting Over) came out when Lennon was still alive.
Tony says:
Subliminal messages rely on the fact that your brain fills in the blanks, and the people creating the know that fact. It’s not just the power of suggestion, they’re there, it’s just that some people need some guidance in hearing them.
Sing the backwards lyrics to the song and record them, then play them in reverse-you’ll get the original song. That oughta prove that the subliminals are real. I know, I’ve done so myself.
Tony says:
And sing them slow, or they’ll just garble up.
SATAN-EATS-CHEEZ-WHIZ says:
December 5th, 2005 at 10:38 am
HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAA OMFG! SATAN EATS CHEEZ WHIZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL THAT IS SO AMAZING!
yourgay says:
December 17th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Dude are you mental, your just mixing up words you fagget, your just one of those stupid computer nerds that has nothing else to do then ruin awsome tuneskies, get a life bud. I think you should put highway to hell or something on there, you can actually LISTEN TO THE REAL STUFF INSTEADA JUST MIXIN ALL THE CRAP AROUND
rick says:
January 10th, 2006 at 11:21 am
I did the Stairway To Heaven thing in the 70s and heard the exact same thing. I read at the time that the only albums that could do it were ones with Porky and Pecko Duck engraved in the inner part of the record.
Allan (Led Zepplin Explained) says:
Well you got me going on this one. I started reading the posts on that website to see what other people were saying…nothing new to me. I think Led Zepplin were playing around in the studio to create talk of this to in turn sell more records.
Though one point did catch my attention. Apparently if anyone sings Stairway to Heaven and then plays it backwards, you get the same message. That would suggest there is a diabolical force at work here. Because who could create abstract lyrics and sing them with the correct expression on each sylable to in turn create a clear backward message?
But, I also know that Led Zepplin was very much into experimenting with music. You can see it in the East Indian influence in a lot of their songs. They also used to use mics in toilets and chimneys in an old mansion where they recorded. Maybe they played around with a message, recorded it, played it backwards, and tried to create real lyrics that sounded like the reverse playback…thus creating the message we here today when played backwards.
Rocklogicxxxxx says:
There’s a famous statement that gets distorted that was used during WWII as an humerous example of how the words of messages get distorted (today it’s known as Chinese Whispers). the statement start out as… “Send reinforcements, we’re going to advance”. It ends up as… “Send three and fourpence, we’re going to a dance”. (three and fourpence being the short form of 3 shillings and 4 pence… the ancient currency system used in England up until the 1970s).
What I say and what you hear can often be different, which is why true communication is a multi-way process (most of it non-verbal), so the meaning of something as garbled as recorded voices played in reverse is dependant on what you are listening FOR.
[quote]# yourgay Says:
December 17th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Dude are you mental, your just mixing up words you fagget, your just one of those stupid computer nerds that has nothing else to do then ruin awsome tuneskies, get a life bud. I think you should put highway to hell or something on there, you can actually LISTEN TO THE REAL STUFF INSTEADA JUST MIXIN ALL THE CRAP AROUND[/quote]
Dear yourgay,
There is more to life that continually voicing negative assessments and no doubt you will assess (negatively) what I’ve just said. A good place to look is the type of questions you ask yourself. Another place to look is the questions your peers ask themselves.
“Why give people freedom of speech when they don’t have freedom of thought” anon. (actually a British politition)
catnip says:
yo dude this stuff is insaine, can u plz email me back when u get some more songs on ur site thanx
p.s. the pokemon rap is not true
someguy says:
I tried the pogo stick thing, I couldnt hear anything, but I thought I heard the word ‘infidels’ somewhere in their. I also tried the pink floyd one myself on audacity and it is 100%real. I wanna start testing them myself,
Ded Lee says:
January 16th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
To Catnip,
Its Pokemon and yes,it is true.In a game called Zero Wing,another Japanese game,there is a phrase,”Someone set up us the bomb”,but reverse that around and you get “Bomb the US,upset someone”.Now this might be a bad translation or pure coincidence,but I highly doubt it now.
Thank you for the messages,you got me into backmasking,give yourself a pat on the back.
Also,investigate more Led Zepellin songs,I know Page was a Satanist,and the band was associated with satanism or paiganism at some time,and i want to hear if there are any more subliminals.
I got your page bookmarked,please dont dissapoint me :)
Thanks for your time,
Ded Lee
Mike says:
Hey, cool website. In my recent investigations on Led Zeppelin satanic messages i discovered one in Black Dog, its short, but extremely clear, when you listen to the clip backward it says “Satan walks near.”
XAVIER says:
i’ve found some messages in shakira’s songs, in her spanish songs, but i bet that she had more messages in her english songs…
Josh says:
If anyone didnt know theres another popular song when you play backwards you get alot of crap, particularly in the pokemon theme song (not rap)done by billy crawford. In this song it was clear and done on purpose. Quotes for the theme song are just plan weird like “he is safe for
marijuana”(he refering to satan if listened to the whole song backwards!)
when played forwards it says “I know its my destiny”. Another weird quote is “oh your my best friend, in a world we must defend” when played backwards it says
“an every song were one of you, and ever saved by oh you. After the marijuana part its says “He has everyone, did you know like a tsunami ok, yah were all preachers”
(refering to satan). It says when played forward it says ” searching far and wide, there pokemon to understand the power thats inside”. When you play ” wana be the very best like no one ever was” it says ” sit down we’ll bet on on, seperate with me”. Kind of weird and sounds like some doom metal song backwards, if you play the “whole” thing backwards then all these quotes an others will come in but also in a different order. If you dont know how to play Mp3’s backwards heres how you do it. You connect your audio out cable to your microphone jack on your on computer, open up sound recorder, hit record while that song you want to play backwards is running. Note: u cant have headphones on while doing the process 2nd: make sure the sound is only up one notch so it doesnt come out distorted, and make sure its of mp3 quality so it sound good backwards ;)
Jeff Milner says:
Josh: The open source software Audacity will let you edit MP3’s and you don’t have to deal with re-recording sounds through analogue methods.
Per says:
January 20th, 2006 at 10:14 am
Dude… that was so waeird hearing the song backwards, kind of cool when you think about it. Anyway… I would enjoy to see more backward-playing-mystic-text stuff.
led_z says:
how do i e-mail the web page
Alan says:
Tho pokemon song actually sounds the same backwards then it does forwad
dre says:
in the john lennon one, it sounds more like “hold me from war or deny me”
or something like that…
the yoko one creeps me out…as does the ‘im so tired one’
cuz played forwards, it sounds like ’simple simple simply howbout some lovin?’ and backwards…well its just so creepy…what with the ‘paul is dead’ hoax…the things just seemed to fit into place a little too well…
anyway, i really love this site, its so awsome
Josh says:
February 11th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Itsjosh again, the one who brought up the pokemon theme messages backwards and I was woondering where can I go to upload load the song backwards for like all to hear?
YO MAMA says:
February 12th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
PUT SOME NEW STUFF MAN AND DON`T IGNORE US MAN SHOOT PUT SOME ON LIKE TODAY CAUSE THIS IS REALLY BORING MAN TODAY IS FEBRUARY 13 OR 12 SO PUT NEW MUSIC MAN GET SOME AWSOME AC/DC OR SYSTEM OF A DOWN OR KATALYSM OR METTALICA OR SLIPKNOT IF U COULD
nate says:
February 13th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Any idea were more of these are available? It was a really big thing in the 80’s. Surely someone has it available on the web.
Metal Josh says:
February 18th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Cool site, with all the backwards messages. The first song i knew of that had a backward message, which i was surprised you didn’t have was at the end of “Free As A Bird” by The Beatles. There’s a bango and a bunch of mumbles, but backwards Ringo says ‘turned out nice again, didn’t it’. just thought I’d pass it on.
kyle says:
February 20th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Hey Jeff, cool site.
I listened to this for a while already and read these entries and such. The Stairway to Heaven one sounds different everytime I hear it.
Also, the Yoko one sounds too weird, I tried the recorder thing and it doesnt come out like you put it.
These messages must have been intentional. You cant hear whats not there. Even though all this stuff about you can hear what you want, what ever. Sometimes you can but when you listen to that song backwords I can hear what I hear and thats barely anything about, satan, fake, path, sad, some other words.
They must have been really high on drugs..lol
also, can you put more stuff, this reverse speech/backmasking/reverse songs what ever you call it is cool.
Anthony says:
February 22nd, 2006 at 5:47 pm
First of all, i love subliminal messages in songs. And the beatles (my favorite band) have a lot. Especcialy About the whole “paul is dead” hoax. btw i heard the “fire on high” and that is WEIRD. Be sure to keep adding to the list. Thanx
jim says:
February 23rd, 2006 at 9:48 pm
hi,
To all you skeptics out there this stuff is real. I am a christian but you don’t have to be one to realise that in the case of songs like Stairway there is real satanic conspiracies going on. You have to be pretty ignorant if you don’t believe it.
Jimmy Page was a satanist. He was obsessed with satanism and even moreso a man named Alister Crowely. Alister Crowley was a satanist who lived in Ireland, doing things like sacrificing children was a daily routine for him. He was a sicko. Jimmy Page lives in his house now.
For more information on this sort of stuff read ‘The Devils Disciples’.
Just don’t ingnore this kind of thing as a hoax, it is evil. Read the bible and accept Jesus Christ as your saviour.
Adam says:
February 24th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Well actually guys this shit is awosem BUT,, the only one wich works is My Name Is… coz if u did try to read the words backwords its gonna work My Name Is .. si Emanym. got wht i mean but the others as professer JIM said… they all works on perceptions,, at first i did believe in it and it really took my intrest for a while,, but not after i tryed it my own !! i tryed it on Professer Jim way and believe me wht he says was totaly right u guys wont believe it till u try it on ur own !! still cant understand what am talking about u really can add me or mail me at frhood@kasit.com and id like to at least try to convince u ! thank you everyone !
Steve says:
this struff is pretty sweet. but i think alot of it is reallllllly stretched out and people desperately wanted tyo hear soem of this backmasking. to jim, neither rock nor led zeppelin is evil. booze is, either this backmasking is fake or jimi page was pissin himself as they put it in, look these guys are awefully messed up, but are amazing musicians, as a band member and a christian, take my word for it this isnt evil, and wont temp u to evil if u listen, im not saying u said that, im jsut saying in general.
jeff says:
You should add one more “Stairway To Heaven”message- “Wants to be sure” played backwards sounds EXACTLY like “I wish it would snow”-every bit as clear as the foreward lyrics.
Also The Pretenders’ song “Brass in Pocket” played backwards sounds like “Oh shit, oh shit,…” over and over every time the word “special” is sung. While I believe all of the messages are accidental, I also think the two I suggested are funny.
anna says:
this site has been one big nightmare for me. no offense or anything (your flash skills are amazing). its not your fault im so utterly paranoid O_o ive just been very afraid after listening to stairway to heaven backward. its gonna take some time to get over it. i just hear it all the time..
Wolfie says:
My opinion is that the whole backmasking thing is something of coincidence. U only hear the ‘real lyrics’ after you press on the ’show backward lyrics’ button. Before that, its mostly junk, with a few random words popping up here and there. And yes, there are definitely some ‘real cases’ out there, which u can make out as u listen to it on the first time..
Clara says:
i love this site!
Adam says:
This is from an interview with the three surviving members of the band covering the whole backmasking concept.
Doesn’t sound like they are all that evil or whatever to me.
Page: “Well, I don’t pass any comments on them…”
Plant: “I mean, who on earth would have ever thought of doing that
in the first place? You’ve got to have a lot of time on
your hands to even consider that people would do that.
Especially with ‘Stairway To Heaven.’ I mean, we were so
proud of that thing, and its intentions are so positive…
I found it foul, the whole idea…but it’s very American.
Nowhere else in the world has anybody ever considered it,
or been concerned or bothered at all about that. I figure
if backward masking really worked, every album in the store
would have ‘Buy this album!’ hidden on it.”
Page: “You’ve got it, you’ve hit the nail on the head. And that’s
all there is to say about it.”
Jones: “Of course it’s fatal, you know, because you tend to wind
these people up after a while. If you go around saying,
‘Oh yes, if you play track eight at thirty-six rpm, you’ll
definitely hear a message,’ they’ll go right home and try
it. English bands tend to be more ironic and sarcastic,
and once they discovered the average lack of American irony
and humour, it’s just sitting ducks, really. You just sort
of have to go for it.”
If you think I just made this up or something then check it out for yourself:
http://home.mchsi.com/~night_flight/led_zeppelin_faq.htm
Hannah says:
Jimmy Page was not a satanist, he was very into the occult and the supernatural, he practised wicca and witchcraft that I know a lot of Christians (I am Christian myself by the way) see as evil. Besides, half of it was publicity anyway, a band like Led Zep couldn’t have been happy about Kiss replacing them as the ‘Devil’s Music’. Although I don’t doubt that there was something weird and slightly amiss about Page, he was not a Satanist so please review your facts before you come onto a comments page and start preaching. Thanks.
tony says:
i tried it my self with sony sound forge its true
Zoso says:
Hey, yeah i think those subliminal messages are true too. I’ve done em, myself and I’ve sen the same result… The pokemon one is a little hazy but ill keep tryin to hear it. Ive been looking for more myself and i dunno, but i might have found one in Eclipse, by Pink FLoyd. Its not totally clear but i believe it says, “Satan, has Won, Yes Satan has won” You can pretty much hear that through most of the song because it repeats it in the lyrics. But yeah I love the messages and I would like to get some more so would ya please email me im you find or hear of anymore. my e-mail is juliocoolio@hotmail.com. :D
Mike says:
Well, it made my eyes water…
cobra says:
hi love the site!!
i was hopin if there was anymore songs with them demonic messages it is so cool thanx
Justin says:
Hey,
I did have my own webiste about backmasking, until i discovered it was fake. For instance, record your voice saying “Another one bites the dust” backward. if you say it the same way Queen did, you will clearly hear your self saying “its fun to smoke marujuana” I DID believe in it, but now I’m not soo sure. I’ve tried this with many backmasked songs, and they are all just a coninsidence. I’ve tried Revolution Nine, Hit Me Baby One More Time, Madonna, The Wiggles and more. I was kind of sad to discover it, but it’s the truth.
Try it yourself.
valton says:
If you play enough songs backwards you will eventually hear something that sounds like a “backwards message”. I don’t think that the devil subliminally influenced the lyricist to write lyrics that when played backwards revealed a “satanic message”. That sounds pretty far-fetched. Obviously some of the messages were intentional, such as Empty Spaces, Pink Floyd. All they did was say something then recorded it backwards onto the album. I think it’s definitely true that after you’ve seen the words that are supposedly what’s said in the backwards message, your brain makes you hear the words subconsciously. People are taking this too seriously and religiously and should just enjoy listening to the music forwards and enjoy listening to the accidental messages heard when played backwards, but not think of it as some sort of divine or satanic meaning.
I hope this made sense and I hope you believe a little bit of what I’m saying. Later
Kipp says:
dude how would you find a message like that in stairway to heaven? im not against the band – i love the band, but its cool.
Eric says:
I believe there’s too many cases of coincidence in “Stairway to Heaven” to completely discard the fact that there might be something there. I can say this much … I could make out the first two reversed lines with pretty much no difficulty, but “there was a little toolshed” is false. It’s actually “and all the evil fools” … in that instance, because Crowley’s mansion was known as the “toolshed”, people simply wanted to believe that that was indeed what they heard because it would all make perfect sense, but pay close attention. You’ll notice there’s no “t” sound.
Listen to Frank Zappa’s album “We’re Only in it for the Money” … there’s one pretty vulgar message in one of the songs, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find a hidden message in every track.
Jamie says:
The Pink Floyd one is 100% real as i’ve heard it befor, they put it in there on purpose but i cant remember the reason why probarbly for a laugh, great work though scared the shit out of me the stairway to heaven one.
Jordan says:
I love this site and i went on it when it first started. if anyone wants to try this out you can download audicity wich works perfectly. all theese songs are true. I think the pokemon rap was fluke but u never no. does anyone know some system of a down songs that can be backmasked??!!??
bobby says:
hey can you tell me how to get the audacity stuff cos i think the demonic message stuff is great and i want to try it out myself
bobby says:
hey can you tell me how to get the audacity stuff cos i think the demonic message stuff is great and i want to try it out myself you can email how to get it at my hotmail address which is widdowson_2@hotmal.com
ahotbanana says:
hey, love the backmasking stuff. if you have any the rasmus songs that can be reversed to hear sublims please email me at trofoblast@homecall.co.uk
Trenton says:
September 7th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
umm…. I wanna hear the pokemon song my self and i dont have a link to it so can someone send me one
me says:
September 26th, 2006 at 3:06 am
its freaky especially the turn bak one
i listen to stairway to heaven all the time and once i heard this……well stuff it IT ROXS!
Marvin says:
Hey, original website, i Knew about Stairway to Heaven lyrics but i have never heard them backmasking, and it is clear dude.
I like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, yeah, theyre my favorites!, but its not that we are going to listen their songs backmasking everytime, we are just going to listen to them on and on normally. but it is awesome what you have done, jey, what about Elvis??
jonnycake says:
October 18th, 2006 at 12:25 am
hey jeff,
i was wanting to make a short film for school, and wanted to kno if i can use your website in it, i would make it positive thing and not be bagging it out.
this is an awesome, and so many people love it, i kno i do
jeff oneill says:
December 20th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
hey there recenly after listening to the sound clips that jeff millner has posted the creator of the site. i thought wouldnt it be awsome if i could find one. so i lookd download audocity and the first song i played in reverse was acdc thunder struck! any way i listend to it and if you listen carfully he says ” i take meth….. hate me…… yes theres nothinging in it for me” then after a short period of time he talks about getting drunk and “saitans groove” lol. im not sure if any one has found this but i think its kool.
pce out
chosen_1 says:
On the stairway to heaven song i cant help but be nothing but curious b/c the way the lead singer SINGS is very unusual
@ wikipedia they have a whole list of songs that are “backmasked” and it tells if the band had intensionaly or NONintensionly put a so called message in thier songs
good luck jeff
ashley g says:
where can i find all the subliminals to this song? stairway to heaven…
chris o’connor says:
dude there r more of thoses messages in this song here they are when he says “your stairway lies at the wispering wind” backwords it says becuz i live with satian and the beging when he says “my spirit is crying for leaving” backwords it says “saint marry” i know these becuse me and my freind are backmassknig freaks a good program for testing this is ots turn tabbles just search “ots turn tabbles free download ” on google.com if you want to know more messages e-mail me at chris_360_degrees@hotmail.com
Alanor says:
I really enjoy Led Zeppelin as well as other hard rock bands from the 60’s and 70’s. Its good music, excellent guitar work from Page and that Plant’s inimitable voice. Its just good old great culturally relevant music. The reason a lot of artists believe, as I do myself, that subliminal messages are ridiculous is that it just really doesnt make much sense nor is it economic to go to all the trouble for it. Sure there are bands who add subliminal messages to their work, as artist put camouflaged images in their paintings, is that they know that hysteria prone people will actually go to all the trouble to find it. So theyre one step ahead! Sure weve all heard the bad rap some have gotten over supposed secret messages in music, just remember judas priest and the incident with the two weak willed adolescents who took their lives because the song told them to. Thats silly. Come on. We live in a world where people see images of deities on toasts or trees. We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. In the case of judas priest they used a leslie guitar, world known as being a musically vocal guitar, peter frampton makes it talk easily, no big deal. if muscicians really wanted to incorporate subliminal messages into their music it would be to buy more albums. that would stand in any court, and be enough reason to throw perfectly great music out. yeah, Led Zepplin forced me to buy their CD, i didnt even want this… perfectly good album. Oooh, im scared of the power they have over me. Get real people.
Alanor says:
I really enjoy Led Zeppelin as well as other hard rock bands from the 60’s and 70’s. Its good music, excellent guitar work from Page and that Plant’s inimitable voice. Its just good old great culturally relevant music. The reason a lot of artists believe, as I do myself, that subliminal messages are ridiculous is that it just really doesnt make much sense nor is it economic to go to all the trouble for it. Sure there are bands who add subliminal messages to their work, as artist put camouflaged images in their paintings, is that they know that hysteria prone people will actually go to all the trouble to find it. Ha-Ha, theyre one step ahead!
Sure weve all heard the bad rap some have gotten over supposed secret messages in music, just remember Judas Priest and the incident with the two weak willed adolescents who took their lives because the song told them to. Thats silly. Come on. We live in a world where people see images of deities on toasts or trees. We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. In the case of Judas Priest they used a Leslie guitar, world known as being a musically vocal guitar, Peter Frampton makes it talk easily, no big deal. If muscicians really wanted to incorporate subliminal messages into their music it would be to BUY MORE ALBUMS.!!
Uh, that would stand in any court, and be enough reason to throw perfectly great music out. Yeah. Led Zepplin forced me to buy their CD, I didnt even want this… perfectly good album. Oooh, are you scared of the power they have over you? No… hush… they may be watching us… Get real people and start thinking for yourselves.
P.S. that professor dude who wrote earlier he may be interested in this great book by James Elkins ” The Object Stares Back” , about visual perception. Stunning.
Samantha says:
If you notice, most of the people that are saying this is a HOAX don’t understand the process. The pink floyd one is famous and is true. It isn’t a garbled message like most but was INTENTIONALLY put in for the listener. THere are many like that including a lot of ELO songs- “Pass the waterfall!!” Korn did it a few times- Shoots and ladders in the chorus there is a message backwards that repeatedly says “this is madness” and the song off of their album Issues called “am i going crazy” when played backwards is the same exact song but the words “it’s the same thing” become audible. The entire song revolution number nine has recordings backwards that include an entirely different song, sirens, screams and paul yelling “get me out” plus the infamous “turn me on deadman” Mindless self indulgence has a song called “backmask” when played backwards says “clean your room ,do your homework, eat your vegetables, get dressed for church, who wants me to suck their dick?” It’s a common practice and, in modern music, is used to mock the people who intentionally look for “satanic messages” the stairway to heaven song … there are some parts that are true but not the entire song. There is also a rumor that the “little toolshed” may have been a reference to a part of one of the members mansions where “odd shapes” and “dark fog” and “strange noises” were heard and seen by the neighbors.
herbie says:
you piss me off there is no way they were trying to send that message.. there not like that, i have heard it so menny times what do you guys have nothing better to do.. it dont make since.. the only thing i find crazy is that page lived in the same house as the guy that wrote the book on subliminal messages..
Tom D says:
i found messages in 2 other led Zeppilen songs
Gonzaw says:
Tha backward messages are Reverse Speech, which (in a kind of way) says what our unconsious mind wants to say, so if Page and plant lived in a Satanic house, and had satanic influence, of course their unconsious mind was going to be full of satanism (and so reflecting it in the song)
Jeff W says:
NEW DOCUMENTARY ON SUBLIMINALS IN MEDIA
Hi! I’m Jeff Warrick – Producer / Director of a new upcoming feature documentary which examines the alleged history, and subconscious side-effects, of subliminal programming in America.
I’m not only very glad I ran across your site for the wealth of cool info, but I think it may have sparked some ideas of my own.
Hey Jeff – if you ever actually read these posts – I’d also be interested in a potential interview with you. Take a look at our film site at: http://www.programmingthenation.com – and let me know what you think by emailing me at: jeffw@igniteproductions.net
Everyone else reading this are free to do the same…. (minus the interview part :)
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mikeE says:
wow
I cannot believe this bit of drivel is still around. One can what one wants to hear when u play things backwards….the experiment proved that when the brain hears nonsense it attempts to make some sense of it…it is usually informed by the listeners own subconscious…and in a country as heavily influenced by insane religionists as this one it is no surprise that the deluded and weak-minded hear “satanic” messages when they hear nonsense..the 2 are related after….religion and nonsense that is!!
Patrik says:
December 10th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Given the origin and the negative connotations associated with the term “Subliminal Advertising” or any other Subliminal phenomenon it might as well be better to re-define the terminology. A number of vaguely defined terms are being used in discussions of subliminal effects. For instance, that information are being received unconsciously, subconsciously, not consciously, without awareness, unintentionally, below the attentional threshold or some other related description. The terms in the previous sentence are not synonyms and furthermore they are often used in a careless manner. Without defining them all I will at least discuss one of them, Subliminal.
From my point of view an organism can either receive a stimulus or it cannot receive it. And there is of course an entire spectra of levels in between receiving and not receiving. Where the “real” threshold is, is of course an interesting area to study. That is, how faint a stimulus can be before it becomes subliminal. From this last sentence you can conclude that my position is that a subliminal stimulus should not, in any way, be registered by an organism. Otherwise the stimulus is not subliminal.
There is something paradoxical with researchers studying a phenomenon that according to the definition of the studied phenomenon should not generate an effect in the studied organism. Thereby the researcher should not be able to measure any effect either.
Consider this; you are studying the phenomenon of subliminal advertising, subliminal messages, subliminal marketing, subliminal smells or the like. At the same time, as a researcher you are aware of the fact that the very concept of “subliminal” means that whatever stimuli is being used it will be insufficient as a stimuli. That is, since it is defined as subliminal it will be below the threshold of having any effect on the human brain. Consequently it would be more honest as a professional researcher and more adequate to state, contrary to most studies I have seen, that “after conducting this study we actually found that there indeed is a response (in some way) in the nervous system from the input used in the study, hence the input used does not qualify as a subliminal stimulus”. Or that “we found that there was no effect, hence the stimulus can be considered as subliminal.”
The point is that a stimulus that generates a response should not be termed subliminal, at least not by professional researchers.
It is my sincere suspicion that some researchers use the word “Sublimnal” for PR reasons in order to get more media attention for their research. Insert the word subliminal and you will automatically get less informed journalists to write about your research with the Coke & Popcorn angle as a foundation. There is of course also the group of researchers, coming from other areas than marketing/advertising, that are unaware of that the original “subliminal advertising” of Coke & Popcorn was a hoax.
//Patrik Nilsson
Stockholm Institute of Communication Science – Stics
http://www.stics.se
Luke says:
does anyone know how the wiggles and barney messages go?
runescape pker1 says:
um ok i wanna get a few things straight, im not insulting you jeff milner, but if you play the song the first time backwards, its random gibberish. When you put in the lyrics, the “mysteriously” sound like what its saying.All im trying to say is, its a bunch of crap. Its amazing how people can believe this
runescape pker1 says:
i would like you to respond to this jeff milner, what you think about my comment, reply when you can!
runescape pker1 says:
Also, whats the thing about the “toolshed” in the song stairway to heaven? Something about jimmy page i belive, bunch of bs….=[
runescape pker1 says:
OK, bottom line!!! your brain makes u hear what u wanna hear. COMPLETE HOAX! i wanna know something, how do people get so ignorant to belive this… wow… welcome to America i suppose….lol
Karl Johnson says:
i both believe in the subliminal messages and disbelieve them at the same time. i thank you for doing this website, it will help my psychology grade in high school. THANK-YOU JEFF
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May 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am
I’ve been using this in an A level course on Psychology to demonstrate the problem of observer bias in observation studies — showing that we tend to twist our observations to fit our expectations.
The students are always fascinated, and it provides a vivid example of the difficulties.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:18 am
I need to thank you for making this site… i love it… Cant wait to see your new descoveries….
June 7th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
The other verse in stairway to heaven has something in it too.
You should post Metallica stuff like For Whom the Bell Tolls and Some Kind of Monster.