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chopper
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Topic: Stairway To Heaven backwards Posted: August 17 2005 at 08:05 |
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I got these off the Internet somewhere. They are supposedly what Stairway says if you play it backwards: - "Plaaaay backwards, Is this is biggest load of twaddle ever or is there something to it? Edited by chopper |
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Ricochet
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 08:08 | |
That is backwards??Oh,man...But I don't believe...
From the first line it's wrong... "There's a lady who thinks..." "Oh sweet Israel..." |
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chopper
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 08:16 | |
I am firmly of the opinion that it's complete bo**ocks. Some people need to get out more. However, I have heard an MP3 of it played backwards and some of the words sound vaguely like what's written above (mind you, they're so indistinct you could make them sound like pretty much anything you wanted to). The first line is "there's a lady who's sure..." by the way.
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Ricochet
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 08:20 | |
Sorry,sorry,"there's a lady who's sure"...
You're right,maybe it's just small talk... |
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BaldJean
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 09:30 | |
the song begins with the lines: "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven". Now let's write this backwards: "nevaeh ot yawriats a gniyub s'ehs dna, dlog si srettilg taht lla erus s'ohw ydal a s'ereht". now let's compare this to the last two lines of your text. does it come anywhere close? not at all. |
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Ricochet
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:22 | |
let's be serious...Stairway to Heaven is nothing but a rock ballade...
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:31 | |
^ Thats a bit of a throwaway line for classic song, isn't it?
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Ricochet
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:35 | |
What?Isn't it a rock ballad?
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chopper
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 11:46 | |
BaldJean, You are of course correct - it is a load of old twaddle. However, if
you did listen to the MP3, you would find it a lot closer to these
words than you would think by just writing it down backwards. I guess
it depends on how the words are actually sung (accent, phrasing etc).
It also needs a fair bit of creative listening. You can find a sample MP3 here http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm Edited by chopper |
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chopper
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:29 | |
STOP PRESS
Apparently "another one bites the dust" backwards says "It's fun to smoke marijuana". Sounds to me like the person who discovered this must have been smoking a bit himself. |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:31 | |
I've also heard that the lyrics to 'Atlantis' by Pallas, when played backwards sound remarkably like:
"You fool, throw this album away, it's absolute rubbish" Although this could be just another urban myth... |
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goose
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:43 | |
Where've you been for the last thirty years?
Funny, I could have sworn I heard that when it was played forwards as well
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:55 | |
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:58 | |
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 04:24 | |
I think this rumour got started by Jimmy Page himself , so as to get even more records sold! To whom does the crime profit? |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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chopper
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 07:45 | |
Talking of backwards music, there's a bit in Kate Bush's "The Ninth Wave" which sounds like it's backwards, except I've heard it played the other way and it still sounds like it's backwards! Anyone know what this bit is supposed to say? |
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jitu
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 07:50 | |
no way |
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tuxon
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 08:19 | |
the first line is. "There's a lady who thinks she is sure.." |
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chopper
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 08:20 | |
Are you sure? That reminds of of an old Two Ronnies joke - "name?", "Shaw", "Shaw?","Positive" Edited by chopper |
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Dreamer
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 13:29 | |
Well there are two types of this type of things in music, there is intentional backwards masking and one that you just listen to the song and try to make sense of the noise. the is the latter type, so its a load of crap. An intentional backward maskin is in ELO's "Fire on High" and has a very cool effect.
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