Stairway To Heaven backwards
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Topic: Stairway To Heaven backwards
Posted By: chopper
Subject: Stairway To Heaven backwards
Date 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,
Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
Allll on track, all arriving
They all sing, and they are one.
Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
It stirs my sin; the river,
Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
All my life will end for him?
We're all out of signs,
I know I'm sorta shocked
To hear The Lord,
My God now will save me!
Oh I will n'er be saved,
Because I live with Satan..
One wish today;
That you'll all pray for
Three who will make it here late.
Pray now and you'll see..
The 'Lord' turned me on,
But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
Clothed in agony,
Lost at a height.
There's no escaping it,
Nor his woes..
Oh heres to my sweet satan,
The one whos little path would make me sad,
Whose power is satan,
Hell give you give you 666,
There was a little toolshed
where he made us suffer,
sad satan,
Ohohohoh...
"Family won't get loose,
They're offered me."
Always soothes the worker.
Always will be as we know now
"I see ruins," said he,
"the world they offered me?
Who wished the Lord's fall?"
If we lose feather,
Say you'll save me!
And no wimps can bend the rules..
And no wimps can do..
Hunt next to the shore,
'Cause they see all from there,
See here's the news,
Who walks with mute grief!
Perhaps no-one found thee...
"Heavy, lift me out,"
Spake the Reve,
"Someday, failed, we'll lose one line-up,
They've gotta leave forsaken."
And no wimps can do..
And no wimps can do...
He, who say the lords
Thoth have our laws,
Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
Over there,
He who should learn thee.
Any moot that serves by my sworn music,
I wish it with snow be shushed,
All for my mass's sake.
Hear why its sung,
here, oppositioner, Ohh..
He who should show
May make his show worthy,
To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
There's one chance - take his show.
Hold thy head,
Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
Who owns this earth built below?
Oh sweet Israel..."
Is this is biggest load of twaddle ever or is there something to it?
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date 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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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 08:16
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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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Posted By: Ricochet
Date 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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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 09:30
 chopper wrote:
I got these off the Internet somewhere. They are supposedly what Stairway says if you play it backwards: -
"Plaaaay backwards,
Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
Allll on track, all arriving
They all sing, and they are one.
Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
It stirs my sin; the river,
Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
All my life will end for him?
We're all out of signs,
I know I'm sorta shocked
To hear The Lord,
My God now will save me!
Oh I will n'er be saved,
Because I live with Satan..
One wish today;
That you'll all pray for
Three who will make it here late.
Pray now and you'll see..
The 'Lord' turned me on,
But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
Clothed in agony,
Lost at a height.
There's no escaping it,
Nor his woes..
Oh heres to my sweet satan,
The one whos little path would make me sad,
Whose power is satan,
Hell give you give you 666,
There was a little toolshed
where he made us suffer,
sad satan,
Ohohohoh...
"Family won't get loose,
They're offered me."
Always soothes the worker.
Always will be as we know now
"I see ruins," said he,
"the world they offered me?
Who wished the Lord's fall?"
If we lose feather,
Say you'll save me!
And no wimps can bend the rules..
And no wimps can do..
Hunt next to the shore,
'Cause they see all from there,
See here's the news,
Who walks with mute grief!
Perhaps no-one found thee...
"Heavy, lift me out,"
Spake the Reve,
"Someday, failed, we'll lose one line-up,
They've gotta leave forsaken."
And no wimps can do..
And no wimps can do...
He, who say the lords
Thoth have our laws,
Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
Over there,
He who should learn thee.
Any moot that serves by my sworn music,
I wish it with snow be shushed,
All for my mass's sake.
Hear why its sung,
here, oppositioner, Ohh..
He who should show
May make his show worthy,
To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
There's one chance - take his show.
Hold thy head,
Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
Who owns this earth built below?
Oh sweet Israel..."
Is this is biggest load of twaddle ever or is there something to it?
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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.
of course a phonetic analysis would be much better than an alphabetic one, but it would be too much effort for me to fill in the phonetic symbols. in any case: a big no-no. nothing but a hoax
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:22
let's be serious...Stairway to Heaven is nothing but a rock ballade...
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:31
^ Thats a bit of a throwaway line for classic song, isn't it?
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http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:35
What?Isn't it a rock ballad?
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 11:46
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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://www3.telus.net/jefmil/stairwaybackwards.htm - http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm
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Posted By: chopper
Date 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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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date 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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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:43
chopper wrote:
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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Where've you been for the last thirty years? 
Jim Garten wrote:
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... |
Funny, I could have sworn I heard that when it was played forwards as well  |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:55
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:58
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 04:24
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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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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 07:45
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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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Posted By: jitu
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 07:50
chopper wrote:
I got these off the Internet somewhere. They are supposedly what Stairway says if you play it backwards: -
"Plaaaay backwards,
Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
Allll on track, all arriving
They all sing, and they are one.
Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
It stirs my sin; the river,
Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
All my life will end for him?
We're all out of signs,
I know I'm sorta shocked
To hear The Lord,
My God now will save me!
Oh I will n'er be saved,
Because I live with Satan..
One wish today;
That you'll all pray for
Three who will make it here late.
Pray now and you'll see..
The 'Lord' turned me on,
But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
Clothed in agony,
Lost at a height.
There's no escaping it,
Nor his woes..
Oh heres to my sweet satan,
The one whos little path would make me sad,
Whose power is satan,
Hell give you give you 666,
There was a little toolshed
where he made us suffer,
sad satan,
Ohohohoh...
"Family won't get loose,
They're offered me."
Always soothes the worker.
Always will be as we know now
"I see ruins," said he,
"the world they offered me?
Who wished the Lord's fall?"
If we lose feather,
Say you'll save me!
And no wimps can bend the rules..
And no wimps can do..
Hunt next to the shore,
'Cause they see all from there,
See here's the news,
Who walks with mute grief!
Perhaps no-one found thee...
"Heavy, lift me out,"
Spake the Reve,
"Someday, failed, we'll lose one line-up,
They've gotta leave forsaken."
And no wimps can do..
And no wimps can do...
He, who say the lords
Thoth have our laws,
Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
Over there,
He who should learn thee.
Any moot that serves by my sworn music,
I wish it with snow be shushed,
All for my mass's sake.
Hear why its sung,
here, oppositioner, Ohh..
He who should show
May make his show worthy,
To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
There's one chance - take his show.
Hold thy head,
Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
Who owns this earth built below?
Oh sweet Israel..."
Is this is biggest load of twaddle ever or is there something to it?
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no way
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 08:19
chopper wrote:
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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the first line is.
"There's a lady who thinks she is sure.."
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 08:20
tuxon wrote:
chopper wrote:
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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the first line is.
"There's a lady who thinks she is sure.."
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Are you sure?
That reminds of of an old Two Ronnies joke -
"name?", "Shaw", "Shaw?","Positive"
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Posted By: Dreamer
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 13:29
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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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Posted By: Dreamer
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 13:32
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http://www.reversespeech.com/music_reversals.htm - http://www.reversespeech.com/music_reversals.htm
A very cool site about this topic, with lots of examples...
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 16:42
bullsh*t
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Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 21:54
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Not true.
But there are backwards messages in some of Waters's stuff, like Empty Spaces and Perfect Sense. You can hear muffled human speech on those songs when you play them forwards, though. Nothing threatening about the messages either, except for Waters screaming violently at someone called Stanley in the Perfect Sense messege!
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