In the 70's there was a big controversy about songs having hidden messages..?

The back masking craze was going on in the 70’s but really hit its peak in the 80’s with states actually proposing laws to prohibit back-masking on albums. I think it was 83 that California had introduced a bill to prevent back masking that "can manipulate our behavior without our knowledge or consent”.

About that time I did a presentation about “the evils of back masking” talking about how everyone was talking about the problem but no one seemed to know what the back tracks were saying.

So we took a collection of several groups and played their back masks.

We had a lot of tracks covering several categories (I wish I could remember more of them but it has been a long time. )

Some were educational:

For instance I bet you did not know that

"Satan eats Cheez Whiz" at least according to "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Nature Trail to Hell"

others stated the obvious such as:

ELO’s "Fire On High" which states -

“The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn baacck! Tuurrn baacckkk!"

Actually from what I found back then it seemed that the back masking started as a political protest back in the 60’s as a way various groups used to get around the government censors limiting what they could and could not say on an album.

Later it seemed like more of a way to sell an album than anything else. It would be rumored that there was “evil” back masking on an album or single and everyone ran out to buy it to see what the back mask said.

However to answer your question did songs have hidden messages?

That was actually answered by Pink Floyd's The Wall which contained the backtracked message:

Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message.

Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...

-Roger! Carolyne's on the phone!

-Okay.

So yes they definitely had messages.

Were those messages dangerous? I personally think some of the . . . shall we say . . .more unique songs played forward were/are more dangerous than any of the back tracking.

Just my thoughts.

May Our Lord watch over you and your family.

Oh yes, I remember listening to it in my church youth group in the mid 80's and getting all freaked out. I never listened to most of that music forward, since it wasn't my "thing" so that's why I was probably more startled than most, back then. I remember the Stairway to Heaven as an example, and I think Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Also one by Yoko Ono: "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss, Give Me Love" was the name. Of course, kiss kiss kiss backwards sounds like six six six (666)!!! Gasp!

Fast forward 25 years, I figure a lot of it's bad enough forward, who cares what it says backwards? You simply can't subliminally catch words to something backwards! Otherwise we would all catch "hidden" meanings in everything -- billboards, Presidential speeches, even Yahoo answers!

It's hooey. If you look hard enough in anything, you can read into it what you wanna hear or see.

It's primarily a load of crap. You have to really try to hear the backwards message, and even then they usually sound like crap. The "My Sweet Satan" allegedly on the back of Stairway sounds more like "amashtoo" to me. Some artists began doing this on purpose afterwards, usually as a joke. For example, if you play a certain Pink Floyd song on The Wall backwards, it says quite clearly "Congratulations, you've found the secret message. Send your answers to the funny farm."

No studies have ever found subliminal messages to have any effect on behavior or attitudes of subjects.

Gah! I have been trying to figure out what is being said on Honey This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Tow of Us too! I can hear the fcuk you bit you are talking about, I can hear him say something about a fcuking gun at 3:39 And then at 3:44 I can hear him say "And I am gonna.." and then I think he says fcuk you.. but I don't think thats right? Thats all I can get!

I have listened to it backwards; it's b*llocks.

Some idiot went and played the Eagles - Hotel California backwards on youtube and made it seem as though they were saying "worship satan" or something.

It's just what sad people with no lives do, go around listening to songs backwards and crying "Satanist" at the slightest thing that sounds hardly anything like the word "satan".

I think if you are susceptible to Satan's tricks, you can be deceived by them. Of course the bible does say, "know those that labor among you". I have done a lot of praying about what I listen to and GOD has revealed the imposter's so all I can say is be careful of what you invite in your mind, regardless of what others say.

I always scoffed at it too..but scratching? when the DJ turns the record backwards? I am not sure who noticed it in Led Zep 40 years ago, but today , throbbing mobs of dancers are chanting along with music being played backwards? Truth is stranger than fiction...See youtube about subliminal messages

Hello,

All a load of hype and BS to sell more records. The Beatles were accused of the same thing as well.

Cheers,

Michael

40 years ago, christians believed strongly rock music was demonic.

Now they use it everywhere in their songs.

Time always proves how silly christians are.

if you play marilyn manson backwards, he says

"go to church, pray with your family"

you can do that with any song ... and people will hear messages

...just like people see jesus on their pancakes