Ghost of a flea: Stairway to Heaven

February 21, 2004

Stairway to Heaven

A thoughtful soul has taken the time to make a backwards playing version of Led Zeppelin's classic available on "the internet". I listened to the backwards clip before reading the backwards lyrics. So... who had the spare time back in the '70s to play their LPs backwards in the first place? I can now tick the box next to one more cultural experience. Next up: watching The Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon playing in the background. The bells! The bells!

Years ago someone told me that if you played Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven song backwards that you could make out "satanic messages". It is not my opinion that Led Zeppelin was given the power to make these backwards sounds have a satanic message. And, no, I did not create this to show the evils of Rock and Roll. Instead I made this flash piece for two reasons: 1. I was new to flash and wanted to be better at it and 2. The backwards file sounds cool.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 21, 2004 12:14 PM

Comments

Back in the 1980s, an evangelist (apparently with nothing better to do than play songs backwards) discovered that the lyrics to the theme song for the "Mr. Ed" TV sitcom ("A horse is a horse of course of course") when played backwards, say "Someone sung this song for Satan!"

To this nonsense, an irreverent friend replied in a low voice, "But Satan IS Lord, Wilbur!"

Posted by: Eric Scheie at February 27, 2004 02:26 PM