Backward Masking

[Pure_Brew]

When I was a kid, I went to church with my family and I remember this big uproar about devil music. Man, my older brother was so wigged out about it he must have destroyed like 200-300 albums one day out in the back of our house.
I thought it was a bit insane, but all through school and my early adult life, I had real fear about some of the really more intense metal bands. I still think some things are creepy, but I think a lot of the backward masking is just BS.

 

[speakerman1]

Does your music influence your thinking?

Larry

 

[Pure_Brew]

Probably. I choose music that is often relaxing and it seems to work.

 

[speakerman1]

That is your mood.

Larry

 

[Pure_Brew]

Okay

 

[speakerman1]

This is just me. Not because I would do it. There is some music that does glorify Satan. I choose not to listen to it. There are people who will do things that is in the lyrics. Listening to Lou Reed doesn't make me want to be a cross dressing junky. LOL

Larry

 

[Web Police]

I think if you played any record backwards you could pick out all sorts of evil scary words, kinda like seeing the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast. It just happens naturally.

Red Rum Red Rum.

 

[Pure_Brew]

I think if you played any record backwards you could pick out all sorts of evil scary words, kinda like seeing the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast. It just happens naturally.

Red Rum Red Rum.

That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. Then you use that to scare the crap out of a little kid, at church, who thinks just about any lyrical non-christian music could potentially be devils music. It's tougher when your part of a peer group who thinks in a direction of any sort, and you're really young.

 

[Web Police]

Luckily when I grew up all we had was shoe box recorders and the Beach Boys, the Everly Brothers and Herb Alpert so we never tried to play anything backwards. It also helped that the religious leaders and parents were not so over protective paranoid in those days. Once your child gets to be 18 they are gonna make their own decisions on what to listen to and believe in anyway.

 

[Rex Everything]

, I had real fear about some of the really more intense metal bands. I still think some things are creepy, but I think a lot of the backward masking is just BS.

Who might these "really more intense metal bands" be?

 

[Pure_Brew]

You know I'm not 100% sure who all the examples given were back then, but I think one was Zepplin. When I saw Black Sabbath records at the store when I was a kid I was spooked.

 

[Rex Everything]

You know I'm not 100% sure who all the examples given were back then, but I think one was Zepplin. When I saw Black Sabbath records at the store when I was a kid I was spooked.

LOL!

I always say read the lyrics and you see how into peace and anti war Ozzy is. Heck, seems he's into god as well if yya check them out.....

 

[Pure_Brew]

Well, I'm sure there are bands that are pretty much poised on pure evil now.

I got to thinking about it all when I finally picked up my first Black Sabbath LP not long ago (Paranoid). It's a good album for sure. War Pigs was the motivation for the purchase and I totally agree with you, at least to my current level of knowledge.

 

[Fairchild]

A lot of the msic in the 70's and early 80's was theatrical, look at Alice Cooper, Kiss, Ozzy all purely for the theater. Check up on Vincent Furnier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004840/bio

He is not the person that his stage persona implies.

Jim

 

[Fairchild]

As far as the backwards stuff, the Beatles were known for it as well as other things. "Paul is Dead" in I am the Walrus was a big one for backwards play. And for nut buckets making more out of the music than it should be, Helter Skelter.

Jim

 

[Rex Everything]

Don't forget the classic case of Judas Priest's tune "Better By You Better Than Me" on the Stained Class album

 

[Pure_Brew]

Don't forget the classic case of Judas Priest's tune "Better By You Better Than Me" on the Stained Class album

I had forgotten about that. Case was dismissed as it should have been.

I've never been a JP fan, maybe I haven't listened to other music that tells me to listen to JP yet .

 

[speakerman1]

I have the Nostradamus set of CDs.

Larry

 

[Rex Everything]

[quote="Rex Everything":17z7i4wg]Don't forget the classic case of Judas Priest's tune "Better By You Better Than Me" on the Stained Class album

I had forgotten about that. Case was dismissed as it should have been.

I've never been a JP fan, maybe I haven't listened to other music that tells me to listen to JP yet . [/quote:17z7i4wg]


You should give it a try! Start at the beginning as very few folks know the early Priest stuff. The first album, Rocka Rolla is a blues/riff rock master piece IMO. If you can pull up some video check out Rob with long hair down the middle of his back and the flowery hippy shirts and bell bottoms.

"Unleashed In The East" is a great pseudo live album that gives a wide swath of their music up to the time.

 

[clhboa]

My two fAVORITE jUDAS pRIEST ALBUMS ARE "sAD wINGS oF dESTINY" AND "hELL bENT fOR lEATHER". (Ooops the caps lock was on, Sorry!).