From Phil:
True story: My older sis went to a fundamentalist school for 5-9th grade. They spent CLASS TIME playing Zep/Floyd records backward.
+ So they'd know how subtle Satan is, of course. (Because LED ZEPPELIN IV is an INCREDIBLY subtle album.)
....Yep, that was my middle school experience as well. In 7th grade we spent a whole unit in music class learning how Satan had inserted messages backwards into most of the popular music of the 1970s.
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On a different note: Sensible Thinkers Think About Leaks
*Sigh* -- the good old days, when terrible secrets lurked everywhere, if you only knew how to look for them. Gotta say I kinda miss it. It's one reason why I buy and listen to Tool -- they actually do stuff like that. And it's cool!
ReplyDeleteI guess this paranoia must have been really big in the 70s and early 80s, and then just sort of faded away. I went to school in the 90s, but all the backwards Satanic messages we were warned about all came from rock bands of the 1970s. That must have been when everyone was going through the trouble of listening to the albums backwards, and convincing themselves that the gibberish they were hearing was actually satanic messages.
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