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Backward Masking Unmasked: Backward Satanic Messages of Rock and Roll Exposed
Backward Masking Unmasked ~ What the devil's wrong with rock and roll? PLENTY! It affects tens of millions of young people and adults in America and around the world. Rock music is laced with lyrics exhalting drugs, the occult, immorality, homosexuality, violence and rebellion. But there is a more sinister danger. It's called Backward Masking. Numerous rock groups employ this mind~influencing technique in their recordings. Teenagers by the millions ~ who spend hours each day listening to rock music ~ aren't even aware the messages are there. Many of the messages placed on records through backward masking are tied in closely with witchcraft and Satan worship and encourage abnormal sexual behavior and the use of drugs. Jacob Aranza clearly exposes the dangers of Backward Masking.
115 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1983
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Jacob Aranza
6 booksJacob Aranza is a leading youth evangelist who has been in ministry for more than forty years. For more than twenty-five years, Aranza was a youth communicator speaking to students in public schools and conferences around the world. He has been a guest speaker with Billy Graham, Promise Keepers, Focus On the Family, Campus Crusade and Youth for Christ. He is the former chaplain of the New Orleans Saints and a best selling author.
In 1998, Jacob and his wife Michelle founded Our Savior’s Church in South Louisiana which now has campuses in Broussard, Lafayette and Opelousas. He has been instrumental in planting churches throughout the Gulf Coast region and currently helps oversee numerous churches.
In 1998, Jacob and his wife Michelle founded Our Savior’s Church in South Louisiana which now has campuses in Broussard, Lafayette and Opelousas. He has been instrumental in planting churches throughout the Gulf Coast region and currently helps oversee numerous churches.
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March 11, 2018
Despite the title, Jacob Aranza’s inane 1983 “exposé” of Satanic messages in rock and roll doesn’t spend much time on the backward messages supposedly hidden in all the popular albums of the time. Instead, Aranza chooses to spend the majority of his word count detailing salacious, absurd, and wildly inaccurate rumors about the songs and bands themselves. “There’s a revival going on in Satan’s kingdom,” Aranza writes breathlessly, “and music is his tool.” He goes on to warn the reader, “Young man, that rock music is from the devil! Those loud guitars and that jungle beat are from the pit of hell! You stay away from that stuff!” Rock and roll may be the music of rebellion, but “CAUTION: The end of rebellion is always death.” (Interestingly, since we are all mortal, the end of obedience is always death, too.) Here are some of my other favorite excerpts:
“The [sic] Queen’s top song ‘We Are the Champions’ is the unofficial national anthem for gays (homosexuals) in America.”
“[The Rolling Stones’] song ‘Satanic Majesty’s Request’ [is] the unofficial anthem for all satanic churches.” Later, he makes the exact same claim about their song “Sympathy for the Devil.” There sure are a lot of unofficial anthems for gays and Satanists! Also, “The Stones’ album title Get Yer Ya-Yas Out is based on a phrase which recurs frequently in African voodoo.” And here you thought it was just about boobs!
“One thing is sure, ‘Hotel California’ is not a place where you or I should spend any day or night! This Southern California group’s country-rock blend may at first sound harmless. But continued listening could become harmful. Don’t forget, BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER!”
“[Alice Cooper’s] hits include. . .‘Working Up a Sweat’ which is a song about working up a sweat during the act of sex.”
“Led Zeppelin is no stairway to heaven but rather, if you pardon the expression, on the HIGHWAY TO HELL!. . .[But] there is a real stairway to heaven -- through the cross of Jesus Christ.”
“AC/DC means bisexual.”
“The symbol that [Blue Oyster Cult] use as their trademark, which is a cross with a question mark, can only be an anti-Christ symbol questioning what happened at the cross.”
“Ritchie Blackmore’s music and message are certainly not that of a rainbow but rather a ‘Lake of Fire.’”
“Rumours may be the hit album for Fleetwood Mac, but it is no rumor that this group is indulging in the occult; it is the bare facts.”
“Mind control [in Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2’]? They have it over the minds of millions of young people as they encourage rebellion against authority in the school classrooms.”
“A better name couldn’t have been given to [the Grateful Dead] to describe their music. I’m sure many will be grateful when their music is dead.”
“Hall ’N Oates [sic] often impersonate women and attempt to come across to their audiences as women.” Also, “Daryl Hall is a follower of Aleister Crowley.”
“A warning about those interested in flying with Jefferson Starship: their flight pattern ends in death.”
“Unnatural sex is the theme of REO Speedwagon’s album Hi Infidelity.”
“[Elton John’s] song ‘Bitch is Back’ is about sniffing glue.”
But don’t worry, Aranza tells us, if you love good music there are now many excellent Christian acts that can take the place of these deplorable rock and roll bands. “There are no more good excuses why Christian young people cannot hear good quality music about the ‘Rock that never rolls’. . .Jesus Christ.” Never one to let a bad pun die, Aranza writes of these Christian bands, “Christ has put their feet on the Rock and their names on the roll!”
Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of incidents in the book that further display a lack of fact-checking: “Jim Steinman, or as he is commonly called, ‘Meat Loaf.’” Jim Steinman is not Meat Loaf. “KISS (Kids In Satan’s Service).” Nope. And who can forget that famous lead singer of the Eagles “Ron Henley”? Or Kenneth Anger’s film “Lucifer’s Rising”?
In case you were wondering if Aranza’s conservative evangelicalism would take a predictable turn into racism -- fear not, it does! In a chapter discussing his own life, including a childhood filled with the horrors of rock music, drugs, and divorced parents, he writes, “As if all this wasn’t bad enough, they had just started integration in schools.” Aranza attended a school where white children were in the minority, which he describes as a twisted, violent hellscape. “We began to have race riots. All the blacks were running around saying, ‘We’s [sic] want black power.’ The Mexicans were running around saying, ‘Hey dude, we want Chicano power.’ The whites were just running around saying, ‘We want OUT!’” I suppose growing up with all those political protests -- sorry, I mean “race riots” -- it was hard not to see Satan everywhere.
This slim volume is a quick read and good for a laugh, if nothing else. However, when I was finished I also read it backward. Imagine my shock when I discovered that when read backward the book clearly states, “Jacob Aranza is a self-righteous and easily misguided imbecile who wants to use religion to control people’s lives so he can feel powerful and important.” CAUTION: Jacob Aranza is the real Bitch who’s Back because he is clearly sniffing glue!
“The [sic] Queen’s top song ‘We Are the Champions’ is the unofficial national anthem for gays (homosexuals) in America.”
“[The Rolling Stones’] song ‘Satanic Majesty’s Request’ [is] the unofficial anthem for all satanic churches.” Later, he makes the exact same claim about their song “Sympathy for the Devil.” There sure are a lot of unofficial anthems for gays and Satanists! Also, “The Stones’ album title Get Yer Ya-Yas Out is based on a phrase which recurs frequently in African voodoo.” And here you thought it was just about boobs!
“One thing is sure, ‘Hotel California’ is not a place where you or I should spend any day or night! This Southern California group’s country-rock blend may at first sound harmless. But continued listening could become harmful. Don’t forget, BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER!”
“[Alice Cooper’s] hits include. . .‘Working Up a Sweat’ which is a song about working up a sweat during the act of sex.”
“Led Zeppelin is no stairway to heaven but rather, if you pardon the expression, on the HIGHWAY TO HELL!. . .[But] there is a real stairway to heaven -- through the cross of Jesus Christ.”
“AC/DC means bisexual.”
“The symbol that [Blue Oyster Cult] use as their trademark, which is a cross with a question mark, can only be an anti-Christ symbol questioning what happened at the cross.”
“Ritchie Blackmore’s music and message are certainly not that of a rainbow but rather a ‘Lake of Fire.’”
“Rumours may be the hit album for Fleetwood Mac, but it is no rumor that this group is indulging in the occult; it is the bare facts.”
“Mind control [in Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2’]? They have it over the minds of millions of young people as they encourage rebellion against authority in the school classrooms.”
“A better name couldn’t have been given to [the Grateful Dead] to describe their music. I’m sure many will be grateful when their music is dead.”
“Hall ’N Oates [sic] often impersonate women and attempt to come across to their audiences as women.” Also, “Daryl Hall is a follower of Aleister Crowley.”
“A warning about those interested in flying with Jefferson Starship: their flight pattern ends in death.”
“Unnatural sex is the theme of REO Speedwagon’s album Hi Infidelity.”
“[Elton John’s] song ‘Bitch is Back’ is about sniffing glue.”
But don’t worry, Aranza tells us, if you love good music there are now many excellent Christian acts that can take the place of these deplorable rock and roll bands. “There are no more good excuses why Christian young people cannot hear good quality music about the ‘Rock that never rolls’. . .Jesus Christ.” Never one to let a bad pun die, Aranza writes of these Christian bands, “Christ has put their feet on the Rock and their names on the roll!”
Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of incidents in the book that further display a lack of fact-checking: “Jim Steinman, or as he is commonly called, ‘Meat Loaf.’” Jim Steinman is not Meat Loaf. “KISS (Kids In Satan’s Service).” Nope. And who can forget that famous lead singer of the Eagles “Ron Henley”? Or Kenneth Anger’s film “Lucifer’s Rising”?
In case you were wondering if Aranza’s conservative evangelicalism would take a predictable turn into racism -- fear not, it does! In a chapter discussing his own life, including a childhood filled with the horrors of rock music, drugs, and divorced parents, he writes, “As if all this wasn’t bad enough, they had just started integration in schools.” Aranza attended a school where white children were in the minority, which he describes as a twisted, violent hellscape. “We began to have race riots. All the blacks were running around saying, ‘We’s [sic] want black power.’ The Mexicans were running around saying, ‘Hey dude, we want Chicano power.’ The whites were just running around saying, ‘We want OUT!’” I suppose growing up with all those political protests -- sorry, I mean “race riots” -- it was hard not to see Satan everywhere.
This slim volume is a quick read and good for a laugh, if nothing else. However, when I was finished I also read it backward. Imagine my shock when I discovered that when read backward the book clearly states, “Jacob Aranza is a self-righteous and easily misguided imbecile who wants to use religion to control people’s lives so he can feel powerful and important.” CAUTION: Jacob Aranza is the real Bitch who’s Back because he is clearly sniffing glue!
February 19, 2019
It figures only a piece of trash like this could make me write a bilingual "review". There is no point analyzing the unending mistakes and inaccuracies of this book. Only reason to read it is to get a glimpse of the good old Satanic Panic of the '70s-'80s and see Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks consistently referred to as a man. The quite non-laughable element of it is that the writer is now some sort of Mega Church Pastor / Televangelist, the sort that became heirs to snake oil revival meetings.
Πραγματικά, μόνο ένα τέτοιο σκουπίδι θα μπορούσε να με κάνει να γράψω "κριτική" σε δύο γλώσσες. Δεν έχει νόημα ν' αναλύσει κανείς τα ατελείωτα λάθη και ανακρίβειες αυτού του βιβλίου. Ο μόνος λόγος να το διαβάσει κανείς είναι για να πάρει μια γεύση από το Satanic Panic των δεκαετιών '70-'80 και να δει τη Stevie Nicks των Fleetwood Mac να ανφέρεται σταθερά ως άντρας. Το μάλλον όχι αστείο ζήτημα είναι πως ο συγγραφέας σήμερα δουλεύει ως κάποιου είδους Πάστορας / Τηλευαγγελιστής Μεγα-Εκκλησίας - ένας από του κληρονόμους των θρησκευτικών τσαρλατάνων της αμερικανικής ερήμου.
Για την ελληνική έκδοση να αναφέρω πως είναι ΑΚΟΜΑ χειρότερη, με μια απαράδεκτη μετάφραση και τρισάθλια επιμέλεια.
Πραγματικά, μόνο ένα τέτοιο σκουπίδι θα μπορούσε να με κάνει να γράψω "κριτική" σε δύο γλώσσες. Δεν έχει νόημα ν' αναλύσει κανείς τα ατελείωτα λάθη και ανακρίβειες αυτού του βιβλίου. Ο μόνος λόγος να το διαβάσει κανείς είναι για να πάρει μια γεύση από το Satanic Panic των δεκαετιών '70-'80 και να δει τη Stevie Nicks των Fleetwood Mac να ανφέρεται σταθερά ως άντρας. Το μάλλον όχι αστείο ζήτημα είναι πως ο συγγραφέας σήμερα δουλεύει ως κάποιου είδους Πάστορας / Τηλευαγγελιστής Μεγα-Εκκλησίας - ένας από του κληρονόμους των θρησκευτικών τσαρλατάνων της αμερικανικής ερήμου.
Για την ελληνική έκδοση να αναφέρω πως είναι ΑΚΟΜΑ χειρότερη, με μια απαράδεκτη μετάφραση και τρισάθλια επιμέλεια.
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February 3, 2014The basic premise of this book is that rock music is Satanic, and rock stars, when not doing other debauched things, are trying to lead the kids of American to hell. The author earnestly believes that rock music is it's own religion. An EVIL religion, that is.
It has got to be the most ridiculous book I have ever read. I sort of want to find a copy on Amazon though, because it's sure to be a great conversation starter at parties.
Not that I mean to criticize anyone's belief systems, no matter how backwards they are. But they should have a least gotten an editor. I assure you, there is a difference between the words "role" and "roll."
And then the author is fond of ridiculous puns. Like this one: "I'm sure lots of people will be grateful when their music is dead," referring to The Grateful Dead. Ugh.
But then what can I expect from a book so old that it described The Police as "the hot new sensation from England?"
If you can find this book for under a dollar, it is totally worth it for the laughs. And you can also trace the Religious Right back before you were born!!!
It has got to be the most ridiculous book I have ever read. I sort of want to find a copy on Amazon though, because it's sure to be a great conversation starter at parties.
Not that I mean to criticize anyone's belief systems, no matter how backwards they are. But they should have a least gotten an editor. I assure you, there is a difference between the words "role" and "roll."
And then the author is fond of ridiculous puns. Like this one: "I'm sure lots of people will be grateful when their music is dead," referring to The Grateful Dead. Ugh.
But then what can I expect from a book so old that it described The Police as "the hot new sensation from England?"
If you can find this book for under a dollar, it is totally worth it for the laughs. And you can also trace the Religious Right back before you were born!!!
January 24, 2023
IS ROCK MUSIC INFUSED WITH ‘HIDDEN’ SATANIC MESSAGES?
Jacob Aranza is pastor of Our Savior's Church in Louisiana.
He begins this 1983 book with the statement, “What’s wrong with Rock and Roll? Plenty!... Rock music is laced with lyrics exalting drugs, immorality… and rebellion… there is now a more sinister danger. It’s called ‘backward masking.’ Backward masking is a … technique that rock groups are using to convey satanic and drug related messages to the subconscious. This technique is used by someone saying something forward which intentionally means something else played backward. Another way this can be used is by taking one of the many tracks that are used in recording an album and placing one secret message mixed into the album at a very low level, yet still backwards.” (Pg. 1)
He continues, “if someone said to you, ‘Satan is God,’ you would immediately reject it or your … Reticular Activating System would reject it. But if you heard, ‘dog si natas,’ a number of times which is ‘Satan is God’ backwards, it would be ‘decoded’ by the right part … of the brain and stored as fact.” (Pg. 2)
He states, “For anyone who has had any experience with the occult, this is not shocking information … Is it any wonder that in a recent TV interview that Jim Steinman, or as he is commonly called, ‘Meat Loaf,’ admitted that groups used backward masking, but only for fun? David Bowie admitted in a recent … interview that one of the songs on his album ‘Lodger,’ was another sing, just played backwards. The group Styx… have a label on the album stating,’ This album contains backward masking.. Of course, backward masking is nothing new to either of these groups.” (Pg. 4)
He says, “The Beatles started using backward masking on their ‘White Album’ with the song ‘Revolution Number Nine’ … Played backwards it becomes, ‘Turn me on, dead man’… Why? At this time the Beatles were trying to make the public believe that Paul McCartney was dead, merely as a publicity stunt.” (Pg. 6)
He recounts, “What many [parents] do not realize is that their teenagers haven’t given up religion, but have simply joined a new one:” the Religion of Rock and Roll. I was once a member of it myself. Now if you would have asked me back if this was true I would have denied it. But, in fact, everything that I believed could be found in the rhyming lyric of rock and roll.” (Pg. 42)
He recalls, “the first time I spoke on the subject of rock and roll… [was in] the community of Waco, Texas… After I spoke the first night we decided to have everyone bring in the records that they wanted to get rid of and the following evening we would burn them. When I … saw how many there were, I was amazed… So were the newspaper reporters and television crewman who were sent to cover the story. Even before the burning the church started receiving obscene phone calls… Every few minutes during the burning a carload of teenagers would drive by swearing, cursing and screaming out, ‘Rock is here to stay. It will never die.’ … I couldn’t understand how people refused to see the sexual and occultic overtones in rock.” (Pg. 55-56)
He discusses many popular groups/artists, and describes what he views as their ‘occultic’ and Satanic messages.
He recalls that as a high school student, “With rock and roll in my ears, and drugs in my mind, I was trying to understand my role in this messed-up world… My friends and I were into the street gangs and we thought stealing and violence was where it’s at.” (Pg. 112) A Christian “was able to convince the hopeless principal to allow him an hour’s time during the student assembly. As a result of this man’s arrival at our school of 2,500 students, within a week over 1,000 of the students gave their lives to Christ… Our school turned into a revival center! Instead of carrying knives and chains, they began to carry Bibles!... Needless to say, I was one of the 1,000 who gave their lives to Christ. I left drugs, gangs, sex and rock and roll behind me.” (Pg. 113)
This book was one of the ‘early’ sources for the ‘backward masking’ controversy.
Jacob Aranza is pastor of Our Savior's Church in Louisiana.
He begins this 1983 book with the statement, “What’s wrong with Rock and Roll? Plenty!... Rock music is laced with lyrics exalting drugs, immorality… and rebellion… there is now a more sinister danger. It’s called ‘backward masking.’ Backward masking is a … technique that rock groups are using to convey satanic and drug related messages to the subconscious. This technique is used by someone saying something forward which intentionally means something else played backward. Another way this can be used is by taking one of the many tracks that are used in recording an album and placing one secret message mixed into the album at a very low level, yet still backwards.” (Pg. 1)
He continues, “if someone said to you, ‘Satan is God,’ you would immediately reject it or your … Reticular Activating System would reject it. But if you heard, ‘dog si natas,’ a number of times which is ‘Satan is God’ backwards, it would be ‘decoded’ by the right part … of the brain and stored as fact.” (Pg. 2)
He states, “For anyone who has had any experience with the occult, this is not shocking information … Is it any wonder that in a recent TV interview that Jim Steinman, or as he is commonly called, ‘Meat Loaf,’ admitted that groups used backward masking, but only for fun? David Bowie admitted in a recent … interview that one of the songs on his album ‘Lodger,’ was another sing, just played backwards. The group Styx… have a label on the album stating,’ This album contains backward masking.. Of course, backward masking is nothing new to either of these groups.” (Pg. 4)
He says, “The Beatles started using backward masking on their ‘White Album’ with the song ‘Revolution Number Nine’ … Played backwards it becomes, ‘Turn me on, dead man’… Why? At this time the Beatles were trying to make the public believe that Paul McCartney was dead, merely as a publicity stunt.” (Pg. 6)
He recounts, “What many [parents] do not realize is that their teenagers haven’t given up religion, but have simply joined a new one:” the Religion of Rock and Roll. I was once a member of it myself. Now if you would have asked me back if this was true I would have denied it. But, in fact, everything that I believed could be found in the rhyming lyric of rock and roll.” (Pg. 42)
He recalls, “the first time I spoke on the subject of rock and roll… [was in] the community of Waco, Texas… After I spoke the first night we decided to have everyone bring in the records that they wanted to get rid of and the following evening we would burn them. When I … saw how many there were, I was amazed… So were the newspaper reporters and television crewman who were sent to cover the story. Even before the burning the church started receiving obscene phone calls… Every few minutes during the burning a carload of teenagers would drive by swearing, cursing and screaming out, ‘Rock is here to stay. It will never die.’ … I couldn’t understand how people refused to see the sexual and occultic overtones in rock.” (Pg. 55-56)
He discusses many popular groups/artists, and describes what he views as their ‘occultic’ and Satanic messages.
He recalls that as a high school student, “With rock and roll in my ears, and drugs in my mind, I was trying to understand my role in this messed-up world… My friends and I were into the street gangs and we thought stealing and violence was where it’s at.” (Pg. 112) A Christian “was able to convince the hopeless principal to allow him an hour’s time during the student assembly. As a result of this man’s arrival at our school of 2,500 students, within a week over 1,000 of the students gave their lives to Christ… Our school turned into a revival center! Instead of carrying knives and chains, they began to carry Bibles!... Needless to say, I was one of the 1,000 who gave their lives to Christ. I left drugs, gangs, sex and rock and roll behind me.” (Pg. 113)
This book was one of the ‘early’ sources for the ‘backward masking’ controversy.
February 28, 2020
Apart from the fact that the premise of this book is utter drivel and obviously impossible to take seriously I have a couple of issues that still need to be addressed:
- The "author" obviously doesn't have a clue about anything he writes about, and the book is full of errors ranging from misspelled names (Ted Nuggent, Glenn Fry, Allen Parsons Project and Neil Sadaka to name a few) via other typos (the funniest being not knowing the difference between the words "fowl" and "foul") to general misinformation (like Jim Steinman being known as Meat Loaf or Ritchie Blackmore having written a song named "The Black Magician")
- About half of this 115 page tome is just a repetition of factoids and quotes about the artists that have already been mentioned earlier in the book. Without the two repetition chapters, the entire book would have been all of 65 pages long, including pictures.
- Oh yes, about those pictures. First of all, I'm pretty sure the publisher never acquired the rights to print press any of the press photos or album covers reproduced in this book. Secondly, they could at least have removed the price tags of the albums they have featured!
My main concern, however, is the blatant lie that is the book title. If you expect a detailed description of how backwards masking is a huge part of rock, or any kind of "unmasking" of the musicians and other luminaries involved in putting those pesky subliminal satanic message on all your favourite rock songs, you will be sadly disappointed. Some of the alleged messages are mentioned in the book but the subject is mostly ignored in favour of gossip about the musicians' lives and habits, as well as accounts of messages sung in plain English. Forward!
All in all, this book made me want to drink a lot, take drugs and have unprotected sex with underage girls, married women and generally people of both sexes. Oh, and worship Satan, of course!
- The "author" obviously doesn't have a clue about anything he writes about, and the book is full of errors ranging from misspelled names (Ted Nuggent, Glenn Fry, Allen Parsons Project and Neil Sadaka to name a few) via other typos (the funniest being not knowing the difference between the words "fowl" and "foul") to general misinformation (like Jim Steinman being known as Meat Loaf or Ritchie Blackmore having written a song named "The Black Magician")
- About half of this 115 page tome is just a repetition of factoids and quotes about the artists that have already been mentioned earlier in the book. Without the two repetition chapters, the entire book would have been all of 65 pages long, including pictures.
- Oh yes, about those pictures. First of all, I'm pretty sure the publisher never acquired the rights to print press any of the press photos or album covers reproduced in this book. Secondly, they could at least have removed the price tags of the albums they have featured!
My main concern, however, is the blatant lie that is the book title. If you expect a detailed description of how backwards masking is a huge part of rock, or any kind of "unmasking" of the musicians and other luminaries involved in putting those pesky subliminal satanic message on all your favourite rock songs, you will be sadly disappointed. Some of the alleged messages are mentioned in the book but the subject is mostly ignored in favour of gossip about the musicians' lives and habits, as well as accounts of messages sung in plain English. Forward!
All in all, this book made me want to drink a lot, take drugs and have unprotected sex with underage girls, married women and generally people of both sexes. Oh, and worship Satan, of course!
March 27, 2018
Our church librarian is disposing of this book and gave it to me to read before doing so. I can see why it's headed for the trash bin as it's very poorly written and limitedly researched. Also, when seeing other books from this same publisher, the company appears ready to cash in on the latest hot rumor and hot button topic. I'll leave it to others to debate the merits of the idea that Satan controls much of popular rock music. As a believer myself, I have trouble getting too worked up about it (although at one time I was concerned). The good news of the gospel is stronger than the bad news of evil any day.
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October 18, 2021i enjoyed the back of this book where it listed the author's full home address(??) u'd think if satanists are real and theres roving gangs of rock and roll loving killers who sacrifice ppl to their dark lord that would be a bad idea but i guess not!
July 2, 2022
Okay, this book is obviously terrible. But from a music standpoint it's absolutely hilarious. The most random acts get name-dropped as satanic. And not even the ones you'd think! Like Hall & Oates, the Captain & Tennille, and the Bee-Gees?!
August 24, 2023
I rather enjoyed this book when I first read it back in the 1980s. The reason I enjoyed it is because it made me laugh a lot because I thought it was satire. It was quite a let down when I later found out he was serious.
June 4, 2021
It's hard to believe how much I bought this argument as a ninth grader.
But still, Another One Bites the Dust played backwards DOES sound like "It's fun to smoke marijuana."
But still, Another One Bites the Dust played backwards DOES sound like "It's fun to smoke marijuana."
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 2, 2023
This book was so bad that I genuinely thought it was satire. Read the entire thing in one afternoon because I was enthralled by its absurdity. If you're a fan of rock, read it for a good laugh.
October 5, 2024
Moronic nonsense. Hail Satan Eternally!
June 14, 2025
Good grief.
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August 4, 2023🤣🤣🤣 What a load of rubbish.
THE ROCK ROLLS FOREVER ON!!!
THE ROCK ROLLS FOREVER ON!!!
January 18, 2015
Ah, if ever there was a zeitgeist, the great Satanic panic of the 70s and 80s fits the bill. Boy, everybody was jumping on this train bound for nowhere. And lots of money was made by crusaders selling books outlining all the sick, twisted, horrific things happening in the world of music (this book even spawned a sequel, "More Rock, Country and Backward Masking Unmasked", which I've also read).The writers of these books had a very profitable advantage over their trusting audience in that the trusting audience didn't have the internet to do their own research. For surely, if the internet was around back then, everyone would've found that most of the so-called backward messages "exposed" in these books were actually the results of these bands RESPONDING to the initial accusations by producing the very things they were alleged to've done. (I.e.: "oh, you're saying we put a backward message on our last album? We didn't, but now that you mention it, we're gonna put one on our next album just for you.) In truth, most of these bands did it ex post facto, to cash in on the controversy. (I.e.: "Hey, this backmasking thing is causing a big stir. If we put it on our new album it'll get a lot more attention!")
20th century version of the Salem Witch Trials.
20th century version of the Salem Witch Trials.
September 17, 2012
one chapter of actual content, completely misunderstanding the topic on which the book is written, and then several chapters of quotes and anecdotes about how evil rock stars of the 60's-80's are, repeated over and over in different contexts.
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