DJ Discusses 'Hidden Messages' on PF LP's
| Data: February 1980 Miejsce: WAQX, Syracuse, New York, USA FM Broadcast |
1. Sheep 2. Backwards-Masking: The Beatles 3. Empty Spaces |
This is an interesting time-capsule
highlighting an early example of the 1980's obsession with rock music's apparent
moral decay... by the mid-80's the American Religious Right had created a
firestorm around 'satanic lyrics' and backward-masked messages which seemed to
be causing many of their children to take drugs, wear black clothes and
eye-liner... the kind of things kids wouldn't do unless some malevolent
influence was causing them to act out of character :-)
The DJ was Steve Becker, assisted by an unnamed evangelical who seems to have
made it his life's work to expose the dangers of this stuff. It's all quite
amusing, especially the bit where we're told the '23rd Psalm' excerpt from Sheep
is only apparent after listening to the song a hundred or more times... is it
really that obscured?!
Added: 01.10.2007
