and i heard that 'hotel california' was a demon worshiping song?

Question

is it? ehh. i hate it when my friends try to scare me or something. and something about 3 6 mafia and 666 and 'stay fly'. man. im going to have nightmares tonight... (o_o)

Answer 1

its true. it is. you should try listening to it backwards. you can hear them whispering "satan is god, satan is god, satan is god," and stuff like that. its really creepy. not to mention the original lyrics are actually a metaphor for hell.

And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

in other words, becuz of what you've done, you are in hell, and you can go there any time, but you can never leave. you're there to stay. no matter what. even though im sure that once ur in hell ur gonna wish that you never checked in....and that you could find a way out.

Answer 2

Come on people - show a little intelligence and common sense.
The whole song is about the trap of drug addiction, specifically cocaine - "and in the Master's chambers, they gathered for the feast - they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to cutting cocaine on a mirror with a razor blade prior to snorting it.
As to the other bands from the 70s having anything to do with actual devil worshipping - it's a bunch of baloney. As Gene Simmons from KISS once said, "Any press is good press - Bad press, is good press." - meaning that the more you are talked about in the media the more people buy your music. It has never been proven that any so-called "hidden messages" backwards or otherwise, have ever truly existed except in the overworked imaginations of people who *want* to hear something. For 90% of the bands with "hellish themes" it was all a gimmick. The biggest "demon" most of those bands had to cope with was alcohol and drug addictions. From Alice to Ozzy to Marilyn, they are all great students of the schlock, the shtick, and the gimmick. They do it for one reason - to put on a show people will never forget, so you will buy their music and make them rich. And that's not a bad thing - getting rich and making it big is the American Dream, after all.

Answer 3

If you check the history of backmasking and I don't know if you cangoogle it, you may find that the beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamond" os about LSD = Lucy...Sky...Diamonds. Stairway to heaven by Led Zeplin played backwards sound like the stairway to hell. Snowblind by the rock group styxs is really about cocaine, Another one bites the dust by Queen played backwards is "choose to smoke Marijawana" (However you spell mary Jane) Even Britney Spears is known for backmasking. Blue Oyster Cult was a band of satanist, it was alleged. AC/DC means they will go both ways, KISS means Knight in Satans Service, RUSH means a drug rush, Queen mean queer or gay, Black sabbath was of course the devils sabbath, Styxs is the river to hell. For todays groups there are some groups that claim to be possessed when they play like Slayer. Incubus is a demon that comes into your dreams at noght and has sex with you. And on it goes. But I still love Ozzy the bat eating rocker.

Answer 4

The most common theory that I have heard is that the "Hotel California" referred to the California Penal System. But I have also heard it stated that it was about a bad relationship one of the band members had.

Either way, it is neither a demon-worshipping song nor a description of Hell. Sleep easy on that.....

Answer 5

Yes, when it first came out, I heard it was about Satan worshippers, a cult. I have also, since then, heard it was about the ecological rape of the land's natural resources; that it's about a mental institution; that it's about a weird college sorority or fraternity with the details disguised to avoid lawsuits; and that it's not about anything, that the band was deliberately wanting people to read into it more than is there.

Who knows? They make good stories, don't they?

Answer 6

I've heard a lot of things about this song....from the mental institution thing to that it's about cancer....but demon worshipping? Nah, never heard that. If that's all it takes to make you sleepless, for heaven's sake don't listen to anything by Blue Oyster Cult....LOL...especially that one "Joan Crawford has risen from the Grave"...oh and watch out for old Alice Cooper songs too....chilling.

Answer 7

THere are a lot of rumours about the song. That is one of them. I believe in the theory that the song is about drug addiction. The song does not advocate evil, but offer a sense of being lost and trapped. Either way it induces people not to fall in either traps. Another theory involves my favorite place Camrillo state, an insane asylum. (I tell everyone I went there for my education)

Answer 8

No, Hotel California is about Camarillo State Hospital, it was a mental institution (which was shut down in the mid 80's).
“You can checkout any time you like, but you can’t never leave".

Answer 9

"Crossroads" by potential of Cream (1968 Winterland Ballroom overall performance from the Wheels of hearth lp, not 2005 Royal Albert hall overall performance). IMHO, in basic terms the main kick *** stay guitar overall performance interior the historic previous of rock track.

Answer 10

Are you for real? Did you listen to the words? I swear people will make mountains out of molehills. Its about sex! Dah