Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet! I am your host, Rebecca
Felgate and today I am back once again for the renegade master as we talk about the Top
Ten Cursed songs part three! Yes, three. You are loving those cursed melodies…and I don’t
blame you…. Music is great. Music that can get you dead is risky…buy maybe sometimes
that risk is worth it.
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We have a very famous one to start off our list, we have Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
There is a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold….. played forward, Led Zeplin’s
1971 hit Stairway to Heaven is a beautiful melodic rock classic filled with divine references.
Played backward, some people think they have heard the death. It all started in 1981. People
had been happily listening to the track for TEN YEARS without worrying about the effect
it may have on their souls when Michael Mills, a Michigan minister appeared in Christian
radio denouncing the track as Satanist propaganda. He said when played backward, phrases like
Master Satan, sere me and there is no escaping it where hidden in the music. Alleged the
song says: Here's to my sweet Satan/The one whose little path would make me sad, whose
power is Satan/He will give those with him 666/There was a little toolshed where he made
us suffer, sad Satan…. But you know… to me, that makes literally no sense. If the
song was designed to brainwash people and lead them on a slippery slide to hell, rather
than the advertised stairway to heaven, wouldn’t they want to make their message a little less
ambiguous?
There is a dark urban legend surrounding this song, we have Love Rollercoaster by The Ohio
Players coming into number 9 Your love is like a roller coaster baby, baby!
I wanna ride! Yes, you do, yes you do, yes you do! I love this song….. too bad it is
cursed, or something. Between 2 minutes 32 and 36 seconds, a high pitched scream, can
be heard. Some people say it is the sound of a rabbit being hit by a car outside the
studio…although given studio soundproofing, that seems unlikely. Other people say it is
the sound of someone being murdered. Some people say that the murder victim was Ester
Cordet, the nude on the Honey Album cover. People said she was badly burned by the hot
honey used for the photoshoot and the band's manager stabbed her to death in the control
room to stop her sueing. This is pretty impossible though, as she is still alive. Whatever the
situation is with the screaming, it is pretty freaky and sounds very haunting!
This next song was subject to a civil lawsuit … 8 - Better By You, Better Than Me - Judas
Priest – So Better By You Better Than Me was originally
by Rock Band, Spooky Tooth, but it was covered by Judas Priest in 1978, and the latter English
Metal Band version was pretty popular in its day. While some loved the power rock track,
others were convinced it was cursed and led to a spate of suicides. I gave this one a
listen, and to be honest it makes me want to punch the air and thrash my hair, not kill
myself. Maybe I am impervious to the curse though. Wow. I instantly regret saying that
– that is such a movie line said before someone actually gets cursed. Anyway, back
to the song – the track was reportedly behind the suicide attempts of 19-year-old Ray Belknap
and 20-year-old James Vance in Reno, Nevada in 1985. Ray shot himself under his chin and
died instantly, James survived but was severely disfigured and overdosed three years later.
His parents claimed that the cursed track made the young men do it. The three-week trial
was heavily scrutinized by the music industry…eventually, it was thrown out.
7 - Exit - U2 Exit is by far one of the most disturbing
U2 songs. And it makes sense as Bono was channeling the mind of a murder when he wrote it. He
admitted to reading Norman Mailer’s The Executioners Song and Truman Capote’s In
Cold Blood and the book U2 by u2, Bono said: Exit was my attempt at writing a story in
the mind of a killer. It is all very well to address America and the violence that is
in an aggressive foreign policy but to really understand that you have to get under the
skin of your own darkness, the violence that we all contain within us. Well, it seems he
channeled that darkness all too well and somehow poisoned the song with it. Other people felt
the evil, and let the music live in them. Famously, murderer Robert Bardo claimed that
Exit was the inspiration behind his stalking and killing of 21-year-old American Actress
and model, Rebecca Schaeffer. The 1987 Track was a favorite for Brando, and he would use
it as motivation when he stalled the young woman for three years. Chillingly, he then
murdered her in 1989 and when the song was played in the courtroom, he mouthed along
with the lyrics…taking particular delight in the Pistol weighing a heavy bit.
Okay, this is an entire cursed album… but beyond that, this could be an entire cursed
band. 6 - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Tha Crossroads I came across an article called – Did the
Ouija board curse Bone Thugs….and the answer is…maybe! So Bone Thugs are a group of four
Grammy award-winning rappers from the 90s. When they were in their teens, they would
play with an Ouija board to try and drum up some dark energy they wanted for their sound.
They released an album called Cross Roads which really showcased their darkness, and
a lot of people think that they can hear demonic voices peppered among the tracks. Hmm. Scarier
still, a shockingly high number of rappers who worked with Bone Thugs wound up dead – 2Pac,
Notorious BIG, Eazy E and Big Pun all made music with the group and they all died. Not
only that, they died between 1994 and 1997, which were the darker days of the bands sound.
In 1998, the band took their sound in a new direction and seemingly lifted their own curse.
Perhaps they bought back their souls from the devil, or maybe they make ritual sacrifices
each year. Whatever works, I guess!
5. Jelly Roll Morton – Jelly Roll Morton is one of the most famous
Jazz musicians of all time, but like many musical legends, his time on this earth was
surprisingly short, dying at 50. Jelly didn’t always enjoy a successful music career, and
sometimes he was prone to bad luck…why, well Jelly suffered from bad JuJu. Juju, for
those that don’t know, is a West African belief in magic, and bad juju is the kind
of bad energy a person gets from dabbling in dark magic. Jelly believed his godmother,
a Creole woman, sacrificed Jelly’s soul to Satan in a black magic ritual. His belief
that he was cursed was heightened when he found colored powder sprinkled around his
office door. Down on his luck, he decided to quit music. Eventually, after worse turns
of fortune, Jelly visited a voodoo woman who told him to burn all his clothes so he could
regain some success, he did…and he did. That was until his godmother died, the woman
who cursed him in the first place. He seemed to always know his fate was tied up with hers.
We have talked about cursed songs, cursed bands… but what about cursed musical instruments!
Behold at number 4, we have Sir Francis Drake's Drum –
Many people know Sir Frances Drake as a seafarer, a naval captain, an explorer and even a slave
trader. Not that many people know that his preferred sea mate was a drum, dubbed Drakes
Drum. Drakes Drum is a snare drum that accompanied the voyager on his journeys from 1577 until
his death in 1596. As he lay dying off the coast of Panama, he ordered his drum to be
sent back home to Buckland Abbey. He laid a curse upon the drum, vowing that if England
was ever in danger, the drum should be beaten and he would emerge from heaven to defend
the country. The drum has now become part of English folklore and superstition. On several
occasions throughout history since Drake’s death, people have reported hearing the drum
beat. Many claim it was heard when Lord Nelson was freed and when world war one broke out
and again when the Imperial German Navy was defeated. The last time the drum was heard
was during the successful Dunkirk Evacuation.
3 - The band Sigh and The Curse of Izanagi Sigh is a Japanese extreme metal band from
Tokyo formed in 1989 and still rocking to this day. The band released a successful album
called scenes from hell and they recorded one of their tracks in Japanese. The Curse
of Inzangi is a track all about a voodoo curse that condemns its victim's souls to hell and
includes the lyrics: an infernal spell cast upon you trapped for eternity, it's your destiny,
your fate lies in the cruelty of my eyes. Weirdly, as soon as the band started working
on the Japanese version of the track, the owner of their music label suddenly and unexpectedly
committed suicide. The band leads singer, Mirai Kawashima said that it was the second
time someone involved with the song had died, so the banned has shelved the song ever since.
He said it is just too sinister.
2 - Beware El Silbon, The Whistler… In Columbia and Venezuela, there is a legend
of El Silbon, a lost soul who whistles. According to the legend, the whistling spirit is a young
boy who killed his father after she was abusive to his mother. Afterward, the boy was tied
up to a post and lashed. He was then set upon by starving rabid dogs and condemned to carry
his father's bones for all eternity. This, he apparently does, and hearing his whistles
foreshadows your own death. The whistle goes from musical notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B in
that order. Rising in tone to F, then lowering to B. When the whistle sound is close, there
is no danger, but when the whistle sounds faint and far away, you should be very afraid.
Apparently, the only way you can survive if you hear the whistle is if a dog barks within
60 seconds. You can keep the whistler at bay by keeping a chili on you. Sounds fair!
Songs and poetry are very closely linked, with a lyricism occurring in poems that could
easily be translated into music, next up we have a poem that causes death if you read
it aloud. Because of all this drama and assured death, Tomino's Hell is coming into number
one. Tomino's Hell is a Japanese poem that reportedly causes death and tragedy if you
read it aloud. The poem tells the story of a young boys damnation and was seemingly written
in 1919 by a Japanese professor living in France. It seems the poem may have originally
been written for children, but it is very unsettling! The English translation is a bit
patch and is quite scary to read….obviously, I am not about to read it aloud and you shouldn’t
either. It does mention vomiting blood and the blackest of hells, though. Good. Good.
So that was the Top 10 Cursed Songs You Shouldn’t listen to! Have you guys ever listened to
any on this list! Please do not read that poem out loud!
Okay, before I go, I just want to read some comments from the part 2 of this video!
Fluffy Suga Bell Wrote: Where my BTS Stans at! It actually seemed like there were a lot
of you in the comments section! Cengiz Seckin said: My favorite song is the
Russian Anthem. Amazing Anastasia Trixie’s Funny Skits wrote:
Do Part 3. WELL, this one is for you!