Is the Eagles song "Hotel Califronia" really inspired by the devil?
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I have heard that the Hotel California is a Satanic church.  Don't have any idea if that is just an urban legend or what.  Guess I will go look it up.\n\nOkay well, according to snopes, it isn't.  This is what they have to say about it:\nHotel California is an allegory about hedonism and greed in Southern California in the 1970s. At the time of its release, the Eagles were riding high in the music world, experiencing material success on a frightening level. Though they thoroughly enjoyed the money, drugs, and women fame threw their way, they were disquieted by it all and sought to pour that sense of unease into their music and to warn others about the dark underside of such adulation.\n\nIn a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence." \n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.htm
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When I was little my dad would listen to the Eagles song Hotel California and I used to think it said "when your out of ice" instead of "bring your alibies" at the end of the second chorus.  I was pretty young and I guess I was imagining it to be a real hotel, ice machine and all!
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dear viren k,\n  were you just born yesterday?the eagles weren't even around in the 60's neither was the lady responsible for giving them their start.\nthey started in 70's has linda rhonstats,band.they got their break when she would take an intermission and allow them to play.\nand if mem serves me correctly marley wasn't even alive when hotel came out.
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I've heard rumors of that, but the only thing I've ever heard (with my own ears) is the girl singing: You're my god/ You're my king/ Lucifer.... I stopped listening to them a few months ago!
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I saw an interview on British TV where one of the band, not Freddie or Entwistle, stated quite categorically that it was a load of old rubbish that they made up by throwing in everything they could think of.  Since it was voted the best song of the century, (or something like that) everyone seems to be treating it as something extra special.  I think it is a case of the 'Emperor's New Clothes' once again.
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Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin supposedly contains satanic messages.  You can sort of hear it if you know where to listen.  I believe it comes at the line "and the forests will echo with laughter"\n\nAnother One Bites the Dust is great.\n\nSupposedly if you play Revolution 9 by the Beatles it says that Paul is dead.  \n\nHave fun.
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don't know but this is interesting\nThis was inspired by Stevens' girlfriend, actress Patti D'Arbanville. She was also an inspiration for Stevens' songs "Wild World" and "Hard-Headed Woman." D'Arbanville went on to have an affair with Mick Jagger.
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No.\n\nAdamantium was created by John Milton in 'Paradise Lost'. It's what the gates of Hell are made of so Satan cannot escape.
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Bob Dylan said "you gotta serve somebody", if it ain't God them who? Just look at Ozzy. That fellow is definitely possessed. What would cause someone to kill their kids? It has to be demonic.
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The symbol is from the Freemasons, who don't, as a whole, worship the Devil. Most of the founding fathers were Freemasons, this isn't a conspiracy though. It stands to reason that if you were starting a rebellion you would turn to fellow members of a society that values their privacy.\n\nHow it ended up on the dollar I can't exactly remember.
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No "Lucifer" is NOT even a name for Satan!\n\nIn fact, The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christendom. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists.\n\n"Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" \n\nThe first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? Was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell? \n\nConsidering the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early "Christian" (Christendom) scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer." \n\nWhy Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King"). \n\nThe scholars authorized by ... King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness. \n\nSo "Lucifer" is nothing more than an ancient Latin name for the morning star, the bringer of light. That can be confusing for many in Christendom who identify Christ himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many of Christendom's sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." \n\nHenry Neufeld (a Christian who comments on Biblical sticky issues) went on to say, \n"this passage is often related to Satan, and a similar thought is expressed in Luke 10:18 by Jesus, that was not its first meaning. It's primary meaning is given in Isaiah 14:4 which says that when Israel is restored they will "take up this taunt against the king of Babylon . . ." Verse 12 is a part of this taunt song. This passage refers first to the fall of that earthly king... \n\nHow does the confusion in translating this verse arise? The Hebrew of this passage reads: "heleyl, ben shachar" which can be literally translated "shining one, son of dawn." This phrase means, again literally, the planet Venus when it appears as a morning star. I
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BRITNEY SPEARS----HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME IF YOU PLAY IT BACKWARDS IT SAYS "SLEEP WITH ME I'M NOT TOO YOUNG" AND A THEME SONG FROM I THINK MR. ED IF YOU PLAY IT BACKWORDS IT SAYS "I BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL" AND YEAH SUPPOSIDLY BACKWARD LYRICS ARE MESSAGES FROM SATAN BUT WHO KNOWS..........ONE TIME SOME PARENTS WERE TRYING TO SEW A BAND (DON'T REMEMBER WHO) BUT THEY WERE DOING IT BECAUSE THEIR KIDS HAD KILLED THEMSELVES BECAUSE A MESSAGE THAT WAS IN THE SONG LYRICS
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According to imdb.com, it is called Ave Satani and it was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.  Amazon.com also lists Piper Dreams but says it wasn't used although it was almost the theme.
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Do we have to be over 40 to reply? I'm 34, is that close enough? I love most everything The Eagles made. I have a concert they did in Australia on my Tivo from back in June I think. It amazes me that there were so many variations in age attending the concert! My favorite song of all time though, by them or anyone is Hotel California. I didn't realize their song "Hole in the World" was their tribute to 9/11 until I saw them say that on TV. They're great writers as well as singers/storytellers.
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NO ITS NOT TRUE , MS13 DOES NOT WORSHIP THE DEVIL., THEY ARE ACTUALLY QUITE RELIGIOUS.
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no. BUT and interesting fact: 'Lord of the Flies' a book by someone golding, about finding the evil inside every human being. Lord of the Flies in hebrew is Beelzbub, which means devil!!! sorry i just had an exam about it so its in my brain!
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no .. actually it does say u are king , u are god but it's a sample from an old song and it doesn't say lucifer and the girl is actually a guy .. i've heard the original sample . it's just played fast during stay fly . three six mafia doesn't worship the devil .. so get over it .. this is old news.  and juicy j doesnt say lucifer before the first verse, he says juicy .. i've listened to it so many times .. believe me.