Number of posts : 23649 Age : 55 Localisation : Tennessee Registration date : 2007-01-30
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:35 am
I agree. We were attracted to many of the songs/bands we like because of the lyrics. We thought they were funny and cool. The lyrics of pop music have always been aimed at the rebellous youth who bought the albums just like today's pop is. With that in mind, you will always get vulgar, violent, and maybe even hate-infused lyrics as each generation feels that it's music must be more rebellious than their parents' music was. Sadly, our generation's music was pretty vulgar on it's own, so no wonder today's stuff is as bad as it is. Can you imagine what it will be like in the future? Rock videos will probably just be shots of the band playing during porn scenes.
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Number of posts : 9986 Age : 54 Localisation : Yucca Valley, CA Registration date : 2007-05-18
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:34 am
I'll have to agree. As a music lover since early childhood, I've loved many songs and groups strictly cuz of their sound, not their lyrics. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I gravitated towards bands like Slayer, Crass, Bad Religion, King Diamond, Lizzy Borden, W.A.S.P., S.O.D., etc - strictly cuz they were "bad", "cool", "angry", "against everything" and so on. But what about great songs that made the radio - Wouldn't cherry pie, with it's great sound, have still been popular if they sang with the same attitude but said "She's my Sweety Pie..." and worked the lyrics to be a clean love song, where Warrant sings about being head over heels for this gal, sans all the sexual lyrics ? The song SOUNDS great, am I naive to think that it would have worked without the sexual innuendos ? (and they would've had to change the album art ) What's your thoughts on this ?
Guilty/Forgiven
Number of posts : 9986 Age : 54 Localisation : Yucca Valley, CA Registration date : 2007-05-18
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:49 am
It would be interesting to take 80s metal and have it created and released in the 50s. So you have the exact same sound of 80s metal, but created during the innocence that was so prevalent in 1950's popular entertainment. What would the lyrics be like then ? I think it'd be cool ! haha ---------------------------------------------------------------
Can we even think of any bands that fall into the category of 80s metal, glam or otherwise, that made the charts with songs that weren't about sex ? or about alternative religious beliefs/idealisms ? I'm trying to, but everyone that pops in my head had some sort of innuendo.
ishmael81
Number of posts : 3417 Age : 43 Localisation : St Louis Registration date : 2012-06-08
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:27 am
It's a great thought but I don't think it would have worked. Plus, in my experience, it's really hard to convince someone with no moral standard about a subject to change what they say/think about it, if that makes sense.
Staybrite
Number of posts : 23657 Age : 56 Localisation : Arizona Desert Registration date : 2007-02-08
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:29 am
It's funny because I wasn't raised in a Christian home and didn't even come to a knowing salvation through Christ until 2005 (in my 30's). But I was always a bit disturbed by bands with bad lyrics. I really liked Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dokken, Queensryche etc., but the few songs those bands sang that were about the occult or sexual immorality kind of bothered me a little. I liked Motley Crue when they were "shouting at the devil" but once they started singing anthems to strippers I kind of lost interest. I remember when a few of my friends started getting into Slayer I bought one of their albums and tried to like it but I just couldn't...the lyrics just bothered me (and I was not a fan of thrash at all). Don't get me wrong, I was not a saint by any means. As a matter of fact I hated most Christians and when one of them pestered me about my music or my long hair (or my drug use) I used to rail against them just as hard and claim that "the Devil got a raw deal just for being a rebel". So I was not a good young man at all. I can't explain my disdain for songs with lyrics about sexual immorality or satanic stuff, other than to say it just might have been God working on my heart.
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:58 pm
Guilty/Forgiven wrote:
It would be interesting to take 80s metal and have it created and released in the 50s. So you have the exact same sound of 80s metal, but created during the innocence that was so prevalent in 1950's popular entertainment. What would the lyrics be like then ? I think it'd be cool ! haha ---------------------------------------------------------------
Can we even think of any bands that fall into the category of 80s metal, glam or otherwise, that made the charts with songs that weren't about sex ? or about alternative religious beliefs/idealisms ? I'm trying to, but everyone that pops in my head had some sort of innuendo.
They already tried that ..it was called Nelson..
Guilty/Forgiven
Number of posts : 9986 Age : 54 Localisation : Yucca Valley, CA Registration date : 2007-05-18
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:22 am
^ not a Nelson fan, but that sounds pretty good ! I like it !
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:39 am
Guilty/Forgiven wrote:
^ not a Nelson fan, but that sounds pretty good ! I like it !
That was one of the songs that got them all that airplay on MTV. Squeaky clean band lyrically, at least from what I remember. A lot of metalheads hated them and thought they were a bunch of pansies. So as a metalhead, you had to kind of like them privately. lol. I even had their debut cd.
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:11 pm
I'll give y'all one guess what mine is...
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:59 pm
kerrick wrote:
I'll give y'all one guess what mine is...
It's THIS guy because you have the same name..isn't it?
ishmael81
Number of posts : 3417 Age : 43 Localisation : St Louis Registration date : 2012-06-08
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:53 pm
kerrick wrote:
I'll give y'all one guess what mine is...
what's up dude? It's me ishmael81 aka threadkiller aka Gandalf the White...
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:07 pm
What's up dude!?! Good to see you here.
Who's this guy that has my name??? I'll have to check that video out once I get home from work...
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:39 am
kerrick wrote:
What's up dude!?! Good to see you here.
Who's this guy that has my name??? I'll have to check that video out once I get home from work...
That OTHER Kerrick is the Anti-Maiden...
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Fri Jul 19, 2013 6:53 pm
I don't take kindly to folks who don't take kindly to Maiden...
Samson
Number of posts : 739 Age : 47 Localisation : Great state of Arkansas Registration date : 2012-06-08
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Fri Jul 19, 2013 7:14 pm
Favorite secular band of all time is Rammstein. But it may be losing its spot to Evile soon.
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:12 pm
kerrick wrote:
I don't take kindly to folks who don't take kindly to Maiden...
Have you watched the video yet?
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:59 pm
Oh gosh, just watched it... *must crank Maiden to purge my ears from that!!!*
xenonlion
Number of posts : 1689 Age : 26 Registration date : 2013-08-19
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Mon Aug 19, 2013 7:27 pm
kerrick wrote:
I'll give y'all one guess what mine is...
Metallica!
(I'm kidding. It's obviously Megadeth. No. It's Iron Maiden.)
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:51 pm
Hahaha well third time is the charm I guess...
unworthy
Number of posts : 856 Age : 45 Localisation : Arcanum, OH Registration date : 2012-06-08
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:50 am
I never liked Maiden.
my favorite would've been one of the following, probably:
King Diamond AC/DC Megadeth
xenonlion
Number of posts : 1689 Age : 26 Registration date : 2013-08-19
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:48 am
kerrick wrote:
Hahaha well third time is the charm I guess...
So it's not Megadeth? Then it IS Iron Maiden.
kerrick wrote:
I don't take kindly to folks who don't take kindly to Maiden...
unworthy wrote:
I never liked Maiden.
UH-OH!!!!!!
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:14 pm
unworthy wrote:
I never liked Maiden.
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:37 pm
KISS
Followed by Ac/Dc
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Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:38 pm
kerrick wrote:
unworthy wrote:
I never liked Maiden.
Kerrick...don't worry bro..we all know unworthy has no REAL taste in music...
kerrick
Number of posts : 3556 Age : 37 Registration date : 2013-07-17
Subject: Re: Your favorite SECULAR band ? Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:19 pm