SavannahMann
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Peaceful songs like The End by the Doors?
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
"Father?" "Yes, son." "I want to kill you."
"Mother, I want to..."
Yeah, because Matricide and Patricide are totally passive and loving.
Billy Joe Mcalister jumping off th bridge was rather peaceful, other than the death by suicide on the end.
Seasons in the Sun from the 1970’s. Helter Skelter, the motivation of how many deaths?
Murder by the numbers from The Police, which is pretty much the definition of Ironic. Other songs from the police cover stalking, suicide, and oh yes, teacher student sex.
Pfui.
1962 Johnny Get Angry. Asking the boyfriend to act more like a brute a thug.
Run for your Life by the Beetles, talks about killing a girl who broke up with the guy. Yeah, how peaceful the songs of yesteryear were. /SARCASM
Songs of insanity, songs of violence. Songs of abusing women, songs where they dated obviously too young girls. But hey, it’s rap music, and you don’t like it, so it must be to blame. Pfui again.
I agree! It's because that old time music was novel! It did set the stage for your idiotic rap that every other stanza is about Nigga... killing... shootings!
I don't disagree at all. Those lyrics you quoted WERE inciting! I'm sure Charles Manson took a que from these songs. NO one disputes.
The problem is they are NOW so prolific! Almost ALL songs have some sort of violence involved.
And of course back when those songs were sung...no video games to role play killing!
It is the combination of acquiesce by people to lower standards that we are confronted with now.
And so YES those songs were seminal. Were influential. And now look what we have!
Lyrics like these!
Lyrics containing the term: gang-rape
When I was a boy, there was a group including Tipper Gore who would go and read song lyrics to Congress. They were the “Washington Wives” and they objected to lyrics like you quote, in songs.
Bobcat Goldthwait said that his dream was to record an album, and have Tipper Gore reading the lyrics into the record of Congress, so that they would be preserved for all time.
The problem isn’t the words, or the images they conjure. It is never one thing. That is a lesson that air crash investigators learn quickly. It is never one thing. Even the simplest accident has a chain of events that lead to the crash. Even suicidal pilots, it is never one thing.
I could spend the entire evening typing what I think contributing causes were, and in the end besides some time I would manage little. We could eliminate all the lyrics today, and next week, next month, whatever, we would see the same thing. Then we would be left arguing that the absence of lyrics needed more time to take effect. That is what those who argue that gun control works argue. It needs more time, and needs to be bigger.
Eventually we would all be singing you are my sunshine as it was the only song left. The Hokey Pokey would be banned since the word Hokey is in there and that means odd or not right.
It is never one thing though, that is the truth.