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Religion and Ethics Discussion => Christian Topic => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 07:46:27 PM

Title: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 07:46:27 PM

And why it is against scripture

http://truediscipleship.com/ten-scriptural-reasons-why-the-rock-beat-is-evil-in-any-form/
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: jeremyp on August 22, 2018, 07:52:39 PM
FFS

It’s enough to induce a purple haze.
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Shaker on August 22, 2018, 08:00:45 PM
Is this something to do with those popular music groups the youngsters are so keen on these days?
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 08:02:26 PM
I fear so! I think they follow the 'pop chart' via the wireless radio!
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Shaker on August 22, 2018, 08:04:53 PM
To hell in a handcart ::)
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 22, 2018, 08:09:55 PM
Here is a scary documentary of the evil seduction

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expresso_Bongo_(film
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Gordon on August 22, 2018, 08:14:45 PM
It is utterly bizarre: the idea that 'Christian Rock', which must an oxymoron, is in any sense edgy is just nonsense: anodyne would be better adjective. The 'rock beat' is also nonsense since there is no such thing.

I liked this bit:

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“I started listening to ‘Christian contemporary’ (rock) music when I was twelve. At this time I was attending a private Christian school, and there my friends all listened to it. The pressure was great, so I started to listen to some of their tapes once in a while.

“I became hooked. It may be hard to believe, but that music made me think sensuous thoughts, and the beat made me want to sway and dance like the world. After this I started to listen to ‘Christian contemporary’ music all the time, and even though my parents didn’t like it, I got some tapes of my own to listen to.

This must be where Lou Reed got his inspiration for 'Walk on the Wild Side' from - or not.

Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Anchorman on August 23, 2018, 09:41:29 AM
Garbage - not the group. I've listened to CCM and Christian rock for thirty-odd years. Just like mainstream, some is trash, some is good, somee is frankly brilliant....but nothing in either rock or Christian rock has done anything to shake my faith. One country folk Christian artixt I like - because some of his stuff gets to the heart, and some more cuts the rip-off mwerchants of the 'prosperity Gospel' shower down to size, is Don Fransisco. Yes, the music's a bit simplistic, but his lyrics are usually spot on. I wish I could find this on Youtube - I can't - but here are lyrics to a song about this kind of thing. I have it on CD, by the way. https://genius.com/Don-francisco-freedom-to-move-lyrics
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Anchorman on August 23, 2018, 09:49:42 AM
It is utterly bizarre: the idea that 'Christian Rock', which must an oxymoron, is in any sense edgy is just nonsense: anodyne would be better adjective. The 'rock beat' is also nonsense since there is no such thing.

I liked this bit:

This must be where Lou Reed got his inspiration for 'Walk on the Wild Side' from - or not.


It is utterly bizarre: the idea that 'Christian Rock', which must an oxymoron, is in any sense edgy is just nonsense: anodyne would be better adjective. The 'rock beat' is also nonsense since there is no such thing.

I liked this bit:

This must be where Lou Reed got his inspiration for 'Walk on the Wild Side' from - or not.




OO   
COxymoron?
Take that back or I'll throw my Petra T shirt at you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pQdCPlxP50
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Steve H on August 23, 2018, 09:53:16 AM
Christian rock at its finest.

https://youtu.be/7-NOZU2iPA8
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Anchorman on August 23, 2018, 09:57:06 AM
British CCM Christian folk/Rock. Iona. I could have used one of their fantastic instrumental pieces, but, hey.... from the "Book of Kells" themic album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFv6ZePDG0
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Gordon on August 23, 2018, 10:48:43 AM
Christian rock at its finest.

https://youtu.be/7-NOZU2iPA8

That is truly awful - a sort of demented ska: I'm sure I'll end up having nightmares about this.
Title: Re: The evil of the rock beat...
Post by: Enki on August 23, 2018, 11:09:03 AM
I was brought up on rock music, e.g.early Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Fats Domino, Connie Francis. Of course some of these artists had Christian influences, but it was the rock music that the teenagers of that time liked. It was our music, not the music of our parents. The more they disliked it, the more we took to it. Did it have a bad effect upon us? I doubt it. In my case, it led me on to be interested in American blues music, and jazz, especially New Orleans and Big Band jazz.

A lot of my musical tastes are expressed in what I think was a fantastic film 'The Blues Brothers' which did have a sort of Christian theme, but, for me, it was the music that made it.