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What are your views on the blues and rock?

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Roy Monis:

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--- Quote from: Paul on May 16, 2008, 02:21:37 PM ---These forms of music are extremely carnal (90% of early rock and blues songs are about women) What are your views on them? And what about dancing?

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We listen to the music we grew up with,

And those that say that X kind of music is "bad" are the older people that grew up with listening to other kinds of music. They dont like it, therefore it is "evil". It's the same notes, the same scales, etc. Only the instruments are different. I dont like the drug culture that surrounds it though. That is the self destructive part that is evil, imo.

I listened to those old people, and threw away hundreds of $  worth of CDs. I wish I hadn't done that.



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When I was a kid my friends mom said our music just noise. Now when I listen to some of those 50's songs that I like so much, I see that she was right on.

Like you said: "We listen to the music we grew up with."

Dennis

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Hi! Dennis

I grew up when you had to wind the gramophone up, change the needle after each windup and replay. More bother than it was worth, not even much fun. But it kept us going and out of mischief.

Good old days. What!

God bless.

Love in Christ Jesus.

Roy.    "The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1Jn.4:8

David:
I personally think Christians get far too hung up on music. Someone mentioned Ray doesn't like certain types of music. I read an email of his recently to a young lady enquiring about her taste in music. Ray said something along the lines of  "You will wonder one day why you thought it to be entertainment". I think its fair to say Ray may well have made that statement regardless of his faith. Some people just don't like certain kinds of music, whether they happen to be Christians or not.
I think what we as Christians need to make a choice about is whether the lyrical content of a song, regardless of genre, is something we should be listening to. I listen to a lot of blues music that has no lyrical content at all, and its wonderful. I listen to a lot of instrumental rock music, its wonderful. My wife listens to a lot of club style dance music that has no lyrics in it, and frankly I hate it. It has nothing to with any possible offensive lyrics, its just the sound and arrangement is offensive to my ear.
When I was in Church I listened to a lot of Christian "worship" music, and from a Scriptural perspective it was by and large total rubbish. From a purely musical critical perspective it was mostly utterly dreadful tuneless, moronic garbage, hardly worthy of being called music at all. So I don't think Christians have a leg to stand on when they try to dictate to people what they should be listening to.
People such as Mozart were about as carnal and decedent as you can get, yet his music was and is about as spiritually uplifting as music can be.   

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