by loosie 64 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I had fairly spiritually weak parents so I listened to whatever I wanted but I do remember being at the hall and some elder talking about "Hurt so Good" by John Mellencamp and how it was an inappropriate song for young jws to listen too. I liked that song, even went to see him in concert soon after.
Josie
i had to buy rancid - out come the wolves 4 times because my parents kept throwing it out.
they also didn't like silverchair - frogstomp. it was funny because at the same time my mom was getting real into the beastie boys. go figure. i conceded silverchair because i had a pretty big stockpile of pantera, slayer and sepultura in the closet. (shhhh!!)
When my mother became a JW, everything was questionable. I was told to get rid of my Michael Jackson "Thriller" album (when I was 5 years old). Also, I had gotten the second Mini Pops album. My mother took the album, and put an X beside the songs I shouldn't listen to. I'm pretty sure she did that with the third album too.
The albums are still at my parents' place, and I could probably get a list of BAD songs.
When I became a teenager, I just hid everything from my mother. I listened to stuff like Poison Clan, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Maestro Fresh-Wes, NWA, 2pac (before he got popular) and anything else questionable that I could get my hands on.
My mom never really got into what music I listened to or what books I read. I was smart enough to not listen to any questionable stuff when she was around.
When we would be in the car, she'd let me bring something to play...it was usually The Cure, but surprisingly, she didn't mind them. On the way home, we'd have to listen to her Phil Collins lol
My aunt bought her a Gary Allen CD a while back, and my mom was really upset about one of the songs on there. I can't remember why, but she found something objectional. She got me to burn her a copy of the CD without that song on it.
People there said you shouldn't listen to Stairway to Heaven because of supposed backwards lyrics and one sister told me not to listen to Upside Down you Turn Me - I forget why. There were others I can't remember. For years I changed the radio station when I heard Stairway to Heaven. Now I listen to all of these songs any chance I get!
LHG
I remember being told that "Another One Bites The Dust" from Queen when played backwards was suppossed to say smoke marijuana. I actually want to check that out sometime to see if it's true. I would find that pretty funny.
"We're no gonna take it" by Twisted Sister. According to the powers that be in my hall Dee Snydor was damn near the devil's incarnate.
Also ruined was any Michael Jackson song. Pretty much everyone in my hall was praying that MJ would rejoind the Jehovah's Witnesses so that they could listen to "Beat It" again.
Even before the big rap music crackdown of the early 90's Salt N' Peppa's remake of "It's your thing" and Digital Underground's "Dowhatchalike" were blasted for promoting independant thinking.
I remember being told that "Another One Bites The Dust" from Queen when played backwards was suppossed to say smoke marijuana. I actually want to check that out sometime to see if it's true. I would find that pretty funny. In the 80,s i can remember a D.O or C.O (i forget which) actually taped it from a L.P and played it over the sound system at Bowes road assembley to prove it was suspect.(anyone here remember??) I can remember thinking if its that dodgy why play it at the Assembley??Wont we invite drug taking Demons in (or something). Absolutely ridiculous looking back now...you couldnt make out a thing!Just noise. Totally baffling and utterly ridiculous.
In 1970, a song by Shocking Blue called Venus was a #1 hit. My cousin told my mother that I liked bad songs too. I listened to a song called "Penis". I'm not lying.
fleaman.......you beat me to it.........'luckily' another one bites the dust was not a queen classic(but get down make love was much worse)....i did play it backwards(i still have lps and a record player) and if you get the speed right then you can make out something that with a bit of suggestion sounds not unlike the words 'decide to spoke marijuana' if you were drunk stoned or on medication in which case your ability to do anything backwards is severely limited
i remember the judas priest trial when they were accused of putting in backward masking that made 2 boys attempt suicide...and they argued successfully that backward masking was a recording technique and they as a band had no knowledge of recording so if there was anything in the music it was put in by technicians and not the artist themselves..they said they had listened to the lp backwards and found nothing that encouraged anyone to kill themselves..however they had found a phrase encouraging the listener to 'eat chocolate cake' and they then played it in court and there it was clear as a bell
