Posted on 08/04/2007 5:21:41 PM PDT by freedom44
The last thing the world needs is Rock. It’s hideous and evil. There’s plenty of real music we could flood Iran with.
Name a few of these "real" musicians, please. I'm trying to get a handle on what angle of our culture you're coming from.
Secondarily, do you think they would be accepted by Iranian youth, or Iranians in general?
True. But Rock music is very destructive. Probably surpassed only by Rap “music’.
Rap isn't music. At best, some of it is street poetry over a drum machine. Most of it is unlistenable violent drek. But with a sufficiently powerful low-end amp (such as in the cars that have outrageous stereos), it might indeed be destructive.
Hahahha! Yeah, then he took a potty break on the wall of Imanutjob's house ;)
Rock and Roll will save your soul!!
Do you mean hard rock, or that easy listening crap that passes for rock? If we sent Motorhead out there, they’d crap their pants and surrender. I consider them metal, and I like metal. Good music to scrub walls and windows to ;-)
George Olsen. Paul Whiteman. Ben Pollack. Jesse Stafford. Gus Arnheim. B.A. Rolfe.
I guess when the government said it encourages getting stoned, this wasn’t what they meant.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ray Parker song!
they are a little behind the times...we thought Rock was satanic and our downfall in the 50’s ...ha/.
Yeah, let's all play classical music coming out of those phonographs.
Rock will wound Iran. Hip-hop and Rap will kill it.
Instead of bombing them, we should flood their airwaves with MTV.
If they were dancing to Trixter, then it was a perfectly legitimate use of state power.
But you have to admit Elvis wiggling his hips drove the parents overboard.
” revealing female clothing “
No doubt one saucy lass had on one of those burkas that allows her face to be seen.
“The last thing the world needs is Rock. It’s hideous and evil. There’s plenty of real music we could flood Iran with.”
Wow! My grandpa has come back from the dad and found me online!
>> Name a few of these "real" musicians, please. I'm trying to get a handle on what angle of our culture you're coming from. Secondarily, do you think they would be accepted by Iranian youth, or Iranians in general?
> George Olsen. Paul Whiteman. Ben Pollack. Jesse Stafford. Gus Arnheim. B.A. Rolfe.
Ah, so. Excellent and worthy artists all. Their heydays were mostly before my own time (I was born in the early 50's). The King of Jazz, the King of Swing,... you have invoked some very powerful names there.
Unfortunately, I don't think the music those titans created will hold the same power to revolutionize the youth of Iran, as the more catchy rhythms of modern rock-n-roll. But I appreciate your response, and I understand and respect where you're coming from. Thanks.
Lots of folks say that about yer sister, too.
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