Catholic Answers article concerning Woodstock and John Lennon

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Dropping acid? That’s what I heard but a TV documentary and articles published at the time painted a very non-benign picture of LSD. It was a dangerous hallucinogen that could lead to people doing horrible things to themselves. I’ve studied the world wars. I saw the damage spread in the late 1960s. It ate up people and their lives. The music got steadily worse and worse. The attempt to spread hedonism across the West took a lot of effort.

The World Wars actually strengthened Democratic institutions and strengthened those who lived through those years.
 
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Yes or of asking the Hells Angels to provide security for an event (which is much the same thing).
 
BTW, not long after the hype about 500,000 attending a music festival at Woodstock, a newspaper article came out pointing to the Green Mountain Blue Grass Festival in Vermont, which drew approximately 500,000 every year and started well before Woodstock. It pointed out how there were no drugs, sex and filth that existed at Woodstock.

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The issue with Woodstock is that it was a poorly planned festival by people who had not planned festivals before, which drew an attendance far beyond what was planned, mostly young people who just showed up and weren’t prepared for a festival stay with no resources. That is why it was somewhat astounding that everything stayed reasonably peaceful, as one would be expecting riots and unrest over such a large group with no food, inadequate toilet facilities and lack of ability to get in/out for most of the weekend. Yes, there had been other music festivals with large attendance, but they were better organized, had things like food and toilets available, and drew audiences that weren’t comprised primarily of unprepared teens and twenty somethings.
 
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It was the idea of one of the members of the Grateful Dead (the bassist?), who turned tail and fled without performing when they saw trouble brewing in the audience. I guess the show mustn’t always go on.
 
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Hopefully not too far off topic…

My daughter purchased me a speaker and linked it to Pandora on my cell phone. I listened to many of my favorites, that was until I noticed the lyrics link.

It seemed that many of the songs I liked, I only liked for the harmony, not the lyrics. I’ll give two examples:

Talking Heads, Wild, wild life. (I can only think it was written on a bet…)

I’m wearin’ a Fur Pyjamas
I ride a Hot Potata’
It’s tickling my fancy
Speak up, I can’t hear you

Here on this mountaintop oh oh oh
I got some wild, wild life
I got some news to tell ya oh oh
About some wild, wild life
Here come the doctor in charge oh oh oh
She’s got some wild, wild life
Ain’t that the way you like it oh oh
Living wild, wild life

I wrestle, with your conscience
You wrestle, with your partner
Sittin’ on a window sill
But he spends his time behind closed doors

Check out Mister Businessman oh oh oh
He bought some wild, wild life
On the way to the stock exchange oh oh oh
He got some wild, wild life
Break it up when he opens the door oh oh oh
He’s doin’ wild, wild life
I know that’s the way you like it oh oh
Living wild, wild life

Peace of mind?
Piece of cake!
Thought control!
You get on board anytime you like

Like sittin’ on pins and needles
Things fall apart, it’s scientific

Sleeping on the interstate oh oh oh
Getting wild, wild life
Checkin’ in, checkin’ out! Uh, huh!
I got a wild, wild life
Spending all of my money and time oh oh oh
Done too much wild, wild
We want to go, where we go, where we go oh oh oh
I doing wild, wild life
I know it, that’s how we start oh oh oh
Got some wild, wild life
Take a picture, here in the daylight oh oh
They got some wild, wild life
You’ve grown so tall, you’ve grown so fast oh oh oh
Wild, wild
And I know that’s the way you like it oh, ho!
Living wild wild wild wild, life
How about John Lennon’s “Jealous guy” (Soft harmony/orchestra with somewhat apologetic starting lyrics but by the end sounds like an unrepentant abuser.)

I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control
I didn’t mean to hurt you
I’m sorry that I made you cry
Oh my I didn’t want to hurt you
I’m just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside
Oh I didn’t mean to hurt you
I’m sorry that I made you cry
Oh my I didn’t want to hurt you
I’m just a jealous guy

I didn’t mean to hurt you
I’m sorry that I made you cry
Oh my I didn’t want to hurt you
I’m just a jealous guy

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain
I didn’t mean to hurt you
I’m sorry that I made you cry
Oh no I didn’t want to hurt you
I’m just a jealous guy
Watch out baby I’m just a jealous guy
Look out baby I’m just a jealous guy

“Paycheck” songs?
 
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That is the problem with some songs from the period. Talking Heads is partly dysfunctional.
 
I think it’s too much to ask that the lyrics, or as I call it, the “poetry of pop music” make sense, or have moral value. The lyrics are usually dreck, and we’re better off if they cannot be understood, IMO.
 
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s normal people watched the Hippies and Anarchists come into our neighborhoods - our quiet and peaceful neighborhoods - in the 1960s to preach random sex, ignore the Church and mom and dad, use illegal drugs, which they could provide,
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What neighborhoods were being infiltrated in the way you describe? Were these hippies and anarchists standing on street corners in suburbia preaching at kids?
 
Life During Wartime by Talking Heads had cool, interesting lyrics.
 
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