Rock bands who dedicate music to Satan

[strngrnrth]

I’ve had songs from Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins et al running through my head most of the day.
I hope that’s OK.

 

[Layman]

Playing rock records backwards is stupid. The human brain is geared to perceive meaning, so you might hear something that sounds like a message.

All you’re really doing is ruining your record needle.

My objection to rock music is:

1. Negative messages: Sex, drugs, violence, nihilism, narcissism.

• The monstrous deceit that love = sex and that sex before marriage is good.
• Whining in your bedroom that nobody cares.
• Giving your mother lip because, hey!, suddenly you’re a rebel (with a weekly allowance).

1. Bypassing the conscious mind. Why have bad poetry set to repetitive music repeating in your mind as you putter about the house?
2. It’s a form of advertising: buy this record, pay for the show, buy the merchandise and then buy products advertised using this ditty.
3. The lyrics are often drivel. Really dumb stuff. Nursery rhymes for adults written by kids who may not have even graduated high school.
4. White middle-aged middle-class adults trying to appropriate black working-class culture. Give it up! [grin].

I wouldn’t ban it. There are songs that bring back happy memories. Just observe how some songs make you feel; a lot of it isn’t very holy.

Look how a lot of musicians and media people end up. And these are the people teenagers look up to! Pale, sickly, old-before-their-time corporate slaves with drug habits, degenerate sex lives and serial marriages.

Rock music is Satanic in that its selfish, superficial glamour can seduce people into a lifestyle and attitude that can lead to the police station, courthouse, hospital or morgue.

 

[Augustine]

1. White middle-aged middle-class adults trying to appropriate black working-class culture. Give it up! [grin].

There’s something quite pathetic!

That teenagers like the beat of rock&roll is one thing, that mature adults are still mainly listening to it is baffling. Not unlike St. Paul’s words about having milk when a child and having solid food when an adult. Otherwise, we end up with 40-something women dressing like Britney Spears and men, like Ice Cube.

 

[BennyBoy89]

I agree with an earlier poster that some people give evil too much credit. I have a very difficult time believing that a certain type of music is in and of itself “evil.” It’s how you use it. For crying out loud, some people find Gregorian Chant creepy (GASP), and there are bands that do use that particular style of music for wickedness (Inkubus/Sukkubus, a neo-pagan band, comes to mind). Like others have said, most of the time, “satanic” and occult themes are just used to be shocking and obnoxious. It sells. It’s also impossible to plan any song and intend for some sort of “message” to come out when played backwards.

I also think a lot of people around here need to realize that us “darn kids today” don’t all sit around listening to death metal. I love Fr. Corapi, but it bugs me sometimes when he brings up incidents but doesn’t give you any details.

**What it comes down to is that many people of the True Faith like the drama of spiritual warfare. ** If you can find the devil and his angels lurking behind every row of hedges it makes the Christian life more exciting, and it also “proves” to us that God must exist. I think looking for such affirmation is a bit detrimental to our faith.

Faith and reason. We’re Catholics, not fundamentalist Baptists.