From: vapspwi@prism.gatech.EDU (Jerry B. Ray, Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: Galactic Cowboys, Extreme and King's X
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:28:55 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1emcglINN1lb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> sdstpk@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (the bearded one) writes:
-vapspwi@prism.gatech.EDU (I) write, without a hint of animosity:
-
-> 
->Try _listening_ to their music.  Even More Than Words, which gets loads
->of airplay, is more than just a 'Sleep with me or i won't love you anymore'
->song (sorry Jason, but we've been over that...).   Read the Heaven's Metal
->interview, which i refuse flatly to summarize to the net YET AGAIN.  Check
->out their new album, which is full of direct and indirect Scripture references
->(in context, even...), and features both excellent vocals and excellent
->musicianship, without even a hint of lethargic droning.
 

To which 'the bearded one' replies, rudely:

>Okay, Jerry.  Whatever.  Like I stated, I'm not complaining about their musical
>style, I'm complaining about their lyrics.  I will try and find the copy of
>Heaven's Metal which explores the endless spiritual boundries of Extreme, but
>I'm not holding my breath for much of a surprise.  I've had to listen to that
>song more than I care to mention due to its massive airplay.  If they're
>trying to get a message across besides 'Sleep with me or I won't love you 
>anymore', they missed the mark; otherwise, the song wouldn't be so widely
>misunderstood.  You can't expect the entire radio audiance to rush out and
>pick up the latest magazine to hear what these songs are supposedly saying.

Listen, you bozo (and all you other bozos...you know who you are :-), 
I don't give a flip whether you find the magazine or not.  I don't care
whether you ever listen to their lyrics or not.  Which include, btw, horrible
quotes like the following:

-Do unto those as you would do to yourselves, please, stop the world
from spinning 'round.  We need more feet to walk in one another's shoes...
    -from Stop the World

-Please tell me if it's true, am I too old to start anew, cause that's 
what i want to do.  But time and time again, when i think i can, I fall
short in the end...
    -from Am I Ever Gonna Change

-Tell me, Jesus, are you angry?...Here I am, a naked man, nothing to hide
with empty hands.  Remember me, I am the one, who lost his way, your
Prodigal Son...
    -from Who Cares?

-Plus lots of other references to the book of Daniel, Ecclesiastes, etc.
that you probably wouldn't catch anyway because of your preconceived
notions of what they MUST be singing about.

Like another poster says, how you interpret the songs depends on what you
bring to them.  If you're looking for 'Sleep with me...' then you'll 
find it.  There's nothing any more suggestive in the song 'More than Words'
than is in Amy Grant's 'Stay for Awhile.'  In fact, taken in the context
of the album (or is it too much to ask of the listener to use some thought
processes?) the song makes perfect sense.  Not that you'd have noticed.

So anyway, i don't give a rat's @$$ what you think about Extreme or Petra,
or any other band.  But if you don't have anything intelligent and informed
to say about a subject, just keep your mouth shut.

Thanks! :-)

JRjr
-- 
'Let's not pretend to justify, Rather amend where treasures lie.  Straight
through the heart peace can be found.  That's where you start, not all 
around...'  Extreme -- Rest In Peace
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