Posted by:
munchybotaz
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Date: December 01, 2010 01:21PM
I have all these thoughts about songs from the sixties and seventies that include references to premarital or extramarital sex, drugs, smoking, drinking, swearing, and various other things that Mormons disapprove of. Most of them are from the time we lived in Salt Lake, before the churchgoing started, so I don't know if I picked up ideas from other kids or my parents influenced me by being generally conservative or what.
I'm sure some of the thoughts I have about Beatles songs came from my parents--Back in the USSR, for example. I always think "bad, Communists, shouldn't be in Russia."
They didn't like rock music at all and called it n***** music (my mom still does, to my eternal shame), but they let me listen to whatever I wanted. Peter Frampton was "that awful pink hair," but I don't remember them saying much else. Despite their disapproval of The Beatles, I got Imagine by John Lennon along with the Carpenters for Christmas when I was in the 6th grade.
I even have thoughts about songs that came out in the eighties, when I was on my own. "I'm No Angel" by Gregg Allman is a good example. I love that song, but I can't stop myself from thinking "what a scumbag--he's sleeping with her and stealing her diamonds and stuff."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEP_dPN3HawEdited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2010 01:44PM by munchybotaz.