(I prefer classical, but AC/DC and classic rock like that can make me happy.)
Happy? More like pleasure from sublimated concupiscence. That stuff, particularly stuff like AC/DC, is straight from hell. I am not prating some sort of Puritan/Jansenist idiocy. I mean it quite literally. I'm surprised no one else has commented on it. (If this starts derailing this thread, perhaps Matthew can move it to its own thread entitled something like "Can listening to AC/DC make you happy?" or something like that.
Woah! I'm having trouble finding my old posts to respond to, so I've just read all this.
Yes, it's definitely devil's music. I get that. I complain loudly and often about "Imagine" by Dead Lennon (and get hammered for it).
I can't listen to the effeminate stuff, but the more obvious stuff (AC/DC, Poison, etc) is at least honest with its evil, and mostly, it helps me remember that this is what the world hears, especially kids, and when I have to deal with my kid's friend getting "busted" in 5th grade with a
blunt, I find it's helpful to remember that I might have grown up like him, and retain some semblance of charity (instead of writing the kid off). That's what I thought this thread was about: the world going to Hell in a handbasket, and how you avoid falling into despair and saying, "let them rot in Hell."
Also, while I can't with the effeminate NewMass music, I can refute lyrics from the songs kids listen to:
"Back in Black" <--- No, you're not going to resurrect yourself, and
"The Wall" <--- the only people trying to 'control your mind' is the state with their lowest-ever "standards" education to keep you bored and dumb; it's actually propaganda btw, look it up.
"She's my cherry pie," <--- no, you little runt: you need to be able to raise a family "better than yours" (lots of the music talk about "getting out of here" -- their homes) before you talk about defiling a girl. If you want a better life, don't treat possible future wives as food items.
"Pour some sugar on me," <--- Ever heard of VD?! That sugar is poison. But go on down to the red light district and get some herpes poured on you! I hear the treatments aren't as painful anymore, though you'll need them until you're in a nursing home.
Yeah, it gives me a happy. Most of these kids (middle school and under) are in these fallen mindsets
through no fault of their own (ie, a broken family; secular society; zero church, or worse yet NoMass). Which is reason for despair. If you know the brainwashing tactics of the music, you can figuratively shoot them down. And I can pin my anger on the principalities behind the music instead of the kids themselves, which helps with my charity.