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- From: rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
- Subject: Re: Buying Music Not the Message (Re: Neo-Nazis)
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.103703.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:37:03 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec12.193816.7879@rz-berlin.mpg.de> <1992Dec12.173207.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> <1992Dec13.133222.7882@rz-berlin.mpg.de>
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- In article <1992Dec13.133222.7882@rz-berlin.mpg.de>, kolasinski@rz-berlin.mpg.de (Rebell ohne Schlips) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec12.173207.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- >>>
- >> When I say that I would buy Swaggart's record, part of the condition that
- >> makes it "best thrash" is that it has to be listenable. If he was singing
- >> extracts from his sermons, that would not be listenable. If he sang about
- >> something I could stand, and he was otherwise preaching, and it really
- >> *was* the best album ever, yes I would buy it.
- >>
- > And what if you don't understand the lyrics? The vast
- > majority of Americans don't speak a work of German but some say they
- > like German music because it sounds 'harder'. The lyrics in neo-nazi
- > music are a sermon and just because you don't understand "Auslaender
- > raus! Bleib pur! Deutschland fuer die Deutsche!"
- > doesn't make it any less of a sermon.
-
- I rarely listen to bands that have lyrics I can't understand at all. If I
- can't catch enough words to get an idea of what they're saying, I tend
- not to like them. It doesn't matter if they're singing Jesus, equality,
- racism, or Nike ads in German--I won't listen very much. Partly for the
- reason you implied above--I don't know what I'm getting. I wouldn't want to
- support an explicitly pro-racism product. Actually I have other concerns
- that are bigger to me than racism, but the principle is the same.
-
- --Semhaza
-