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Originally posted by Ritualistic
focusing a lot of shit on his appearance and his band (which is all horror)
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That says it right there. I remember as a kid in high school priests and religious zelots would try every trick and bullshit technique they could devise to try to talk bad about heavy metal music in general. They went on to talk how metal desensitizes a person like "a frog in slowly heated water. It stayed there until it boiled." :rolleyes: No fuckin shit.... wow, a cold blooded creature compared to a warm blooded human that also has the capability of
rational thought. As well as the "wailing guitar sounds" and how the lyrics were of hatred, despair and violence as well as drug use. I laughed my ass off when they took a tape of some lame christian metal band (forgot the name) and bashed it. It was then 100% obvious they simply hated the
sound and
image of heavy metal, and content was secondary. Now I think the bullshit reasoning they try to use is "rock/metal music is religion" or some shit like that. Even country songs have mentioned shit like violence, or drug/alcohol abuse, maybe not as controversial, but nothing of that sort was even mentioned. Go figure. :rolleyes:
Even when I was a metal head, (long hair, ripped faded clothes), almost everyone was under the notion that it was all the metalheads that did all the drugs, even heroine and coke which we could never even afford at that. In fact, some of the honor students were major cokeheads, but that was more or less kept under raps. Gee, I can't imagine why. :rolleyes: Finally, now everyone gets looked at because drug use because too many people that "didn't fit the image" were getting caught.
Then was the bullshit with the
Parents
Music
Resource
Center which fucked things up. They argued that rock music was destroying the minds of kids with sex, drugs, violence and what have you. Which I always liked to call them
Pre
Menstral
Retarded
Cunts because they were just as bad as those idiot priests and zealots. Even Frank Zappa had this so say about their so-called "explicit content" labeling....
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The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretation and enforcement problems inherent in the proposal's design... It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC's demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation."
Zappa also pointed out in media interviews that neither "comedy records" nor "country music" recordings were being subjected to the same call for warning labels in the proposal, despite the latter genre being rich with examples of references to whiskey, sex, divorce, hellfire and the devil.
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It was merely nothing but a ploy to rid the world of music they didn't like, period. Content to them was meaningless.