Can we agree that only NAZIs ban books?

[selmaborntidefan]

Well, as my Dad(WW2 vet) used to say, "You know, at least Hitler and Mussolin made the trains run on time."

But I get your drift.

I promise you - I KNEW you were going to say that.

 

[Its On A Slab]

I promise you - I KNEW you were going to say that.

Well, if you can't say anything nice about someone, just don't say anything.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

No, it was what would be now "R" at best...cannot remember the exact title...it was in 1969!

Well, "Rosemary's Baby" was in 1968....



Appreciate the story.

I only thought "Last Temptation" because it was a YUGE controversy in the summer of 1988. Years later I watched it on VHS and thought, "Gee, this is about the most boring movie I've ever seen in my life." I don't think we even made it through the movie, and it wasn't because of the blasphemy.

 

[Padreruf]

Well, "Rosemary's Baby" was in 1968....



Appreciate the story.

I only thought "Last Temptation" because it was a YUGE controversy in the summer of 1988. Years later I watched it on VHS and thought, "Gee, this is about the most boring movie I've ever seen in my life." I don't think we even made it through the movie, and it wasn't because of the blasphemy.

I stood in line to watch "Alice's Restaurant" in 1970 -- we were surrounded by women from a nearby Baptist church who were singing hymns and telling us we were going to hell. I was with 2 friends, both of whom were minister's sons as well. The movie was terrible...and the supposed "sex" scene non-memorable. Today I mostly avoid even R rated movies just because I really would like a decent plot...

 

[Jon]

I stood in line to watch "Alice's Restaurant" in 1970 -- we were surrounded by women from a nearby Baptist church who were singing hymns and telling us we were going to hell. I was with 2 friends, both of whom were minister's sons as well. The movie was terrible...and the supposed "sex" scene non-memorable. Today I mostly avoid even R rated movies just because I really would like a decent plot...

reminds me of the time Kevin Smith protested his own movie

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I stood in line to watch "Alice's Restaurant" in 1970 -- we were surrounded by women from a nearby Baptist church who were singing hymns and telling us we were going to hell. I was with 2 friends, both of whom were minister's sons as well. The movie was terrible...and the supposed "sex" scene non-memorable. Today I mostly avoid even R rated movies just because I really would like a decent plot...

Oh this reminds me....

I was a Baptist church revival - had to have been 1981 - and the American Family Association (Don Wildmon's group, I'd never heard of him at that time) and there was a petition going around complaining about an episode of "Three's Company." I mean, what else, you had two girls living with one dude, and they weren't married. But there was an episode where Mrs Roper comes back to town and Mr Furley (Don Knotts) is out of town. So they tell her to stay in their old room and Furley comes back early, and they wake up together in the bed. The scene was to my mind hilarious at age 11. Even my mother thought it was cleverly done.

Those idiots were passing a petition during a church meeting wanting that episode removed from the air AFTER it had already aired. My mother, as I've said about as strait-laced a Baptist as you're gonna know, wouldn't sign it and couldn't understand the entire hub-bub. She even told folks, "I saw that episode with my two boys, and we died laughing. It was the kind of accident that can happen in real life, and it's not like anything happened."

My suspicion is that even in 1981 Mississippi (where the devil was in Elvis records), there was less support for bringing attention to that than some thought.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Heh, I remember back in my teenage years when I was told that listening to Black Sabbath was a one-way ticket straight to hell. I never attended a record-burning in person, but I saw them on TV. I was as aghast then as I would be today. And after the whole PMRC fiasco that wound up putting the "explicit lyrics" sticker on records and cassettes, it didn't take long to notice that the albums that had them were flying off the shelves. To this day, it amazes me how I saw this as a kid, but the adults had no idea what was causing it.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Heh, I remember back in my teenage years when I was told that listening to Black Sabbath was a one-way ticket straight to hell. I never attended a record-burning in person, but I saw them on TV. I was as aghast then as I would be today. And after the whole PMRC fiasco that wound up putting the "explicit lyrics" sticker on records and cassettes, it didn't take long to notice that the albums that had them were flying off the shelves. To this day, it amazes me how I saw this as a kid, but the adults had no idea what was causing it.

my favorite still has to be that “stairway to heaven” is satanic if you listen to it backwards, but you oughta listen to a lot of those country music songs going forwards with easy to understand lyrics.

Country, of course, was God‘s chosen music.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

my favorite still has to be that “stairway to heaven” is satanic if you listen to it backwards, but you oughta listen to a lot of those country music songs going forwards with easy to understand lyrics.

Country, of course, was God‘s chosen music.

The whole backmasking thing was weird enough as it is, but Weird Al Yankovic took it a step further when he intentionally put a backward message in the song I Remember Larry. The message was, "Wow, you must have a lot of free time on your hands."

 

[Tidewater]

When a crowd of Philadelphians cqme to Ben Franklin griping that "those other people" wanted to erect a May Pole for May Day, the other group came to him griping that the first group would not let them have a May Pole.
Franklin's solution was "those who want to have a May Pole, shall have a May Pole. Those who do not want to have a May Pole, shall not have a May Pole."

Seems common sense to me.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

The whole backmasking thing was weird enough as it is, but Weird Al Yankovic took it a step further when he intentionally put a backward message in the song I Remember Larry. The message was, "Wow, you must have a lot of free time on your hands."

I had the misfortune of being in a Baptist Student Union group in college that decided to play records backwards and write down what they heard. I was in the room.

I didn't hear anything. But they could make out these satanic messages in almost every song, which suggested to me that they were engaged in a circular argument. Later on, I rented some video that purported to have a bunch of those things in it (I think it was called Hell's Bells, not to be confused with the AC/DC record of the same name) and when they got to the backmasking section, I opted to CLOSE MY EYES and listen to whatever I heard.

I couldn't hear anything intelligible at all.

BUT..........

If you then followed along with the words and watched and listened to the same song, you could suddenly hear EXACTLY what you were told was there, which seemed to my virgin ears to be more of a power of suggestion than any proof of a Satanic plot.

Look, I meet many of the stereotypes of a Southern evangelical (from a distance anyway), but there's just a lot of things I could never get behind. And not one of them ever gave me a coherent answer to, "Why in the world would you do this BACKWARDS when most turntables only play FORWARDS?"
Plus, it's kind of like most modern speaking in "tongues" - there ARE superficial similarities to actual earthly languages if you listen to enough of it.

I was always more concerned about the uh teenage feelings I had when Dolly Parton or Barbara Mandrell (or God love her untalented singing sister Irlene, who was built like a brick hay barn) than I was what some rock group may or may not have done 15 years earlier.