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Christian Rock: Blessing or Blasphemy?

YOU BE THE JUDGE! Be sure to set your surfboards towards the “Christian Rock: Blessing or Blasphemy?” site and get all the answers. You’ll finally get to know the asnwers to such burning questions as “Is Amy Grant a satanist?”The creator of the site seems to have a strong distaste for Christian entertainer Carman (as do I, but just because the dude sucks, not for any biblical reasons), quoting some lyrics and then asking, “Now, in your wildest dreams, could you possibly imagine the Apostle Paul referring to the Lord Jesus Christ as J.C.?” Actually, I figured Paul just referred to J.C. as “Yo, Jesus!” but I could be wrong.

Not even Christian rap arrives unscathed! Quoth the creator: “To even remotely “connect” the wonderful Lord Jesus Christ to a word with the possible meaning of a word such as “FREAK” is sacrilege, at best!”

Johnny Cash also gets his due (“Johnny Cash gets the award for the biggest sellout since Judas Iscariot!”), and how about these great, stupid lyrics quoted from a Christian band known as One Bad Pig called “You’re a Pagan”:

Feeling low, smoke a joint
Cuss real loud, make your point. . .
You’re a pagan, that is what you be
There’s no fakin’ , fry like bacon
You’re a pagan

Christians battling it out amongst Christians! Who will win? Certainly not the ghost of Johnny Cash!

Madonna crucifies your love

Amazing that the old bag can still piss people off. Madge recently caused some sort of uproar when she appeared crucified on a bejeweled cross during a live show. All the hardcore fans lapped it up, those opposed said nay, and the rest of us just sighed and told her it was really time to put some clothes on. Here’s hoping she does something sexy with Yoko Ono before she bites the big one (Ono, that is). You know it’s going to happen eventually. Madonna will suddenly appear as Mary Magdalene saying how influential and amazing Yoko was and the next thing you see will be both of them half naked and reading headlines from newspapers over a dance beat.

What is it with Nirvana fans?

Seriously. I don’t mean that as a backhanded swipe, but I just don’t get it anymore. (Some) Nirvana fans are pissed off at the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their video of “Dani California” which features Anthony Kiedis dressed up like Kurt Cobain in one segment. Is it just me or is treating Cobain like some holy grail of rock just beyond the pale anymore? The Peppers went and got permission from Dave Grohl of all people to make sure it was OK that they even had it in the video. But apparently that’s not good enough for some folks. I’ll say it again: Nirvana was just a band who were in the right place at the right time. They had some good songs, but there have been tons of artists who came before Kurt Cobain who wrote the same kind of tortured introspective lyrics, and there will continue to be tons in the future. I wonder if these same fans have ever seen the “Robot Chicken” episode featuring “Zombie Idol”, a parody of “American Idol” in which zombie rockers come back from the grave and try to win the contest. Of course, all hell breaks loose and it soon turns into a parody of the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” and when Ving Rhames is about to kill the Kurt Cobain zombie, Kurty takes the shotgun himself and eats it. Yeah, it’s really dark, but I can’t help but laugh every time I see it because I know some fan out there is undoubtedly screaming about it.

Take Jack seriously, or else

It’s important to Jack White that you know that his new band The Raconteurs is not just a backing band. OK, I can dig it. But as someone who really couldn’t stand The White Stripes until Get Behind Me Satan was released (save for a song or two per albums prior), what the band actually “is” makes no difference. It’s just nice to see Jackie expand into a full-blown band sound. Seriously, there’s only so much you can do with Meg. But we’ve all known that for a long time. So it’ll be interesting to see how The Raconteurs play out in the long run. Go ahead and place your money on ’em. It certainly won’t be the mess that, say, Billy Corgan’s Zwan was.

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