tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4433206079335733337..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Dedicated To Janis JoplinAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-19434477944432278852012-06-29T11:44:10.399-04:002012-06-29T11:44:10.399-04:00I don't think you'd want to me to lie abou...I don't think you'd want to me to lie about what I can remember...karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49154579722629262382012-06-29T08:08:37.214-04:002012-06-29T08:08:37.214-04:00I'm just old enough to remember the suspicion ...I'm just old enough to remember the suspicion under which my elders viewed Mr. Norman and his ilk. I recall a conversation about Christian Rock with my pastor in which he indeed brooked no compromise - it was clearly in his mind a spiritual gateway drug to backsliding and carnal living. <br /><br />Growing up in NH, moreover, I was certainly not in the middle of any kind of musical movement. Personally I was more into folk music -- my favorite was listening to entire folk festival concerts broadcast on public radio. Of course, if my elders had known much about where that music was coming from, they wouldn't have liked that much either. <br /><br />I love "Why don't you Look Into Jesus." I regularly return to it and listen. Just a great great song.Dubbahdeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075702513873912334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-31630539319106935522012-06-28T19:44:54.396-04:002012-06-28T19:44:54.396-04:00"I'm too young to have heard the songs as..."I'm too young to have heard the songs as originally sung"<br /><br />Yeah, rub it in.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-68572567384507902932012-06-28T17:21:46.326-04:002012-06-28T17:21:46.326-04:00I watched a long special on Janis Joplin the other...I watched a long special on Janis Joplin the other day on TV. Such a voice! But it was sad to see her talking in interviews about how she was having the last laugh over people who warned her that she was on the road to ruin. How dumb, she said -- here she was in her 20s doing records, having a great time, top of the world. And yet she was dead of an OD by age 27.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-59558799125682634242012-06-27T23:34:36.126-04:002012-06-27T23:34:36.126-04:00I'm somewhat aware of who Larry Norman is.
&...I'm somewhat aware of who Larry Norman is. <br /><br />"Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music"...I heard a cover, not the original. (from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Way-Songs-Larry-Norman/dp/B000005KVB" rel="nofollow">this album</a>)<br /><br />Even in the 90s-vintage covers, I heard the 60s counterculture mixing with experiences of Jesus. <br /><br />"One Way", about breaking away from the ordinary and walking the path to Jesus. <br /><br />"Sweet, Sweet Song of Salvation", about Good News being so strong it overpowers everything else in life. <br /><br />"Left Behind", about the hard times at the end of the world and the potential fate of unbelievers. <br /><br />"The Outlaw", about the ways Jesus challenged the accepted order.<br /><br />But there was also the dark song "Six O'Clock News". That song had traces of the 60s, but it could have been from anytime before 21st-century-blogging; it highlights the limits and struggles of the newsman in a troubled corner of an unhappy world.<br /><br />Also unexpected was "Nothing Really Changes", which is a pleasant mix of literary references and the theme of the early chapters of Ecclesiastes. Definitely the song of someone who had some awareness of literature and history. But the important line at the end is almost lost. "Nothing really changes/Unless we love the Lord." <br /><br />And then there's "Shot Down", definitely not the song of someone who saw himself as better than other believers.<br /><br />Of course, I'm too young to have heard the songs as originally sung. And by the time I was buying music, CCM was established. There were big names; people were making money. There may have been less humility present than in the days of Larry Norman.<br /><br />It is helpful to remember where this cultural movement came from. It is also surprising to note how many varying trends were fused in the churches that rose in from the Jesus movement.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.com