Creepy christian music reviews

“She’s Alive” praises a single mom for pressing on. Isolated lines thank God for faithful parents (“Hey Ya!”) and recognize the futility of stubborn, hot-tempered conflict (“The Rooster”).

Objectionable Content

“Tomb of the Boom” alludes to marijuana use. That track and three others feature alcohol, sometimes to the point of intoxication and usually connected with sex. Teens get hammered with explicit sexual references on “The Way You Move,” “Tomb of the Boom” and OutKast’s ode to masturbation, “Vibrate.” Song titles such as “Where Are My Panties” and “Spread” need no further explanation. Liner images include bikini-clad and bare-breasted women. A photo of a rapper holding a smoking gun captures the thug posturing on several tracks. “War” uses obscenities to rail against the Bush administration. Wrapping unconscionable behavior in religious robes, “Reset” quotes Ephesians 6:12, then adds with gangsta bravado, “I’ll be bringing God to the gunfight.” “God (Interlude)” assumes the Lord is a female deity quick to understand and forgive the rapper’s sexual indiscretions. Similarly confused, “Church” talks of evil, the devil and repentance, yet winks at casual sex and using pot.

Summary Advisory

Two discs. A vile 135 minutes of material. How irresponsible is this project? Laughter erupts when Big Boi’s 3-year-old says “muthaf---er.” If he and his partner, Dre, are that lax about corrupting one of their own kids, just imagine how willing they are to corrupt yours.

Metallica Garage Inc.

The parental advisory sticker is well-deserved. From its explicit depictions of bestiality and other deviant sex acts ("So What") to numerous uses of the f-word, this disc is sick. An 11-minute medley of Mercyful Fate songs refers to satanic ritual sacrifice and sex with the dead. "Die Die My Darling" fantasizes about killing the object of one's affection. Vile lines on "Last Caress/Green Hell" boast of rape and infanticide. That track, "Stone Cold Crazy" and "The Prince" all find the band longing for a fiery afterlife in hell. Dark and deceitful, "Sabbra Cadabra" pushes reincarnation while "Killing Time" promotes murder ("No time for cowardice, kill and survive/Like a killer kid with a switchblade knife"). Extremely twisted.

God hates that.

"Just like Robin Hood, "My Oh My" wishes to dishonestly redistribute wealth."

This sort of shit never gets old, though.

Veiled drug references include "I need a fix," "I roll a stoney," "he shoots Coca Cola," and "JoJo left his home . . . for some California grass." "Polythene Pam" and "Get Back" allude to sexually ambiguous individuals. A family conducts a midnight seance on "Cry Baby Cry." Several cuts recommend alcohol, and a mass-murderer is treated comically on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" is a sexual proposition, and "I've Got a Feeling" states, "everybody had a wet dream."

True to the standard set by Anthologies 1 and 2, this final chapter in the Beatles trilogy also debuted at number 1. This double-disc collection of previously unreleased masters is a muffled blend of innocence and depravity.

(I was really hoping for a "Stays in Mexico" review though.)

John Rich and Big Kenny Alphin co-wrote Gretchen Wilson’s smash “Redneck Woman.” That same hard-partying, loose-living attitude washes over their own disc like a Midwestern flash flood. Give them credit for some positive messages and the ability to transcend musical genres. But don’t invite them home.

""Sin Wagon" is about a female who, thumbing her nose at her Christian morals, embarks on a wild night of drunkenness and "mattress dancing." After enduring physical abuse from her husband, a woman gets her girlfriend to help poison him and dump his body in a lake ("Goodbye Earl"). Disturbing and irresponsible. Also, "Cold Day in July," "Hello Mr. Heartache," "Without You" and "Heartbreak Town" obsess over life's disappointments.

Is this the same group that released Wide Open Spaces only a year ago? That disc was fun with a moral core. Here, the core is rotten. It's as if Natalie Maines and the Siedel sisters picked the songs for Fly after a slumber party featuring repeated viewings of Thelma &Louise. A sad turn. Promoting female empowerment is one thing; advocating hedonism and murder is another. Shoo, Fly."

A woman wakes up in the company of a stranger, the implication being that they've had sex ("Sunday morning I'm waking up/Can't even focus on a coffee cup/Don't even know whose bed I'm in"). A lover is referred to as "the devil in me" ("Setting Sun"). Behind the computer-driven sounds of "Electrobank," a fuzzy, yet audible f-word appears. Even the all-instrumental tracks serve up annoyingly hypnotic sensory overload. This band's incessant barrage of nonsense, set to a dizzying repetition of the same eight or ten notes, is inherently nerve-wracking.

Explosive musical chemistry. It's a shame the unrelenting, intoxicating dance beats don't subside long enough for young listeners to clear their heads. Lyrics offer more tangible evidence that The Chemical Brothers are experimenting with unstable elements.

"The boys from Seattle recommend getting high and ending up with a hangover on the appropriately titled "Dumb." Worse yet, "Rape Me" is destined to be an accessory in violent crimes against women by suggesting that they enjoy being sexually assaulted-repeatedly ("Rape me my friend . . . hate me, do it and do it again"). Tongue in cheek? Hard to tell. It will be interesting to see how the band tries to justify this one. Other dangerous messages involve hating enemies, committing suicide ("Milk It") and the normalcy of homosexuality ("All Apologies"). Obscene and grotesque references appear throughout."

Okay, that's the name of my album.

Fun With a Moral Core

More problems here than on the band's last project. Harsh profanities (including the f-word) make an occasionally angry album seem that much nastier. "Hey, Johnny Park!" includes the selfish sentiment, "Now that I've found my reward, I'd throw it away long before I'd share a piece of mine with you." Whining self-destructiveness and misery dominate "My Poor Brain." On "Everlong," the artist is invited to "waste away" with a woman of questionable sanity. Though vague, "Monkey Wrench" could be interpreted as the frustrations of a teen whose parents refuse to accept his homosexuality.

Fronted by Dave Grohl (formerly of Nirvana), this band has gotten darker and more profane since its last release. Parents may wish to redirect teens to CCM alternatives Plankeye and Grammatrain.

that's my favorite thing ever! more magazines should do this in their reviews.

From compassionate lyrics to liner notes that stick up for developing countries, Coldplay is a caring band with a degree of conscience. Well worth a listen.

hahahahaha.

that's pretty difficult to do, and you could get hurt. i totally understand their objections to this.

II) "Work It" describes a woman’s erotic desires: If it is seriously meant, it's pretty suspect that this is "objectionable", no?

III) "disturbing icons" is actually a pretty cool name for a band. Most adjective+noun combinations aren't.

Only two songs on this mostly instrumental album contain lyrics. Both are romantic ballads, sung by soul artists Peabo Bryson ("By the Time This Night Is Over") and Aaron Neville ("Even If My Heart Would Break"). Neville's tune pledges a deep and everlasting love despite circumstances.

Bryson, on the other hand, hopes that "two lovers . . . will be together in the morning" without explaining whether or not they're married.

Virtuoso saxophonist Kenny G's first album in four years features ultra-mellow instrumental sounds. A light collection of romantic mood music that is sure to be enjoyed by a wide audience-including some teens.

A hobo’s heaven on "In the Big Rock Candy Mountain" includes "cigarette trees," lakes of whiskey and "streams of alcohol"—a theme likely to put some unfortunate questions in the minds of younger listeners.

who could resist?

Objectionable Content
The phrase "I don’t give a d--n" appears on "Bank Robber Man."

Summary Advisory
This ex-husband of Cosby kid Lisa Bonet has made a career out of experimenting with diverse musical styles. Hard rock. Soul. Hip-hop. Retro rock sounds from the ’60s and early ’70s. Except for one careless profanity, the lyrics here are really solid. Some distinctly spiritual themes make Lenny all the more intriguing.

Jesus. What kind of complicated love song are they looking for? Should the chorus be a marriage license set to music? Of course, if this site isn't serious, nevermind.

Wha????

Pro-Social Content
"All That She Wants" warns a young man about a woman out for a one-night stand ("She's a hunter, you're the fox . . . beware of that flashing in her eyes"). Two songs ("Don't Turn Around" and the number-1 single, "The Sign") demonstrate strength in the wake of romantic rejection. "Happy Nation" promotes brotherhood. Selfless love for a partner drives "Voulez-vous Danser."

Objectionable Content
Contradicting the sentiment in "Voulez-vous Danser," "Living in Danger" encourages egocentric living. "Dancer in a Daydream" tantalizingly propositions a prospective sexual partner ("I want to be your lover, but you're so shy . . . join me in my jungle wet and wild").

Summary Advisory
Musically upbeat and enjoyable, The Sign's fresh dance club sound would really swing if it weren't weighed down by mixed messages.

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I'm more confused than eva on ilx. Also bit drunk, but not more than eva on ilx. Very much less than eva on ilx. But strange mark-s-math-type-factors times more confused, yes. Ew?

Anyway: ?!??!??!?!??

Wha????

yeah i was just going to post that...they're really reading alot into that....maybe, but it's a stretch...

what have we done with innocence
it disappeared with time
it never made much sense
adolescent resident
wasting another night on planning my revenge

one in ten
don't wanna be your monkey wrench
one more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench

all this time to make amends
what do you do when all your enemies are friends
now and then I'll try to bend
under pressure
wind up snapping in the end

one in ten
one last thing before I quit
I never wanted any more than I could fit into my head
I still remember every single word you said
and all the shit that somehow came along with it
still there's one thing that comforts me
since I was always caged and now I'm free

don't wanna be your monkey wrench

it is weird how CLOSELY they're listening though....they've obviously pored over every last lyric with a microscope....i actually find these kinda fascinating just for the effort and detail they put into them....it's too obsessive to be fake.

Yeah, they do read to much into monkey-wrench - but note that they do claim it was possible to interpret it that way, rather than claim that was what it was about. Still, admissions of textual ambiguity are a dangerous road for fundamentalist Christians to go down.

since I was always caged and now I'm free

That seems a strange conclusion.

Other lyrics are blatant in their advocacy of homosexuality. On "All the Things She Said" and "Not Gonna Get Us," the girls long to escape to a place where they can freely express their lesbian affection. The former states, "I want her so much ... ’Cause I’m feeling for her what she’s feeling for me." The latter expresses torment over the inability of others to understand their love. Even when a handsome guy catches the singer’s eye (a nod to bisexuality?), his same-sex preferences interfere with her infatuation on "Malchik Gay." There are partially bleeped f- and s-words. Also, CD photos include immodest attire and shots of the girls cuddling intimately. A bonus video for the hit single shows Julia and Elena holding hands and kissing passionately.

Pairing Russian teens Julia Volkova and Elena Katina was an attempt to create a niche act with shock value. "At first the idea was just underage sex," their producer, Ivan Shapovalov, told Blender magazine. "Every time, the audience needs new images. For this project, new images were lesbian teenagers." Teens who need convincing that this image is a problem should read Romans 1:18-27—especially verse 26. The disc has a good beat, but t.A.T.u’s 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane is unsafe at any speed.

know thine enemy!

There’s nothing humble about other lines on that cut ("I’m the reason b--ches want bigger breasts"). Obscene slang includes graphic anatomical references and explicit nods to intercourse, oral sex and masturbation. Kim even uses the f-word in a song title ("Can’t F--- With Queen Bee"). Guest gangstaz make violent threats and rap about murder on "This Is a Warning," "Thug Love" and "Get in Touch With Us," which says, "I kill your mom and watch you stand there traumatized." Alcohol and drugs range from champagne to cocaine (gin, marijuana, Bicardi, Cristal, hash, crack). "The Jump Off" makes Kim’s priorities clear: "You know what we about—sex, drugs and cash." Immodest CD photos (including the one on the cover) reveal lots of skin as the artist strikes various titillating poses. On several self-important raps she brags about being the royalty of the genre. Elsewhere she esteems wealth above all else ("I’d rather be dead and rich than broke and living").

This vile disc exists to shock and does a bang-up job of it. If the content (most of which is unprintable) doesn’t gall parents, the fact that Lil’ Kim thanks God and claims, "This album was overseen by the Almighty Himself" should. Fit La Bella Mafia with cement shoes.

This band is spiritually oppressive, socially irresponsible and downright hateful. One line from their song "The Minute of Decay" betrays Manson's destructive course and dangerous agenda for teens: "I'm on my way down now/I'd like to take you with me." Bad news!

Philip Anselmo's mangled, throaty vocals are powered by an ungodly vengeance, promoting all sorts of deviancy. He proudly admits to profiting from drugs on "Strength Beyond Strength" ("I'm helping to legalize dope on your pristine streets and I'm making a fortune"). Several tracks consider the merits of suicide ("Becoming," "Shedding Skin," "Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills," "Slaughtered"). On "25 Years," he hatefully threatens his father with violence ("we're f---ing you back"). The f-word peppers this entire album, and is used in shocking descriptions of sexual perversion. Other lyrics promoting dangerous behavior include, "I drink all day, I smoke all day . . . a hangover is inspiration" ("Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks").

Dark, obscene, occultic. Far Beyond Driven should be driven far beyond civilization as we know it-and trashed.

PRO-SOCIAL CONTENT: "Eazy E Got Aids from F. Mercury" warns of the dangers of irresponsible sexual behavior. Pro-life sentiments include "I Snuck a Retard Into the Sperm Bank" and "You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You in the Stomach", the latter promoting alternatives to clinical abortion, as does "I Lit Your Baby on Fire". "I Became a Counsellor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It" extols a career choice involving helping others. The biblical message of forgiveness appears in "I Sent A Thank You Card to the Guy That Raped You", "Deadbeat Dads Are Cool" and "Hitler Was a Sensitive Man". Those unclear on the concept of 'subjection' in marriage are directed to "I Convinced You to Beat Your Wife on a Daily Basis" and "Domestic Violence Is Really Really Funny".

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT: "I Ate Your Horse" is in violation of Chapter 11 of Leviticus.

SUMMARY ADVISORY: Anal Cunt may flout dietary laws, but as their orificial name indicates, they are the 'hole'-iest of the holy.

"Fit La Bella Mafia with cement shoes." - OMG the critic is advocating murder! If he can be a dim literalist so can I.

I wish I hadn't read this thread. Life in Jesusland sucks.

How?

Lead singer Chris Carrabba is the straw that stirs this occasionally punk-flavored drink. For the most part, he dispenses harmless advice.

That seems a strange conclusion.

you really think this is fake ned? check out the site more, there's links on the top bar to Focus on the Family, and even an auto-form for donating to Focus on the Family....it's updated pretty frequently too, with lots of contributors....it seems pretty legit to me...or these people are spending 40+ hour weeks running a gag site.

ONLINE EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS FILM FEATURES GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT. THIS REVIEW REFERENCES THAT CONTENT AND IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.

It’s the early 1900s, and young Alfred Kinsey is being raised in a strict Methodist home where newfangled inventions such as automobiles, electricity, telephones and zippers are thought to be the spawn of Satan. They’re just waiting to lure the unsuspecting into sexual immorality. Spurning his father’s wish that he become an engineer, Kinsey’s fascination with nature leads him to become an entomologist, specializing in the study of gall wasps.

Because of sexual difficulties early in his marriage and appalled that no one seems to have answers to simple questions about sexuality, Kinsey sets about researching human sexual behavior to fill that void. Using three specially trained assistants, he interviews men and women in "nonjudgmental terms" to find out what’s going on behind the bedroom doors of America. Along the way, he encourages his assistants to swap wives, allows his children to engage in frank sexual discussions at the dinner table and turns America’s sexual mores upside down.

Anything positive is derived only indirectly. Kinsey approves of wife-swapping, but natural jealousies arise, proving that man’s God-inspired instinct toward monogamy cannot be changed by social fads. His wife eventually denounces wife-swapping: “Did you ever think those prohibitions [against adultery] are there to keep us from hurting each other?” she shouts. “What about our children?”

The movie is not two minutes old when it begins mocking Christianity. It shows a stern preacher denouncing modernity, and it implicitly equates disapproval of sexual deviancy with disapproval of all that makes up the “modern” world (e.g., electricity and automobiles). In an interview, Kinsey says he was raised a Methodist but, since age 19, has never attended church.

A professor comments that a student’s search for the gall wasp “Garden of Eden” has managed to bridge the Bible and Darwin in one stroke. Kinsey’s “freethinking” wife at first finds him too “churchy.” At one point Kinsey asks, “What would our country look like if the Puritans had stayed home?”

The entire movie is saturated in sex. It features frequent and explicit sexual dialogue and several scenes of male and female nudity, including close-ups on genitalia. (See discussion below on how the movie escaped the NC-17 rating.) We see a boy masturbating beneath a blanket. A man masturbates in front of Kinsey (shown from the waist up).

Kinsey and assistant Clyde Martin engage in a homosexual kiss and then embrace passionately before the camera cuts away. Upon hearing about his homosexual tryst, Kinsey’s wife says in a joking way that she’s not surprised. Kinsey later encourages her to have an encounter of her own with Martin. (We see them after the act in the upstairs bedroom with her wearing a cotton slip.) Kinsey praises Martin by saying, “He’s the ideal assistant because he’s had relations with both sexes.”

One discussion involves sex with a horse. Kinsey describes pornography as “just a depiction of man in his natural state.” He denounces his critics by saying, “The forces of chastity are massing against us, trying to silence science.” A professor who preaches abstinence is made to look like a fool. Archival footage of copulating animals (provided by the Kinsey Institute) runs under the end credits.

Two men engage in a fistfight.

Several uses of "h---," once in a theological context. "D--n" also makes several appearances. God’s name is abused about five times.

Several characters smoke, and social drinking takes place at a party. One scene is set in a gay bar.

Alfred Kinsey riled the world when he released his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and again in 1953 with Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Based on interviews of thousands of people, these books purported to show that the average person engaged in all manner of sexual behavior such as homosexuality, adultery, masturbation and pornography—at rates no one would have guessed. He claimed, among other things, that humans are sexual from birth. His book had tables charting how long it took to reach orgasm in children as young as two months old. He also claimed that as much as 90 percent of the population was bisexual.

The problem with these conclusions is that Kinsey’s research methods were seriously flawed. For a study to be considered scientific, it must use randomly selected individuals; the larger the sample size, the more accurate the conclusions. (Compare this to political polling today.) But Kinsey’s sample was self-selected. People willing to talk to a total stranger about their sexual behavior—from normal marital intercourse to sex with babies and animals—can hardly be considered a representative sample of the American public. Moreover, Kinsey used questionable statistical analyses to reach his conclusions, even assuming the population sample was not skewed.

The problems with this movie, including its pornographic content, are too vast to itemize. To say that it is rank propaganda for the sexual revolution and the homosexual agenda would be beyond stating the obvious. First and most important, the film completely glosses over the immoral and damaging methods Kinsey and his associates used in the course of their research. Chapter 5 of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, for instance, contains studies about the sexual response of infants, toddlers and other children. The Kinsey Institute for Sexual Studies claims this information was gleaned from a single pansexual who kept a diary of all his sexual encounters, but it’s simply not possible that the tables in that chapter could be derived from one individual. Because these studies were timed with a stopwatch, it seems clear that they had to involve the actual sexual abuse of infants and toddlers. (Kinsey’s assistant Wardell Pomeroy has basically admitted that the studies involving children were derived from Kinsey’s own experiments.)

Next, the film skirts the truth when it comes to Kinsey’s motivation. Onscreen, he’s portrayed as a man of science forced into his study of sexual behavior by his own marital difficulties and the ignorance and superstition of society. In truth, Kinsey had been motivated to overthrow the sexual mores of Western culture from childhood. Biographer James Jones, in Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, wrote, “For years, he [Kinsey] had dreamed of creating a body of scientific data that would be so vast and so compelling that it would force local, state, and federal governments to revise their sex offender codes.”

Kinsey utilizes a clever propaganda technique in that it shows some of Kinsey's flaws to fool viewers into thinking they’re getting a warts-and-all portrayal of the man, but it does not tell the whole truth. Kinsey and his wife, Clara, did not engage in a lone adulterous tryst, as shown in the film. They were serial adulterers—both with other men. The movie has one scene where Kinsey engages in a mild act of sexual self-mutilation (mild in Kinsey’s world, at least), but in fact he was a masochist of the highest order, including self-circumcision.

Insidious too is the worldview underlying the film. It says “science” (as defined by its practitioners) is the only way to know truth; all else is mere opinion and superstition. Therefore, in a bit of ham-fisted screenwriting, everyone in the film who represents the view that sex is a gift of God reserved for marriage is openly mocked and made the fool. We hear Kinsey boldly stating that “society has interfered with what should be a normal process.” He asks, “What keeps you from acting on your feelings? It’s social convention.” He denounces criticisms of his work as “morality disguised as science.” He also asks, “What would our country look like if the Puritans had stayed home?” Well, simply put, it probably would not be a country that allowed Kinsey the freedom he had to pervert truth and science. It is the uniquely Judeo-Christian worldview of the Puritans and our Founding Fathers that created a society such as ours. That worldview gives us the freedom to do what is right—a freedom that can be easily abused if its underlying worldview is lost.

Kinsey’s legacy is that he played a role in unleashing epidemic levels of sexually transmitted diseases, rampant divorce, massive numbers of out-of-wedlock births, the breakdown of the family, abortion and the destruction of marriage. The myth, still commonly repeated today, that 10 percent of the population is homosexual is based on numbers that Kinsey simply snatched out of thin air. His defective studies have resulted in many laws being struck down, and the 2003 Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas that overturned state laws against homosexual sodomy relied in part on Kinsey numbers.

That anyone would want to make a film lionizing the man simply boggles my brain. But actress Laura Linney said she was proud to participate in the project, and writer/director Bill Condon has long been known for his advocacy for homosexual rights. Roger Ebert, the dean of film critics, said, “Kinsey is likely to be the best-received biopic since A Beautiful Mind” and claims that actor Liam Neeson gives an Oscar-worthy performance. (Simply judging the craft of filmmaking, however, Kinsey is fairly pedestrian.)

The unbelievable fact that the movie received an R rating is more astounding. Condon said he was surprised when the film got an R, with no cuts. “We thought it might get the NC-17 and be an ideal test case for challenging that rating,” he told Ebert, “but they thought it was a serious and informative film and they passed it with no cuts.” The only funny part of that statement is that it includes the words serious and informative.

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The Truth About Kinsey
The real Alfred Kinsey was not an objective scientist, and certainly not an emotionally well man. The informational links found here are designed to help you learn the truth about Kinsey, his fraud and his crimes, and what you can do combat his influence in your community.

He quotes Eastern prophets who erroneously elevate animals to the level of humans.

It also states, "There’s no wrong or right." A naturalistic order deems the world "an accident" ("Cropduster"). "1/2 Full" says some men are "half full of s---" and wants someone to "save the world," oblivious to the fact that Christ already has. The s-word also appears on "Help Help." A half-dozen f-words mar the generally positive "Save You." Vedder is unfair and unkind in his criticism of President Bush and his party ("Bush Leaguer"). He may be giving a nod to reincarnation on "Can’t Keep" ("I’ve lived all these lives ... I will live forever").

Can we say agenda?

The first track sees a computer singing 'I'm going to rape you', then, when his partner agrees, fretting 'Don't say okay because then it's not rape!' That's followed by a pagan paen to spring which describes 'shinto dogs at the phallic symbol' and begs 'pull me down and pump me dry' (sexual reference to the extraction of seed from human genitalia, either by mouth or hand). Next there's a tribute to a lustful 'Corkscrew King' (the double entendre on 'corkscrew' is milked until the white froth runs down the bucket and the udder is dry). The king seems to be impotent -- and the song treats this like a big joke. A character called 'the Yogi Doctor Swami' has 'his hand upon his thing' and the chorus contains many 'humourous' allusions to senile erectile dysfunction.

Next comes a song in Arabic scales, sung in French, in which a Tripoli taxi driver explains the joys of giving your spouse a damn good slap in the face. Although this is recommended in Ecclesiastes 5,9, Judges 3,11 and Ruth 15,12, it's not something we Christians need a pagan to tell us about. Before the song called 'Lady Fancy Knickers' (which seems to be about duct tape, but turns into a thundering of Mongol horsemen's hooves and the Islamic-style threat 'black is what we'll wear when we come to kill you all') there's the song which sees Robin Hood, the notoriously immoral redistributor of wealth, exchanging his bow and arrow for a wheelchair and colostomy bag after a serious beating from his rival, Dooh Nibor, an obvious caricature of a Republican politician.

A song describing a video game in which you compose lute scores and shoot off panda's heads is not something we'd recommend any children hear, especially those who can't distinguish video games from real bamboo forests. The worst is yet to come, though: a children's song which advises kids to 'touch other children's genitals for pleasure' and 'take your parents struggling to the Great Mountain of Death / Sing the party anthem as you throw them off the edge'. 'Your Fat Friend' is an offensive ode to husky girlfriends, then comes a blues song describing a sexual encounter between a man and God. Even more sickening is the sarcastic demolition of the faith of Mel Gibson ('Jesus in Furs') in which 'The Passion' is described as a sick masochistic gorefest and Christ is implored to 'Come back as a girl, or come back as filthy letcher / Please save the world without too much tomato ketchup'. The record ends with an Elizabethan falsetto eunuch song ('You harlequins, you play such s**t...') and a tale of two homosexual archeologists who meet death (in the form of an Edison demonstration gramophone record) in Italy.

'Otto Spooky' is wretched in every way, and Beelzebub has surely got a cosy corner table already laid out for Momus right by the door to hell's hottest kitchen.

New York TV station WNET drops Kinsey film

'A New York TV station has dropped a promotion for a film about scientist Alfred Kinsey, who lifted the lid on sexual behaviour 50 years ago. Kinsey, played in the film by Liam Neeson, is blamed by conservatives for starting the sexual revolution.'

What the Christian media says today, mainstream media may be saying tomorrow. What they're saying 'down south' today, tomorrow they may be saying 'up north' -- and even in New York.

Somebody mentioned the puns at the end of the reviews - they have literally been doing that trick for about a decade now. Shoo, Fly

Lots of searching, but positive statements are well overshadowed by an outright rejection of biblical truth. Stapp says, "If it weren't for music, I might have ended up some crazed street preacher. Rock-n-roll is my religion." Not exactly the narrow path. Keep teens out of Prison.

my god, not TWO sandwiches!

Pro-Social Content:

Faith, dreams and love are central to "Running on Faith." Clapton offers "consolation" to a woman let down by her man ("Layla").

I know these people are hardly the brightest lightbulbs out there but I don't see how you could interpret "consolation" in the context of the song to mean "take her out to a chick flick, listen to her bitch about men and buy her some ice cream". I mean, I know it's the unplugged, castrated version of the song but still.

MAOISTS REVIEW BRITNEY

Maoists At The Movies!

Q: Why does Plugged In review R-rated movies? Shouldn't the rating alone say everything any parent, youth leader or teen needs to know?

A: According to our poll of Plugged In Online readers, 70 percent watch R-rated movies.

from the Lateralus review:
"Pray that, in the musicians’ search for truth, God sharpens Tool."

fucking WIN

Death Cab for Cutie specializes in quirky poetry and cryptic sentiment. Since many of these songs are open to interpretation, families should use caution.

srsly, dangerous band

HOT OFF THE PRESSES, A REVIEW OF THE NEW P.O.D. ALBUM

OH LORDY

P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance

MAY 2008

PRO-SOCIAL CONTENT
"Shine With Me" is a vaguely spiritual invitation to be a light destined for heaven. With a reggae groove, "I'll Be Ready" finds the singer expecting God (Jah) to deliver him from wickedness. Other songs speculate about the last days ("End of the World"), acknowledge the polarized forces influencing our lives ("When Angels and Serpents Dance") and urge leaders to possess integrity and be worthy of their followers' trust ("Rise Against"). "God Forbid" is about drawing lines between ourselves and a world hostile to our beliefs ("We're so used to bowing down that we forget how to stand up"). The band reassures an ostracized girl, unemployed dad and a woman who has miscarried that "It Can't Rain Everyday." "Addicted" condemns the destructive power of vice, but ...

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT
Graphic metaphors such as "Deal me up another hit of self-mutilation and let me blow my brains out" go over the top. A vitriolic anti-war song rants about our leaders' "wicked intentions" in the Middle East ("Tell Me Why"). Guilt, shame and unforgiveness result in anger on "This Ain't No Ordinary Love Song." Members of the dark bands Helmet and Suicidal Tendencies make cameos.

SUMMARY ADVISORY
The angels win this bout, but there's a bit more darkness to navigate than P.O.D. fans are used to.

Matisyahu Youth

From Mag to Web
MAY 2006

PRO-SOCIAL CONTENT
Jewish orthodoxy informs this disc's social consciousness and spirituality. The artist-as-soldier cries out for God's aid on "What I'm Fighting For" and "Indestructible." "Jerusalem" is a love letter to a ragtag nation that recalls Holocaust horrors and anticipates the rebuilding of the temple ("3,000 years with no place to be ... Erase the demons out of our memory"). On "WP" and "Fire of Heaven/Altar of Earth" there's a sharp contrast between hearts that burn for God and those on a quest for earthly pleasures. A father worries about his prodigal daughter ("Dispatch the Troops"), while "Youth" are urged to "take a stand ... focus your energy." Cuts express love for God (the Top-40 single "King Without a Crown") and consider the pursuit of spiritual wholeness a deeply romantic endeavor for couples ("Unique Is My Dove"). The latter boils life down to this credo: "Stay simple, serve God, and keep our deeds clean."

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT
None

SUMMARY ADVISORY
Born Matthew Miller, Matisyahu is a one-man mash-up of radically different worlds: Rasta music and Hasidic Judaism. Smothered by pulsating beats and reggae-babble, lyrics express devotion to God and invite listeners to join the party with a bold emphasis on purity, unity and obedience. It's a Savior short of being a Christian disc.

It's a Savior short of being a Christian disc.

The pinup idol-turned-playboy amps up the sexometer with Prince-like precision on his second solo project. A frustrating shift further to the dark side.

This totally sells me!

Robyn Rihanna Fenty told Entertainment Weekly, "I think every teenager has a point in their life when they go into their own world and shut out everybody's opinion. That's what I'm doing." Point teens toward Proverbs 12:15 and 19:20 ... and away from this album.

This one, too!

Apparently given its title by the same pause-impaired person who named TLC’s Crazysexycool and Danzig’s Thrall:Demonsweatlive, Lovehatetragedy features tortured souls unleashing their angst on the public. A few good messages, but Papa Roach will bug discriminating families.

ZING!

What a brilliant, brilliant way for the reviewers to endulge in sinful listening!

It's like Pete Townsend downloading kiddie porn because he wanted to see how bad it was and warn us, so we wouldn't have to!

I'm going to apply for a job there - watching and reviewing hardcore porn so parents don't have to.

Anal Swimming Pool Cleaners 7: where the husbands aren't

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT
- Mistress of the house clearly isn't married to the two gentlemen from the swimming pool cleaning company, since neither of them is wearing a wedding ring.
- Sex with men other than her husband isn't allowed under Ephesians 14 section 5: thou shalt not etc.
- Anal and oral sex don't serve any procreative purpose and are portrayed as being somehow pleasurable.
- After a while, the colored gentleman finally discovers the lawful procreative orifice, but then proceeds to pull out his member, only to ejaculate on the lady's chest area.

PRO-PROCREATIVE CONTENT
- Pictures on the night table show a husband and children
- When the husband finally comes home, rendering the movie's title incorrect, (scene 6, "hubby's cream pie") the couple thankfully does engage in vaginal procreative activities, which could potentially turn this adulterous adventure from a C into a B-, but the lady squeezing out his semen from the resulting eponymous pie will hardly help this session's procreational chances.

SUMMARY ADVISORY
- avoid the scenes with the adultory swimming pool men, they don't use the official orifices
- allow scene 6, since this involves the husband and the correct insertion method, but avoid or at least explain the anti-procreative effects of the semen squeeze technique.

the resulting eponymous pie
the resulting eponymous pie
the resulting eponymous pie

Damn. Too late.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity_Prosecution_Task_Force

ANAL CUNT
'It Just Gets Worse'

PRO-SOCIAL CONTENT: "Eazy E Got Aids from F. Mercury" warns of the dangers of irresponsible sexual behavior. Pro-life sentiments include "I Snuck a Retard Into the Sperm Bank" and "You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You in the Stomach", the latter promoting alternatives to clinical abortion, as does "I Lit Your Baby on Fire". "I Became a Counsellor So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked For It" extols a career choice involving helping others. The biblical message of forgiveness appears in "I Sent A Thank You Card to the Guy That Raped You", "Deadbeat Dads Are Cool" and "Hitler Was a Sensitive Man". Those unclear on the concept of 'subjection' in marriage are directed to "I Convinced You to Beat Your Wife on a Daily Basis" and "Domestic Violence Is Really Really Funny".

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT: "I Ate Your Horse" is in violation of Chapter 11 of Leviticus.

SUMMARY ADVISORY: Anal Cunt may flout dietary laws, but as their orificial name indicates, they are the 'hole'-iest of the holy.

-- dave q (listerine), Friday, November 19, 2004 7:02 AM

lololol

amazing

A vitriolic anti-war song rants about our leaders' "wicked intentions" in the Middle East ("Tell Me Why").

How great is their Jimmy Buffett summary!
"It’s been 27 years since “Margaritaville,” and Buffett still lives for the weekends. A few positive moments aside, this CD finds him spiritually lost in a chronic midlife crisis full of bars, women and zero accountability."

-- Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:28 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

this is still otm

A vitriolic anti-war song rants about our leaders' "wicked intentions" in the Middle East ("Tell Me Why").

Doesn't this evangelical group realize that such a strong identification with the US government is contrary to their claims of Christianity being a universal religion?

o man i think you've just found a major contradiction in their arguments here! good work you

I love the idea of these folks approving of hardcore porn depicting healthy monogamous penis-ejaculating-in-vagina missionary sex between a legitimately-married actor and actress.