Would you like some music with that moral code?

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Is there any music that is equally/more strongly associated with a set of beliefs than Straight Edge? What I am asking so poorly is: are there any other types of music that have such rigid, thorough codes through which one lives their life? I know "straight edge" is a type of music as well as a lifestyle, but I associate it more with the teetotalers-plus philosophy they espouse.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Or how about when musicians are well-known for a set of beliefs, but they don't really preach them, i.e. it seems well-known that Low=Mormon, but it's not like they're flashing their CTR rings in promo shots or anything.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the flipside of that - music that requires you to adopt a set of behaviors in order to tolerate it? Y'know, like bad hippie music.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Skinheads

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Reggae

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Christian Rock

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

One thing I've found particularly interesting is many of these XXX kids' utter disdain for how hip-hop lyrics are all about a certain kind of lifestyle, when they simultaneously write-&-perform music with lyrics all about their certain kind of lifestyle.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

XXX as in porn?

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 4 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

XXX as in Straight Edge as in sXe.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 4 April 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Answer to Fivvy's first question is definetely yes.

You could throw Gregorian or Benedictine or whatever other kinds of monk chant there are up there. I can't think of anything that could be more stringent than a monk's lifestyle.

But the thing with straight edge is that the scene/lifestyle came from the music, not the other way around.

Ian Mackeye had made a personal choice to not drink or do drugs. He wrote about this with Minor Threat, they named the song "Straight Edge," and the punk/hardcore kids were all of a sudden straight edge kids.

― Shaun McCormack (shaun), Friday, 4 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

are there any other types of music that have such rigid, thorough codes through which one lives their life

Probably devotional muslim music. But, y'know, that stuff's no fun to stage dive to.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 April 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Reggae

Very true- and yet it has a wide audience of ppl who don't really give a fuck about the strict ideology (oh, sure, we all love our one loves and our holy weeds, but how 'bout that rampant sexism, for one?), unlike straightedge or Christian Rock.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 4 April 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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