Is blasphemous Music ok?

the FCC/powers-that-be have long protected us namby-pamby 'muuricans from such, courtesy of the 7-second delay as well as the advent of recording tape and the editing block, scissoring such songs as "the pusher" [steppenwolf] and "mississippi g*dd*m" [nina simone] if indeed they were to get airplay in the first place. 

@noske: I saw Larry Norman quite a few times when he was one of the two lead singers in the San Jose group People, who had a hit single in 1968 with their recording of The Zombies "I Love You". Larry was asked to leave the group when the four musician-members---who had become Scientologists---deemed him "anti-social" (oh those nutty Scientologists ;-) . Fellow-singer Gene Mason---like Larry, not a Scientologist---also left the group, starting a band named Radio. My teenage band played a show in Saratoga with them in the summer of '69, as well as opening for the now Larry and Gene-less People line-up in Santa Cruz that same summer. People's guitarist Geoff Levin went on to make some good records, including a direct-to-disc on Sheffield Labs Records! He has also had a productive career in film and television.

In 1977 I happened to see that Larry was appearing at The Paramount Theater in Portland, so decided to go see what he was up to. The Paramount was a pretty big theater, and it was packed. Larry was a good entertainer (solo, accompanying his singing on piano and guitar), and the very well-behaved audience (oh those Christians ;-) responded very enthusiastically. I followed up the show by buying a copy of Larry's latest album---In Another Land---at Music Millennium, which is still in my collection. The following year I again attended a show at The Paramount, this one of a very different nature: AC/DC and Thin Lizzy ;-) .

If you look at the archaeology of the Romans you'll see that religion put society into a lengthy period of dark ages. Where would we be without it? Go for it!

@pedroeb ...like the one we're facing now? 😏

If so, I'm glad to miss the bulk of the show...although I may have to tolerate the prolog...   

Can't put all the blame on the religions this time around, tho'.  We umans have breed some 'variants' in the meanwhile....mostly an awful lot of us.

Saw a little blurb the other night where current human consumption and waste actually requires 1.75 Earths to support that.

If Everyone C&W'd (no pun, noo) like all good 'Mericans, we'd need 5 of them.

'Everyone' wants to live like us....well, kinda.

We're screwed.  By ourselves.

Been nice to chat with y'all.  Hope your version is quick and sudden. ;)

It's better than that that dreadful anti progress country song that featured on a thread recently.

BTW, the idea that that Catholic church banned the tritone is a myth.

Adam Neely has a very good discussion of it here: