"it has a good message"

this is an awful reason to listen to music

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  • especially if said music is power electronics
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Listen, children, to a story
    That was written long ago,
    'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
    And the valley-folk below.

    On the mountain was a treasure
    Buried deep beneath the stone,
    And the valley-people swore
    They'd have it for their very own.

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    So the people of the valley
    Sent a message up the hill,
    Asking for the buried treasure,
    Tons of gold for which they'd kill.

    Came an answer from the kingdom,
    "With our brothers we will share
    All the secrets of our mountain,
    All the riches buried there."

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    Now the valley cried with anger,
    "Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
    And they killed the mountain-people,
    So they won their just reward.

    Now they stood beside the treasure,
    On the mountain, dark and red.
    Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
    "Peace on Earth" was all it said.

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.
  • kill living beings
    Don't you ever laugh as the hearse goes by,
    For you may be the next one to die.
    They wrap you up in a big white sheet
    From your head down to your feet.
    They put you in a big black box
    And cover you up with dirt and rocks.
    All goes well for about a week,
    Until your coffin begins to leak.
    The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
    The worms play pinochle on your scalp,
    They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
    They eat the jelly between your toes.
    A big green worm with rolling eyes
    Crawls in your stomach and out your sides.
    Your stomach turns a slimy green,
    And pus pours out like whipping cream.
    You'll spread it on a slice of bread,
    And this is what you eat when you are dead
  • I can do better.

    I get a good message from music that has no words and only abstract titles.
  • edited 2015-08-26 02:25:59
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Odradek said:

    Listen, children, to a story
    That was written long ago,
    'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
    And the valley-folk below.

    On the mountain was a treasure
    Buried deep beneath the stone,
    And the valley-people swore
    They'd have it for their very own.

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    So the people of the valley
    Sent a message up the hill,
    Asking for the buried treasure,
    Tons of gold for which they'd kill.

    Came an answer from the kingdom,
    "With our brothers we will share
    All the secrets of our mountain,
    All the riches buried there."

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    Now the valley cried with anger,
    "Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
    And they killed the mountain-people,
    So they won their just reward.

    Now they stood beside the treasure,
    On the mountain, dark and red.
    Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
    "Peace on Earth" was all it said.

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
    Go ahead and cheat a friend.
    Do it in the name of Heaven,
    You can justify it in the end.
    There won't be any trumpets blowing
    Come the judgement day,
    On the bloody morning after....
    One tin soldier rides away.

    Thanks, Odra.  Actual, literal tears.

    That song... That song.

    My dad used to sing it and play the guitar.  Got to me every single time.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Aww.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Yarrun, that is horrible. Make it go away.
  • Oh fuck I used to sing that worms song all the time as a kid.

    That and "suffocation takes coordination"
  • LWLW
    edited 2015-08-27 01:19:20

    Honestly, I think it is perfectly fine to listen to music because it has a good message. Granted, for me good message tends to mean "is uplifting" rather than "explains why you shouldn't copy that floppy." I can see how the latter type of song would bug some people, especially if it was low quality, but I have no real qualms with somebody liking that sort of thing if that is what they are into.
  • kill living beings
    but it has a good message, which is to not make fun of dead people
  • I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    The message is EDUCATION


  • My dreams exceed my real life
    but it has a good message, which is to not make fun of dead people
    O'Leary is dead and O'Reilly don't know it. 
    O'Reilly is dead and O'Leary don't know it. 
    They both are dead in the very same bed
    And neither one knows that the other one's dead
  • edited 2015-08-27 19:16:14
    Ich bin ein jelly doughnut
    counterquestion: is "bad message" an awful reason NOT to listen to music?


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