My opinion ---

Whenever a negative is brought up it should include what you feel should be done to cure the situation – or better still – far more important, what YOU are doing to IMPROVE the situation. If the post is pure negative laced with anger or hatred it becomes almost as harmful as the topic being discussed..

Once more; only my opinion, John C.

John,
You're right. This issue will never get settled in our lifetime, and certainly not on this forum, so I will bow out gracefully and hope that the energy just dies away. I rarely discuss political issues anyway.
So ... how 'Bout them Darn Cowboys, huh? (Don Mason's happy)

Cowboys are hard to figure. One night they sound great, the next night they forget all the chord changes and sing off key. They brought down the house last night though.
DonM

Now that we're on the subject of cowboys...


A cowboy walks into a bar and orders a whisky.

When the bartender delivers the drink, the cowboy asks, "Where is everybody?"

The bartender replies, "They've gone to the hanging."

"Hanging? Who are they hanging?"

"Brown Paper Pete," the bartender replied.

"What kind of a name is that?" the cowboy asked.

"Well," says the bartender. "He wears a brown paper hat, brown paper shirt, brown paper trousers and brown paper shoes."

"How bizarre," said the cowboy. "What are they hanging him for?"

"Rustling," said the bartender.

I found this newspaper article that someone wrote in a stack of papers I found today in the next room. I read it and, at first, I thought, ho-hum, the same old drivel Then I looked at the date on it......August 4, 1991. I didn't realize they were talking about this phenomenon that long ago....20 years now. Hard to believe we've put up with this new music that long!

article as follows.......remember it was written in 1991:

What ever happened to music? What ever happened to the innocence of asking a girl to dance? What ever happened to the manners and the behavior that went along with the Terpsichore of yesterday? What ever happened to the compassion, love, tenderness and caring that went along with music? What ever happened to the lyrics?

What ever happened to the art of dancing? What a joy it would be to see the fox trot, jitterbug, rumba, waltz and social dancing having a rebirth in this country. The nicety of dancing and good music is no longer a part of growing up. The first dance, the first dance dress and all the usual niceties associated with good music and dancing have disappeared from our way of life.

In its place, we have nothing. Gone are the niceties, manners and dancing of a bygone era. Today, we have a bunch of noise that is an affront to your senses. The lyrics are an abomination of filth and violence and without any redeeming value.

Surely, innocence, proper behavior, manners, compassion and tenderness are not part of music as we know it today. Dancing and music have disappeared, and in their place is a "group" jumping around without any form of sensibility and moving in relation to some noise that is called music.

Since the early `50s, music has deteriorated into the garbage that is called rap, heavy metal, etc. It is not music and cannot be called music. The music of today is a putrefaction and gangrenous assault on the senses.

As for myself, give me the music of Glenn Miller, where the lyrics of love, tenderness and compassion abide, where manners are wonderful, where my senses are not assaulted with violence, where hysteria is not needed, and the sharing of all of this with the woman of your life as you dance to "Maybe She'll Be There" or "Dream.”

I agree that it is easy to hate a lot of today's pop music, but there have always been great songs and always have been terrible songs.
Mairzy Doats and Doesie Doats and Little Lambsie Divey. Not too deep, or romantic, but at least not pornographic.
DonM

I dunno, Don. That lyric was pretty straight statement of facts.

Unfortunately those qualities have disappeared to a great degree in our everyday lives as well ...

Can you imagine a cowboy saying "how bizarre"?