Daniel Amos Message Board | Print: This is ridiculous

Posted by dennis on 11-24-2004 at06:30:

quote:

Originally posted by dorfsmith
For me, the worst DA song is either Climbing Broken Ladders To Glory or Turn This Off.

I love those songs! Shocked

I tell you! Even worse than the country CD is the tune "I Believe In You!"
To me this song is the only really blatent "sell out, I wanna be BJ Thomas tune!" Shocked

However I don't "hate" anything Terry has done! Big Grin

When I listen to HD, I don't skip that song. I enjoy it as well in my own way! Tongue

Posted by dennis on 11-24-2004 at06:31:

dfbb

quote:

Originally posted by wes berlin
yep.

or you could buy one of my cd's for $50.00. Shocked

Good God Man! How many do you own? Shocked

Posted by dennis on 11-24-2004 at06:33:

Thumb Up!

quote:

Originally posted by joey
dfbb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pleased

One thing in life we can agree on... Smile

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Posted by dennis on 11-24-2004 at09:33:

quote:

Originally posted by PuP
Methinks it's time to resurrect the "album of the week".

Me too!

Posted by PuP on 11-24-2004 at10:38:

DFBB it is then.

To open discussion, let me pose this question...

DFBB is well-known to be about the inadequateness of our language to express God. But, Terry is well-known to never discuss one topic in a song/album if he can tie in other topics.

So, what are the other (possibly minor) themes on DFBB?

Posted by .backs. on 11-24-2004 at11:01:

1. strange requirements
2. flying cars

Posted by dorfsmith on 11-24-2004 at11:01:

Well, let's pick it apart...

Return Of The Beat Menace

from the album "Darn Floor - Big Bite"
Words and Music by Terry Taylor, Tim Chandler, and Greg Flesch
©1987 Broken Songs (ASCAP)

Again you announce while you whirl and bounce
Intentions to pounce on the beat menace

No woman or man could ever withstand
The devious plans of the beat menace

Come to lay you low, we've come to vex your soul

Feeling the heat, hell at your feet
Don't even speak of the beat menace

Something to take away your innocence
Someone to blame it on
Helps you to defeat
Dancing in the street

Come to lay you low, we've come to vex you

Resolved in your mind- the nature of crime
Is to swallow the line of the beat menace

Imagination's on the rise again
So hide your heart away
Dust off the fears and guilts and lies again
The beat is here to stay

Your satellite can reach that Eskimo
He buys a suit and tie
Re-styles his hair like girls in Tupelo
And sings "Sweet Bye And Bye"

He's meeting all your strange requirements
He thinks you can't be fooled
He'll get the rules and laws and sacraments
By sending checks to you

We've come to bring you low

I see this one as another slam at Televangelists. Is the beat the gospel? I do know you get tired of hearing about the Residents and I am sorry but when I saw The Residents Eskimo DVD this song jumped in my head...especially...

Your satellite can reach that Eskimo
He buys a suit and tie
Re-styles his hair like girls in Tupelo
And sings "Sweet Bye And Bye"

Which reminds me of the end of the Eskimo DVD when all the Eskimos are drinking coke and acting western. Then it gives the facts how many were re-located to the desert and now spend their time on welfare watching TV. In other words, it takes a proud group of people and shows how they were reduced to slackers by the Government thinking they know what is best for them.

This happened in a Christian sense when communism fell in The Soviet Union. All the Christian media groups fought to be the first ones there and pervert a God hungry people with their twisted lies.

But even so, the beat goes on...

Did I completely butcher that one???
Big Grin

Posted by dorfsmith on 11-24-2004 at11:16:

OK, I am completely wrong about part of that. The Beat Menace is God and the beat is feel good Christianity. God keeps screwing it up for them... Big Grin

Posted by dorfsmith on 11-24-2004 at11:17:

But then this line:

Resolved in your mind- the nature of crime
Is to swallow the line of the beat menace

Makes me think I was right in the first place. Unless, of course, the bad guy resolved in his mind that the beat menace was bad...I better shut up and let you guys help me out Big Grin

Posted by Princess flower bottom on 11-24-2004 at11:24:

Frown

Posted by PuP on 11-24-2004 at11:28:

I may be just as wrong as you, dorf, but I thought that RotBM was about televangelists speaking out on the "dangers" of Rock 'n' Roll. The televangelists go to great lengths to win converts and then make them twice the children of Hell the evangelists are in the first place. And the whole time, Rock 'n' Roll refuses to die.

Posted by dennis on 11-24-2004 at11:29:

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Originally posted by Princess flower bottom

Joey hit it on the head! Pleased

I think terry's songs tend to be about more than one thing though.

I think it also deals with the more sublime aspects of God and trying to sell God in a neat package. Then the neat package is mistaken for God.
Idolatry.

Posted by Princess flower bottom on 11-24-2004 at11:29:

like i said...... Red Face

Posted by dennis on 11-24-2004 at11:30:

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Originally posted by Princess flower bottom
like i said...... Red Face

Posted by dorfsmith on 11-24-2004 at11:32:

quote:

Originally posted by PuP
I may be just as wrong as you, dorf, but I thought that RotBM was about televangelists speaking out on the "dangers" of Rock 'n' Roll. The televangelists go to great lengths to win converts and then make them twice the children of Hell the evangelists are in the first place. And the whole time, Rock 'n' Roll refuses to die.

Great thought. I need to listen to it with that in mind Tongue