"Rock Around The Clock" was the first big rock 'n' roll hit, and it created a firestorm (you get points if you can tell me who recorded it). Relatively innocent compared to today's fare, it was apparently a big break from my parents' faves -"Flat Feet Floogie," "Cement Mixer," and "Marzie Doats." They enjoyed singing those for my brother and me and we all laughed together at the silliness.
My senior class in high school wanted to have the big New York disk jockey Alan Freed to MC our prom, but the parents got together and said no. It was all too much.
Who wouldn't opt for the thought of dancing all night to (come on now, who recorded that song?)instead of today's offerings about violence, suicide and the like? Now, every generation needs it's own thing, and there are those who say that music is innocent, but some of today's problems have got to be linked to what passes for music, Kevin Bacon films notwithstanding.
Anyway, popular music has taken a real slide downward.
Remember when "Playboy" came out? With it's slick pages and pseudo-intellectual content, it opened the door to today's porn supermarket. Add in the internet, and we've got disaster.
Rock and porn started with an almost acceptable product and went downward from there. (Oh yeah, we've got freedom of speech, etc., but along with those rights come responsibilities. Doesn't anybody care about the effect the exercise of their "freedom" is having on anybody else?)
Which all points out the descending nature of man - left to him/her self, the lowest common denominator keeps getting lower and lower. That's why we need a savior - we're a mess.
Jesus is our Rock. We need Him around the clock.
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