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I can bring my cassette in from the truck 
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dorfsmith
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I'm waiting for the reissue with the bonus songs 
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dorfsmith
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It will happen one day... 
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Originally posted by joey
dfbb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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One thing in life we can agree on... 
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Methinks it's time to resurrect the "album of the week". |
Me too!
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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?
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1. strange requirements
2. flying cars
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dorfsmith
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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???
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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...
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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.
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dennis
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Joey hit it on the head!
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.
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like i said...... 
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like i said......
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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 
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