Reach Out and Touch Faith

Posted on August 30, 2016 by joey

I hate being asked what kind of music I like. I like good music, Duh. Doesn’t everyone like good music?

Most of my music collection is from the 90’s, because that’s the decade of my youth, also Duh.

I very much like what I very much like, but I’m open. It’s good to be open about music, I think, because I’m open about music.

The example I always give people is Beastie Boys Sabrosa. I show you this video and unless you know, your brain is already set to Obnoxious White Rappers.
But if you like good music, you’ll like this song, because it is not obnoxious, and absolutely not rap.

And there are plenty more where that came from.
I know this, because The Mister thought he wouldn’t like it.

Somehow The Mister thought he hated Nirvana, but I fixed that, too.

In terms of rap, I’ll have you know that in my teens, I played my NWA tapes so much, I caught my own mother singing it. She was ashamed when she covered her mouth and said, “I can’t help it.” To spare her scandal, I won’t tell you what she was singing.

These things happen.

My favorite is my MIL, a notoriously godly woman, singing and tapping her fingers to Marilyn Manson’s version of Personal Jesus.
I doubt that MIL knows the Depeche Mode or Johnny Cash version, or that she’d ever heard the song before, but she did enjoy it noticeably. She probably thought it was a new gospel tune.

“Personal Jesus”

Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there

Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer

Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there

Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal Jesus

Reach out and touch faith

If I showed her a picture of Marilyn Manson, she’d recoil in horror and probably claim him the devil incarnate, but without prejudice, she thoroughly enjoyed it.

I didn’t bother MIL with Marilyn Manson’s background or play her Cake & Sodomy, but I felt a rare twinge of something on the verge of joyously diabolical fervor. It was a nearly religious moment.

Anyway, It’s good to be open about music.

 

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61 Responses to Reach Out and Touch Faith

  1. mltrautz@yahoo.com says:
    August 30, 2016 at 10:31 AM

    My youngest is the DJ on our trips because I pay for the i-tunes but the other day we were listening to the radio and I sang along to Whiskey Lullaby. The DJ started to make fun of me and I said, “Oh, it’s okay to put molly in your lean, but not to kill yourself with whiskey?” I was then treated to an imitation of my singing when I am trying not to cry because the kids make fun of me. It was pitiful – funny- but pitiful. Then the DJ set up the i-tunes and we both belted out to I put molly in my lean because, yeah, the DJ likes rap. WHY? I can’t tell you, but I can sing to it.

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  2. meANXIETYme says:
    August 30, 2016 at 10:35 AM

    Hub is the music fiend here so he’s always trying to get me to listen to new stuff. It’s good to be open to new things in general. 😉 It’s also good to have a guide you trust to help you with that!

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  3. msgt3227 says:
    August 30, 2016 at 10:36 AM

    After reading your posting, I took a quick inventory of my music collection ~ mostly 70’s & 80’s rock, classical, some blues and jazz, and lots of contemporary country. I was in a country band last decade and currently in the process of forming a new band with my former front man/lead guitarist. Which means lots more country music! YeeHaw!!!

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  4. thelonelyauthorblog says:
    August 30, 2016 at 10:39 AM

    I like your choice of songs.especially Nirvana

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  5. Manja Mexi Movie says:
    August 30, 2016 at 11:09 AM

    You’re a personal crossover genre mixer. Now make me like any Justin, Nickelback, Smashing Pumpkins. And Jennifer Anniston.

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    • joey says:
      August 30, 2016 at 11:18 AM

      You don’t like Jennifer Aniston in anything she’s done? How unusual.

      By Justin, do you mean Bieber or Timberlake? I’m not a Belieber, but I think I remember liking the last one well enough. I love Timberlake — but my fave is prolly the obscure track off a B side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDRf08C4B_U–
      I like one Nickelback song — Figured You Out. That’s a song chock full of irony, as former relationships always are.
      I like some Smashing Pumpkins — Today is alright, 1979, and when the mood strikes, Bullet with Butterfly Wings is alright with me too.
      I like a bit of everything, less country, less metal, less power ballads.

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      • Manja Mexi Movie says:
        August 30, 2016 at 11:22 AM

        I said ‘either’ so I meant both. 😀 Jennifer is awfully bland in my opinion. Oh, Andie MacDowell too, she doesn’t even buy herself! I’ll listen to all your suggestions carefully. (I like the SP text: “Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage.” but I’ll never forgive them for giving me the worst concert of my life.)

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  6. Manja Mexi Movie says:
    August 30, 2016 at 11:24 AM

    Correction: I said “any Justin”, not “either”. Probably there are more than two. 😀

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  7. orbthefirst says:
    August 30, 2016 at 11:26 AM

    Im trimming my collection a bit. Mostly getting rid of bad bootlegs, and Nu-Metal stuff I dont listen to, that I just “ended up with.”
    Think my collection of various tunes is somewhere around 55K..? Something like that. Id like to get it down to 50K, just so I could put it all up on google music.

    And I still dont like Nirvana. Except that one tune. 😛

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  8. LindaGHill says:
    August 30, 2016 at 12:46 PM

    Hahaha! Love it.

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  9. Josh Wrenn says:
    August 30, 2016 at 12:48 PM

    All this! Great musical taste!

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  10. Dan Antion says:
    August 30, 2016 at 12:59 PM

    Most of the music in my collection would miss you be a couple-three decades. Oh well, as long as we both listen to stuff we like, I’m good. I manage to do OK on long road trips with our daughter. we tolerate each other and we enjoy a lot of the same stuff. That’s mainly because she’s broad-minded.

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    • joey says:
      August 30, 2016 at 7:11 PM

      Well yeah, your youth isn’t my youth, and certainly not Faith’s. I have more from the 60’s and 70’s than I do from the 80’s. I thought a lot of 80’s music was cheesy when we were still in the 80’s…Not enough variety maybe. Or maybe too much guitar and synthesizer. I dunno. Usually Sassy or I DJ. The boy one, he’s the rebel, he hates everything unless it’s obscure and screamy. lol

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  11. baldjake70 says:
    August 30, 2016 at 1:36 PM

    I will always remember her singing that song and either smile or laugh.

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  12. Benson says:
    August 30, 2016 at 3:00 PM

    My music likes travel through a bunch of years. That was funny what you said about NWA. My kids listened to that while they were doing stunts on their ramps;and in the shower. I can’t image any white middle class housewife singing any of their lyrics. What will you tell the MIL if she learns about Manson’s full repertoire? I admit I am not really up to date on what the “kids” are listening to now. I just listen to rather small collection of MP3 tunes and enjoy.

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    • joey says:
      August 30, 2016 at 7:26 PM

      I think you’d agree, good music goes back centuries 🙂
      That’s funny about your boys, NWA was such a THING then!
      If I catch MIL singing along to Personal Jesus again, I’ll probably show her this post and freak her right out. lol
      I always ask Sassy if she’s going to keep me abreast of the musics when she moves out. I told her, “Ya gotta email me links so I don’t miss the good stuff!” So much of the good stuff I like now is because of my kids listening to it.

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      • Benson says:
        August 31, 2016 at 12:51 AM

        Fer sure. I always got a kick out of Adam and his posse doing Endos with NWA blasting in the background. A bunch of middle class kids from the burbs gettin’ down with Compton. I’m sure one of the reasons I am not hip with current tunes is that I am no longer around kids. When I was working in taverns with juke boxes I always heard the favorite sounds. I still have night mares about “Jane Says”.

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        • joey says:
          August 31, 2016 at 9:49 AM

          Teenagers across the spectrum hate abuse of authority and injustices in their own lives, so it was inevitable we felt a metaphorical connection to NWA. (and Pink Floyd and Violent Femmes and The Sex Pistols and so on…)
          Did you have nightmares about Jane? I do like the song.

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          • Benson says:
            August 31, 2016 at 9:59 AM

            Well maybe not nightmares but… Try listening to the damn thing 10 to 12 hours a day. Day in and day out. Shudder. Oh I understand teenage angst and the desire to fight authority. Often kids can find injustice in most anything. Why I recall a time when an older friend and I went to a club at Fort Ben and were stopped by the MPs. Well someday I’ll write about it.

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  13. loisajay says:
    August 30, 2016 at 3:10 PM

    Yeah…..probably best not to show MIL the Marilyn Mansen video…

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  14. Fannie Frankfurter says:
    August 30, 2016 at 5:08 PM

    I’m also stuck in the 1990s or earlier with my musical preferences. Yes to Nirvana, NWA, and the Beastie Boys!

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  15. bikerchick57 says:
    August 30, 2016 at 6:12 PM

    That’s funny about your MIL. Did you provide any insight to her about the song or let it be?

    Being a bit older than you, I grew up with 70’s music. But I have a huge fondness for 80’s hair bands – Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Poison, Cinderella, Def Leppard, etc. There’s no way one cannot rock out to that music.

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    • joey says:
      August 30, 2016 at 7:29 PM

      Yes. Well….I prefer the 70’s to the 80’s. I DID and ALWAYS WILL LOVE JON BONJOVI! I listen to Classic Rock every day on the way home and so I reckon I get my fill of the 80’s hair bands.

      I didn’t say a word to my MIL. Why ruin such a beautiful moment? 😉 But if there’s a next time…

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  16. Bradley says:
    August 30, 2016 at 6:43 PM

    I’m a 52 year old white guy and I love rap. I also like hip hop, jazz, classic rock, 80’s, 90’s reggae, and more. Even on a rare occasion, I like opera. I simply love music and don’t believe in limiting myself.

    I’m a Nirvana fanatic. Having bipolar, my favorite song is Lithium, of course. I love it because the song make absolutely no sense unless you know the title. I know I’ve heard a Marilyn Manson song or two that I like, but I absolutely can not look at him. Gives me the willies.

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  17. vanbytheriver says:
    August 30, 2016 at 6:55 PM

    I like it all. And my son played in hard core punk bands, I learned to love that too. Sort of…💖

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  18. Luanne says:
    August 30, 2016 at 7:50 PM

    OK, I’m going to play these while I go cook dinner (BBQ chicken sammiches). Don’t let me down now.

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  19. ghostmmnc says:
    August 30, 2016 at 9:52 PM

    I kept singing that song in my head all day since I read your title…but the one by Depeche Mode. I like all kinds of music, and we have all decades represented here. Being a teen in the 60s and then everything up til now, I like it all. I have a funny story about Marilyn Manson, but it’s too long for a comment here. Maybe I should blog about it someday. 🙂 Rock on! \m/

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  20. ghostmmnc says:
    August 31, 2016 at 10:57 AM

    🙂 I need to remember a few facts, then I will!

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    • ghostmmnc says:
      September 3, 2016 at 10:36 AM

      Decided not to blog about the story, so will just tell you here. About the MM concert here in town one time, one of my daughters attended the concert w/boyfriend, while my other daughter was outside the venue protesting that MM was in town. Then, the boyfriend’s brother (who was a pizza delivery guy), got a call to deliver one to MM’s tour bus after the concert. Said he met him, and he was such a nice, normal guy. He’d already removed all his stage makeup, and also gave him a big tip for the pizza delivery. 🙂 That’s the way I heard the story, anyway.

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  21. garym6059 says:
    August 31, 2016 at 12:12 PM

    This brings up the “old” days! Nothing better than the Beastie Boys when they got into their alternative rock phase. I still go nuts anytime I hear “Sabotage.” Was the MIL humming some “Straight Outta Compton?”

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  23. marianallen says:
    August 31, 2016 at 1:22 PM

    I love the Beastie Boys! Also Cake! And the Gorillaz! And Barenaked Ladies! And Smashmouth! And the kind of cake you eat!

    Our #4 daughter makes mix CDs for me, because my radio listening days ended pretty much with the Beatles. Yeah, I’m that old.

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  24. larva225 says:
    August 31, 2016 at 8:44 PM

    My mom was always partial to Straight to Hell by Drivin’ and Cryin’ and Beat on the Brat by the Ramones. I could dig.

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