A lot of ICP (Insane Clown Posse) songs are about Shangri la, heh
On 7/7/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dead Can Dance have a release I would have sworn was an African
> religious chant... don't know the name but it's recent.
>
> On 7/7/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's why I said they probably don't fit the category.
> >
> > On a side note -- I'd be interested to see how many songs folks on the
> > list can dredge up which have religious references or themes that are
> > outside of the judeo-christian ethos ... Barring generic,
> > non-denominational themes (which are sort of assumed to be sung by
> > Christian artists in most cases) and barring (folk) hymns -- secular
> > music, so Hari-Krishna doesn't count. I'm looking for secular tunes
> > that mention things like Buddha, Apolo, Odin, Legbha, Anansi, Shiva,
> > Osiris, Tyr Na Nog (sp?), the Vedas or the Green Man. It occurs to me
> > that I can name more fo the Greeks than any of the other ethos, but I
> > don't want to put out a complete list here, just examples... Anansi is
> > a little known african spider god for instance. Avalon would be
> > acceptable in spite of the fact that Arthurian legends are very
> > Christian oriented because Avalon as I understand it was not a
> > Christian myth. (Muslim is sort of out of the equation just because
> > they place too many restrictions on their music for it to be popular.)
> > When I think about this I want to jump immediately to Cat Stevens
> > because he had an album titled Buddha and the Chocolate Box, but I
> > can't think of any actual song he recorded with the name Buddha in it.
> >
> >
> > A Cold Wind To Valhalla - Jethro Tull
> > Xanadu - don't know (don't care for it, but...)
> > the Rebel Jesus - Jackson Browne (I think -- see below I know he at
> > least calls himself a pagan)
> > Jesus - Cat Stevens (oddly enough -- see the second verse below)
> >
> > They called him Gautama Buddha
> > Oh long time ago
> > He turned the world to order
> > Don't you know
> > He used to sit knowing
> > Oh long time ago
> > Where you and me were going
> > And in the evening his love will lead the blind
> >
> >
> > > Those are really using religious symbology as metaphor for
> > > other
> > > things though. Sort of like Holy Diver that I mentioned.
> >
> > > But that's probably over analyzing it.
> >
> > > On 7/7/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Oh, it occurs to me that there are religious references
> > >> in both Big
> > >> Time ("and I will kneel in a big church, as I pray to a
> > >> big god... and
> > >> my heaven will be a big heaven and I will walk through
> > >> the front
> > >> door") and In Your Eyes ("I see the doorway to a thousand
> > >> churches").
> > >> Neither of which likely fit the category...
> >
> >
> > s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080
> > new epoch : isn't it time for a change?
> >
> > add features without fixtures with
> > the onTap open source framework
> >
> > http://www.fusiontap.com
> > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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