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Elle:
Sounds of the redneck Terrible music! In the beginning there was lots of Garth Brooks, Bruce Springstien, Dire Straights, and Supertramp. We were even told that if we didn't like Country music by the time we were on oldcomer we were not aloud to graduate.


After open meeting everyone would hold hands for a prayer while something corny like "I will always love you" played. Staff tried to think of a song that resembled who they were going to target in the rap, so the first song to play was always scary. Everyone would be thinking "Oh god, I've got friends in low places, maybe I'm going to be blasted..." It was rediculous.


The music is better these days, now it just has to be "AARC approved" like Sarah Mclaughlan who's "Angel" they play whenever media or possible donator's are around.


Sorry if you like Garth Brooks and Supertramp : )


                                        Elle.

sullyceltic:
music yeah, elle, i liked those films too. castaway was alright.

nowhere near as good and as important as a clockwork

orange - only my opinion.


on the music thing at straight...

they were so strict about it! the only somewhat "cool" song that they let us sing was "eye of the tiger" by

who is it - survivor, right? ironic name.


we were not allowed to listen to any music at all. until

you reached third or fourth phase, i forget now.

but with having newcomers at your house and being driven around by your parents, or someone else's, all the time, you had very little time to listen to anything.


i remember when i was there, running an errand for some executive staff member, and this other 4th phaser and i went out in his jeep and blasted the music.

i've felt soooo much more appreciative of music ever since that place.


the no music thing was all part of the environment of control that they created. i very distinctly remember being stood up on a monday night review, thanks to

a concern put in on me by somebody, and being blasted because i was listening to NWA. now, as i write this, and contemplate my 30th birthday coming up in a few weeks, i can tell you i don't listen to that kind of music anymore - not regularly anyway. but at that point,

staff banned any music that was in anyway violent, and

told all of us on third phase and up to report others who we would "catch" listening to _________.

in case you're wondering, i don't think that i was punished in anyway for listening to NWA. i was just told not to do it again, and to use better judgement when deciding what to listen to. just call me 655-321!


as far as the songs we sang in group.. they were "real horror show". "fire and rain" was always an open meeting favorite. "straight-incorp" one i liked (LOL).


cats in the cradle until the day i die will transport my

mind and soul back to the warehouse of insanity located at 53 evans dr, stoughton, ma.


someone sometime ago drew a comparison to the songs being like the "commercials" for the program. the kept us occupied while they schemed what to do next. also, i think that they were there so that we were constantly

focused, with as little time to think our own thoughts as possible.


did somebody say "a clockwork straight"?


my best, sully


sullyceltic@yahoo.com

Elle:
music There was no singing in aarc, actually those of us who sang before weren't aloud to do it then because it was our "escape mechanism". Of course, happiness is terrible.


Some of us were aloud to listen to music on level 3 when newcomers weren't around, but some of us listened to "wierd" music, or enjoyed music too much to be allowed CD's. We sort of were punished over things like that. Certianly if I was caught listening to something from "my past" I would be set back a couple of weeks. My mother cried when she heard me listening "alternative" music as a graduate, and wouldn't let me leave the house for a week. She seemed to think that the music was going to kill me, and I'd drop dead the minute I left the house.


Oh and yeah, it was Survivor who sang that. Ironic, because their careers didn't last too long did they?


                                       Elle.

ladyjerrico:
Seems like you had it a little more strict than I did at Straight.. however we did need to only sing songs that we sang in group at the host homes or whatnot.
I remember one time I became rebellious, if we came early to the building, we were sent in a room and had to sit on the floor indian style, I refused to do that and I was talking to another 1st phaser, we started singing Ozzy songs and Rush songs to piss people off.
Needless to say I ended up in group kicking a chair, I think I hit another 1st phaser with it, I don't remember, I felt horrible about that.
I was slammed to the ground and told to eat the carpetting. I was on very close watch for the next 2 weeks after that.

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