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x-posted from my lj.

So, as the "corollary", as my brother leiron put it, to my best friend's post, I'll post my Top 10 Songs the Pope Has To Hear [Immediately].

However, my list almost doesn't look anything like his, and is more concentrated on a smaller number of artists.

And so, it begins:

10. Chicago - Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?
From the album The Chicago Transit Authority

"Does anybody really know what time it is? / Does anybody really care? / If so I can't imagine why / We've all got time enough to cry"

This song is here to let the Pope know that rock songs are not just emotional, but also socially conscious. So, does anybody really know what time it is?

9. Audioslave - Show Me How To Live
From the album Audioslave

"Nail in my hand / From my creator / You gave me life / Now show me how to live"

A song sung by a lost soul. What is life when you don't know how to live it? So you turn and ask how to live.

8. Roger Taylor/Queen - Heaven for Everyone
From the album Shove It/Made In Heaven

"This could be heaven for everyone / This world could be fed, this world could be fun / This could be heaven for everyone / This world could be free, this world could be one"

Like another Queen song goes, "peace on earth, and an end to war." World peace, everyone. Oh, how Satanic the message!

7. Eagles - Learn To Be Still
From the album Hell Freezes Over

"We are like sheep without a shepherd / We don't know how to be alone / So we wander 'round this desert / And wind up following the wrong gods home"

We, as a people, are never satisfied with what we have, admit it or not. This is why we constantly complain, constantly wish for something more, in turn, constantly forsaking what we already have. Dear Pope, could you get that from any "Satanic" rock band?

6. The Who - A Man in a Purple Dress
From the album Endless Wire

"How dare you be the one to assess / Me in this godforsaken mess / You, a man in a purple dress / A man in a purple dress"

Okay, maybe not the best song to play for the Pope, but it's one of the most humbling. The song questions why people have to be of cloth just to be called men of God. More like, why do we have to listen to the Pope when he says all rock is bad?

5. Queen - Jesus
From the album Queen

"Then came a man before His feet he fell / Unclean said the leper and rang his bell / Felt the palm of a hand touch his head / Go now go now you're a new man instead / All going down to see the Lord Jesus"

This one I'm sure His Holiness will like. It's a pretty straightforward song, made up of parts of the Gospel. I can imagine it now: "But the lead singer's gay!"

4. The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
From the album Magical Mystery Tour

"All you need is love, love / love is all you need."

Now if the Beatles were "demonic", all instances of the word "love" would be replaced with "war".

3. Eagles - The Last Resort
From the album Hotel California

"Some rich men came and raped the land, / Nobody caught 'em / Put up a bunch of ugly boxes, and Jesus, / people bought 'em"

The demonic band is telling us that we're raping the Earth. However, a true demonic band would encourage us, not warn us.

2. The Who - Two Thousand Years
From the album Endless Wire

"Two thousand years / Have I waited / To ask if I have loved you /To know if I have served you / To find if I've obeyed you / To know if I've betrayed you"

A song somewhat from Judas's point of view. It's a kind of song that makes theologians think: did Judas really betray Jesus or was it all part of Jesus's intricate plan to save all humanity by dying for us? He also has to wait another two thousand years for people to actually think about that explanation, since, you know, medieval thinking is quite narrow-minded.

1. Queen - Somebody to Love
From the album A Day at the Races

"I get down on my knees and start to pray / Till the tears run down from my eyes / Lord, somebody, somebody / Please can anybody find me, somebody to love?"

I wonder what got the Pope thinking that all of rock is evil. Sure, you hear one anti-Christ song and you apparently hear them all singing the same song. But this is not the case, friends! Of all the band's catalogue I have never heard a song that sang about the devil. No, in fact, Somebody to Love is actually a prayer in itself.

If anyone has anything to add, feel free.