Singing For Satan---Part 15

This week I continue my once-per-month series of posts regarding an informal study I undertook in the early 1990s regarding rock and pop music. The purpose of my study (and the background to it) can be read in the first installment of August 7, 2017. If you have not read that post, I strongly encourage you to do so before reading this installment. I will only repeat here the seven (7) evil elements that pervade today's music:

1. Violence/Murder/Suicide
2. Nihilism/Despair
3. Drug and alcohol glorification
4. Adultery/ Fornication and sexual perversion
5. The occult
6. Rebellion against lawful superiors
7. Blasphemy against God, Jesus Christ in particular, and the Church

 The exposing of the bands/artists continues.

The Rolling Stones

One of the most overtly satanic bands, ironically not recognized as such, is The Rolling Stones. A total of nine men played in the band over the years, but the two most famous and successful are Keith Richards (b. 1943) and Mick Jagger (b.1943). Jagger and Richards were classmates and childhood friends from Dartford, Kent, England with a keen interest in music. They formed a garage band dedicated to playing mostly the blues. In 1962, the band took its name from a Muddy Waters song entitled "Rollin' Stone." They started playing rock music and a following quickly grew. In 1963 they were signed to a record label and became part of the so-called "British Invasion" of music to the United States along with The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five and The Kinks.

The band became enormously successful and continue to tour today. They have released 30 studio albums in 56 years, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.  Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list and their estimated record sales are above 250 million. Jagger (b. Michael Philip Jagger) as a solo artist produced 32 Top Ten singles and 70 Top Forty singles.He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an individual, along with his group in 1989. In 2003, he was knighted for his "services to popular music" by the Queen of England.

Pushing Promiscuity and Opposing Sexual Morality

During the 1970s, Mick Jagger would appear on stage singing his perverted songs in front of a giant inflatable penis

 The Rolling Stones (aka "The Stones" or "Stones") wanted an image opposite of the early Beatles, who wanted to portray an "innocent group of clean-cut boys" image. Jagger and Richards relished a "bad boy" appearance which they easily obtained through sexually charged lyrics. Let's Spend the Night Together is a typical Stones' song from 1967, and was one of the earliest to get banned. When appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, The Stones were asked not to play Let's Spend the Night Together unless they changed the chorus to "let's spend some time together." Jagger and Richards were furious, but Sullivan said he wouldn't let them perform unless they agreed.  Realizing what a big deal appearing on Ed Sullivan meant in the 1960s, they reluctantly agreed to make the change. According to Dick Clark’s 25 Years of Rock and Roll, shortly after the performance the Stones went backstage, and came back on stage dressed in Nazi uniforms with swastikas, which caused an angry Sullivan to tell them to go into their dressing rooms and change back into their performing outfits.

Keith Richards is quoted as saying, "We receive our songs by inspiration, like at a seance." (See Rolling Stone magazine, May 5, 1977, p. 55). A brief survey of their music will show the songs are indeed inspired by evil sent from Hell. The tunes immediately below are a sampling of the promotion of sexual immorality.  

The song Honky Tonk Woman is about a drunken encounter with a prostitute:

I met a gin-soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across shoulder
Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind
It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
I laid a divorcée in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then she covered me with roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind

Little T & A refers to a woman's breasts and buttocks:

She's my little rock 'n' roll
My t**s and a** with soul, baby
She's my little rock 'n' roll
Oh, she's my little rock 'n' roll, yeah
You got to shock them, show them
She's my little rock 'n' roll, yeah
Shock, shock, shock, oh my, my, my (Vulgarity censored by me)

The song Sparks Will Fly describes a man who can't wait to get beck to his old lover and sodomize her:

When I finally get myself back on you, baby
Sparks will fly
When I finally get myself back on you, baby
I'm gonna step on the gas
I want to get there really fast
I want to f**k your sweet a**
Sparks will fly
Sharks will cry
Sparks will fly
I had a good sniff around
Along old hunting grounds
But I have never found
A woman so hot
Sparks will fly (Vulgarity censored by me)

The song Under My Thumb is about a misogynist who dominates women. He is in control, as she is under his thumb and is a "squirming dog," "A Siamese cat of a girl" who is "the sweetest pet in the world," because "The way she talks when she's spoken to, down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb - take it easy babe."

Under my thumb
The girl who once had me down
Under my thumb
The girl who once pushed me around
It's down to me
The difference in the clothes she wears
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
And ain't it the truth babe?
Under my thumb
It's a squirmin' dog who's just had her day
Under my thumb
A girl who has just changed her ways
It's down to me
Yes it is
The way she does just what she's told down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, ah, say it's alright
Under my thumb
It's a Siamese cat of a girl
Under my thumb
She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world
It's down to me
The way she talks when she's spoken to
Down to me, the change has come
She's under my thumb
Ah, take it easy babe
Yeah

In Their "Satanic Majesty's" Service

On the album cover of Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967), it features the group as Wiccans (witches). Jagger originally wanted to appear naked on a cross to mock Christ, but the record company refused to publish it, calling it "in bad taste."

Whereas the glorification of sex by the band was well known, their glorification of Satan was not. Unlike bands such as AC/DC, or artists like Marilyn Manson, they somehow flew under the radar for promotion of Satanism. The 1968 album Beggars Banquet, produced one of the most horrid songs in history; Sympathy for the Devil. The song is listed by Rolling Stone magazine at #32 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." (The magazine, founded in 1967, attributes its name to the group as well as the Muddy Water's song, and the aphorism "a rolling stone gathers no moss"). Originally, the song was to be titled Fallen Angels, and then changed to The Devil is My Name, before settling on the final nomenclature. It tells the story of history, including the Crucifixion of Our Lord, from Satan's point of view while he boasts of his role in history. 

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man (sic) of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt (sic) and pain
Made da*n sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his (sic) fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made...

The song has been used (without objection) by Satan worshipers associated with Anton LaVey's  Church of Satan. In 1973, the band released the album Goats Head Soup. The goat head has long been associated with Satan worship. Goats were also the symbol of reprobates, while sheep represented the faithful. "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left." (See St. Matthew 25:31-33). The album's first cut is the song Dancing With Mr. D, "Mr. D" being the Devil.

Down in the graveyard where we have our tryst
The air smells sweet, the air smells sick
He never smiles, his mouth merely twists
The breath in my lungs feels clinging and thick
But I know his name, he's called Mr.. D.
And one of these days he's gonna set you free
Human skulls is hangin' right 'round his neck
The palms of my hands is clammy and wet

Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me
Dancin' with Mr. D., with Mr. D., with Mr. D.

Will it be poison put in my glass
Will it be slow or will it be fast?
The bite of a snake, the sting of a spider
A drink of belladonna on a Toussaint night
Hiding in a corner in New York City
Lookin' down a forty-four in West Virginia

I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me
Dancin' with Mr. D., with Mr. D., with Mr. D.

One night I was dancin' with a lady in black
Wearin' black silk gloves and a black silk hat
She looked at me longin' with black velvet eyes
She gazed at me strange all cunning and wise
Then I saw the flesh just fall off her bones
The eyes in her skull was burning like coals
Lord, have mercy, fire and brimstone
I was dancin' with Mr. D.

Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free
Dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Dancin', dancin'

In 1994, the Stones released another occult-themed album, Voodoo Lounge, which contains the song I Go Wild. The song is pure vulgar filth:

 And the doctor says you'll be okay, And if you'd only stay away; 
From femme fatales and dirty b*tches, And daylight drabs and nighttime witches, 
And working girls and blue stockings, And dance hall babes and body poppers,
And waitresses with broken noses, Checkout girls striking poses, 
And politicians' garish wives, With alcoholic c*nts like knives (Emphasis and censorship of vulgarity mine)

Conclusion

 The Rolling Stones are yet another despicable group of evil people who demean women, glorify promiscuity/perversion, and pay homage to Satan himself. Mick Jagger has fathered eight children with five women, but has only been married (and divorced) once. His oldest child is 48, and his youngest is 2, having sired Deveraux Jagger with his current concubine, American ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick (46 years Jagger's junior). Jagger has been jailed for vandalism and is a raging drug addict/alcoholic. He is also bisexual, having had a homosexual encounter with rocker David Bowie (d. 2016). In spite of all this, The Rolling Stones are billed as "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World." The band would want you to believe, as Jagger sings in one their songs, "It's only rock and roll, but I like it." For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, the music they produce is not merely rock and roll, but messages from Hell made by those on their way there.