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Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 01:31 PM

The Cleansing Music Experimental Challenge
 
You may post in this Thread at any time, you know. :D



Post #1: About This Thread & Challenge Requirements

Post #2: Known and [Un]Acceptable Bands/Songs
Post #3:
The Courageous and Bold Participants of this Challenge
Post #4: Contests
Post #5:
[RESERVED]



What this Thread is about:

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You may or may not have guessed the intention of this Thread simply by reading the title. :)

If didn't, then I failed in my intention. Oops. :?

Before I say anything else, you should know that I am participating in my own experimental test. :insane:

Basically, I can't be more than one person, and I'd like to see if I can prove my belief true.
This is a challenge to see how long you can give up mainstream music, on the radio or your mp3 player or iPod or whatever, and listen only to clean music. This does not mean you can only listen to Christian music - far from it! There's clean music in the oldies, trance, techno, Christian, soft rock, hard rock, jazz, blues, and classical!! I don't know about rap, hip-hop, emo, or punk, though.


So please help me out by participating in this challenge!! =3

And even if you don't participate, please chat with me!! :mrgreen:



So here's the requirements:

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  • Your minimum length of time for this challenge is one month, but the maximum is whatever you set it to be - two months, five months, eight months, a year... Or even a month and a day minus twenty-three hours and fifty-nine minutes if you want.
  • Any song and/or piece of music you listen to cannot include anything sexual, racist, murderous, murderous intent, slander and/or swear words. Basically, you can only listen to PG songs.
  • If the video of a song includes anything sexual, racist, murder, murderous intent, slander and/or swear words, you cannot watch it. Basically, if it's a music video then you can only watch ones that are rated PG.

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 01:34 PM

Post #2


:heart:
Clean Bands :heart:

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  • Family Force 5
  • Red
  • Skillet
  • Newsboys


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Some Good Songs :heart:

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  • Blow Me Away (Breaking Benjamin)
  • Change The World (V6)
  • Drama Queen (Family Force 5)
  • Earthquake (Family Force 5)
  • Fever (Family Force 5)
  • Fight Inside (Red)
  • Get Through (Linkin Park)
  • Hero (Skillet)
  • Key Of Twilight {.Hack//}
  • Monster (Skillet)
  • Never Let Me Go (Family Force 5)
  • Replace Me (Family Force 5)


:illgetu: Unallowed Bands :illgetu:

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  • Disturbed
  • KoRn


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Unallowed Songs :illgetu:

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  • Brand New Day (Dr. Horrible)
  • Die MF Die
  • Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? (The Guild)
  • Game On (The Guild)
  • Let It Die (Foo Fighters)
  • The Device Has Been Modified (Victims of Science)

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 01:34 PM

POST #3

:mrgreen: THE COURAGEOUS AND BOLD PARTICIPANTS OF THIS CHALLENGE :mrgreen:

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  • Aspinou (October 7 to November 7)
  • Zilithandria Moonlight (October 7 to December 7)

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 01:35 PM

POST #4


CONTESTS:

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Page Prizes:
The first poster (who isn't me) wins 25 Gold.
The fifth poster on page five wins 25 Gold.
The tenth poster on page ten wins 25 Gold.

Special Prizes:
The first person (other than me) to join this challenge wins 25 Gold.





WINNERS:

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Page Prizes:

  1. Aspinou
  2. (needs winner)
  3. (needs winner)
Special Prizes:
  1. (needs winner)

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 01:35 PM

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Aspinou 10-07-2010 07:11 PM

I'm in, as an experiment I think I can do this. I like experiments. It's gonna take some effort though xD

Just one question: What if you don't know, never listened to the song before. Should you ask around about the content before you listen or just don't listen at all?

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 08:09 PM

Well yes, you could do that, or you could just look up the lyrics. :mrgreen:

Mystic 10-07-2010 08:21 PM

Man, you should have a whole lot more songs and artists up on the allowed/not allowed list. XD I think that this would indeed be a challenge. I tend not to like anything that's overly sexual or violent anyway though. I really do not get how people stand that kind of thing. It is hard however, to find music videos that are clean. I listen to a lot of new music all the time and people at work have control of the radio so I would fail this as soon as I got to work.

RisikaFox 10-07-2010 10:16 PM

... I like my music with the sex. But if I had more Disney CDs, I would totally attempt this. Do 'dirty' songs in a foreign language count if you don't know what they're talking about?

Aspinou 10-07-2010 10:29 PM

My starting date is tomorrow. It's a month to nov 8th, I'm going to that date at least. I wanna see how it goes first before I set a final ending date but 1 month is happening. :D

@mystic I think the lists will be filled up after a while.

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mystic (Post 1768432392)
Man, you should have a whole lot more songs and artists up on the allowed/not allowed list. XD I think that this would indeed be a challenge. I tend not to like anything that's overly sexual or violent anyway though. I really do not get how people stand that kind of thing. It is hard however, to find music videos that are clean. I listen to a lot of new music all the time and people at work have control of the radio so I would fail this as soon as I got to work.

LOL. They're lists-in-progress. :sweat:
Feel free to recommend any songs for addition to the lists,
though I'll definitely be checking them before adding them. :XD
Also, about your radio at work - that can be excused since you'll probably get in trouble if you
try to changethe station without permission. Right? But you can try to not listen to it.
Or even better, why don't you try get your boss/workmates interested in the challenge, too?
Feel free to think up another name for the challenge if you want.
I doubt anything can be worse than what I've already used. :XD


Quote:

Originally Posted by RisikaFox (Post 1768432801)
... I like my music with the sex. But if I had more Disney CDs, I would totally attempt this. Do 'dirty' songs in a foreign language count if you don't know what they're talking about?


If the song is in a foreign language and you don't know what they're singing about, then it's up to you to find out
what it's about - whether that be by asking others or by looking up the English version of the lyrics.


And I have two old Disney CDs. :twisted:
Like, the ones before they started adding the Cheetah Girls on the CDs. :twisted:



Quote:

Originally Posted by Aspinou (Post 1768432856)
My starting date is tomorrow. It's a month to nov 8th, I'm going to that date at least. I wanna see how it goes first before I set a final ending date but 1 month is happening. :D.

Great! And I commend you on your choice to at least try this challenge out!! :mrgreen:
I'm definitely doing this for at least two months, myself. That means I have to edit/make
other playlists for myself so I don't accidentally listen to the forbidden songs, lol. :sweat:


Aspinou 10-07-2010 10:31 PM

I can't control the radio in public areas, but I can choose to not listen to radio privatly.

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 10:39 PM

Exactly. :)

And maybe by trying this out, you'll get other people interested,
and they'll try it out, too, even if they're not online to hear about the challenge!! :mrgreen:

P.S. My post that's sandwiched between Aspinou's two posts has been updated with replies to the comments I missed. :XP

Aspinou 10-07-2010 10:51 PM

I've already been checking my ipod for songs to delete from there, I don't want to break the rules accidently.:sweat:
I know that I've been watching forbidden video today so that's why I'm starting tomorrow, hehe.

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 10:56 PM

Ahh!! Don't delete them unless you have a backup of them!! If you don't have a
backup of them, then stick 'em on your computer in a no-touch-until-[enter date] folder!!


And lol, that makes sense. :XD

I'm gonna have to temporarily ask people not to post linkys to certain types of A/MVs in my one
Thread, the one called "Know of any cool A/MVs?", so I don't accidentally break my own rules!!
:rofl:

Aspinou 10-07-2010 11:21 PM

Haha don't worry I have backup, otherwise I'd never do it.
My ipod's not that big so all my songs don't fit anyways :D

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-07-2010 11:28 PM

Oh lol, okay then. :XD

Haha yeah. I have an mp3 player, and I'm starting to know what you mean. :XD

Aspinou 10-08-2010 06:28 PM

So how is it going? :)
Is it still just us participating?

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-08-2010 06:29 PM

Yeah, just us two so far. :P

'Cause we're cool like that, I guess. :XP

Aspinou 10-08-2010 06:31 PM

We're not afraid of a challenge :D

Zilithandria Moonlight 10-08-2010 06:46 PM

Of course. After all, we're out to have fun!! :mrgreen:

Aspinou 10-08-2010 07:58 PM

Exactly:mrgreen:

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You should have a banner or something by the way :)

Iltu 10-08-2010 08:07 PM

Good luck to those of you who are doing this! I couldn't make it through. Songs with swearing and sex don't comprise a large portion of my musical library, but they are there and I really like some of them. I would miss them too much! Besides, I like to listen to the radio when I'm in the car with my friends, and can't avoid that stuff on there. :<
I'd be happy to provide suggestions and such, though! c:
(Lord of the Rings soundtracks are a ridiculous level of excellent, and work with the rules for this challenge. I am just saying.)

Aspinou 10-08-2010 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iltu (Post 1768437786)
Good luck to those of you who are doing this! I couldn't make it through. Songs with swearing and sex don't comprise a large portion of my musical library, but they are there and I really like some of them. I would miss them too much! Besides, I like to listen to the radio when I'm in the car with my friends, and can't avoid that stuff on there. :<
I'd be happy to provide suggestions and such, though! c:
(Lord of the Rings soundtracks are a ridiculous level of excellent, and work with the rules for this challenge. I am just saying.)

I have seen the movies I don't remember the soundtrack though >.<
Well that made me think of this one: Lord of the rings it's an album all based on the book. If I don't remember it wrong it's all instrumental. Well I like it, though it's a bit old and psychadelic sort of ;)
Anyway I'm definetly checking out the soundtrack. :D

Iltu 10-09-2010 12:47 PM

That's really neat, thanks for sharing! I'm gonna have to give that one a listen. I love that it's based on the book directly.
Howard Shore, the composer for the movie scores, got an Oscar for best original soundtrack for the first and third movies, and the third one got best original song for a song Annie Lennox sang for it. They're definitely worth having a listen to. :) You can find them all on YouTube. I can't choose a favorite song out of them, but this one brightens my day every time I hear. it. ^^


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