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From: myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: Worst Song Lyrics (Offensive)
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 08:42:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 08:42:39 1984
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>      The music in Jesus Christ Superstar, if you listen to it today,
> is Seventies-pretentions and does not impress thirty-year-old listeners
> as much as it did back when they were teenagers and had never heard
> anything as sophisticated as Sondheim. (-: Sondheim sophisticated? :-)
>
>      We deserve better than this.  (Or some of us do.  Most of us
> HAVE better than this and it sits on our bookshelves unopened and
> unread.)
> 

Jesus Christ Superstar impressed me when I was thirteen, and impresses me
more now that I'm 25.  It impresses me both musically and as biblical
interpretation.

Of course, considering that I'm agnostic and like rock music, I, like Judas,
am probably "Damned for All Time".

Jeff Myers

"Did Judas Iscariot have God on his side?" asks Bob Dylan.