In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey, butane in my veins so I'm out to cut the junkie...

@SW-User Lol I think it's funny how every generation has music that causes panic to the generation before.

@BlueMetalChick Right! These were the same people who were copacetic with "She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, Cocaine…" when they were young.

@SW-User It's even funnier when I see people my age do it. Do you know the song "America" by Simon & Garfunkel?

@SW-User I can remember my parents saying how nice the Mommas And The Poppas were. Yeah, they dressed a bit strange but they sang nice songs and seemed pretty straight. Parents weren't aware of the amount of drugs the MATPs did. Then, not too many years later, Alice Cooper was perceived as the Devil incarnate, but it one of the straightest bands going.

@BlueMetalChick I'm familiar with the song, but if there was a controversy over it, I'm not familiar with that. I can only guess that parents freaked out thinking it promoted running away from home, though.

@Bushranger Well, I've got front row seats to see the devil incarnate in Rockford Wednesday night. 😆😆😆

@SW-User No, there wasn't any controversy, but when I was in high school we listened to that song in one of my classes. There's a lyric that goes "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat." A girl who sat in front of me, named Niamani Smith, expressed that she was surprised and felt a little uncomfortable by how openly Paul Simon sang about smoking cigarettes. Yet this girl was constantly walking around with her headphones listening to fuckin' Akon and Trinidad James going "pop a Molly, I'm sweatin'" all damn day.

@BlueMetalChick Oh lord! I hope she never watched anything older than 1980, because even the kids were smoking in some of those older movies. Fred Flinstone even smoked.

@SW-User You lucky bugger. Enjoy the show.

@SW-User But she's totally fine with screaming lyrics about ingesting MDMA 😂

@Bushranger As a corrupter of youth, this will also be the 4th time I've taken my son to see the Devil incarnate, as well. He's 22 now, so my work is finished. 😈😆

Back in my day, it was all the metal bands and the idiot preachers spinning records backwards to find evil messages. It's always something with that crowd.

@SW-User Do you remember a band called the Orwells? They just retired, unfortunately, because multiple members got caught doing lots of not-so-legal things on social media with underage children. But they had a song called "Mallrats" that started off with an audio excerpt from a 60's preacher named Jimmy Snow, as he talked about how he thinks rock and roll music contributes to juvenile delinquency because it's evil. It's funny because then immediately after the sound clip, it goes into a rock song.

@SW-User I think I'm going to have to report you to Social Services 🤣

I love metal, but have to admit that it was my youngest son who made me appreciate it. I was more into bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, The Who etc, as well as a strong folk background.

@BlueMetalChick I'm not familiar with them, but I just pulled up the Mallrats video to check them out. The preacher intro isn't on the video, unfortunately. Are they from around here? I swear it looks like they shot this at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQKvtWcojik]

@SW-User Listen closely at 1:25 in the video, hear that voice talking? That's part of the preacher's sermon. "And why I believe in it, cos I know how it feels when you sing it. I know what it does to you. And I know of the evil feeling that you feel when you sing it."

Here's the cut that has the intro with the preacher as well.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOjwpno1t48]

@Bushranger I didn't have a prayer....literally. Some of my early exposure to all that evil was Kiss on the Paul Lynde Halloween special and Alice Cooper on the Muppets when I was in grade school. They got to my generation when we were children. 😆

@BlueMetalChick I heard the second time. I think I was so caught up in "is that Woodfield?" that I just didn't notice the first time.

@SW-User It does look a hell of a lot like Woodfield now that you mention it...

@BlueMetalChick That section with all those ramps and platforms in the middle of the mall combined with the fact that there's a Rainforest Cafe in it makes me almost certain that it's Woodfield.

@BlueMetalChick I found this when I googled them. "The Orwells were an American rock band from Elmhurst, a suburb west of Chicago." Being from Elmhurst probably is confirmation that they shot it at Woodfield. It's literally 5 minutes from where they're from.

@SW-User Ok so that pretty much makes it certain. I wasn't sure where they were from.

I saw them in concert shortly before they disbanded. I got a really cool photo of the singer from close up. It's in my SW albums somewhere, buried. I'll look for it and post it when I find it.

@BlueMetalChick I think the bit towards the end where they're playing arcade games was shot at Gameworks, which is just a block away from the mall. At any rate, mystery solved.

@SW-User Found it.

Closeup photograph of Mario Cuomo singing onstage with the Orwells when I saw them at Riot Fest 2017.

@BlueMetalChick I almost went to that in 2017, but I had to go out of town. I wanted to go on that Saturday to see Fishbone and Bad Brains. I've still never seen either of them.