Back in my teaching days, I usually wore earplugs to any kiddie concerts or programs. Also, when there was hippie music at the school mass.

Francis

One example of my Is Outrage! annals was encountering a small group of 4 singers, 2 of them guitarists, all closely mic'd, with the lead male singer singing flat and the lead female singer singing sharp. Through the whole service, well, at least until I left at the blessing.

Yes, we are somewhat used to flat because it's much more common. Sharp is uncommon and therefore more disorderly to our sense order, as it were.

I had bell bottoms and platforms when they were fashionable in the seventies. Then we had disco, pantsuits, polyester, etc. Church music, though, went into a decline in the late sixties. The problem with church music is that it didn't get any better in succeeding decades. Much of it is still bad and still the same music.

Bellbottoms were quite popular in my grandfather's youth - turn of the 19th to 20th century. They stayed for naval uniforms and didn't change until they became popular for the general public.

I was a faux hippie. My parents would only let me get away with so much.