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from Phoenixkidd Friday, July 29, 2005 - 09:47 (Agree/Disagree?) Phoenixkidd sings," Starlit Skyway....La La.. I am spell bound by your beauty, " God so many songs and I remember the first time I heard most of them. MWM had a big following in South East Asia, especially Indo. I would also like to know where I can get some MWM songs. I bet TF would make some cash if they sold them to ex-2nd Gen. They are terrible songs, but still nostalgia is very strong with these. (reply to this comment)

From singing in the shower Friday, July 29, 2005, 19:28 (Agree/Disagree?) I sing:..."She's the maharishi of Hyderabad, a goddess starving for your love..." I remember some of those songs too. Brings back memories. Hey, What was the name of that tape your dad & co made in indo? I think it's pretty rare, I remember some of the songs. One was about about a gypsy tent & another one with your dad singing "night life, in the city, what a pity....", & (not Jonas' version) "Givin your love away", etc. Nice tape, btw. (reply to this comment)

From Phoenixkidd Tuesday, August 02, 2005, 16:59 (Agree/Disagree?) You know, singing in the shower, I don't remember. I am pretty sure it is cool breeze, I doubt my Dad even has a copy of it. When I was in Indo in 96' I met some people in TF that said they would have so many "dance nights" with that tape in Bangladesh. Crazy stuff. I guess there was so little rad music in TF at that time.(reply to this comment)

From singing in... Tuesday, August 02, 2005, 18:44 (Agree/Disagree?) Wasn't "cool breeze" the one that Michael Fogarty & Jeremy made a really long time ago. Your dad's tape was made some time after that. Maybe it was just called the "tribute tape". Anyway, I remember Virginia used to have a copy of it. I think she lived with you at the time it was made. Anyway, I guess no one really has that tape anymore.(reply to this comment)

From GenBethlehem Monday, July 03, 2006, 00:47 (Agree/Disagree?) hey guys, this really has nothing to do with what's being talked about, but whose dad are we talking about and what was his name? pure curiosity here cuz i've got a lot of history with indo... (reply to this comment)

From me, of course Monday, July 03, 2006, 09:04 (Agree/Disagree?) Check Phoenixkidd's profile in the Web Site User Directory. Click on the link at the right of this page, directly below the Community heading. (reply to this comment)

From Friday, July 29, 2005, 21:51 (Agree/Disagree?) "Hey, What was the name of that tape your dad & co made in indo?" Would that be "Cool Breeze" you're thinking of?(reply to this comment)

From that tape Saturday, July 30, 2005, 12:04 (Agree/Disagree?) The Elixir, perhaps?(reply to this comment)

from eros Friday, July 29, 2005 - 07:13 (Agree/Disagree?) hey johnnie,i would like to listen to them...there are some songs that brings me good memories ...like take time to live "zack and shelly" all the songs from paul michel, Jeremiah , simon black...i grew up with those songs so i would like to have them again...but without the Cpo22o cpo220 athens Greece pow lol (reply to this comment)

From JohnnieWalker Friday, July 29, 2005, 10:53 (Agree/Disagree?) I'll ask around and see what I can come up with. I know my Dad had almost the entire collection at one point. I'm not sure if he still does.(reply to this comment)

From eros Friday, July 29, 2005, 12:59 (Agree/Disagree?) thanks johnnie, if you can get me the collection of songs i am willing to pay for the Cds and your time for getting it ..just tell me how much...i am sure that some of the songs are not super well made but there is a lot of bad music out there ...and is just a question of taste ...ok i am already listening to every one saying how bad my taste is ...but guys is just nostalgia!(reply to this comment)

From thanatos Friday, July 29, 2005, 13:51 (Agree/Disagree?) Dude, what year did you join the Family?(reply to this comment)

From eros Friday, July 29, 2005, 14:03 (Agree/Disagree?) my mother joined in 1979 i was 6 years old my step dad was a "inspirationalist " in the family so he played all those songs besides ...the MWM was big in Brazil, and i lived in one of those big combos homes with singing sam and all those guys ...but all of them are out ...so all the people in the family have only the FTTS and if you ask me they are worst the the old stuff...anyway i left the group in 2000...the world dint end LOL(reply to this comment)

From Samuel Monday, July 03, 2006, 06:43 (Agree/Disagree?) Amen to that! The FTT's always sucked big time. I remember about mid 2001, just before 9-11, getting all my FTT's out and trying to make a list of which tapes I wanted to buy on CD if they had them (so I could transfer them to my custom CD's) because the base in California had the CD's on clearance sale. Boy am I glad I never got to order them, who wants to listen to Vas and Jeremy Spencer when you can have Newsboys or Micheal W. Smith? There's nothing like some good brackish music to make you really feel like a systemite. Jeremy Spencer might have been okay, but knowing what I know now about what he did to Mene, I don't think I could listen to his music the same way ever again. My custom CD ended up having Britney Spears' song "Oops, I did it Again!" on it, but that was my fault. I thought it was funny back then. Poisonous music? Maybe it's borderline, and I usually skip over it now anyway. I feel sorry for the poor people in The Family that the best they can get is a modernized version of "In the room, you're never alone..."(reply to this comment)

From Haunted Monday, July 03, 2006, 07:20 (Agree/Disagree?) "Newsboys or Micheal W. Smith" ??? Say it isn't so! AHHHHHH! And what the hell is "brackish music"??? (reply to this comment)

From me, of course Monday, July 03, 2006, 09:01 (Agree/Disagree?) 'Brackish music' is Christian music produced outside of the cult -- It's not the pure lifegiving water of God as given straight to his most elite, you see. (reply to this comment)

From Haunted Monday, July 03, 2006, 09:26 (Agree/Disagree?) LOL! Well, naturally! So I guess my music is just pure "salt" then huh, since it has absolutely NO "water of the word" in it?(reply to this comment)

From vixen Monday, July 03, 2006, 09:34 (Agree/Disagree?) Heh, no Haunted you've got it all wrong. Your music is pure salt because it's just honest-to-goodness POISON! Brackish water is still water, because it's about the Lord and stuff so it obviously has *some* truth to it, but there's also enough salt (or POISON) in it to render it undrinkable and therefore ultimately of no use to God's Elite. See now? I was looking at your pic just yesterday and wondering how you are. I hope everything is going good for you! :-) (reply to this comment)

From Haunted Monday, July 03, 2006, 10:48 (Agree/Disagree?) LOL - thanks for clearing that up for me babe! Everything is VERRRY well thanks! :-) Email me sometime - I'll fill you in!(reply to this comment)

From vixen Monday, July 03, 2006, 13:06 (Agree/Disagree?) Ohhhhh how exciting! An email has been sent :-) (reply to this comment)

From damn Monday, July 03, 2006, 09:54 (Agree/Disagree?) I know I am getting out of hand when I find myself correcting a statement that on further inspection turns out to be perfectly correct *rolls eyes*. I don't know how I managed to misread that one, heh. Must be my lack of sleep last night, yes, that's definitely what it is. Guess I should get back to work now, after all the floors won't hoover themselves. But damn it's hot here today. Makes me lazy. (reply to this comment)

From Gothsmack Sunday, July 31, 2005, 06:51 (Agree/Disagree?) . I would suggest a better venture. Find the entire collection, sell them to the US military. Playing those albums for suspected terrorists is an excellent non-lethal way of extracting needed information. If successful, no one would would come within a 10 mile radius of Guantanamo bay. Of course...it would only be a matter of time before the UN would ban them as "cruel and unusual punishment". :p (reply to this comment)

From Samuel Monday, July 03, 2006, 06:45 (Agree/Disagree?) LOL, do you want me to start over again or somethnig? "In the room, you're never alone, Lot's of people are with you, they say it is your home..."(reply to this comment)

From Haunted Monday, July 03, 2006, 07:16 (Agree/Disagree?) This might seem strange, but I loved that song - for me it symbolized how I felt growing up in the cult - I heard the wind blowing outside and everyone in the cult told me it wasn't real. (reply to this comment)

From I agree Monday, July 03, 2006, 08:50 (Agree/Disagree?) http://www.movingon.org/article.asp?sID=1&Cat=16&ID=553 (reply to this comment)

From Gothsmack Sunday, July 31, 2005, 06:50 (Agree/Disagree?) . I would suggest a better venture. Find the entire collection, sell them to the US military. Playing those albums for suspected terrorists is an excellent non-lethal way of extracting needed information. If successful, no one would would come within a 10 mile radius of Guantanamo bay. Of course...it would only be a matter of time before the UN would ban them as "cruel and unusual punishment". :p (reply to this comment)

From BTD Monday, July 03, 2006, 11:21 (Agree/Disagree?) What do you mean, "non-lethal"?(reply to this comment)

From weegirlie Friday, July 29, 2005, 07:54 (Agree/Disagree?) Good memories? Geez I think I'd vomit if I had to listen to those awful awful songs bring back those awful memories again. Are you perhaps a masochist eros? :((reply to this comment)

From PopNFresh Sunday, July 31, 2005, 08:48 (Agree/Disagree?) I agree! I hated those songs, they had such bad memories for me. Being 5 years old, and having not seen my mom in what seemed like years while she was out FF'ing. I used to cry to them so much. I onced asked an "auntie" why our music was so sad. I got such a big spanking for that. ='[(reply to this comment)

From Sunday, July 31, 2005, 11:31 (Agree/Disagree?) They remind me of the Romantic Nights when I was 12 and being sexually abused and seeing the other 12+ year olds be sexually harassed and abused too.(reply to this comment)

from JohnnieWalker Friday, July 29, 2005 - 06:55 (Agree/Disagree?) Hmmmm.... That depends entirely on what you are planning to do with them. Could you explain? (reply to this comment)