BOOGIE MUSIC
We must make BOOGIE MUSIC the essential factor in the life of all. In presenting this song to the world, we must then explain and justify our position by formulating a definition of BOOGIE MUSIC and setting forth its main principles in such a way that all may understand instantly that their souls, their lives and every relation with every other human being in every circumstance depends on BOOGIE MUSIC and the right comprehension and right application there of. –Canned Heat
Substitute for “boogie music” salvation in Jesus, the eight-fold path, the will of the Leader, etc., and you have a perfect example of the typical utopian desire to conquer, the faith that one has true knowledge of social reality and social what-should-be, coupled with the will to spread it, like a virus, among others. But that is just the text. Listen now to the words in the context of driving, sexual BOOGIE MUSIC, the purity and strength of whose highs and lows and beats and holds give emotional force to the otherwise absurd text, and the TRUTH of the words can no longer be denied. This raw energy of life, of sex, transmitted via BOOGIE MUSIC and made anew in open ears, gives sudden clarity to the vision, obscure to outsiders, of the quivering Christian enraptured by the Holy Spirit, of every little buddha and yogi transcending the self, of the Vodou dancer caught by the spirit of her Lwa–and we no longer can deny the overwhelming, obvious TRUTH of what they say, though the text of their words be laughable and absurd. And thus does BOOGIE MUSIC make the callous skeptic to joyful believer.
