Christian Music. Real Music. - Page 3

XRogue · 03-10-2002, 07:33 PM

No, John Schlitt is still very much with Petra, he has done one or two solo projects, but has no plans to leave the band. Being that Petra has been around for 30 years, its a good steady job.

Heh, I'm originally from Houston, you should see the rainstorms there if the ones in D/FW impressed you. In Houston it rains like that out of a clear blue sky. And the red dirt up here is nasty for anything but growing grass (the lawn variety, stop thinking 'weed'

) or cotton and so forth. Have to get real dirt to grow veggies round here. Bums me out. But we had a lovely mild winter here.

Kyote Fields · 03-11-2002, 04:27 PM

Delirious rocks (gonna see them in concert next monday)
and Jars of Clay (got thier new album "The eleventh hour" - it's so-so)
Also Rich Mullins (love his lyrics but his songs are really hit and miss, either really good or really bad)
Matt Redman is great
But my biggest gripe about most Christain bands is that they are uncreative musicians. You put any Chistian band in the secular world and they wouldn't last a minute, because they're no good!!
But since they have the market cornered (Christian consumers) they feel no need to extend themselves father then they need to .
It sucks because what should be the message behind thier songs is so vital.
All that being said, does anyone thnk U2 is Christian?

Wayfarer · 03-11-2002, 07:18 PM

Erm... Are you serious?

POD (duh ,a christian band) was up for a grammy or whatever in the hardcore division this year.

Kyote Fields · 03-11-2002, 09:13 PM

They are very much the exception and not the rule.

Ararax · 03-12-2002, 01:58 PM

yea i think that most christain bands cant make it in the secular market cause the other ones are either moralistic like creed and u2
or in the rare case are POD

Starr Polish · 03-12-2002, 10:29 PM

I personally think LaRue's song "Movie Star" MIGHT make it, but I just really like that song.

Yeah, it's funny, POD climbed up the TRL charts, and most of the kids had no idea what they were really talkign about.

dark over lord · 03-14-2002, 11:31 AM

finally some where differant. ok guys go herehttp://www.air1radio.com/videos/ for some good songs. i recommend jars of clay's flood

Glorious Glorfindel · 03-17-2002, 10:11 AM

the world wide message tribe ARE still around. i dunno if n e one in the uk has heard of it, but every year there is this christian music camp called LIGHTHOUSE. it is beyond cool, and last year they played a lot of the wwmt music. since then, i have bought nearly all their albums. n e one listen 2 them?

Kyote Fields · 03-22-2002, 12:23 PM

Hey no one answered my question.
Is U2 a Christian band?

Glorious Glorfindel · 03-23-2002, 02:47 PM

i don't reckon they would classify themselves as a christian band, but loads of their lyrics talk about god, and thankful words and stuff.

**crickhollow** · 03-23-2002, 05:06 PM

sixpence none the richer is a Christian band

Starr Polish · 03-23-2002, 11:57 PM

Yeah, one Christian book stopre wouldn't sell there albums any more because they toured with Barenaked Ladies, and they were offended by the name.

**crickhollow** · 03-24-2002, 02:20 AM

I don't have a whole lot to do with Christian bookstores anymore. They have their heads in the sand.

Kyote Fields · 03-25-2002, 12:13 PM

And they're so friggin expensive!!! Ahhh... it's horrible. Regadless I just finished reading a book called "Walk On. The spritual journey of U2." It was written by a pastor. Seems he believes, and I do in a way as well, that you don't have to be singing Halleluja all the time. Sometimes you can look at the world and sing about what you see and sometimes *gasp* you can be mad at God because he doesn't make sense and write and sing about that. Thing is most Christians think that to be singing " I have cursed thy rod and staff. They no longer comfot me" is to be Anti-Christian.
I don't think so. Opinions?

Brimvalir · 03-25-2002, 02:04 PM

I like Keith Greens song - The Prodigal Son

Finrod Felagund · 05-28-2002, 09:29 AM

Yeah Keith Green's pretty good but old.

I love Jars of Clay
Third Day
Newsboys

WHAT ABOUT DC TALK!?!?!?!?!
THEY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like most different kinds of Christian music but these are some of my Favourites.

I like "Testify To Love" by Avalon. I like singing that song as well.

dream wanderer · 05-28-2002, 01:25 PM

Does anyone here like black Christian artists????

I find they get left out of a lot of these discussions.

I think my favorite right now is Mary Mary.

U2 is a band that has several Christian members but they are not a Christian band. They didn't feel 'called' to further the Christian agenda ...whatever that is.
I know Bono has gone incognito to a Christian music festival in England...cause Tony Campollo (a popular minister) was there with him...

dream wanderer

Faramir · 05-28-2002, 06:34 PM

I love going to my teen mass. It's like going to a concert! There's electric violin(my favorite), piano, guitar, drums, all sorts of stuff! There's also wonderful singers.

Andúril · 05-30-2002, 10:54 AM

I like some of Marilyn Manson's stuff.

BeardofPants · 05-30-2002, 07:09 PM

Now there's an avid christian!

Not meaning to diss religion at all, but a lot can be said of the fact that despite the numbers of christians far out waying athiests/agnostics, their music still hasn't broken into the mainstream.

03-10-2002, 07:33 PM	#41
XRogue Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2000 Location: D/FW Texas, USA Posts: 345	No, John Schlitt is still very much with Petra, he has done one or two solo projects, but has no plans to leave the band. Being that Petra has been around for 30 years, its a good steady job. Heh, I'm originally from Houston, you should see the rainstorms there if the ones in D/FW impressed you. In Houston it rains like that out of a clear blue sky. And the red dirt up here is nasty for anything but growing grass (the lawn variety, stop thinking 'weed' ) or cotton and so forth. Have to get real dirt to grow veggies round here. Bums me out. But we had a lovely mild winter here. __________________ Farewell wherever you fare, till your Eyries recieve you at the journey's end.

03-11-2002, 04:27 PM	#42
Kyote Fields Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: California Posts: 218	Delirious rocks (gonna see them in concert next monday) and Jars of Clay (got thier new album "The eleventh hour" - it's so-so) Also Rich Mullins (love his lyrics but his songs are really hit and miss, either really good or really bad) Matt Redman is great But my biggest gripe about most Christain bands is that they are uncreative musicians. You put any Chistian band in the secular world and they wouldn't last a minute, because they're no good!! But since they have the market cornered (Christian consumers) they feel no need to extend themselves father then they need to . It sucks because what should be the message behind thier songs is so vital. All that being said, does anyone thnk U2 is Christian? __________________ No longer posting. If you'd like to write to me I can be reached at kyote_fields@hotmail.com. It was nice knowing all of you.

03-11-2002, 07:18 PM	#43
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Erm... Are you serious? POD (duh ,a christian band) was up for a grammy or whatever in the hardcore division this year. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

03-11-2002, 09:13 PM	#44
Kyote Fields Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: California Posts: 218	They are very much the exception and not the rule. __________________ No longer posting. If you'd like to write to me I can be reached at kyote_fields@hotmail.com. It was nice knowing all of you.

03-12-2002, 01:58 PM	#45
Ararax Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NEW JERSEY! Posts: 375	yea i think that most christain bands cant make it in the secular market cause the other ones are either moralistic like creed and u2 or in the rare case are POD __________________ Woah Deep

03-12-2002, 10:29 PM	#46
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I personally think LaRue's song "Movie Star" MIGHT make it, but I just really like that song. Yeah, it's funny, POD climbed up the TRL charts, and most of the kids had no idea what they were really talkign about. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-14-2002, 11:31 AM	#47
dark over lord Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 41	finally some where differant. ok guys go herehttp://www.air1radio.com/videos/ for some good songs. i recommend jars of clay's flood __________________ The question which once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic, for now I find, I have no choice at all. I am a warrior, let the battled be joined. -dinobot, and me, before i went and got myself shot- The sleeper has awakend, i am the prince of all sayans once again-Vegeta-

03-17-2002, 10:11 AM	#48
Glorious Glorfindel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: im too doped up to remember Posts: 371	the world wide message tribe ARE still around. i dunno if n e one in the uk has heard of it, but every year there is this christian music camp called LIGHTHOUSE. it is beyond cool, and last year they played a lot of the wwmt music. since then, i have bought nearly all their albums. n e one listen 2 them? __________________ A Elbereth Gilthonial Silivren penna miriel o menal aglar elenath Na-chaered palan-diriel o galadhremmin ennorath Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, si nef aearon! add a drop of lavander to milk. leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it.

03-22-2002, 12:23 PM	#49
Kyote Fields Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: California Posts: 218	Hey no one answered my question. Is U2 a Christian band? __________________ No longer posting. If you'd like to write to me I can be reached at kyote_fields@hotmail.com. It was nice knowing all of you.

03-23-2002, 02:47 PM	#50
Glorious Glorfindel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: im too doped up to remember Posts: 371	i don't reckon they would classify themselves as a christian band, but loads of their lyrics talk about god, and thankful words and stuff. __________________ A Elbereth Gilthonial Silivren penna miriel o menal aglar elenath Na-chaered palan-diriel o galadhremmin ennorath Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, si nef aearon! add a drop of lavander to milk. leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it.

03-23-2002, 05:06 PM	#51
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	sixpence none the richer is a Christian band __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

03-23-2002, 11:57 PM	#52
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Yeah, one Christian book stopre wouldn't sell there albums any more because they toured with Barenaked Ladies, and they were offended by the name. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-24-2002, 02:20 AM	#53
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	I don't have a whole lot to do with Christian bookstores anymore. They have their heads in the sand. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

03-25-2002, 12:13 PM	#54
Kyote Fields Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: California Posts: 218	And they're so friggin expensive!!! Ahhh... it's horrible. Regadless I just finished reading a book called "Walk On. The spritual journey of U2." It was written by a pastor. Seems he believes, and I do in a way as well, that you don't have to be singing Halleluja all the time. Sometimes you can look at the world and sing about what you see and sometimes gasp you can be mad at God because he doesn't make sense and write and sing about that. Thing is most Christians think that to be singing " I have cursed thy rod and staff. They no longer comfot me" is to be Anti-Christian. I don't think so. Opinions? __________________ No longer posting. If you'd like to write to me I can be reached at kyote_fields@hotmail.com. It was nice knowing all of you.

03-25-2002, 02:04 PM	#55
Brimvalir Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: California Posts: 103	Christian Music I like Keith Greens song - The Prodigal Son __________________ Swords are of no more use here ... All that is gold does not glitter nor are all those who wander lost......

05-28-2002, 09:29 AM	#56
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	Yeah Keith Green's pretty good but old. I love Jars of Clay Third Day Newsboys WHAT ABOUT DC TALK!?!?!?!?! THEY ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like most different kinds of Christian music but these are some of my Favourites. I like "Testify To Love" by Avalon. I like singing that song as well. __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

05-28-2002, 01:25 PM	#57
dream wanderer Sapling Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Va USA Posts: 6	Does anyone here like black Christian artists???? I find they get left out of a lot of these discussions. I think my favorite right now is Mary Mary. U2 is a band that has several Christian members but they are not a Christian band. They didn't feel 'called' to further the Christian agenda ...whatever that is. I know Bono has gone incognito to a Christian music festival in England...cause Tony Campollo (a popular minister) was there with him... dream wanderer __________________ Its never to late to have a happy childhood.

05-28-2002, 06:34 PM	#58
Faramir Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ithilien Posts: 353	I love going to my teen mass. It's like going to a concert! There's electric violin(my favorite), piano, guitar, drums, all sorts of stuff! There's also wonderful singers. __________________ This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Annun, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien, land of many fountains."-Faramir, Chapter IV, The Two Towers ========================== FRODO LIVES!!! ========================== YODA IS DA MAN!!! ========================== I Love Jesus!

05-30-2002, 10:54 AM	#59
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	I like some of Marilyn Manson's stuff.

05-30-2002, 07:09 PM	#60
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Now there's an avid christian! Not meaning to diss religion at all, but a lot can be said of the fact that despite the numbers of christians far out waying athiests/agnostics, their music still hasn't broken into the mainstream. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

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