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Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 12:13 am
I saw the thread about the movies and I decided why not make one about music. I, being Christian, naturally listen to a lot of Christian music, ‘yea even unto this very day’. But I also feel like around 2008 a lot of it started to sound the same…
Anyways, like the movie thread, anyone here still find themselves reluctantly finding certain Christian songs to still be bangers?
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 12:50 am
I love the band Ghost B.C, especially the song "Year Zero". It's full of Christian iconography and characters from Christian mythology
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 12:54 am
Contemporary Christian is poorly done. It needs talent like Hovie Lister and Jake Hess. My dad was a gospel singer. I think he was in it for the chicks.
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 1:05 am
(March 3, 2022 at 12:50 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I love the band Ghost B.C, especially the song "Year Zero". It's full of Christian iconography and characters from Christian mythology
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half. Lol In all seriousness, they have very unique music for sure.
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March 3, 2022 at 4:23 am
Christian music I enjoy pretty much begins and ends with 'Plastic Jesus'.
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 4:56 am
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(March 3, 2022 at 12:13 am)JairCrawford Wrote: I saw the thread about the movies and I decided why not make one about music. I, being Christian, naturally listen to a lot of Christian music, ‘yea even unto this very day’. But I also feel like around 2008 a lot of it started to sound the same…
Anyways, like the movie thread, anyone here still find themselves reluctantly finding certain Christian songs to still be bangers?
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 6:13 am
I'm not sure, but I think Evanescence is a Christian band. At least one of their members is, and their hit song 'Tourniquet' for instance... 'my God, my tourniquet, return to me salvation', shows it's not just incidental. I've always thought they were a great rock band.
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 6:23 am
(March 3, 2022 at 6:13 am)emjay Wrote: I'm not sure, but I think Evanescence is a Christian band. At least one of their members is, and their hit song 'Tourniquet' for instance... 'my God, my tourniquet, return to me salvation', shows it's not just incidental. I've always thought they were a great rock band.
From Wikipedia -
Evanescence was originally promoted in Christian stores. Later, the band made it clear they did not want to be considered part of the Christian rock genre.[159] Terry Hemmings, CEO of Christian music distributor Provident, expressed puzzlement at the band's about-face, saying: "They clearly understood the album would be sold in these [Christian music] channels".[160] After many Christian stores began to remove the band's music from their shelves, Wind-up Records chairman Alan Meltzer then issued a press release in April 2003 requesting formally that they do this.[161] In 2006, Amy Lee told Billboard that she had opposed the "Christian band" identification from the beginning, calling it a "Ben thing".[157] In a 2011 interview with the San Antonio Current, Lee re-affirmed her Christian faith, but once again stressed that Evanescence "has never been a 'Christian band.'"[162]
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 6:33 am
(March 3, 2022 at 6:23 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (March 3, 2022 at 6:13 am)emjay Wrote: I'm not sure, but I think Evanescence is a Christian band. At least one of their members is, and their hit song 'Tourniquet' for instance... 'my God, my tourniquet, return to me salvation', shows it's not just incidental. I've always thought they were a great rock band.
From Wikipedia -
Evanescence was originally promoted in Christian stores. Later, the band made it clear they did not want to be considered part of the Christian rock genre.[159] Terry Hemmings, CEO of Christian music distributor Provident, expressed puzzlement at the band's about-face, saying: "They clearly understood the album would be sold in these [Christian music] channels".[160] After many Christian stores began to remove the band's music from their shelves, Wind-up Records chairman Alan Meltzer then issued a press release in April 2003 requesting formally that they do this.[161] In 2006, Amy Lee told Billboard that she had opposed the "Christian band" identification from the beginning, calling it a "Ben thing".[157] In a 2011 interview with the San Antonio Current, Lee re-affirmed her Christian faith, but once again stressed that Evanescence "has never been a 'Christian band.'"[162]
Interesting... I've never thought of them as a Christian band in that sense - as in part of the Christian Rock genre - so I guess their messaging/rebranding worked. But I never got the impression they were ashamed of it, but this certainly gives that impression.
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RE: Christian music you actually like?
March 3, 2022 at 12:04 pm
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I could jam out to creed, and I absolutely love southern gospel, and bluegrass, ofc - spent my childhood in choirs. The music aint the problem, it's the godawful religion.
Just like centuries of extremely talented artists and craftsmen depicted the crucifixion in obscenely beautiful ways - the whole time, obsessing over how the better man was murdered so that they might gain undeserved reward from his torture and execution.
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