That’s TWO songs out of a HUGE group. Seriously, I picked those two because they aren’t about praising God. Want some more lyrics? I can get them.
No, please, spare us.
We believe you. :rolleyes:
I second the OP.
Garfield, honey, trust me, I doubt whether anybody in this particular thread wants to read any more Christian rock lyrics. 
My objection to Christian rock, as I already stated, is that it sounds exactly like regular rock. What’s the point? The Christian Britney Spears clone sounds just as lame as the real Britney, you can pick any Christian hard rock band and stand it up next to, say, Guns N Roses (remember them?) and it all sounds the same.
And P.S. no offense, but I don’t think possession of the Star Wars sound track or a B-52s album counts as “broadening your horizons”. 
They’re talking about serious rock n’ roll, not Mannheim Steamroller.
I’d like to take this opportunity to hijack this thread–can we have some serious input here, suggestions for Garfield to broaden his horizons, musically speaking? Serious suggestions only, people. The Beatles? Rolling Stones? Or am I showing my age?
And Garfield, I promise, you won’t burn in Hell forever if you listen to the Rolling Stones. Really. 
I’m a Sunday School teacher, I wouldn’t lie to you.
Sorry, Garfield, you’ve inadvertantly hit on what annoys me about “Christian Rock”. It’s more than just the fact that the music is stunningly mediocre; it’s the attitude. It celebrates and reinforces the attitudes among some American Christians that:
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Whoever is not 100% for us is 100% against us. Therefore, every attempt by American society to become more inclusive of those who don’t share the majority religion is a direct attack on Christianity and Christians. (You are aware, of course, that the line “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is a relic of the Red Scare days, and not part of the original wording?)
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If I don’t think about God/Jesus all the time, bad things might happen. I must read Christian books, listen to Christian music, associate with other Christians, separate myself from anything that might make me stop thinking about being a Christian for five lousy minutes.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. Sorry, but I have seen too many people I care about get drawn into this.
I thought this sounded like a cool idea so I started an IMHO thread asking for music recommendations.
Everyone is trying
'get to the bar
Name of the bar
'bar is called heaven
The band in heaven
They play my favorite song
Play it once again
Play it all night long.
Heaven
Heaven is a place
Where nothing
Nothing ever happens
Heaven
Heaven is place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens.
There is a party
Everyone is there
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
It’s hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could so exciting
Could be so much fun
And heaven
Heaven is a place
A place where nothing
Nothing ever happens.
Talking Heads
Fear of Music
Header by Nietzsche
------------------------------------------------------------The rationale is supposed to be, “Well, this way your kids can still listen to rock and not feel socially left-out.”
I haven’t been exposed to Cristian rock that I remember, but from the way it has been described here, it seems to me that the intent is actually for devout Christians to spread their message while pretending to be “with it”.
Besides, a kid saying “I like Christian rock” would likely get the same reaction as if he/she said “I spend my Saturday nights reading the Bible”.
[hijack]I wonder who would win in a fight – a leprous capybara or an evil Nazi groundhog?[/hijack]
Moby a Christian Rocker?
GOD NO!
Moby, as stated before, rocks.
has visions of Teen Mania, becomes terrified, and faints
I’m a Christian.
I like Christian music.
I like secular music, too.
If I think the music sucks, Christian or secular, I simply don’t listen to it.
I don’t think listening to secular music is bad either (even though listening to Rammstein makes me want to break expensive objects and burn down trailer parks, but that’s irrelevant).
And how about instrumental music? Is that considered non-Christian? God forbid someone go to Hell for listening to Kenny G…
oh…waitaminute. That might be an exception.
ducking and running
All joking aside, each to their own.
If I recall correctly, one of my favorite bands, Plumb, doesn’t continually sing about praising Jesus. Some of the songs are about anger, love, friendships, all sorts of things.
Then again, I’m the type who can listen to Cream, Broadway ditties, Peter Paul and Mary, Godsmack, DC Talk, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Circle of Dust, the Beatles, and Enya on any given day.
Just my 2 cents.
Why do we need either one?
I think that bands can be OK if they write music first, and then work some of their thoughts into it next. It’s when bands start thinking: “OK, here’s something I can preach, now I just need some filler music to do it over!” Yuk.
There are some musicians who are Christians who are still pretty cool. Moby was mentioned, and also there is Jeremy Enigk, the singer for Sunny Day Real Estate. He became Jesus-ified a few years back, and SDRE’s newest album still kicks much ass, as did their earlier releases.
Do you mean just someone preaching over the music, or actual singing? Because I think any preaching words sang in a creative, nice way is pretty cool, or Bible verses turned into music.
I don’t have a TV, so when I visit friends I tend to get hooked easily.
While vegging out all this evening watching SCI-FI channel’s showing of “The Langoliers I&II” I flipped over to a Christian channel during the ads.
Yes, Christian Metal band. Wheee!
Watching some long haired transvestite rocker in a semi-fishnet costume (with klingon symbol on the shoulder) prance about the stage, or do a kind of stiff robot walk, wave a sword, or stuff a bag full of bones…
Well, it was enough to keep me coming back every time some ads came on Sci-Fi.
Well, that and watching the audience. They seemed to be a fair mix of teens and middle aged parents. All staring, unmoving, raptly up at the stage. A few were adventurous enough to actually sway a little.
One particularly amusing group off to the side, while not actually dancing, did wave their hands in the sign of the horns of Pan. I thought that completed the whole twisted tableaux quite nicely.
I guess I wasn’t really distinguishing between the two, and it doesn’t make a difference to me. My point was that it seems like many of these bands concentrate more on the message they want to give, and less on the music.
Monty mentioned a Christian rock festival in Laguna Seca (Called Spirit West something). Anyway, it’s very amusing to see families with little kids going to a concert that has different styles of rock. I always like seeing Christian moshers go at it. It’s actually quaint I think, but from what the local news here shows, it’s your typical bland Christian rock. The news gets all excited over it and stuff, kind of amusing to see.
I just can’t listen to Christian rock at all (well, i dont consider myself Christian really, but…). Pretty much what everyone else here has said against most of it is how I feel. But, what i’d like to see is Christian music done Portishead style: Dark, depressing, and sad.