When I was first getting in to music these were the few christian bands that really rocked. I remember going to bed to the Supertones album every night for like a month.
Supertones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFQKequLo3A
DC Talks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZVzKKfVhw
Officer Negative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A83pZxL2cvo
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A Christian rock band is an oxymoron. Rock music and Christianity don't go together. Like capitalism and communism don't. Let me know how kicking Satan in the face works out. And I wonder which jesus DC is a freak of?
ReplyDeleteThe music is too jagged for my taste. Although the supertones wasn't too bad.
Christian rock is not an oxymoron. You've got to be kidding me. It's a genre of rock. Obviously capitalism can't be a genre of communism. Bad analogy.
ReplyDeleteSupertones are very good. The supertones strike back cd is solid all the way through.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, it seems like Baptists and a lot of fundamentalist congregations are totally into Christian rock. I'm not big on Christian rock, but that's just me. I like my Christian music traditional, as God told Bach to write it. That's just me though. I don't condemn people who have rock in their church service, it's just not my taste.
ReplyDeleteBut, Bach's music was probably outrageous in the 1600s when he wrote it.
Jeff, what about Spirituals? They've got the same backbeat rock has, in fact, spirituals were one of the sources, along with blues and country, that developed into rock. Are spirituals not Christian?
I'll check these bands out at home.
Are there any Christian Rap groups?
ReplyDeleteP.o.D. is a rap rock band. They actually had a mainstream hit.
ReplyDeleteCreed is a solid mainstream christian rock band too.
Bud-D, "I don't know, it seems like Baptists and a lot of fundamentalist congregations are totally into Christian rock." I don't know about them. I don't agree with their views. The average modern mega church is a joke of a church. They play modern music and try to be like the rest of the world: their pastors have nice spikey hair. And they ask and beg for your money.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Christianity should be stooping itself to the level of everybody else when it comes to teaching the Bible. You shouldn't try to cure a drug addict by taking drugs yourself and taking up their lifestyle for the purpose of reaching them. Just like capitalism shouldn't try to convert communist by stating how they will redistrubte the wealth around. And I don't know anything about traditional Christian music.
Christian rock is normally not my thing. Although I do have Creed on my Ipod and like some of their songs. I didn't know they labeled themselves as Christian.
The bands that I cited have shows at normal venues. They tour and make profit like everyother entertainer. Their message is Christian and they rock. That is all I meant to say.
ReplyDeleteArguing the liturgy of modern churches is a different topic. But I agree that the message at a lot of mega churches is being distorted to conform to society in order to grow attendence. Ashley goes to a church like this. At her church's services, I've never heard them take a firm stance on anything. Very vague and open.
Christian rock being in our churches is one way that the churches are conforming to modern society.
ReplyDeleteNot up on my specifics, but I'm not sure that "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord" comes with any details on how that noise should be made. OK, maybe some, like with tamborines and horns. It seems that wouldn't rule out rock.
ReplyDeleteI don't consider most rock a joyful noise. But others might. What is considered good music might not be so subjective as people think as their is a mathematical relationship between what the human naturally finds to be attractive music. Note that a lot of modern music is considered an aquired taste, as Toejamm pointed out. Although this is a theory to some extent. But it is a fact that there is a certain mathematical relationship between musical notes that have been known for some time.
ReplyDeleteThere might be some more objective method of determing what is good music as related to laws of nature.
ReplyDeleteI question the mathematical relationship you describe. Sounds very erroneous.
ReplyDeleteWell that is why I said theory. But it is a FACT that there is a mathematical relationship between the notes of music. That is an accepted fact.
ReplyDeleteNo. You said that "good music might not be so subjective as people think as their is a mathematical relationship between what the human naturally finds to be attractive music". I know there is math in notes. Not math that tells me what is attractive.
ReplyDeleteI think the mathematical aspect of music is why you see so many technical people in bands. I know tons of good musicians who are engineers. It's possible that there are tons of good musicians all over the place, and I am just noticing the people I work with, so I could be overstating it.
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