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The objective was to try to get religion to appeal to youth. I knew some young 20's guys in a band who were into it circa 1998.
You mean the goal wasn’t to get rock to appeal to Christians? 😲
I believe you mean "the Devil's Music". Getting the kiddos all swinging and gyraten their hips like demons.
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The word "intelligence" means nothing when referencing most "AI", just like the word Christian means nothing when referencing most "church-goers".
When I first moved to France, I was surprised by how much English-language rock/pop music was on the radio. I was also suprised that sometimes christian rock would be played between something like Nirvana's Rape Me and Bloodhound Gang's The Bad Touch. I mentioned it to my colleagues and they were like, "wtf is Christian rock?"
Despite we having our share of weirdos, most Europeans have no clue as to how mind bogglingly insane religion has become in the US (and how normal most US people think it is).
I'm originally from Canada. Barely any christian rock made it to radio. Probably because they didn't want to be on the same station as the evil rock bands. I didn't know it was a thing until university when my neighbour tried to get me to listen to Switchfoot after hearing me listening to Skinny Puppy or something like that.
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well so Jars of Clay was weirdly popular for a christian rock group. like i didn't even think about them as a christian rock group until their second, maybe third album? but they got radio play on mainstream stations.
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I’ve had the misfortune of having my ears raped over and over by Christian rock and metal. Can confirm: it’s horrid, empty, fake,…
It's like if an Multi level marker made pop music.
I'm also a little irritated that pop music is so formulaic that ai kinda nails the imitation.
Catchy but stupid.
...And not the fun kind of stupid either.
One of the extremely few exceptions is Extol.
That chorus riff is unreal. Killer riffs and drumming all around.
Well yes, but they are THE exception. And by a long shot at that.
There are a few others that are worth mentioning.
But guess what=> the Christians usually don’t go for those because it’s too weird or it doesn’t mention Jesus overtly enough (which obviously means it’s a ploy by Satan).
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Mortification are pretty solid music-wise.
silent planet is the best christian band I've ever discovered. they just have incredibly correct takes so idc if they're religious.
That is weirdly true.
Both are corpo-sanitized.
It’s like averaging out anything- the temperature of your porridge is the average of all porridges, the new movie you’ve been waiting for just uses the most common tropes in its writing, the quality of sex you’ll have next is the average of all sex you’ve already had
Ok, I’ll take the average sex. But the other stuff needs to go.
Jesus why don't you, turn off the light?
Stryper sounded good and was very popular outside Christian circles. I don't think most people knew unless they saw them in concert and had a bible tossed at them.
The only good Christian rock band is Five Iron Frenzy and that proves the redemptive power of ska
What about that one Skillet song that's good? And I want to say switchfoot?
I hadn't heard the name switchfoot in decades. I remember they had one good song but it still got creepy in the middle. New way to be human?
My sister used to be a born again Christian and I always liked Jars of Clay better than the other options.
used to be
So do you call her unborn again?
agreed. i just posted above it took me a few albums to figure it out (i wasn't paying attention to their lyrics, i was makin out with the pastor's daughter)
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Skillet?
As someone that grew up in a Christian household and wasn't allowed to listen to non-Christian music, I listened to a LOT of Skillet as a teenager. It was one of the few bands I could listen to that I actually liked. I also liked DC Talk as a kid.
One of the more tolerable experiences. I didn't even know that they were a Christian rock band until i was well into my 20's
i still like pod. lyrics suck, but the sound is still on point.
Hate AI 'art'. Love me some Icon For Hire. But they mostly sing about mental illness with pop-metal hooks, and rarely anything spiritual.
I would not call icon for hire christian rock. You can glean they are christian, and you can draw parallels in their messaging, but at the same time it would be easy for a non christian to say and espouse the ideas in their lyrics all the same.
I don't think I've ever considered icon for hire to be Christian rock/metal.
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Almost real.
I think back to those early hillsong albums. All the moshpits and everything.
Did hillsong expect all those people in the mosh pit to be sober?
Christian mosher: *hits incense burner / spills ritual wine*
Yup, phoney