onward christian soliders

and i mean stuff like those "songs for life" records adverted on tv. not when someone like dylan or whomever "goes born again."

Destroy: annoying Brian's annoying Christian rock band in Hollyoaks

Search: er...

Search: Zao, early Mortification.

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• Soul-junk (they're on the jungly/hip-hop tip these days)

• Danielson Famile (great weird quirky Talking Heads/Pixies-esque stuff.. much better live than on record, though)

Danielson Famile are better live than on record? That I must see: their records totally RULE!

Plus like they are hot !
Seriously they have this quirky lo fi nrg that reminds me more of someone like cat power then the pixies

They kind of scare and bore me all at once.

Trouble = excellent Xtian doom-metal pioneers from Chicago. Early stuff crossed Sabbath with Joy Division. Doom-metal and apocalyptic lyrics go together perfectly, it's the aural equivalent of Chick tracts (the definition of ROCK!) Although when I interviewed them they claimed they weren't really Xtians, just "going through a lot of heavy stuff at the time" (NOT "heavy shit" - they were adamant about not being quoted using profanity!)

Destroy.

Haven't heard a xtian band yet that knows how to use imagery successfully. All pretty unimaginitive, "He loves you. You are saved."

Not that a spiritual song is inherently bad.. It's the repetition of one single idea that gets old quickly. (You can slice & dice love stories many different ways.) Johnny Cash could write about religion in many ways, because his songs were true & spiritual & about his life - and for every song about God, there were songs about drugs, murderers, loves, cowboys, ...

see the arrested development thread. i dont know where it is or how to link it.

i vote them as the only half decent christian (as in the christian thing is a major part of their music, rather than just being christian and making music, eg coldplay) act ever.

My scary evangelical exgf had oodles of cds by The News Boys or something, what scared me so much about them is they were so bland I could block them out but there must have been some subliminal messages in there. That was her favorite Xtian rawk band though.

Most Christian rock is boring and one-dimensional. Pedro The Lion definitely subverts this stereotype. DC Talk has some great songs, as well as some dreadful ones. Check out "Jesus Freak," awesome. I also heard this song by Shaun Groves called "Welcome Home," kinda nice, interesting little twist in the chorus, and the drumming was old school pop drumming -- you know, when real people used to do real rolls and fills on their set.

'Most Xtian rock is boring and one-dimensional' - what, as opposed to REAL rock? Believers are always more fucked-up and scary than skeptics, just look at...well, anywhere these days.