Is Stryper fun nostalgia, or just pure nonsense?

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Y'all,
Stryper is in Austin tonight. I'm gonna get heavily sedated and go relive some memories (granted, some embarrasing memories).

Anyway, am I nuts for thinking this is going to be fun? I haven't listened to Stryper since '88, but geesh! I was such a huge fan of this cheesy band at the time....so much has changed.

any thoughts?

― chad beck (chadly), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Maybe a dumb question, but has your religious view changed much over the moons?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, I was a non-religious Stryper fan at one point....somehow that crappy ass music did it for me all on its own.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Ummmmm, yeah - I've changed my worldview QUITE a bit since my jr.high/Stryper days. I haven't exactly thrown out the idea of God's existence entirely, but, yeah. I've changed.

― chad beck (chadly), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I liked Stryper for a brief while back in the day. I'm all for a good nostalgia show (I've seen Cinderella twice -- they rocked hard, btw) but I think you can skip this one.

― bsj30 (bsj30), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

i'd say do it...
stryper for non-religious stryper fans is definitely a winner...

i still have "to hell with the devil" on picture disc 12"...but what i most highly recommend is their in-studio hijinks on their christmas ep....unbeatable.

― bobby.lasers, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

snorting Pixy Stix off a nun's back?

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Y'all,
well...I went to the big Stryper show last night. I had an incredibly good time, BELIEVE it or not. Har har. The Austinist was even nice enough to print the drunken review of the show I wrote after stumbling home...

Check it out!

Peace,
-Chadly con Queso

― chad beck (chadly), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Sweet. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

"keep the home fires burning " and "lonely " are brilliant.
wanted to buy stryper " sheet music.

― retrogurl, Friday, 11 November 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I just hope they were careful throwing Bibles into the audience. They could've knocked someone out and ended up being sued.

― mike a, Friday, 11 November 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

They were crap then and they're invariably crap now, if not even crappier.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what this band sounded like, but Yellow And Black Attack had one of the truly offensive LP covers of the cold war/Reagan era. I see they've changed it at some point in the past 20 years, if anyone cares.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Wait, what was originally on it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

ya mean this?

http://www.firestream.net/rateimages/122_01_29_2005_5_41_25_Stryper%20-%20The%20Yellow%20And%20Black%20Attack.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

...which is, evidently, now this...

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/bc/43/147928-music-resized200.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Fuck those guys.

― Satan (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Personally, I always thought "Soldiers Under Command" was the most offensive. Check it out, they are standing in front of an A-Teamish van -decked out in yellow and black - brandishing machine guns, grenade launchers and even yellow/black striped missiles! Nothing spreads God's love better than a missile, I tells ya!

Soldiers' cover
-chad

― chad beck (chadly), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.raremoth.com/images/rero_spinal.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

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