Bands/artists completely open about their spiritual beliefs

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Because "spiritual" is a word that pisses a lot of people right off and opens the thread up to new agey pick-and-choose beliefs rather than just classic religious fanaticism.

It seems surprisingly rather a lot of them, doesn't it?

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

I wanna give a shout out to God!

Come on, man. There's almost nobody out there singing "We live in a mechanistic, material universe! Metaphysics is total horseshit!"

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I know! Why is that, ya think? It seems like that's the attitude of most of their fans!

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes there is. MC Hawking.

― Ed Corcoran (ecorcoran), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Burzum.

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you act like "spiritual" people are all persecuted and minoritized and all that shit. The US is run by a guy who thinks that the entity-formerly-known-as-god is giving him personal direction. You're goddamned right that "god" is a dirty word.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sting.

― Total Fucking Dorkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ya Ho Wa 13

― Total Fucking Dorkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Killing Joke

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Popol Vuh (Xtianity)
Incredible String Band (Sc13nt0l0gy)

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Chick Corea (a little TOO open according to his bandmates)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

and haha of course Sun Ra

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think both the Free Design and Belle & Sebastian mention Christian things enough to qualify as wacked out biblethumpers.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

also every 5 Percenter/NOI rapper ever

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Psychic TV

― Total Fucking Dorkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Low.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Birchville Cat Motel
MB
David Tibet

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

How does being a Christian automatically equal "wacked out biblethumper?" Stuart Murdoch seems pretty liberal to me.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Stryper.

― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Beddingfields.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Why is that, ya think?

My guess is that true artistic inspiration is a kind of mystical experience or peak experience (to borrow a phrase from Maslow), and peak experiences, for the most part, are moments when reality is understood (not conceptually but intuitively) as a single, living entity, a combination of animism and monism. Thus music born from peak experiences speaks of a different universe than the dead, mechanistic one born from 19th-century science.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

David Bowie although he tends to contradict himself a bit here and there.

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Woven hand. 16 Horsepower. Christian, but tasteful...
100 cheers to me - this is my 1st post!

― naos (naos), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

100 cheers to me - this is my 1st post!

1. hip hip hurray.

Paul Leary is very serious about his UFO beliefs and theories (claims to have seen one and believes the moon is a ufo and on the dark side of the moon is where the smaller ufo's return to base). Does this constitute spirituality? He hates babies, humanity and religion, so I think he qualifies as one who is open about his anti-spirituality, which is a shade of spirituality, I suppose. The UFO thing is more of a scientific argument for him that sort of disproves creationism be eliminating humanity's specialness.

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

And what about Nick Cave? He is christian, isn't he?

― naos (naos), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Leary is very serious about his UFO beliefs and theories

Ditto Dave Davies of The Kinks

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have a funny feeling Nick Cave is into mystic Christianity, which is a bit unorthodox in that it generally equates the serpent with Christ the redeemer.

Julian Cope is some sort of pagan and seems to be very anti-Christian.

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Nick Cave was a Catholic? Or does he just wish he was?

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

U2 certainly used to be creepy christians (except Adam, who was just creepy)

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

If Adam wasn't a "creepy Christian (and I thought he was) then that means only Bono and the Edge were

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Used to be"? Bono prayed with fucking Jesse Helms for chrissakes.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Nick Cave was a Catholic? Or does he just wish he was?
Catholicism and Liberal Catholicism are the only forms of Christianity that really preserve the mystery traditions in Christianity. This is why many members of various esoteric-masonic lodges are Catholic.

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK A GOD-BOTHERER

― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, that was the beer talking. Rational answer: most musicians' take on "spirituality", like most people's, is banal. There aren't many good songs about philosophy, either.

― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Uhm, does jazz artists count? In that case Ayler, Coltrane x2 and so on.

― strom (strom), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

"How does being a Christian automatically equal "wacked out biblethumper?" Stuart Murdoch seems pretty liberal to me."

I apologise. Beautiful weather carried me away with esprite d'hyperbole. Both the Free Design and B&S are very tasteful about their churchy stuff. It is something I like a lot about both of them. Murdoch almost crosses the line in "If You Find Yourself Caught In Love" ("raise your prayer to a shout!") it's still satisfying that few people write such songs these days.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sufjan Stevens is pretty religical...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

"How does being a Christian automatically equal "wacked out biblethumper?" Stuart Murdoch seems pretty liberal to me."

The bulk of Christianity has given mysticism and spritituality such a bad name in the West. I go back and forth. Sometimes, I wish we could find out the truth about Jesus (obviously his identity was stolen and used for purposes that stand diametrically opposed to his original beliefs). And other times, I wish his name and very existence were stricken from out history (but obviously that shit never works so...)

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Direct contact, bro.

― Total Fucking Dorkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

And other times, I wish his name and very existence were stricken from out history (but obviously that shit never works so...)

Well, the "good news" is we're almost there, I guess, since "Jesus Christ" wasn't the dude's name and it seems a lot of people don't realize that.

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Moby

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Current 93's David Tibet.

― ross m (Snorb), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sinead O'Connor?

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

that's SISTER Sinead O'Connor to you

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Townshend

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

that's SISTER Sinead O'Connor to you

Hey man, fight the real enemy.

― John E. Smoke (Uri Frendimein), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Billy Joel?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Does anybody here actually like the band "We Are Scientists?"

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.myphotoalbum.com/r/ri/rix/rixp/rixpi/rixpix/albums/album15/McLaughlin_and_Santana_Love_Devotion_Surrender_b_side.sized.gif

― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/carlos_santana/lovebc.jpg

― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

not really a big fan of we are scientists, matisyahu is an orthodox jew, enough said.

― Telecaster (Telecaster), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

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