I used to get down with some Collective Soul.
I always respected that they refused to identify as a Christian rock band. From what I recall their response was something like “We’re a rock band, that happens to be Christian.”
They’ve got a lot of good material, glad to see them in this thread
Bach. Anything after that’s pretty cheesy…
Addendum: https://youtu.be/KSTFKJqy9AQ
Bach rules.
Depends what you call Christian music
NF got pretty big for a while, and pretty sure he never swore because of his religion and talked often about Christianity and his faith while promoting the Christian beliefs that are actually in the Bible and admitting his own struggles and overcoming them thru faith and hard work.
That is Christian music to me.
I mean, it’s not even really debatable, he’s signed to a label exclusively for Christian musical acts.
But music that is explicitly all about Jesus is usually just cashgrabs with zero meaning behind it. It’s playing to the low denominator for things where “safe” is the most important part of music.
So, TLDR:
NF
I hate cashgrab music. You can clearly tell the difference between it and Christian music written (much of it centuries old) out of passion and love
I’m a former Christian, if that counts.
DC Talk - the album Jesus Freak is peak Christian Rock, but the earlier, hokey rap stuff was fun, too.
Five Iron Frenzy - ska band that I absolutely adored as a teen. Saw them live at a reunion tour a few years ago (as an atheist) and had a great time.
Audio Adrenaline - more Christian Rock, just a good all around band.
Relient K - really fun and melodic punk/alternative. Went more rock than punk over time, but always solid quality. They made one of the better Christmas albums on offer, too.
And just for fun, try singing Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan’s Island!
You just described my teens. Also Jars of Clay (I went to one of their concerts once), The News Boys, and some more obscure ones like Pillar and Paul Ruben. I also loved P.O.D… It’s really weird to hear them on secular radio these days.
Now-a-days, all of that is only for when I’m wallowing in self pity. There have been times in my life when casually mentioning a secular song around my family would make the shit hit the fan.
My first concert was Newsboys and Supertones (Newsboys was the opener, it was pretty early for them). Saw FIF a year or two later. Saw Insyderz at a smaller event a few years after that. To this day I get to say I’ve seen the three “big” Christian ska bands live.
What a wild time. Jars is still on a regular rotation for me (Flood and Liquid are both bangers, and their Christmas album is one of my favorite holiday albums).
Insyderz and Supertones were great, but FIF was on another level.
OC Supertones and the Insyderz??? I didn’t even bother mentioning those, but hell yeah those were my absolute jam!
This also describes my teen years 😂 My first road trip after getting my license was driving to Orange County to see the OC Supertones.
I did not know P.O.D. was a Christian band. I saw one of their music videos at a Hard Rock Cafe.
Right?
I remember the local contemporary Christian station would sometimes play P.O.D., but only late at night. It was too “hard” or something for during the day when I guess kids might be listening or whatever. The DJ even chastised listeners once for requesting P.O.D. during the day.
Oh shit, I forgot about DC talk! I was a big fan in early middle school.
Jesus Freak is a true banger, coming from a life-long atheist.
Five Iron Frenzy is awesome. Just about everything I’ve ever heard from them is great.
That is amazing about Gilligan’s Island. How did you learn that?
Amazing Grace is one of those songs that uses a particular meter that allows for these kinds of tune changes. You can sing it to the tune of House of the Rising Sun as well (among others). One of my supervising/mentoring priests (Episcopal) from when I was in seminary did a Lent study on Amazing Grace and had people listen to all these different versions.
Just one of those things kids learn at church, at least in the areas I grew up in. Kinda like the “cool S” but not quite as universally iconic.
It’s not technically a Christian band but Creed has a couple banger songs that are very clearly about God/religion.
If a song slaps a song slaps. I don’t care if it slaps while it talkes about something I don’t personally believe in. I still listen to all kinds of hardcore rap and I have never done any drugs harder than shrooms or shot anybody.
WITH AHHHHMS WIDE OPEN~~~
Can you take meeee hiiigherrrrr (banawanylanaoooo)
It’s only possible to sing along to this song with your full chest.
Christian or not, Creed does not slap.
To each their own. I fuck with creed.
A while back I found a cool song about space on Pandora that’s apparently by a Christian band but that song didn’t give any evidence of that
Gonna answer my own question with “spirit in the sky”
I seem to recall liking the Doctor and the Medics cover of that, even if my age could be counted on one hand when it was released.
The oft-stated did-you-know question being “Did you know the guy who originally wrote and sung it was Jewish?”. Quite the surprise when I learned that one.
But to simultaneously bring this back around and buck the trend a little, Shine, Jesus, Shine used to slap as a hymn back when I dabbled in God-bothering.
And to buck things even more, Hava Negila kind of slaps too.
P.O.D. - Satellite and earlier albums.
Seeking the Wise still makes it onto my rock playlists.
Came here to say that, man satellite is a banger of an album. I don’t go out of my way to listen to them anymore, but when they pop up I’m not gonna skip it and the volume may get turned up a few notches.
I too came here to mention P.O.D.
Youth of the Nation is definitely on the list of best songs ever made in my opinion.
I wasn’t religious at this point but my brother in-law who listened to Skillet and 12 Stones and they had some catchy songs.
Sister Christian by Night Ranger. 😉
Carol of the Bells
Starflyer 59!!
Not christian music per se, but I love Andre Antunes’ metal renditions of evangelical preacher speeches. For example:
I Demand with Kenneth Copeland
Bonus: Alex Jones and Rage Against The Vaccine
“Spirit In The Sky” -by Norman Greenbaum (himself Jewish)
