Where is the LOVE for all these Christian rock acts who are ripe for hipster reappraisal?

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i have no love for 'smitty' (or, as my friend from home would say, "he's the other 'dubya.'")

between him and audio adrenaline's "big house," i can see how ccm music can encourage such wrath...

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Alfred, for roughly the same reason I didn't post about the Osmonds here -- the people you mention don't need "reappraisal." (Chuck and Redd Kross, likewise, already did the Osmonds.)

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Katie, where's home?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

overland park, kansas

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

There's always 16 Horsepower, for a different kind of god.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

xhuxk, you've never heard Larry Norman? (Isn't it just one o?) Really? I'm sort of surprised, but maybe it was mostly a Christian kid thing (although there was one not-overly-religious song of his that used to get played on WXPN occasionally, back when I listened to it).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

(And I think you'd like him reasonably well, at least the stuff I've heard by him. It looks like he's actually a lot more prolific than I'd realized.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 7 April 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone watching the tim mcgraw special? its charming, but sort of strange, like he is positioning himself into this apolostolic succession of country, with hanks house, and the interview with hank jr, and then he and faith talking about the spirit of hank blessing him...

the material is kind of dull, but i really love him...

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude, where have YOU been?!

― Hipster, been into reappraising this shit since before you were born, Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Since I started this thing, I'll brazenly link to reviews I've been writing for Burnside Writers' Collective.

Here's my Sheep & Goats column for December--it's a sort of binary consumer guide, w/ picks of Disciple, Norma Jean, and Jars of Clay, and pans of the Afters, Lecrae, and (um) Kanye.

Here's the November Sheep & Goats, with love for Israel Houghton (one of my favorites of the year, fwiw), Sufjan, and also the Thermals and Dandy Warhols; disses of Sufjan, Point of Grace, and MWSmith.

Here's a pretty good appreciation of DC Talk's second album and a mockery of their subsequent career.

Here's an appreciation of King's X's third album, which may or may not be the best album ever made by anybody.

Here's a review of the latest Marvin Sapp.

Here's an I-hate-white-Christian-radio screed.

Here's a review of WASP's Christian apocalyptic album, also one of the year's best, even though it really came out last year. (Got slept on, as you'd imagine.)

Here's a review of Gary Lucas and Dean Bowman's gospel covers album.

Here's a Nneka review and a Patty Griffin review.

And it's not CCM or anything, but here's an O.A.R. review that's pretty cool.

Thanks for reading, enjoy.

― dr. phil, Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link

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