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Hahahahahahaha.... NO I DON'T. Really. So that we're clear... vetivert is joking. I loathe Creed, as she knows perfectly well.

oh yeah...

i knew it was one of the two. love, loathe - probably a typo...

Excuse me! Listening to their Greatest Hits at this very moment! *air guitars to My Sacrifice* No, Darlene Z-something is fantastic. Really uplifting modern stuff. Check Hillsong out, they're great. My pet hate in the christian music genre is Reliant K. Punk wannabees *shudders*

And yeah, you spelt Jaci right, Nomaken.

Reliant K is okay. I'll listen to them if it's what's on the radio, but they aren't my favourites.

Actually I have to confess, I did this whole thing back in 7th and 8th grade off and on just because I had a nondenominational family down the street who's son and twin daughters were raised on christian music. They did get me into stuff like DC Talk, DeGarmo & Key, and Micheal W. Smith for a minute (can't diss em, some of their stuff I still think is catchy), and I then ended up sizing up the local christian music store for some good thrash-metal type stuff.

Interesting thing is there's still a few cd's I can think of that if someone had em, I'd still be tempted to listen again just for old times sake. There was a band called Dig Hay Zoos who were skater-thrash metal and I remember I had Strugglefish, their first and I'm thinking probably best tape; they definitely had talent and I was feeling the energy of that cd a lot just because it was as moody as it was jammin (I'd still recommend that one to anyone who's into that kind of stuff and is looking into something like that). I also had the self-titled Crucifix cd which wasn't that bad and there was a rap-metal group which was kinda like a cross between Anthrax and 24-7 Spyz called XL & DBD; both those cd's were nice to jam out to as well.

Reliant K is actually Aussie based. I'm a Creed-nut though.

there alot of good christian rock out there. Try them out.

switchfoot
day of fire
third day
pod(not my fave)
super chick
among others.
don't knock til you try it.

I like 38th Parallel too. Most Christian rock is too soft? You can find stuff out there that's just as hard as any secular stuff... a good online radio station is http://www.christianrock.net. That one is general rock and I just noticed they've added two other stations since I was there last time, one is hard rock and the other one is hiphop. It's a great way to hear lots of different artists.

I don't mind Reliant K. Some of their lyrics are pretty funny. There's one song that says "My problems fell out of the back of my mind..." I'm such a visual thinker, I always see a Mr. Potato Head toy with that door it has on the back of the head to put all the parts inside.

Lol, even when it comes to Christian music you manage to find stuff that no one's ever heard of. I was into christian rock/metal/rap back then too and I've never heard of any of those artists. I'll have to see if I can find samples on the internet somewhere. What else were you listening to? Around that time, for rock/metal I would have been listening to stuff like Bride, Tourniquet, Whitecross, Fear Not, Idle Cure, Holy Soldier, White Heart, Angelica, Stryper, 20/20 Blind... and of course the big names like Petra, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline. For rap D-Boy and Michael Peace were a couple of favorites (and of course DC Talk)... no other names are coming to mind right now.



I liked Degarmo & Key and DC Talk. Lol, Michael W Smith was one of those cases where my parents didn't mind listening to him, so that automatically meant it wasn't cool. When John was in 11th grade (you probably would have been in 7th then) he had a Parenting class in school where they had to carry a 10 lb sack of flour around for a week as if it were a real baby. John's flour baby was a boy and he named it Dana, after Dana Key from Degarmo & Key. Lol, baby Dana had an earring and wore headphones with a walkman playing christian metal most of the time. The teacher wasn't too happy about that but John felt it was important to raise his son properly, introducing good music at an early age.

Wel, you know how it is with most of what I listen to. It's the type of stuff where if it were playing in a room and most people walked in they'd give it this wide-eyed semi-awed look, nod, and never walk back in. It's just seems to hit that magic dumb corner for a lot of people.