Whats your Fave Christian Rock band/artist?

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I was just wondering if there are any fans of Chrisitan Rock bands out there? I Love a British band called Delirious? And listening to them on my mp3 player while travelling to & from work on the bus always makes me smile & gives me a lift!
 
In my iPod I have a Playlist for Christian music. I have Hillsong, Celine Dion, Jaci Velasquez, Kirk Franklin, Catholic Hymns, etc.

I guess the only rock band that I have on there is DC Talk.
 
Personally, I don’t really listen to “Christian” music, I just stay away from music with blatantly anti-Christian messages.
 
mschrank said:
Personally, I don’t really listen to “Christian” music, I just stay away from music with blatantly anti-Christian messages.
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I listen to lots of different kinds of music aswell I was just asking if anyone was into Delirious?
 
Steven Curtis Chapman has some amazing songs! I love his cd, Speechless.

I have been known to end up sobbing from several of these songs while driving down the road. :rolleyes: In particular, even though he is a Protestant, I think the song Great Expectations is amazing when you consider the lyrics and receiving Christ in the Eucharist. I can’t even read the lyrics without getting all misty.

Great Expectations
Listen Here

The morning finds me here at heaven’s door

A place I’ve been so many times before

Familiar thoughts and phrases start to flow

And carry me to places that I know so well

But dare I go where I don’t understand

And do I dare remember where I am

I stand before the great eternal throne

The one that God himself is seated on

And I I’ve been invited as a son

Oh I I’ve been invited to come and

Believe the unbelievable

Receive the inconceivable

And see beyond my wildest imagination

Lord I come with great expectations

So wake the hope that slumbers in my soul

Stir the fire inside and make it glow

I’m trusting in a love that has no end

The savior of this world has called me friend

And I I’ve been invited with the son

Oh I I’ve been invited to come and

We’ve been invited with the son

And we’ve been invited to come and

Believe the unbelievable

Receive the inconceivable

And see beyond our wildest imagination

Lord we come with great expectations

~Liza
 
I don’t listen to much self-styled “Christian” music either. Most of it is mediocre knock-off of mainstream music with some Jesuses thrown in. I tend to choose based on artistic quality. I have heard tons of it, as it was prominent in the evangelical culture in which I was raised. I have also been to many Christian music festivals (Cornerstone, Sonshine, etc.)

But, some that I do think are good off the top of my head:

Michael Card
John Michael Talbot
Jars of Clay
Skillet
Michelle Tumes
Phil Keaggy
Delirious? is pretty good. I have 2 of their older albums.
Atomic Opera
Kemper Crabb
Caedman’s Call
Waterdeep
 
I like Relient K…their songs crack me up. 😃 Can’t wait for their new CD on March 6th. 👍
 
Showng my age … PETRA and The Rez Band 👍

Now, I do love Fr. Stan Fortuna, John Michael Talbot…
 
I second so many of these!!! 👍

My favs:

Relient K
Matt Maher (he’s SO Catholic!)
Fr. Stan Fortuna
Jars of Clay
TobyMac
Rebecca St. James

Not sure that all of these would classify as rock per se, but they’re all amazing!
 
I was big into Delirious? and have recently got back into a couple of their older albums (Glo and a Deeper). They had a real influence on British Christian music and there are now a number of blatant pretenders (Tim Hughes for one!).

From a Catholic viewpoint, at the end of the 90’s I read an article in which they explained how they had discovered that Catholics could be Christians too! They were honest in admitting that they’d been brought up with a default suspicion of Catholicism, but having met a Catholic community near London, they were disabused of this view.

For those who don’t know, their album Glo, opens with the monks of Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire, belting out “God you are my God” - makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end!
 
U2

–well, 3 out of 4–but Adam may be relying on a more explicit “Higher Power” in his road to recovery 🙂
 
I love Michael W. Smith–I’m even his fan club and going on an Alaskan cruise this summer “with Michael W. Smith and Friends”.

I love Chris Muglia too…my friends and I call him the “Catholic version of Michael W. Smith”.

–Barbara
 
AquinaSavio said:
I like Relient K…their songs crack me up. 😃 Can’t wait for their new CD on March 6th. 👍
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Some of their lyrics could be non-Catholic. I still listen to them though, ignoring to what they say that is non-Catholic :).
 
**I love Michael W Smith’s “Healing Rain” it always makes me happy. **
 
MarkA16 said:
Some of their lyrics could be non-Catholic. I still listen to them though, ignoring to what they say that is non-Catholic :).
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Same here…I always read through the lyrics when I first buy the CD. 😉
 
I’ve enjoyed the Delirious? that I’ve heard. I also like Phil Keaggy and have seen him in concert. Also saw Mylon and Broken Heart; not bad.

But my favorites have to be Steve Taylor and DA/Daniel Amos/The Swirling Eddies. Both these acts go for satire, a convention sadly misunderstood by many Christians. Would that there was more Christian satire to go around.

And I can’t stand U2. Pretentious and not all that talented, esp. Edge.
 
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