A concert a day keeps the boredom away...

[kimana83]

Friday night Isaac and I both left work a few hours early because we had to get downtown to be trained for working the Holt International Child Sponsorship table during Winter Jam. It was fun to cut the line (we had to be there an hour before the doors opened) and get right in for free. We went up to a Holt table near the Newsboys merchandise table

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[kimana83]

Yeah, most people do. My musical tastes are wide and varied. I have been told more than once that my CD collection makes me look schizophrenic... and that was before Isaac got me really into blues and classic rock.

What are some of the best Christian CDs Ryan has, in your opinion? I'm curious! Plus if there are good bands I should know about, then I want to know about them.

My dad had a rule for a long time that we could only listen to Christian music (like Steve Green, oy) or oldies. Now that I've listened to oldies as an adult and heard all the drug and sex references in many songs, I wonder why he thought that was so much safer for us than the '90s hits. Heh. He never objected to the CCM station I listened to though, which played Third Day, Newsboys, lighter dc Talk, etc. I guess he knew that lyrics are usually what matter.

I never got the Christians hating drums and dancing and electric guitars things. Praising God with drums and dancing and raised hands is all over the Bible. Obviously electric guitars are not all over the Bible, but I bet if they'd had electricity then, they would've been. *shrug*

[katharhino]

Okay let's see. This will be a LONG comment. Well he has some of the golden age late 90s Newsboys stuff which of course I like - I love the Love Liberty Disco album, also of course Step Up to the Microphone. I also really like Sixpence None the Richer which may be inconsistent because they're pretty pop but... I dunno... I like their sound. The lead singer's voice is weird enough to make them stand out for me. Jars of Clay is okay but I don't like them as much as the Newsboys. I don't think their lyrics are nearly as thoughtful or creative.

My favorite weird indy one is an album called Five Wise Virgins by 100 Portraits, a husband-wife team. They also did a series of really interesting, possibly strange-sounding praise stuff called "Enter the Worship Circle" of which Ryan has the first and second albums. I don't know how to describe their sound, it's really low-key acoustic and really repetitive which I don't normally like. I probably just like them because Ryan does, haha.

Five O'Clock People is an okay group. The CD Ryan has is called "The Nothing Venture"... I don't know if they've changed their sound much since then or not.

He has several Smalltown Poets albums but they're just meh to me.

I really like Kendall Payne, who's a Christian artist although I don't think her stuff is "Christian" in quotation marks.

Oh and there's this totally weird Christian/celtic/rock album by a group called the Electrics. I sort of love it. It's hilarious and awesome. Hold on let me look up the name of the album. Oh yeah, it's called Livin' It Up When I Die. How can you not love that?

A lot of the rest of Ryan's stuff is harder, like Project 86... I can't stand that stuff.