A friend of mine whom I grew up with in church recently posted on Facebook about an old videotape we were made to watch repeatedly in Youth Group entitled Hell's Bells. In the 1980's, the events now snidely referred to as "The Satanic Panic" formed their own bizzare, through-the-looking-glass alternate world among churchgoing America and Hell's ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my last post Stryper have released an album of cover songs. Since megiloth kindly let me listen to the whole thing I am going to make you read how I feel about.

First, a little history. Stryper are a band whose lasting musical legacy will be that they have caused the following dialogue to take place millions of times around the world:

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Being a music lover, one phenomenon that never fails to intrigue me is recording artists who became famous (or notorious, as the case may be,) for a song that sounds nothing like their greater body of work. Obviously, 80's hair bands are the most legendary offenders in this category. As we all know, those power ballads you slow-danced to at the 8th ( Read more... )