Edymion wrote:I guess I was right in my educated guess that there would be few who would answer possitively to my question...at least within the first hour or so...
I think the choice isn't so much a bad one, it's just that when you bring religious music into the foray, there's going to be some off-topic religious conversation and debate almost always tied into it...at least, while you're bringing the subject up on a general forum. But that's off-topic as well...*smacks self in forehead* doh!
Edymion wrote:ANYWAY!! On to my point... Are there any other Christian fans here?
*raises hand* Right here. I gotta say I don't quite listen to as much as some of my other friends, due to the fact that my general outlook on life (the Gothic Christian outlook) isn't exactly something that is catered to in Christian music all that much (although my outlook in no way contradicts my faith).
The few bands that I have found perform what I view as very underrepresented genres in Christian music. Industrial/Electronic rock and Goth rock. As yet, I haven't found any Christian Goth rock bands (Goth in it's true sonic form, that is, not Evanescence-type stuff; although I do listen to Evanescence). Since Christian music as a whole isn't supposed to be that depressing, I mostly listen to normal old Goth rock and Industrial, which is full of ambiguous religious symbolism, and doesn't necessarily stand behind a particular religion, since it's mostly introspective and open to your own interpretation, and can still be inspiring to listen to as a Christian.
But I listen to a few other bands. Newsboys, Skillet, MxPx, Circle of Dust, Klank, Celldweller, Mortal, dc Talk, The Echoing Green, and Amy Grant to name some of them (yeah, that list probably makes me sound like a schizo, but hey, why not?)
Rorschach wrote:Ironically, the very solution to CCM's problems might be to put more sex and violence into the songs. Then too, they don't cringe from showing humanity's depravity, though their descriptions of some of it are tastefully compact and understated.
I fully agree. In fact, a couple of the Christian bands I listen to address, not necessarily sex and violence, but rather, a life that isn't construed as perfect and saintly, albeit to extremely harsh degrees.
Rorschach wrote:Christian songs should be the same way: not devoid of sex and violence, but full of the right kind of sex and violence... or warnings (by humor, stern condemnations, or both) against other kinds.
That would be great, but I don't think the majority of Christian music distributors would be very kindly towards those subjects being brought up, seeing as how a vast majority of them, while not being complete prudes, are still very fundamental in their beliefs. Even if the record company was fine with it, the bookstores and such wouldn't be very receptive. After all, P.O.D.'s
Southtown album had it's cover art censored when it was sold in Christian bookstores and music shops.
Personally, I think music should be about current issues or, hell*Cough*, it could just be rambling on about random shit*cough*. I'm not religious, and I intend to stay that way. I don't prefer music that was made up about stuff that could've possibly happened according to a book. 
