Do you listen to christian music?

[Faster With Feeling]

I have some. Occasionally I listen to it.

Anyone else like the occasional bit of christian music?

[GlaceonChireiden]

Very rarely. The only christian bands I listen to, are bands that don't make it obvious they're christian through their music (Skillet, Theocracy, Thousand Foot Krutch).

But besides stuff like that, no. Music that is just praising god gets kind of annoying after awhile. And I was stuck going to a christian high school, so I had to hear that crap all the time. Maybe that's why I have such a distaste for it, idk.

[Adversary]

Oprindeligt skrevet af JustSomeLego:

Very rarely. The only christian bands I listen to, are bands that don't make it obvious they're christian through their music (Skillet, Theocracy, Thousand Foot Krutch).

But besides stuff like that, no. Music that is just praising god gets kind of annoying after awhile. And I was stuck going to a christian high school, so I had to hear that crap all the time. Maybe that's why I have such a distaste for it, idk.

I can relate to that in the sense that I was raised Nazarene - a sect of Christianity which some rightfully label as an extremist one. Sure, there was music at the sermons. Sure, it could be constituted as something approximating rock. But it was blatantly obvious that the band the then-pastor was part of was just taking hymns and giving them the same kind of youth appeal the most notable Nazarene Charles Manson had.

Yes, that Charles Manson.

[Neurotic Panda]

also it boils down to what 'IS' christian music? Im not just talking church hymns.

If a 'band' has 4 members. 1 is christian the other aren't. does that make them a christian 'band'? What if that one guy wrote all the music?

if a 'band' has 4 members and 3 are christian and 1 isn't.. is that a christian 'band' then because the majority of members are christian?

if a 'band' has one member and they are christian but never sing about christian topics is that 'band' still christian because the entire 'band' is?

is it only considered christian if the members of a 'band' let everyone know all the time and beat it down your throat that they are a christian band and god has to be used in every other line?

if all members of a 'band' are christian does that by default make it a christian band? 1/2 the members? what are the 'rules' here?

i can guarantee that if a 'band' doesn't come out and say HEY WE ARE CHRISTIANS... WE SING ABOUT GOD... then people are like.. not a christian band, cool i like them... even though they may not know all or at least 1/2 the members of that band are in fact christian's.. they just never thought it necessary to announce because they just want to make music.

If a guy is making music and is christian, doesn't that makes his music christian? I mean its a christian writing/singing/conducting music. would that not be christian music? is it jewish? just because he doesn't announce I'M SINGING ABOUT GOD.. is it still not christian?

how many christian's does it take to make a band christian? lol..

[Birds]

Like The Thermals, or Sonic Youth?

Never got into Sonic Youth, but I do like ICP kinda.

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

Only on the radio during Christmas season, then on 2nd of December I listen to my hand picked playlist and do that for the rest of the year.

[Schamyl006]

Not often but I like Turkish & Kurdish Islamic music

[Sixtyfivekills]

https://youtu.be/Kppx4bzfAaE

Modern day masterpiece.

[TWPanda77]

No, I do not think I have before. I guess maybe I did not understand a subtle lyrical reference in English songs though. There are a lot of Chinese Christian songs but I have never feel compelled to listen.

[Apollo702]

No.

Even when I was a hardcore Christian I found the music to be both musically inferior and also much of it was written by someone else- and often times it was just another phony marketing ploy.

Since I gave up religion millions of years ago that removed the last incentive.


Bonus point:

Who says affairs are a mistake?

Come to Lost Wages on a weekend and listen to their stories. They come here by the plane loads.

In almost every case the person who got cheated on (that bellows out with victimhood) was the one who wrecked things and pushed the other person into it.

One caused the problem and the other gets blamed for seeking out what they should have been getting all along.

[Faster With Feeling]

Oprindeligt skrevet af JustSomeLego:

Very rarely. The only christian bands I listen to, are bands that don't make it obvious they're christian through their music (Skillet, Theocracy, Thousand Foot Krutch).

But besides stuff like that, no. Music that is just praising god gets kind of annoying after awhile. And I was stuck going to a christian high school, so I had to hear that crap all the time. Maybe that's why I have such a distaste for it, idk.

I agree with your last paragraph.. But the thing is as I got older I started to pick and choose the albums I kept and the rest I just threw in the bin, that was 90 percent of my christian music in the bin. I have kept some of them and I don't listen to them all the time but when I feel the mood hit me I will listen to some of them, I kept some of my Amy Grant stuff. Lead Me On was my favourite album of hers and Heart In Motion.

90 percent of my music time is regular music, mostly 80s to early 2000s regular bands

[AdahnGorion]

It depends on what you consider Christian music, if its church music, then no.

If its Sabaton, then yes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9BupglHdtM

[Siluva]

Christian metal count?
Then yes.

[Alienslayer2406]

From time to time, yes. Not as often as I used to, though.

Oprindeligt skrevet af ṼṏẌṏḭḊ:

I think that As I lay Dying are Christian, so yeah. Haven't listened to them in years though.

Kinda lost interest when their singer was arrested for hiring a hitman to kill his wife.

Not very Christian of him, if you ask me.

[Kamiyama]

When musicians make christian-themed music it's not bad.

When christians make music I generally find it meh.

https://youtu.be/tmOkvLPervA

^ That's not too bad. It kind of sums up what I think about God's creation.

It is a lousy place and I don't want to live in it ever again.

[Faster With Feeling]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Siluva:

Christian metal count?
Then yes.

Yes that counts and if that's what you like more power to you.

I used to listen to Petra in the 90s but that was more pop rock