Re: Caught Between GenX and Medicare

Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:31:13 -0500
Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.1980s
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Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote:
>
> Brent Busby wrote:
>
> > That's unfortunately pretty common. It's the reason so much of the
> > "Christian rock" scene sounds like elevator music trying to sound hip --
> > while most of the musical world thrives on exchange of ideas and
> > experimentation, they're trying to write creatively in isolation, for
> > fear of being contaminated by whatever vile moral ideas might come
> > baggaged with any exposure to new secular compositional ideas.
>
> Y'know, I've been trying for 20 years now to find the very words you
> just wrote in order to explain my view as to why I don't like Christian
> rock.
Yeah, I'll piggyback on that too. Eloquence and accuracy abound in your
assertion, Brent.
I do enjoy early Amy Grant from time to time (_Age to Age_, _Straight
Ahead_, 'round in there), but it's hardly Christian "rock." It's about
30% pop and 70% easy listening. _Unguarded_ had a bit more rock to it,
but it was also practically secular, so infrequent and subtle were the
Christian references. So I don't really count that one as Christian
rock.
As for the stuff that came a little later on, I tried to like Stryper
but never quite got there. Good cover of "Shining Star," though.
Petra, DeGarmo & Key, and all of that stuff bored me whenever I heard
it. Someone could change the tape and I wouldn't notice. My mom loved
Carman but he was always way too corny for me, even when I was 14.
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