Re: What christian rock bands are there

Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 05:08:13 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.music.christian.rock
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> From: "Shadow" <email-address-deleted>
> "Josh Spencer" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
> news:email-address-deleted...
>> There are thousands, man. The one's you listed aren't necessarily
> Christian
>> but have Christian members or backgrounds. Looks like you're only
>> interested in bands that are signed to major labels, though, so you can
>> include Chevelle, Alice Cooper, Evanescence, Midnight Oil, Brother Cane,
>> Dashboard Confessional, The Juliana Theory, Nonpoint, Avril Lavigne,
>> Blindside, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, Sons of Leon,
> Nick
>> Cave, Smashing Pumpkins, etc, etc.
>
> Where on earth did you hear that Evanescence, Brother Cane, Nonpoint, Nick
> Cave or (my personal favorite) Smashing Pumpkins.... what was the name of
> that song on Siamese Dream? Silver something...I forget... it was an overtly
> Christian title, I DO remember that.... Anyway, where did you hear that ANY
> of these groups were "Christian?"
Various magazine interviews, things said and done at concerts, song lyrics,
general knowledge, etc. I've been in music journalism for six years. And I
didn't say they were Christian, just that they had Christian backgrounds or
heavy interest in Christianity. I interviewed Evanescence myself 2 years
ago, Brother Cane spoke about their faith in an HM interview, Nonpoint used
to be called Nonpoint Factor and were a Christian metal band before getting
signed, Nick Cave has written articles about spiritual topics for the
liberal Christian magazine Prism, and Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan had/have
strong Christian imagery and Corgan has given a lot of wordplay to Jesus in
recent concerts, whatever that means.
But above all, I'm NOT saying anything more than that they have Christian
influence, background, interest, whatever. I know none of them personally
and I'm not interested in speculating beyond that. Nor do I really care,
but I know some do.
josh