Whats Some Of Your Fav. Christian Artists And....

Sword_Maker · Rookie Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 34

Mines toby mac, kutless, pillar, P.O.D., SuperChick,Toby mac,Audioadreniline and theres more but i cant think of um at the moment. so post away!!! Very Happy

L7 · Very bored Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 210

um...is Switchfoot chritian? Cuz they're ok...POD=poser Korn...sorry...I despise them...no offense... Sad

eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

[quote]um...is Switchfoot chritian[/quote]

No. They're one of those new MTV bands. The only difference between them and psuedo crappy punk bands like GC is...

1. I don't think they're trying to be punk (just another surfer band at most)

2. Their lyrics aren't horribly depressing

Not the best in terms of sound and guitar riffs (sounds like they only use power chords in Meant to Live) but lyrically-wise, they're not bad. Sounds better than Simple Plan and isn't as crappy as Good Charlotte. So they're not bad. . . . .

I don't listen to Christian music. Not exactly a practicing religion type, y'know? Rolling eyes

I guess the closest I'd get would be U2 but I also don't really like them. Good in the 80s, tolerable in the 90s, suck ass today. <_<

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knuckles12345 · Rookie Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 32

I like B.Reith and K2S, Christian music pwn all! I luv rap! but i hate the songs with sex lyrics in them those songs make me sick. One Two Step by Ceara is one of my faverote rap songs thats not by a christian artist.

Tulips_and_Chimneys · Very bored Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 182

As I Lay Dying!!! whoot to the guitar riffs
and lets see...

dead poetic
beloved
underoath
Mae
Emery

and more that i cant think of right now

Sword_Maker · Rookie Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 34

[quote]QUOTE
um...is Switchfoot chritian

No. They're one of those new MTV bands. The only difference between them and psuedo crappy punk bands like GC is...

1. I don't think they're trying to be punk (just another surfer band at most)

2. Their lyrics aren't horribly depressing

Not the best in terms of sound and guitar riffs (sounds like they only use power chords in Meant to Live) but lyrically-wise, they're not bad. Sounds better than Simple Plan and isn't as crappy as Good Charlotte. So they're not bad.[/quote]
hhmmm... i never done this quote thing before i hope it works.. anyway i had heard that switchfoot wasent christian it kinda bumbs me out but o well they still rock!! Razz

Tulips_and_Chimneys · Very bored Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 182

im pretty sure theyre christian.

eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

[quote]im pretty sure theyre christian. [/quote]

Hate to burst your bubble but Switchfoot isn't a Christian band. Yes, their music can be called motivational, inspirational, and even anti-angst but nowhere near religous. They're more of a melody band (along with Yellowcard. Its like a gentle version of rock.) I'll find out though if you don't believe me. I'm sure there's someplace on the net with info on them.
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qtlilhunnibear · Member Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 57

last time i heard they were :huh:
some of my friends went to their concert just on that fact they where christian

DragonicFlames · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject:

[quote]Korn[/quote]

OMFA! You mentioned Korn on an X-tain board?! I hope Davis comes to kick your ass. I really hope so. <_< Obviously you haven't really listened to their older s**t. (points to siggy) does that seem very x-tainy to you?!
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fallenangel · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

She said POD are a "poseur Korn". Read more carefully before shitting yourself.
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eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

[quote]QUOTE
Korn

OMFA! You mentioned Korn on an X-tain board?! I hope Davis comes to kick your ass. I really hope so. Obviously you haven't really listened to their older s**t. (points to siggy) does that seem very x-tainy to you?! [/quote]

Jesus loves you all. Laughing

Y'know, for Christian-related board, I'm picking up some real tense and angry vibes. Rolling eyes

[quote]some of my friends went to their concert just on that fact they where christian [/quote]

Then your friends went for all the wrong reasons. Rolling eyes

Maybe the band members practice Christianity but I've listened to their CD. Its inspirational but no where in it is there any religous hints. Its just motivational music.

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DragonicFlames · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

[quote]She said POD are a "poseur Korn". [/quote]

Laughing

I thought she said that POD was a poseur and that she hated Korn.. Oo; but anyway i was angry that it was posted up here, 'asif it was a x-tainy band. oO; I can't help but jump to conclusions.

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Tulips_and_Chimneys · Very bored Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 182

[quote]Then your friends went for all the wrong reasons. [/quote]

who are you to say what the right reason to going to a concert is? its up to the person going.

and also sometimes people, Christian bands dont mention God or Jesus but the connotations are still there.. heres an example:

Furthur seems forever- How to start a fire

Let's set this city ablaze
we'll burn down the monuments and build mountains in our place
we could see everything

We could start a fire and all shine in it's light shine so bright we burn in eyes, and heal the stories ending.

This is the last time we will ever bleed to feel alive.

Consider this a rehearsal your heart of hearts rekindled.
Catching the fruits of our labors and holding our hands waiting for you to sound a prayer in the form of an anchor replied by holding you up in red skies bound by love.

Let's set this city ablaze we'll learn how to start a fire shine so bright we burn in eyes.

eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

I just went to the official Switchfoot website to double check that I was correct and this is what I found...

[quote]Rarely does a rock band combine explosive guitars with an intense longing for meaning. Jon Foreman and Switchfoot, however, yearn for something more than what pop-culture is selling. "If I'm content as an artist to write a hit song or have a platinum record, then I'll have failed a lot of my fellow human beings," says Foreman. "We have the best jobs in the world because we play music for a living and love doing it, but we didn't get into this to try and sell something. For us, it's about communicating and connecting with people on a different level."

That stance earned the Switchfoot vocalist/guitarist and his bandmates (brother/bassist Tim Foreman, keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas and drummer Chad Butler) an invitation to attend last December’s Nashville summit for DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade for Africa), the charity organization founded by U2’s main man Bono to promote AIDS awareness and debt relief for developing nations. “It was incredible,” says Foreman, who’s worked with Sudanese refugees in the band’s hometown of San Diego. “Here’s a guy who has all the money, fame and notoriety that anyone could ever want, and he’s passionately talking to us about a bunch of poor people in Africa who will never buy his records. Listening to him speak was definitely a life-changing experience.”

When the meeting ended, Foreman walked over and handed the U2 frontman $40. “I told him I owed it to him for sneaking into a U2 show in London a couple of years ago,” he says. “He laughed and told me he did the same thing when he was younger. We spoke for a while and then he gave the money back, saying he felt he had already been compensated. To be honest, I was relieved because it was my last $40 and I needed the money to get home.”

As for his involvement with DATA and its cause, Foreman says, “I talk about it quite a bit in interviews and from the stage, but I’m careful not to be annoying about it. We’ve never really been a political band. Our songs are more about the politics of the heart than they are about foreign politics. I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.”

On the Columbia/RED Ink debut The Beautiful Letdown, Foreman opens up with self-revelatory songs about hope, love, faith and the desire to be more than what he’s been sold. In spacious settings, the singer connects with subtle emotional power, surveying a landscape of mediocrity in “More Than Fine,” digging for painful truths in title track “Beautiful Letdown” and stepping on a distortion pedal to scream about the dissonance of the modern age in “Ammunition.” On lead single “Meant To Live,” inspired by TS Elliot’s “The Hollow Men,” he strives to survive in a world where love and hate breathe the same air.

“It’s not a dark album, but it talks about dark things that have happened to me,” says Foreman. “A lot of the songs are about the hope that’s deeper than the wound and how that’s something that we can really hold onto. I think that’s something that kids are picking up on and taking with them.” He pauses and adds, “Don’t misunderstand—I have no delusions of grandeur thinking that our songs will single-handedly change the world. But change is possible and I definitely want to be a part of that. We always make it a point to talk to people outside after the shows, and I recently had a kid come up to me and give me a big hug because he was so affected by ‘Dare You To Move’ (from The Beautiful Letdown). Apparently, he was going through some really rough times and wasn’t sure if he wanted to live anymore, but heard the song and was inspired. That’s incredible. On days when you’re wondering what you’re doing playing a show in some small town in the middle of nowhere, you think about moments like that and realize that you’re part of a bigger story than your own.”

Musically, Switchfoot draws as much from the Police and James Taylor as from the Beatles and Stevie Wonder to create swirling guitar pop, full of effortlessly arching melodies and textures that shift in continual, sensual motion. “We’ve never fit in any of the genre boxes,” says Foreman. “I think that diversity is our strength.”

Produced by John Fields (Andrew W.K.) and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Goo Goo Dolls, Michelle Branch), Tom Lord-Alge (blink-182, Rolling Stones) and Jack Joseph Puig (John Mayer, No Doubt), The Beautiful Letdown entered the Billboard Top 200 this past spring at #85. The album, which The Orange County Register described as “…a rousing rock testament of hope, dreams and inspiration,” can attribute its early success to lead single “Meant To Live,” which hit the Top 40 on the Modern Rock Chart (its companion video, directed by Laurent Briet (Radiohead), subsequently went into rotation on MTV2). Meanwhile, the band has been tearing up venues across the country during a three-month sold-out headlining tour. In addition to selling out four nights in Los Angeles, the quartet shared festival stages with the likes of Jane’s Addiction and Audioslave and recently performed on “Last Call with Carson Daly” and the “Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.”

Foreman credits the album’s raw, live edge to the band’s DIY attitude. “We didn’t want to waste time screwing around in a $1000 a day studio,” he laughs. “So we did all the pre-production in my bedroom. When we finally recorded the album, we did the whole thing in two weeks. John (Fields) works fast and so do we. There were no lunch or dinner breaks—we worked straight through and it turned out great. You can ruin things if you spend too much time in the studio.”

The Beautiful Letdown comes three years after Switchfoot’s third independently-released and critically acclaimed album Learning To Breathe. In between the two discs, the band won the 2001 ASCAP San Diego Music Award for “Best Pop Album” and “Best Pop Artist,” won the 2002 ASCAP San Diego Music Award for “Best Adult Alternative and contributed five songs to the gold-certified soundtrack for the Mandy Moore film A Walk To Remember (including a duet with Foreman and Moore). “We were at the movie premiere,” recalls Foreman, “And David Hasselhoff was sitting behind us bawling his eyes out with his daughter. It was a bit surreal.”

Over the course of the past several years, more than 40 Switchfoot songs have been used for several nationally televised shows, including “Dawson’s Creek” (five songs), “Regis and Kelly,” “Felicity,” and many more. “The context in which the songs are used can be pretty funny,” says Foreman. “I remember writing a song about spiritual longing and then seeing it played back during a hot tub scene on some show. The songs can wind up very far from the edge of the bed where they were originally written.”

Switchfoot’s roots can be traced back to the beaches of San Diego in the mid-‘90s, when the Foremans and Butler connected as surfers (Fontamillas joined in September of 2000). Though they competed in national surf championships on weekends and earned product endorsements from equipment companies, the real bond came from a common love of music. They decided to form a band, chose the name Switchfoot (a surfing term), put themselves through months of sweaty garage band workouts, and then hit the road. After just 20 gigs, they signed with re:Think records and released Legend of Chin in 1997. They’ve averaged 150 shows a year ever since, while selling more than 400,000 copies of their first three albums (Legend of Chin, New Way to Be Human and Learning to Breathe) combined. Shortly after recording The Beautiful Letdown, Switchfoot signed with Columbia. The album has since become the band’s fastest-selling record to date.

“Tim, Chad, Jerome and I have seen pretty much everything over the past six years,” says Foreman. “We’ve been at this ever since Tim graduated from high school. But this all feels like a new chapter. I think this album is where our future begins.”[/quote]

So pretty much their music is motivational stuff based on the band member's experiences in life. If that is what defines Christian music then I guess we can say that we were both right in a sense but if that isn't what Christian music stands for then well, I think I would be right then. ^_^

[quote]who are you to say what the right reason to going to a concert is? its up to the person going.[/quote]

I didn't mean that. I meant that if they went just because the band is Christian then it would be pretty funny if they weren't Christian band after all and just another new band. But they can still like them for their music too. Its their choice after all and yours as well. Me? I don't listen to Christian music and probably never will unless I face a life/death situation and devote my life to the Church in exchange for my life. But thats just me. You all can do what you want, I ain't here to stop you.

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Tulips_and_Chimneys · Very bored Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 182

from the descrption you got off the site it seems like they are a Christian band but not maybe quite as obviously as a band like say dc talk.

eclipsedmoongoddess482 · Elder In Training Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3703

[quote]from the descrption you got off the site it seems like they are a Christian band but not maybe quite as obviously as a band like say dc talk. [/quote]

Maybe we should just say we were both right in our own sense then 'cuz they sound like a normal band in my eyes but in your eyes they sound Christian and we probably won't understand each other's point of views. So why don't we just agree to disagree and be square? Razz

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fallenangel · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject:

In my opinion, being a christian band and being a band [b]of[/b] christians are two completely different things. Otherwise, half the bands in pop culture are "christian bands", even while writing songs like "Talk Dirty To Me". If the music isn't expressly christian, that's completely different than having songs that simply go along with some christian values.

But considering switchfoot are relatively popular right now, it's not surprising they don't have anything that says "woo, we're a jesus band!!!!". That's a sure way to ruin your career. Like it or not, one in a million bands actually make it being labeled "christian bands". Even if they begin that way, they'll often remove anything that specifically names them as such, either by their own smarts or label directions. (and you can throw POD or anyone else out there all you want, but there are far more that are automatically written off by the majority of people because of being called a "christian band" and destroy their mainstream success because of it)
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qtlilhunnibear · Member Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 57

yeah i guess.....
but most christian hardcore bands that are singing about god r underground
i heard this totally awesome song but the only hint to it being christian was the title "little lamb" and they used some words in there that where christian