Always found Ray Boltz corny anyways. But then I'm just one of those crazy guys that thinks that most "contemporary christian" music is as lame as it gets. There is some good stuff out there, but such artists are few and far between.

For example, I think Rick Cua made much better music when he was still playing bass for The Outlaws.

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Donald Jacobs
Roanoke VA.
Covenant Reformed Episcopal Church.

Cum vero infirmor tunc potens sum.

Donald,

Try picking up The Lost Dogs, or any Adam Again (Homeboys, Dig and Perfecta). Top class, original, and edifying.

Cheers,

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Adam B., Wine Country, California, PCA

"He who drinks much beer, sleeps well. He who sleeps well, does not sin. He who does not sin, goes to heaven." Martin Luther

Familiar with all of these guys as well as Daniel Amos and anything Terry Taylor has put out (Including "Swirling Eddies"). All of these would fall in the category of "few and far between". Of course Gene Eugene is dead now so we won't be seeing any new Adam Again stuff. Mark Heard was good as well I thought. He's been dead now for a few years. 77s and alot of stuff Mike Roe puts out is pretty good as well. I also got a kick out of Charlie Peacock's Love Life album.

Coolness.

Yeah, Gene was a giant among men; sad to see him gone. I heard that they're coming out with some of his unrealeased material soon. Do you know how to get ahold of a copy of Perfecta?

Cheers,

Awesome stuff!

Do you feel a sermon coming on, Dennis?

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Oh man, I remember picking up an Adam Again cassette at the local Christian bookstore back in '88 or '89, and I thought it was complete lameness. Would that have been in their early years while they were still refining their talents, or do we just have different tastes in music?


Edited to add: does the line "sometimes I sing by myself, sometimes we sing together; I like to make some noise, I like to turn it uuuuuuu-uuuuuu-uup" ring any bells? That's about the only line I can still remember from that album, and I remember it still because it was SO LAME!

P.S. Donald, since Adam will now be away for awhile, you'll have to be the resident "Adam Again" expert, and give us the answer.

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Adam J. Myer
Slated for the Jan. 10th Chaplains Basic Officer Leadership Course
Estacada Christian Church
Sandy, Oregon

Soli Deo Gloria

Wow. I have heard specials done in church using his music since I was a little boy.

Very sad stuff.

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Pastor
Southern Baptist
Missouri
The Cave

Adam,

I'm not gone until the end of today.

Yeah, that album is SUPER LAME; In a World of Time, or something like that. Homeboys is the turning point for Adam Again. Dig was the follow up for that, and was just as good. Perfecta continues the trend. Gene incorporated groove, blues, rock, funk, and a host of styles from Homeboys on. Here are some examples:

Mind you, this is a live recording off of someone's video camera

Same

Studio recording; the dissonance is intended to reflect the message of the song.

Anywho, they got better.

Cheers,

ugh.

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You might try ebay. I had a bunch of rare music stolen a few years back and reaquired a bit of it there. Although you might have to pay a bit depending on how rare the recording you're looking for is.

We were just talking about this on another message board that I am a member of, this is what one of the members said and I post it because I think he made a great point...btw his name is board name is Eternal


My two cents were...



Holy Culture Community Forum

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Richard W. Roldan "Ricky"
Member and Teacher of Iglesia Presbiteriana Reformada Berea (PCA)
Winter Haven, FL./ Under Care of the Southwest Presb.(PCA)

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,...” Jesus

" I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel," Paul

I agree. Many music ministers (and some youth ministers) seem to be very effiminate. Its almost a trend in modern evangelicalism. I don't like most new Christian music. For Christian music I listen to either Keith Green or Reformed Christian Rap (yes it exists) and thats about it. Besides that I listen to non-christian music.

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[B]Manley Beasley[/B]
Southern Baptist Convention
Fayetteville, Arkansas

[B]Wir sein pettler. Hoc est verum (We are beggars. This is true.).--Luther's dying words[/B]

How incredibly sad. The only reason I had heard of him is one of his songs was played at my Grandmother's funeral several years ago ("Thank You for Giving to the Lord"). It still chokes me up when I hear it. Sad...

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New Life in Christ Church (PCA)
Spotsylvania, VA

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I actually had an experience that opened my eyes to what you are speaking of.

My crew and I went to perform at Without Walls in Tampa, FL. some years ago and of course I already knew of their health and wealth gospel and all that jazz and I let them know from the jump that we were Reformed and so forth but they still wanted to hand over the Mic to us so we were like ok then be ready to kick us off stage LOL but anyways when we got there the coordinator was the "youth pastor" and he met us outside BUT as he was walking towards us, and I'm not trying to be rude or spreading gossip but, he walked as if a womens runway model I mean it was so flagrant. And I thought to myself wow I hope he sticks around so I can talk to him about the gospel, but low and behold he walks up to us and and shakes our hand as if royalty and so feminine and stated that he was the "youth pastor" and was telling us the agenda for the night but I didn't hear a word he said because all I could think about was what planet am I on as I just heard a womens voice coming out this guys mouth so we decided not to do the event and called it off right there on the spot, why? because when I asked him in a comedic way if he was gay he said YES and then told him it was against our CHRISTIAN worldview and just left and never went back and then I warned some of my family members who were attending that church and they suspected but never thought to ask and left the church, well that church doesn't exist anymore because, as some maybe have heard on the news that the pastor and his wife got divorced and sold the church, man its sad but God is still Sovereign and will continue to call out His Remnant.


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Same here. There are, indeed, some songs without much substance and even with a "Theology of Glory" behind them, the the lyrics of others are biblical and strong, such as the song you posted ("I Will Praise the Lord"), "Watch the Lamb" and "The Hammer."

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Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)


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