It’s called “In the Hands of God.” Or should I say “Gawd.”
If you’ve heard it already (it’s available on iTunes), then you know it sounds exactly like the man band’s single “He Reigns” which sounds exactly like their song “Presence” which sounds exactly like their song “Entertaining Angels” which sounds exactly like their song “Adoration.”
So that means Christian radio will eat it up.
Yep, just like breakfast in hell. Or is that heaven? I guess that will depend on whether or not the Newsgeriatrics are still “rocking” the eyeliner.
So my question is this: in your opinion, what Christian band/artist (one that still is making records) do you think should retire?
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I mean C’mon, really, how many reunion CDs/DVDs do we really need?
I only know I hated it when Audio Adrenaline said farewell.
Can we nominate CCM “sounds” that need to be retired?
I’m sure I will go to hell for saying this but
Michael W Smith has milked it for all its worth.
Talk about songs that all sound the same…
Agree. Hate to say it because I really admire him, but I think it’s time for Michael W. Smith to be done. Might be a better use of his time to open a music school and blowout his philanthropic movements.
I’d say that the lame windchimes sound in a lot of Christian music should be retired permanently. It doesn’t help me worship at all. It just makes me mad.
While not a huge fan of “Hands of God”, newsboys (yes that’s how your write in now) is still putting out some awesome music and they still know how to put on a phenominal show.
Jars of Clay has gotten a second wind as well and are actually putting out some pretty good tunes these days too.
But to answer your question a lot of bands need to go on hiatus for a while, Phillips-Craig-and-Dean, Mark Harris, Avalon, and those band that are still trying to hold onto their pre-2002 glory, need to reinvent themselves.
Michael W. Smith on the otherhand will not go away, he has enough fans, that if he never got another song on the radio, he could still fill auditoriums.
Now does anyone know what happend to Nichole Nordeman?? There’s an artist that needs to do something soon.
Point of Grace people! or how about Avalon. Or maybe the Petra who some how made a comeback!?!?!
Third Day. I used to really love them, but when I heard their latest album, I was disappointed. They sounded exactly the same as they did 15 years ago when I first started listening.
I had the same thought about the new Newsboys single, which troubled me. I used to be just about the most rabid nb fan you could find…but I don’t know anymore.
I feel like it’s hard to walk that fine line between bashing Christian artists who I may not like or think are very talented, but who nonetheless are trying to use their gifts to glorify God and embracing a subculture which just enforces the Christian bubble. I don’t care for either extreme. I used to hate it when musicians would decline to be labeled as a “Christian band” but now I know why: it’s artistic suicide.
Michael W. Smith. I say this aprehensively. I know that there is at least someone out there that was led to Jesus by any artist, but wow, MWS. I mean, WOW. I guess i don’t have to get it to like it, but, WOW.
newsboys album Go was very good –
it brought back the newsboys of old –
I don’t agree their songs sound the same at all –
They used to be really goofy(Breakfast) and then got really serious on their worship tunes – but all in all still a very good band! I have not yet listened to the Hands of God yet – but will soon – rock on Newsboys!
I like PCD as well – they are getting up there in age- but can you recall when you first heard them? They are glorifying God with their lives – bravo to them!
MWS just put out a new album – and its great – its along the lines of Worship 1 and 2 –
Avalon has had many changes in people – They have some great songs-
Sadly my fav group is no more -4HIM!
Have a good one!
I say we scrap it all and end the Christian music industry. Bands that are talented enough will be able to exist just as well in the general market!
I am fed up with the industry. I went to winter jam this past weekend. I was treated horribly by hundreds of youth groups who would kill anything that got in their way of getting a good seat for the show. (What happened to Christian values such as ‘love your neighbor’?) The whole thing is becoming so full of hype with no substance.
For me right now.. The Fray (who is considered secular market) is the most worshipful band out there.
Every time you do one of these posts it makes me glad my parents made me listen to the Oakridge Boys instead of Christian music.
And that’s a sad statement.
Umm,Ray Boltz.
My parents grew up in the golden age of rock and roll. (My dad would tell you that my generation grew up in the golden age of dentistry–flouride in the water, braces on the third graders.) In an attempt to save us from a life of musical lameness, they didn’t play any of this Christian music at our house. Not because they were anti Jesus, but because they were anti music that typically sort of sucks.
I was the only Bible quizzer (yes, I was a Bible quizzer) who didn’t listen to DC Talk. And, like Gitz, these posts make me grateful that I grew up bathed in heathen music.
That was me, teaching the girl next to me in Sunday school all the words to Simon and Garfunkel’s Cecilia.
Everybody now… Making love in the afternoon to Cecilia. Up in my bedroom (making love). I got up to wash my face. When I come to bed someone’s taken my place…
I agree with Jason. All CCM is just a bad carbon copy of bad music you hear when you’re shopping in a Walgreen’s at 2 am. If there is real, genuine talent, the market will respond…aren’t Christians supposed to be “in” the world?
For the Record, if Carman is still around, I pick him.
When I can flip thru radio stations and know within 3 notes that I’m on a Christian station…yeah, it’s time for all CCM to go. How can it be possible that simply having a certain faith leads one to make music that all sounds exactly the same? It’s just not possible.
I agree with what others have said — good music will stand on its own. And there are a few Christian artists/bands out there who will make it/have made it in the real market.
I wish Rich Mullins would come back…though I realize that’s a tad impossible. When he died, my heart for Christian music died with him. Chris Rice brought it back for awhile, but his last few releases did nothing for me.
If I want my spirit to soar these days, I listen to a few SEAL songs (Crazy, Prayer for the Dying, Love’s Divine, and a bunch of other songs).
I’d like to see recommendations of artist who are not under the CCM umbrella who move people spiritually.
What CCM artists shouldn’t retire? I used to listen to CCM almost exclusively, but I realized a while back that much of it is just not very good. I still like Derek Webb, Sara Groves, and a few others, and I think that worship music has its place, but I don’t hold the genre in terribly high esteem.
Jamie,
some of my fav secular yet spiritual artists are:
The Fray
U2
Coldplay (specifically the Viva.. album(
Daughtry
Lifehouse (they have a few standout songs with great guitar work)
If you like hard music then AS I LAY DYING is great.. their lyrics make you think. Also, ATREYU has some amazing spiritual lyrics even though their vocalist is agnostic.
THE NEWSBOYS.
i used to love them. LOVE them. like, was way too nervous to ask phil joel for his autograph nervous. AFTER i had graduated from college. seriously.
and now. now it is just so so so sad.
I won’t whine too much about CCM since there’s good music and bad music and CCM pop radio sticks to the generic stuff (gee, just like mainstream music). I’ll take a thousand Future of Forestry’s and Derek Webbs before I sit through the next band who played CStone and Creation for 7 years and then complains when the press sticks the “CCM” label on them when they get big.
All of that said, the Avalon is pretty much the Long Family singers these days. Them and Sonicflood, who is still around technically — although no original members have been in the band for almost 10 years and it’s a revolving door membership.
Petra came back?! Even after that “Farewell” album? God Fixation was pretty decent, but that should’ve been it. If that had come after “Beyond Belief” it would have been unbelievable ahead of its time, and then they should have ended.
And Audio A finally said, “farewell” too? Their last okay album was “Some Kind of Zombie” but their last (and really only) good one was “BLOOM.” That was the last one to have Barry Blair in the band and then post-him they just started going downhill. Similarly with the Supertones – once Jason Carson left after “Loud and Clear” they only put out one more CD, which stunk like a skunk, put out a greatest hits then folded. And All Star United for that matter. I think it was their keyboardist who left after their 2nd CD and the live shows just weren’t fun anymore. They put out a greatest hits after CD#2 (bad sign) and I’m not sure if they’re still around…
I wish Burlap hadn’t had such overkill because they were just brilliant.
As far as current acts that need to give up the ghost, I’d jump on the bandwagon with the MWS crowd though I quit listening to his stuff after “i 2 Eye” (and still listen to it every now and then :D).
i bought the newsboys ‘entertaining angels’ album when i was ten. i thought it was pretty amazing, but now im twenty one and…its time to ‘wave farewell’ to the newsboys!!!
also…michael w. smith. and twila paris. loved them…ten years ago.
I can’t really say which bands specifically should retire, but I’m thinking MOST should. I haven’t listened to CCM in such a long time, that when I hear of so-and-so putting out a new album, I think, “They’re STILL around?”
On a similar note, as a kid I once accompanied my dad to a pawn shop (because we just did that sort of thing), and he bought me a DC Talk tape. We put it in the car’s tape deck and he immediately had a heart attack because it was rap, and he didn’t care if it was Christian. “It’s that rapper walk, and that rapper talk.” Luckily he did not return me to the shop to pawn it back to them, but I think he considered it.