Am I the only one who thinks the selection sucks?

I mean no disrespect to anyone who enjoys the music listed in the Christian section, but I'm sorry, none of that stuff appeals to me. I look at the top lists for artists, albums, and songs and I can't stand any of it. I will admit that my taste is for heavier music in general, but even getting past that aspect of music, the stuff in the Christian section is just LAME. I'm all for Worship music and I can understand where people like to listen to it, but what I want to see more of is the rock and roll stuff. And please don't think I'm talking about the junk on Christian radio. I'm talking about the bands that aren't touring the Christian music festivals, but they are out in the world with everyone else. I'll post my library for you to get a taste of what I listen to, but don't think that I'm asking for everything in this list, I just want the people on this board to notice that there is a lot of great Christian music out there, but it's not being supported by the mainstream.

As Cities Burn, Acceptance, the Almost, A Love for Enemies, As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Before Their Eyes, Beloved, Blessed by a Broken Heart, Blindside, Bradley Hathaway, The Chariot, Chasing Victory, Dead Poetic, The Devil Wears Prada, Emery, Far-Less, Foreknown, Forever Changed, Further Seems Forever, Gray Lines of Perfection, Gwen Stacy, Haste the Day, Hillsong United, Inhale/Exhale, Kids in the Way, Life in Your Way, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, Means, mewithoutYou, MxPx, mychildren mybride, Norma Jean, Oh, Sleeper, Once Nothing, Project 86, Relient K, Run Kid Run, Thrice, Twelve Gauge Valentine, underOATH

I know that these bands are in the Marketplace for download, but what I want to see is for them to be made known in a bigger way under the Christian music banner. It's a shame for people to click "Christian" and only get stuff like MercyMe, Kirk Franklin, Casting Crowns, Michael W. Smith, and Third Day. There's a LOT more out there! I only listed a few of the bands I listen to.

I like some of those bands........

 

emery, forever changed, further seems forever, haste the day (a LOT), mxpx, relient k, and one that isn't on there, demon hunter.

 

I like stuff like 'casting crowns' and other bands like taht (although i HATE mercyme and thirdday)

 

have you heard of www.radiou.com ?

it plays all of that music-and is a 'christian' station. 

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I think I understand what you're getting at. I'm a fan of bands like Red, Demon Hunter, Skillet, Grits, Paul Wright, DC Talk, and a host of others. But when people click on "Christian" they see quite a limited selection of stuff. It would be nice if they broke it down to subgroups more. Christian music could be broken down to almost as many groups as Zune has with music in general. It would be nice if they had subcategories for rock, rap, R&B, pop, and so on. That way someone's more likely to come across something like the other styles of music.

Petra............is the greatest christian rock band of all time and it blows my mind none of you mentioned it, Jars of clay, PFR (Pray for Rain), Skillet, Guardian, Audio Adrenaline, Michael W Smith, so on and so forth ~shakes head~ and I'm not even religous or christian or etc etc etc.

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 st0icr4ven wrote:

Petra............is the greatest christian rock band of all time and it blows my mind none of you mentioned it, Jars of clay, PFR (Pray for Rain), Skillet, Guardian, Audio Adrenaline, Michael W Smith, so on and so forth ~shakes head~ and I'm not even religous or christian or etc etc etc.

 

Petra-i forgot about-but i like them too.....

 

skillet, i've mentioned on another thread. 

 

 

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Our Hearts are Heavy and Light. We Laugh and Scream and Sing. ~TWLOHA

Unfortunately those are what are popular. The main pages are full of lowest-common-denominator stuff. Think of them as ad-space. Not what would really benefit the community: discovery areas.

We all know Casting Crowns, show us something new, Zune!

that's because anything that has to do with god sucks

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*rolleyes*  do you have a reason for saying that?  cause honestly i want to know........

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ya..to make fun of peoplez haha

didn't have to take it so personally

it's not that hard to ignore me =)  

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Honey, if you think that comment annoyed me, think again.  it'll take a whole lot more than that.  I just want to know.   

 

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Our Hearts are Heavy and Light. We Laugh and Scream and Sing. ~TWLOHA

Artists like Sufjan Stevens, Woven Hand, Denison Witmer, older Pedro the Lion and Anathello have had great Christian spirituality in their music because of their faith life, but always holding to being labeled secular for artistic reasons, due usually to the constraining evangelical music industry. Some of the bands you have listed have run into some of the issues that the evangelical music industry present due to their sound/habits.


Also, several of those bands you have listed are very popular and have been supported by major labels in conjunction with minor labels at one point or another.

It really is a shame that more people don't know about some of these Christian bands out there. There are so many awesome ones its not even funny. Goto http://www.christianrock.net/ for some sweet bands that you probably haven't even heard of. They do Christian Metal as well and have an online web-radio that takes requests. 

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