I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard a bad christian song. I’m sure you could show me some modern propaganda / political country song that would make me feel like I need a shower real fast, but anything with some real heart in it, especially when bands were basically pigeonholing themselves to cringe obscurity by creating worship music from the bottom of their hearts… nothing beats it. They all seemed so genuine and sincere at the time.
I also want to hear your favorites 
Some gospel is better than some pop music…
If your gonna do christian gospel ok because some of it does have some effort put into unlike most pop music.
Actually i feel like gospel rap if it was promoted would have a positive impact on the communities because of a positive message instead of ignorant wannabe gang shit.
Christnumetalcore is unnecessary.
Technically some aprocaphyl texts and the book of revelation and some parables are very metal sources of inspiration…but it has to be done right…meaning people cant have the message of smiting infidels or pagans.
Still goes surprisingly hard all these years later lol
Stryper is good shit. I’m not ashamed to admit I actually believe that
I wonder if this could ever even happen again, since everything is so loaded all the time. I think that’s why my taste in this kind of stuff is firmly rooted in the average year of 2000, because it predates the social media political implosion
Also christian nu-metal / rap rock actually had some high points, imo
Took me a while to find this because I only really knew it by the cover, couldn’t remember the band or album title. Pulled this out of the used bin at Hastings (which painfully dates me, I know) some time in the mid-90s. There was a point where I’d take some couch cushion change and try to find the weird gems that people ditched. This one was okay, basically cut-rate christian Skinny Puppy/Ministry stuff. I didn’t realize it was religious until I saw some “praise jesus, he has risen” shit in the sleeve, but I guess it stuck with me. It’s not awful on re-listen.
Spiritualized - Let it Come Down (2001)
This entire album is filled with gospel and Christian themes. There’s more gospel choir in other songs, and while it’s not really my thing, this has always been a favorite track of mine:
Can’t have a Christian music thread without Amy Grant.
Didn’t I read POD Mentioned somewhere recently? Pretty sure they belong here.
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One of my classmates at my engineering school was in this band and a pretty big pink Floyd cover band too. Dude was such a beast on guitar, to record and watch him was insane.
I featured this on the last Tape Loops Weds cuz i found it amongst stacks and stacks of cassettes at the record store. this album is ridiculous. Carman used this as his platform to run for governor of Arkansas (…I think? Alabama? idk). He didn’t win, spoiler alert.
This album is pretty much unbearable except the first track he’s “rapping” and he sounds like a low level Mafia thug trying to spit bars. it’s so bad it’s good. also, listen to the last track where he’s talkikng about Jesus needing to be back in the government and schools. it’s so cringe I love it. I remember as a kid I had the tape with the uncleared Martin Luther King Jr. samples splattered all over it until they pulled it from future prints… i want to find that shit because… wow.. oh shit here it is. I LOVE THE INTERNET.
“Stop handing out condoms, and start handing out the word of god in schools!” 
Oh man here is another Carman gem:
DC Talk also used MLKJr speeches on “Free at Last”. not sure if they used with permission. also not as weird because DC Talk was 1/3 Black (or “two honks and a negro” as they put it haha. But I mean… still… I doubt the cleared the samples cuz no way MLK’s family would approve that shit lol
Ok thanks Google, so the answer is a big NOPE. lol
Speaking of DC Talk… God is Doing a Nu Thang is still a banger:
this cover is even better:
I dgaf if I’ve posted this before, it’s one of the best videos on the internet. This is literally me as a 7 year old child, but this kid literally has asthma or something. I wonder what ever happened to this little superstar. probably gay porn. for real though, I still know most of the rap verses to this song. lives rent free in my brain. i could sure use that space for other memories… LMAO.
i NEED to find this tape man oh man. i wonder if my parents have it tucked away in a box in their garage.
Peace in your heart! A Nu Start!
How about this glorious track:
I would remix the fuck out of this. 
I know most the forum are looking at us like 
but srsly, I fucking love this thread.
Have we talked about Newsboys yet?
Holy shit. I had this album too, but I’ve literally never seen any music videos. This is somehow not how I imagined them at all, they seemed like the one band who wasn’t this cheesy and too mature to wear suits, maybe compared to Audio Adrenaline. Well, I was dead wrong. I love it
Seriously have never seen any of these. Back then we just had to close our eyes and pretend like anyone gave a shit about christian music as much as we did (maybe until the era of Switchfoot and POD). I love that no band was spared of at least a handful of cringy music videos.
Now I’ve come full circle, back to cringedom, and have realized this is what we’re all missing. The fact that you couldn’t honestly make something this cringey and somehow wholesome and be taken seriously on any level makes me a little sad. I want to compile a playlist of this shit and just live there for a while
Also, I just realized something awful. I think I let an album slip through the cracks that doesn’t exist anymore. I’m hoping that I still have the CD somewhere, but I really don’t think I do.
I had this album (“Tomorrow is Today”, by Spark) ripped from a very long time ago (no idea what I originally did with the album, because nobody would’ve bought it on the secondhand market, 100% guaranteed), and apparently I threw out the MP3s (the copy that was backed up to an MP3 DVD, remember those?) when I was doing a spring cleaning earlier this year. Turns out, I’ll probably never hear it again.
I never realized this, but christian music is going to be the first to vanish, like the rapture. There were so many bands who were given a shot just based on the fact that they had community spirit and their heart in the right place, and a lot of these people just moved on, got lives and never did much else musically. Their legacy was hardly recorded anywhere, and nobody was there to back up their music and put it on Archive.org or something. Seriously makes me sad. I also very much had the opportunity myself and accidentally squandered it.
Thanks for coming to my depressing christian ted talk.
There was also a really cool band from that era called Circadian Rhythm. IIRC someone actually uploaded one or two of the tracks from the album, so at least I can hear the glorious 128k rips from the golden era. Until that vanishes, too.
Props to the record label, this time. This was lost for quite a while IIRC
Edit: Holy mother of god, I found one of the tracks 
