================================================ Subject: Re: Why aren't they recognized Re..ous bands From: "Keith Mears" To: Date: Sat 7 Jul 2001 23:50:35 -0500 ================================================ I can't recall ever hearing any Christian rap or hip-hop myself, but I don't listen to Christian stations (to borrow your very apt term, Jim, I don't "feel the music"). I do like some of the current "rap-metal", but I agree that in at least some cases it has lowered the quality of the "rock" genre as a whole. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 11:34 PM Subject: Why aren't they recognized Re..ous bands > I think that the reason that a lot of the Christian Rock bands don't get > a larger audience is the fact that they are played on stations with > distracting to me (and probably others) RAP, HIP-HOP, etc blended > Christian Rock stations. > I used to listen to a Christian Rock station out here because the music > was pretty good. But I stopped listening to the station because of all > of the RAP and HIP-Hop music in the blend. > Don't feel too offensive about the comment. Since the used to be Rock > stations did the same thing with expanding their airplay of thier music > with RAP/Metal and the like. I only heard of a lot of bands lately > through email of listers and links to thier website. > I think the radio stations are settling down a bit to the better bands > and not playing as much sensless jingling and babbling nonsense as they > have in the past year. Since I can tollerate listening to the radio > stations for longer durations before they break into the jibberish > crappy nonsense. > Tool, Staind and 7M3's new releases being played often now might of been > the major change and their was only rubbish from musicians in the past > year. But I suspect it was some scheme set out by the recording > industries and radio outlets. > > Back to the Christian bands. If they had purer music formats. I think > I'd listen to the bands more and maybe buy thier albums. And I'm not a > Christian. > > I think the only hope for Christian bands to get played on the regular > outlets would be to not label thierselves as such. Just as other bands > have done. If Creed was a Christian band. (I believe they might be). > > Jim > > PS - I'm not as open to musical "diversity" as others. Since I have to > feel the music. But if lesser music (IMO) is the trend of others. I > respect it. But it is not being open minded (IMO). It is settling for > less in quality or energy. (IMO) : To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp