Christian Music (That Isn't Terrible?)?

Question

Alright, I'm stuck doing a Christian music project at my school, she gaves us a bunch of examples from hard rock to rap to stereotypical Christian music.

My problem is, they all are terrible, mainstream, and a pain to listen to. One of the requirements is to enjoy the music to get a good grade. It's a bit painful really, I can't find a band or song that really suits me, there is no variety in the Christian rock, it's all Nickelback-esque and overdone.

I need a band that doesn't sound like everything on the radio, preferably something with similarities to bands like Modest Mouse, The Shins, Beck, The Mars Volta or even the Postal Service. I reallllly would appreciate help.

Answer 1

Here are some of my favorite not sure if you'll like them or not:

Artist(songs)
Hard rock:
Hawk Neslon(The One Thing I Have Left, Bring Em Out)
Broken Yoke(Vapor, Caught in the moment)
Kutless(Strongtower, Hearts of the Innocent)

Rock
Newsboys(Who, Joy, Thrive, Breakfast, Live in Stereo, It is you, He Reigns, Wherever we go, I am Free)
Audio Adrenaline(Hands and Feet and Big House)
Third Day(You are mine)
Casting Crowns(Voice of Truth, Lifesong, Does Anybody Hear Her, Praise You In This Storm)
Building 429(The Space between Us)
Matthew West(Happy, I can’t hear you, Out of my hands)
Downhere(A better way)
RelientK(Two lefts don’t make a right album – forward motion, getting into you, mood rings)

Pop/Praise
Chris Tomlin(How great is our god, Indescribable, Made To Worship)
MercyMe(Here With Me, Homesick, Shine on, So long self)
Superchic[k] – (Stand in the Rain)
Matt Redman – (You Never Let Go)
Aaron Shust – (My Savior My God)
Jeremy Riddle (Sweetly Broken)


You can also check out these websites for compariable groups to the ones you mention:

Secular to Christian

http://www.secretmotive.com/music/comparison/
http://www.christianmusicplanet.com/featured/comparisonchart.asp
http://youthfire.com/media/compare/
http://christianmusic.about.com/library/blcomparea.htm


Lastly there are these websites for listening to current Christian music:

http://www.air1.com
http://www.christianhardrock.net
http://www.christian-hiphop.net/...

Good luck. I'm sure you can find something you like there are so many artists out there today.

Answer 2

Personally I like all different types of Christian music, from pop bands like Casting Crowns, to a little harder like Third Day, to Christian rap. I enjoy DC Talk too. You don't say where you are, but here's a site that has a lot of radio stations on it, including quite a few online ones. Maybe you could flip through a few of the online ones to keep from buying a lot of CD's. Try http://www.mediaofchrist.com/Christian_Radio_Stations.html and maybe that will help.

Answer 3

There's plenty of good Christian rock. You just need to know where to look.

A few good examples are Relient K, Switchfoot, Skillet, Casting Crowns, Firefight, the list goes on and on.

If you want to hear some good christian rock, I recommend checking out Air1. They play Christian alternative and you can listen online for free.

Answer 4

Try mxpx, relient k, the fray, disciple, skillet, red, family force 5, hawk nelson, thousand foot krutch, underoath, kutless, tobymac, audio adrenaline, candlefuse, jackson waters...i have many more this is just a sampling of what i know. there's a little from every genre in there though it's mainly rock, some fairly hard, some kinda soft, tobymac covers hip hop, reggae, and rock. let me know if none of those work for you i can probably come up with something

Answer 5

I only listen to Christian music, and I'm extremely picky on what to listen to, and these are some of my favorites:

Switchfoot
Relient K
Copeland
Flyleaf
The Fray
Eisley
TobyMac
MXPX
Underoath
Anberlin
Thousand Foot Krutch
Starfield
Sanctus Real
Project 86
Starflyer 69
Mae
Bleach
Kutless
Hawk Nelson
Jars of Clay

that's only some of the many Christian bands that I listen to. I hope that helps!!

Answer 6

Check out:
"Rebirthing" by Skillet
"Legacy" by Kutless
Pillar

Those are "rock" styles....

And there's:
FM Static
Tree63
Relient K
Switchfoot

(check out myspace music, too)

I don't know if those will help...it seems like there's a lot of Christian pop out there.

Answer 7

Mxpx is punkish christian music

Answer 8

try reliant k,kutless,switchfoot, or third day.
and if you don't like any of those then go to air1.com and look on there. it's a christian station they have a lot of good bands on there
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Answer 9

try relient k and skillet

Answer 10

underoath