CCM Magazine
Submitted by Pearson on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 17:30.
I really don’t have much to add here - it’s been a long time since I really seriously went through the mag, and hacking around the site doesn’t provide any immediate link to the album reviews I devoured in my Christian youth - I had to seriously dig to find what appears to be an original review of Amy Grant’s Age To Age, and said digging led me to a list - with no annotation - of 25 Christian Albums You Need To Own From The 80’s that seems pretty spot-on.
But this site’s blogroll cannot continue one more day without a link to the Rolling Stone of American Christendom.
Besides, this allows me to engage in one of our favorite habits in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and that is “If You Like Rolling Stone, You Should Read CCM Magazine.”
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Oh, man. The whole phenomenon of “If you Like X, check out Y…” comparison sheets for secular and Christian artists was wacky. Especially given the crack-headed nature of some of the comparisons. I remember especially the “Code Of Ethics… Nine Inch Nails!” line item on one of the posters at the Family Christian Bookstore. I think it was based entirely on a five-second distorted sample used on one of the songs on CoE’s second CD…
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Submitted by Eaton on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 18:25.I never read CCM magazine, but my youth group in high school had one of those comparison charts. I was more a product of the 7ball generation (as short-lived as it was). My first exposure to Christian music that I actually liked was finding the band Adam Again, which I bought because the singer sounded like Michael Stipe from REM.
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Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 20:55.Man, you got lucky. Adam Again, while it was no REM, was another one of those products of the mid-90s Christian music scene that really, really did their art well. River On Fire will always be one of the saddest, loveliest songs I know from the era.
Other bands? The Prayer Chain. The Choir. Fantasmic…
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