Jeff

From my experience, it seems that the favorite aspect of music determines the type that you enjoy listening to. Be it lyrics, rythm, melody, instrumental and vocal quality, there are many intricate parts of music that make a certain song/band/style unique. What is your favorite?
I like soft numbers mostly and it's particularly the instruments that sets my mood.
What do you guys like? :-k

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afterthought

Everything, I like to listen to a song and analyse every aspect. Sometimes I would like a song, then hear a part of the lyrics I don't like, and that would ruin the whole thing.

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cly

I know what you mean there. Sometimes a song has a great sound, but the lyrics just kill it. Then, sometimes, though not as often, it's the other way around.

I like upbeat stuff a lot, but I also like slow, softer stuff. It just depends on my mood. The lyrics are the most important part of the song, though. If the lyrics are bad, I don't want to hear it. Up until a couple of years ago, I pretty much listened exclusively to country music, and you find a lot of good music with bad lyrics there.

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WorshiperChris

What concerns me about the lyrics in Christian music as of late is that every single song on the radio seems to fall within some unspoken Christian vocabulary. With the exception of a few bands like Kutless and Switchfoot, the newer music falls into a cookie cutter lyric format. I can almost recite the next two lines of a song as I'm listening to it for the first time.

Lyrics are important to me, because of my prior background of listening to the darker, more alternative songs of my teenage years, and the messages that they conveyed. Now I am strengthened by the inspired, but sometimes challenging lyrics of my fellow believers.

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Amen! Right on my brother!


CCM Music has gotten so commercialized and
'carnal'!!

I am a former professional rock n' roll guitarist
and singer.

I know the 'ins' and 'outs' of the secular and
so-called Christian music of today! I have a
wealth of info. on it if anyone is really interested!

The 'lyrics' let alone the 'music' that's supposed to
Praise, Worship and lift up Jesus is 'muddled' in
obscurity with 'loud' drums and guitars! The lyrics
are indistinguisable to say the least!

Here's an example of what I am saying-

Surely, no Christian would "listen" to songs by
satanist Ozzy Osbourne! Right??!!....................
.... Wrong!!!!!

Jars of Clay, not ONLY "listens" to satanic
Ozzy Osbourne, but they're so "INFLUENCED" by
satanic Ozzy !

(THIS IS HARD TO BELIEVE!) — JARS OF CLAY
SING "CRAZY TRAIN" BY "SATANIC" OZZY
OSBOURNE DURING THEIR "CHRISTIAN"
CONCERTS!

Some of the "satanic" lyrics to "Crazy Train":

Crazy, but that's how it goes. . .
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools. . .
Crazy, I just cannot bear
I'm living with something that just isn't fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

Is there ANYBODY that is so "spiritually" BLIND
that they could POSSIBLY think Ozzy Osbourne's
"Crazy Train: would be obeying Ephesians 5:19,
"Speaking to yourselves in PSALMS and HYMNS
and SPIRITUAL SONGS, singing and making
melody in your heart to the Lord;"

After watching a Jars of Clay concert, a writer for
The Birmingham Post-Herald wrote these
"enlightening" words:


"You've got to give Jars of Clay credit for a
WICKED sense of humor. Why else would
they do a langorous, offbeat treatment of
Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train"?

. . . the former lead singer of Black Sabbath
and a man noted for his interest in the occult."

2Cor. 6:14: Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness?

Why wouldn't any 'truly' born again saint of God
sing with words, from beginning to end of a song,
PRAISE, WORSHIP AND EXPRESS THEIR DEEP LOVE
AND ADORATION TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!

I words that are not 'carnal' but Word of God -

SATURATED IN A 'CLEAR, DISTINCT VOICE'??!!

2Cor. 11:14: And no marvel; for
Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

2Cor. 11:15: Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers
of righteousness; whose end shall be according
to their works.

Your brother in Christ,

Joe