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Re: Xian music
--- Matthew Mesina <soberman_69 at hotmail_com> wrote:
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> >From: Angealika at aol_com
> >Reply-To: Angealika at aol_com
> >To: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
> >Subject: Re: Xian music
> >Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 01:18:24 EDT
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> >In a message dated 5/5/01 10:28:45 PM Central
> Daylight Time,
> >soberman_69 at hotmail_com writes:
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> > > I think the assumption that praise for profit's
> sake is not actually
> >praise
> > > at all is quite reasonable. - Matt
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> >Who in their right mind would join a Christian
> praise type of band for
> >profit's sake? Am I just a moron, or does this
> seem really silly? Really,
> >there is not much profit in the 'Christian' music
> scene. So I think the
> >assumption that *ALL* these people are making music
> solely for profit is
> >somewhat...let me say, UNREASONABLE.
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> >Robin
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> Please allow a clarification. Not SOLELY, but
> rather PRIMARILY. Also, I
> have to believe some artists on Christian labels are
> faking it. Some of 'em
> are there 'cause their demo didn't fly with the
> secular labels. So they
> slapped a few Biblical references onto the existing
> melodies and POOF,
> instant CCM. It is naive to believe that all the
> CCM artists have true to
> their word. I tend to suspect the bands whose
> theology is shallow,
> manifested in cliché ridded lyrics and cookie cutter
> pronouncements. (A
> brush which tars EVERYONE on Forefront, I know.)
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> Anyway, wasn't somebody in a "mainstream" CCM band
> arrested recently? I
> remember Poor Old Lu saying in an interview that
> some of their labelmates
> were charlatans, though they refused to name 'em.
> That's all the proof I've
> got, coupled with a lifetime of observing human
> nature. Oh, well. - Matt
(sigh) on septmeber 9, 1965 the byrds recorded "Turn!
Turn! Turn!." all kinds of (possibly dope smoking? -
i'm personally not one of those anymore) suburban
14-19 year-old future hippies then simply responded to
their parents' screaming and gnashing of teeth with
"can i not play *eccelesiastes* in this home of
yours?"
there is money to be made in the christian music
market. as in most...
-ewg
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