Comments on: DEBATE AT LOLITA BAR: Does Christian Rock Suck?

by: Todd Seavey

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:37:57 +0000

Ah — your banner for the _Rapture Ready!_ site hadn’t been added to Radosh.net last time I checked, and I thought you might be waiting until the 1st. It’s now happily added above — and Radosh.net to the blogroll in the right margin. May all goodhearted people do likewise with ToddSeavey.com.

by: radosh

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:16:30 +0000

Not to get technical, but as I’m arguing the negative, I’m not the one who needs to “make the case.”

Anyway, without tipping my hand as to any speculation about tactics, I’ll just say that I do have a response prepared in case anyone plays the Stryper card.

PS: Would a link be too much to ask for, Seavey?

by: Todd Seavey

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:50:20 +0000

I haven’t written anything about Stryper, but I did mention their evil twin Slayer in this recent entry, if that helps:

http://toddseavey.com/2008/03/12/carneys-vs-chaos/

by: E5

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:58:24 +0000

I see you guys are continently ignoring the yellow-and-black-elephant in the room:

STRYPER!!!!!

by: Koli

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:51:03 +0000

So Buckley comes back in a week?

For that, he would have had to die for everyone else’s sins… smacks of collectivism… not very Buckleyesque.

by: E5

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:54:43 +0000

So Buckley comes back in a week?

cool.

p.s. what about Stryper?

by: Todd Seavey

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:03:56 +0000

That was February — but there’s no God regardless of the month. This weekend will wrap up my “Month Without Buckley.”

by: E5

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:01:14 +0000

How do you have a post on Christian Rock and not mention Stryper???

Also, doesn’t this violate your month without god - or was that February?

by: Todd Seavey

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:29:30 +0000

And a fascinating (to me) crossover case (that you may recall from our WBRU-listening days in Providence) is Sam Phillips (the recent female one, not the old male one), who started out Christian rock, turned alternative rock, and retained hints of her real themes in anti-materialist songs like the lovely (yet ass-kicking and Patti Smith-like) “Holding onto the Earth”:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CG34gEx8-M

Weirder, though: despite her delicate beauty and lovely voice, she also played a tough, mute assassin in Die Hard 3. I love a weird media resume.

by: jenny

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:24:21 +0000

how about mr. mister’s “kyrie”? it’s quite catchy… (and as a person totally lacking in theism of any flavor, whose only exposure to organized religion comprised of slightly more than a year in a school run by evangelists, it was only with the advent of the interwebs that i learned “kyrie eleison” had any religious significance whatsoever. didn’t make the lyrics any more interesting, though.)