This Is Almost As Hilarious As It Is Lame

[trundrumbalind]

My mate, for a laugh, bought his friend a christian rock album! It was a hilarious gift and the artwork is almost TOO funny.

Anyways, cleverly, it's called "To Hell With The Devil"!!! It's by a band called Stryper (www.stryper.com (http://www.stryper.com)) and their album on ebay (along with some stupid song-names) is at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000OB3/002-1486063-9280828?v=glance
And you can even listen to some "rockin" samples there too.

Here's some lyrics to "To Hell With The Devil"...


Speak of the devil
He's no friend of mine
To turn from him is what we have in mind

Just a liar and a thief
The word tells us so
We like to let him know
Where he can go

[Chorus]
To hell with the devil
To hell with the devil

When things are going wrong
You know who to blame
He will always live
Up to his name

He's never been the answer
There's a better way
We are here to rock you
And to say...

[Repeat Chorus]

Hahaha--lame.

[hogsmoss]

those guys have been around forever.. used to be real big in the states

[trundrumbalind]

*Man I'm so behind in this cool genre*!

[gonzales]

yeah stryper was pretty well known back in the day. i remember a friend of mine was really into them when we were kids...

[trundrumbalind]

Rather than laughing at these guys, everyone seems to love them!!

[hogsmoss]

you can say that about alot of bands. ;)

[jarviscares]

For the record, comparing all Christian rock to a 80's christian hair metal band is not exactly fair to the genre by any means... the album was released in '86... that's about 19 years ago, and last I checked most things were pretty corny back then... (remember the hair and clothes from that time? laughable.)

In my mind, Stryper is a look at the beginnings of what is now Christian rock, and though comical to us was quite popular when it was released... and you can say how corny and lame most music that was 'popular' 20 years ago seems today for any genre, not just Christian Rock.

[GreenLantern]

I'm going to have to check this out.

*fires up IRC

[hogsmoss]

jarviscares is right. there are alot of christian rock bands as well as some very good christian metal and hardcore bands that are actually worth checking out(whether your religious or not.) ex: some early "hopesfall" or "as i lay dying" , theres to many good ones to post.

hey GL, good job on bein smoke free..I know how hard that can be.

[[uber]]

dude... POD is christian...Pillar... Reliant[K] is christian and super cool...switchfoot.. they are so fricken cool.. i was fans way before they went mainstream... dctalk was the shizzle back in the day.... Creed... screw creed they suck...


they just have a different style... there was this one white christian rapper guy... he was so good.. can't remember his name... i used to only be allowed to listen to christian music as a kid... not even U2.. had to say jesus like twice in every song.. so lame... but
now i'm all growed up-ed.. i only listen to secular.. kinda like the catholic school girl syndrome...

[trundrumbalind]

Yes and POD are rubbish!
I'm sure christian bands are capable of coming up with decent riffs etc but it's just their lyrics! Which is why I posted Stryper's lyrics originally.

[hogsmoss]

ya, stypers lyrics are pretty ridiculous but im saying not all christian bands have lame lyrics. just the mainstream ones.

[nobody]

Yeah christian bands seem dorky, but one of my favorite bands is a christian band. Check out underoath if you want to hear another side to christian music :)

[sky_vault]

hey everybody check out SLAYER if you want to hear yet another side to
christian music :)