Who do you listen to?

[sailaway58]

What top 5 Christian artists do you listen to?
I want yours first.
Then top 5 secular artist

[u-dog]

What top 5 Christian artists do you listen to?
I want yours first.
Then top 5 secular artist

1. JS Bach
2. Ralph Vaugn Williams
3. WA Mozart
4. GFHandel

[Jennifer5]

What top 5 Christian artists do you listen to?
I want yours first.
Then top 5 secular artist


Christian artists???:eek:


Don't have any, sorry.... but interested to see what people say.

[Zerbie]

1. JS Bach
2. Ralph Vaugn Williams
3. WA Mozart
4. GFHandel

I thought immediately that there aren't any I listen to, but - gotta say, U-dog's just listed several of my favorites.

[tdogg]

Is there anyone out there besides Prince??? (Yes a huge Prince fan...)

Ok, Christian music:

Third Day
Anyone who plays, sings How Great Thou Art (I LOVE to sing that song!)
Mercy Me
Others depending on the song

Anything else - but depending on the day and my mood, it all could change except #1:
Prince
3 Doors Down
Everlast
Buddy Guy
Pink

[Daniel]

1. JS Bach
2. Ralph Vaugn Williams
3. WA Mozart
4. GFHandel

David- your list was a surprise and an joy to read. Here I was racking my brain as to who was the last 'christian artist' I listened to.

While I haven't listened to contemporary christian music for some time now, there is one voice that has stuck in my ear over the years. Cynthia Clawson. Great singer. Wonder what she's up to theses days, and if her voice still sends a chill down my spine.

http://www.cynthiaclawson.com/

I'm just glad that you included Handel. He was gay you know. ;)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/17/PK100104.DTL

[keltic63]

Daniel, you know Cynthia Clawson is one of our allies, right? I have her Christmas CD and I just love it! I first heard her in the movie "Trip to Bountiful" singing "Softly and Tenderly". It brings tears to your eyes.


I really like the music of Twila Paris. She seems to get to the heart of worship. I think of my favorite worship songs and I hear "All That I Need" "He is Exalted" and "Lamb of God". "How Beautiful" is such a great song that I'm considering it for communion at our commitment ceremony.

[Daniel]

Daniel, you know Cynthia Clawson is one of our allies, right? I have her Christmas CD and I just love it! I first heard her in the movie "Trip to Bountiful" singing "Softly and Tenderly". It brings tears to your eyes.

Yes.....I read an interview with her somewhere where she comes out strong for gay people. All the more reason to like her!

I have an album of sheet music from one of her albums made during the 80's with Softly and Tenderly included. Great arrangement! Yep. Does that ol' make you cry thing. She has a voice with soul.

[u-dog]

I'm just glad that you included Handel. He was gay you know. ;)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/17/PK100104.DTL

I DIDN't know that! How do you know? Is there a biography? Not that it surprises me. All the really interesting, creative, talented people are.


By the way... where do stand on the "was Abraham Lincoln gay?" question?

[Zerbie]

I DIDN't know that! How do you know? Is there a biography? Not that it surprises me. All the really interesting, creative, talented people are.


By the way... where do stand on the "was Abraham Lincoln gay?" question?

That's been the perception on Handel for a while (anyone know how long?) I remember hearing that perceived wisdom on him since my teens I think. I don't think there's proof, just plausibility - like there is with Schubert.

Danny? Can you set the record str---- errrr, can you clarify the record?

[tdogg]

Sheesh, how could I forget QUEEN!!! Freddy Mercury???!!! He's right up there with Prince for me. The world lost an incredible, beautiful and talented person the day that Freddy passed on.

[Daniel]

I DIDN't know that! How do you know? Is there a biography? Not that it surprises me. All the really interesting, creative, talented people are.

David and Zerbie- see the link in my prior post. The scholarship on Handel being gay is based on an understanding of his milieu. In that sense, Handel is tagged as gay, not for who we can prove he slept with, but for who he did not. It's rather like seeing a picture via its 'negative'. Or as you say Zerbie: plausibility.

By the way... where do stand on the "was Abraham Lincoln gay?" question?

Based on the research outlined by C.A. Tripp in his book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, I think the author has a strong case. The Lincoln-Speed timeline/letters are particularly convincing (they slept in the same bed for 4- count'em- 4 years). What is interesting, however, is how historians have ignored this book.

People don't want their heros messed with?

Gore Vidal wrote a penetrating article for Vanity Fair about the matter. Unfortunately, the link is no longer active. He noted, among other things, Lincoln's early sexual development and how this affected his world view, especially as ethics - rather than morals- are concerned.

[u-dog]

David and Zerbie- see the link in my prior post. The scholarship on Handel being gay is based on an understanding of his milieu. In that sense, Handel is tagged as gay, not for who we can prove he slept with, but for who he did not. It's rather like seeing a picture via its 'negative'. Or as you say Zerbie: plausibility.



Based on the research outlined by C.A. Tripp in his book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, I think the author has a strong case. The Lincoln-Speed timeline/letters are particularly convincing (they slept in the same bed for 4- count'em- 4 years). What is interesting, however, is how historians have ignored this book.

People don't want their heros messed with?

Gore Vidal wrote a penetrating article for Vanity Fair about the matter. Unfortunatley, the link is no longer active.

I read Tripps book and enjoyed it very much. I thought he made a strongly plausible case but not necessarily a compelling one. In other words, Abraham Lincoln being gay is consistant with the evidence but the evidence is not necessarily conclusive. So conservative historians are not going to embrace the theory.

But you and I know... don't we? :rolleyes:

[Daniel]

But you and I know... don't we? :rolleyes:

One has to read in between the lines with these things.

For a heterosexual he had few female contacts. And one wonders why a biographer or two had to exaggerate those he did have- as though to make him the man they thought he should be.. ;) No one seems to be talking about that much. And his worry about his- and Speed's- wedding night speaks for itself.

He may not have been gay as much as bisexual.

Gore's comment (he wrote a book about Lincoln) about Lincoln giving a listener the impression that they were hearing the sum total of his thinking, while he kept his true thoughts to himself, reflects, I believe, the very same MO that closeted men still utilize.

[Renaissancefan98]

On the Christian side :

1.Bach

2. [Chant] The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos


Secular side:

1. Midnight Syndicate

2. Blackmore's Night.

3. Miranda Sex Garden.

[pnggrad79]

Christian artists?
I like:

1. Avalon
2. Twila Paris
3. Nicole Nordeman
4. 4Him
5. Jason and diMarco (yep, they're gay)

Secular artists?

1. really anything country/western
2. my daughters, 19 and 16, have me listening to their stuff and I really like Nickelback, Hinder, Beyonce, JoJo, Fergie...


So I guess I am really diversified.

I stopped listening to Christian radio at least the one here in Houston, 89.3 KSBJ. I felt that when Amy Grant divorced Gary Chapman, and they boycotted her music, that it was rather judgmental of them to destroy her livelihood when they knew nothing of the circumstances. I also don't like their stance on gay issues.

[BrentRichards]

A. Dave, thanks for setting the tone by listing REAL Christian musicians (real meant to modify musicians, more than Christian --don't care to rate the faith of these or any other artists). [I'm such a music snob, and I know it, sorry ...]

B. I will actually add a more contemporary one: John Michael Talbot ... did his early recording while still in a monastery (Benedictine? Franciscan? Can't remember) ... was released from vows to marry and start a non-traditional religious community. His music is rich and moving. My favorite is based on the words of Saint Teresa:

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
No hands but yours, no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which must look out Christ's compassion on the world.
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good.
Yours are the hands with which he blesses people now.

[RedneckDyke]

I have a few bluegrass gospel albums. Love those. I love those good ol' Baptist "blood hymns". You know, "Washed in the blood", "Power in the blood", "There is a fountain filled with blood", etc. :)
Along with "When the roll is called up yonder" and " I'll fly away" and "I love to tell the story."

I used to listen to Christian Rock when I was a teenager. Amy GRant and the like. Haven't listened to any christian rock in years though. I went to high school with one of the women in that band Sierra. Every so often I go to the local Family Christian bookstore and see if they have any albums of them to listen to. Not often though. Those stores tend to give me the creeps.

[keltic63]

A. Dave, thanks for setting the tone by listing REAL Christian musicians (real meant to modify musicians, more than Christian --don't care to rate the faith of these or any other artists). [I'm such a music snob, and I know it, sorry ...]



anyone for some Rutter?

[u-dog]

anyone for some Rutter?

RUTTER !!!!! He was going to be #5 on my list (thats why there were only 4) I was completely blanking on his name. Thanks Keltic!

[BrentRichards]

anyone for some Rutter?

Yes, please! Requiem can always lower my blood pressure.

[elcharrom]

I only know 1, and I love his songs, Jesus Adrian Romero, especially his sing sumergeme :D

[Ryanne Monday]

1. Creed (I think they're christian)
2. Switchfoot
3. Superchick
4. P.O.D

That's all I got. But that puts a young spin on it I think.:lol:

[elcharrom]

1. Creed (I think they're christian)
2. Switchfoot
3. Superchick
4. P.O.D

That's all I got. But that puts a young spin on it I think.:lol:

Oh they was talkin bout christian artists haha, but is creed christian? I dont think so? Who knows haha, but if I had to choose a favorite artist, I cant, too many haha.

[Ryanne Monday]

Oh they was talkin bout christian artists haha, but is creed christian? I dont think so? Who knows haha, but if I had to choose a favorite artist, I cant, too many haha.

They could be talking about artists, who knows? Either way, I consider music an art so it's good I guess.
I thought creed was but no clue really. Perhaps I'll go look into it...

[elcharrom]

I guess If I had to choose 5, Id choose,

Alejandro/Vicente Fernandez
Celso Pina
Kanye West
Slipknot
Three Days Grace

[sailaway58]

Okay, my turn
Christian:
Third Day
Ray Boltz
Nicole Nordman

I don't listen to much Christian music

Secular:
Bob Dylan
Guy Davis
Shawn Phillips
Cat Stevens
Neil Young
Neil Diamond