'Good to Be Alive'
By Geoff Moore and the Distance
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I'm somewhere between an Atheist and a pagan. Gregorian chanting is always cool and "Dies irae" is rad.
Gonna answer my own question with "spirit in the sky"
I seem to recall liking the Doctor and the Medics cover of that, even if my age could be counted on one hand when it was released.
The oft-stated did-you-know question being "Did you know the guy who originally wrote and sung it was Jewish?". Quite the surprise when I learned that one.
But to simultaneously bring this back around and buck the trend a little, Shine, Jesus, Shine used to slap as a hymn back when I dabbled in God-bothering.
And to buck things even more, Hava Negila kind of slaps too.
The live version of Grey Stone Chapel by Cash almost makes me want to go to church everytime I hear it
Josh Garrels - Love & War & The Sea in Between
I think I read that Champion was explicitly Christian music which I didn't realize until I had already been listening to it.
Just last night I was listening to Bach’s BWV 182 and wondering what non-Christian devotional music has such broad appeal.
Plain chanting is boring, but maybe there’s some Muslim or Buddhist polyphony I’ve been missing out on.
NF and TobyMac
If you like 70s acoustic folk/rock, the first album from Lazarus has some great stuff. Their harmonies are amazing. "Warmth of Your Eyes" is my favorite.
Does Rasta music count? Because that’s technically a Christian belief system.
Oh, sleeper
War of ages
Thousand Foot Krutch, Skillet.
Miserere mei, Deus is one of the most beautiful vocal pieces I've ever heard. That descant soprano part is insane.
Learned about the band Jars of Clay when they were on MTV as a kid and thought they were pretty neat. Bought a couple albums ad a student. Still listen to them sometimes
I like Flood (more rock), Sad Clown (more chill), and Boy on a String (in between)
When I was younger I used to listen to Red they has some pretty catchy songs
Sometimes I stumble upon a random song on Spotify that has a catchy tune, so I save it into a playlist but don't really listen to it until later, and in really hearing the lyrics for the first time, sometimes I'll be like waiting a sec...is this about Jesus/God?
Oh Holy Night is amazing.
Fall on your knees! Hear the angel voices!
Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother, and in his name all oppression shall cease!
John Daker is my hero.
I like many of the above, but I'll add a couple more
Project 86 The wedding Switchfoot
Pretty much all roots reggae, Wailing Souls, Culture, Buju Banton. Reggae answers the question "what if Christian Rock was cool"
It's popularity peaked before my time, but when Soeur Sourir (The Singing Nun) topped the charts with Dominique-nique-nique, it must have enjoyed significant secular popularity, perhaps in part because they didn't know French well enough to really understand the lyrics.
This As I Lay Dying album https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nzZIYR7uePQRjKVrHkJiG9jU3pS5dnbg8&playnext=1&index=1
This Phinehas album https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe3UPCHpSqZli70WbgsAeSB5fdZ6VTWYQ
Flyleaf and Super chick are great female-lead Christian poprock bands that I still can jam out to today.
Doom 2016
Run Kid Run for some decent quality pop-punk. Some lyrics more obviously Christian than others.