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CD Stories
Posted March 21 | Leave a Comment
I love compilation CD's because they generally have the best music from a certain artist. However, the one thing that a greatest hits album doesn't have is a story. Every main release from an artist tells some type of story. Usually, it will relate to the band's personal lives at the time they wrote the lyrics and recorded the album. Other times, it will focus on important issues in this world that the band finds particularly important. For example, "For the Love of the Game" by Pillar is… read more
Reinvention
Posted October 7 | Leave a Comment
I have found that many of my favorite bands are ones that continually reinvent themselves. Each album has a different sound than the one before it. Of course, the vast majority of bands have albums that each have a different feel from the others. I'm talking about a more dramatic change, where the entire style actually changes. For example, Pillar starts with rap, changes to hard rock, then moves toward almost a punk rock style. Dead Poetic started as a screamo band, later released an alt… read more
Spoken To
Posted May 10 | Leave a Comment
God speaks to me in many different ways, but I find that He uses music quite often to send me a message. Usually, it pertains to my life at the moment, but sometimes its about my relationship with Him in general. Many times, I'll hear lyrics to a song (I've probably heard it 37 times in that past month alone, but for some reason it will hit me differently at some point) at realize that I how I can take this personally. It's definitely not limited to Christian music of course. I might be l… read more
