The Christian Music Thread Genre • Page 40

Was LITSOS not on the list at all??

 

I would've put Catch for Us the Foxes at #1, but good to at least see a mwY album at #2. Also, shout out to Supertones Strike Back by The O.C. Supertones at #7 and Drawing Black Lines by Project 86 at #11. Bummer that Starflyer 59's Leave Here a Stranger was so low, but still glad it got a shoutout.

This makes me wonder what the heck my own top 10 would look like... lol.

 

nope only TOCS and DTGL

 

No LITSOS makes me sad and no Ivoryline either :(

YAMS > Ixora

 

I can’t believe they had so many Showbread albums from 20-10 but no LITSOS!

I prefer Ixora.

 

Very well said

 

Decided to limit myself to one album per artist, otherwise Brother Sister, Lowborn, & Son I Loved You At Your Darkest would've been on here. But, then I'd be including 3 fewer T&N artists. Also, a handful of Solid State albums competed for that 10th spot.

1.) mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes
2.) Anberlin - Cities
3.) Project 86 - Drawing Black Lines
4.) The O.C. Supertones - Supertones Strike Back
5.) As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
6.) Dead Poetic - Vices
7.) Copeland - Ixora
8.) Starflyer 59 - Leave Here a Stranger
9.) Thousand Foot Krutch - The Flame in All of Us
10.) The Chariot - The Fiancée

That Dead Poetic album never got the love it deserved, imo.

 

Bad Christian comes off as really ingenuine and like they cause controversy just for the sake of causing controversy. Like, there’s no real constructive purpose to the whole thing. Above all, they just seem really misguided.

 

Religion in general has the connotation of being just that: too strict and taking itself a bit too seriously. The podcast is great at embracing some of the rules but breaking it down in a fun and more open minded way.

 

Dig this list. Not huge on that TFK album but maybe I should revisit it. I never listened to Dead Poetic much but revisiting old T&N stuff recently, Vices and both Jonezetta albums were the records I’d really overlooked. All terrific.

 

I'm not completely sure what it is about that TFK that works so well for me. There's just this organic, straightforward energy to it. I remember reading that they recorded the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums together in the same room, and while the final product is still a polished album, I do think that process had a subtle impact on the sound.

Never got into Jonezetta. Had a friend who was really into 'em back in the day. But, yeah, Vices was part of a wave of T&N-type bands deciding they weren't so into the whole screaming trend. Between that and the band imploding around the time of the album's release, it just kinda slipped through the cracks. Such a good rock album, though. Like other T&N fans at the time, I really dug New Medicines, but I maintain that Vices is easily their best work. (One or two members for their last album joined from Beloved... From one ending band to another, lol.)

 

Yo this song is cool! Never heard of them. Who are they?

 

Jonezetta put out two albums in 2006 and 2008 called Popularity and Cruel To Be Young. The latter is for my money the most underrated record T&N has ever put out. Both albums have aged wonderfully to the point where I love them more now than I did back then. Great band. Didn’t do nearly enough.

 

I loved Popularity but never listened to the follow up release.

The lead singer co-wrote and added vocals to Capo on As Cities Burns’ last album (Hell or High Water). His name is Robert Chisholm.

There’s another connection with ACB in that the Timothy who Come Now Sleep heavily talks about was a member of Jonezetta and committed suicide during pre-production for Popularity (if I remember correctly).

 

Yeah that pretty much sums up their history. They also opened for Paramore during their Riot! release show alongside ACB. They never got big, but they were a pretty prominent T&N band for a good minute. Rediscovering Jonezetta really was my greatest pleasure of going back through the T&N catalog recently.

Get on Cruel To Be Young @awakeohsleeper. One jam after another. Only caveat is it’s really short, but it’s a super solid indie rock record. I think Aaron Sprinkle even said at one point that it was one of his favorites that he produced.

 

Anybody ever listen to these guys? Man, such a throw back but they had some great pop songs...

 

Anyone ever listen to a band called Edison Glass? They have some of my favorite guitar work in 2000s era Christian music, really great stuff

 

I used to love A Burn or a Shiver back in the day. Haven’t thought about them in a long time.

 

YESSSSS! Love them so much. I recently realized Time Is Fiction is over ten years old now..

 

Awesome! I'll be sure to check them out. His vocals were pretty interesting and backed with some cool instrumentation.

 

I need to revisit Edison Glass! It's been years and I don't think they were to my liking when I checked them out the first time cause I was on my generic hard rock kick at the time.

 

Jonezetta were great! I saw them open for Anberlin on the Cities tour back in the day.

 

Did the sound change much from Popularity? I am trying to remember why I never bought it.

 

Dang. Too bad they just disappeared, I don’t think they ever even announced a breakup or anything.

 

Yeah I will say I wasn’t quite as into them initially. But I listened back on all their stuff a few years ago in college and it blew my mind how intricate their melodies were, particularly their guitar parts.