Your favorite Christian songs and artist

[Brad Russ]

Here's a few of mine, but I'll name most of them later. It's a pretty long list.

Chris Tomlin
Toby Mac
Michael W. SMITH
The NewsBoys
Keith Green
Third Day
Twila Paris
Audio Adrenaline
DC Talk
Rich Mullins
Bebo Norman
Switchfoot

[Brad]

Derek Webb
David Crowder*Band
Rich Mullins
Jars Of Clay
John Mark McMillan
Todd Agnew

[MusicJunkie]

I always feel cheesy but I've always liked Amy Grant's Christian music much more than her 90's secular pop. I'm not hardcore religious but some of her early Christian songs like El Shaddai and Find A Way are fantastic.

[Brad Russ]

I always feel cheesy but I've always liked Amy Grant's Christian music much more than her 90's secular pop. I'm not hardcore religious but some of her early Christian songs like El Shaddai and Find A Way are fantastic.

I agree, her early Christian stuff was really good. My favorites are "Sing Your Praise To The Lord" "Thy Word", and "My Father's Eyes". I enjoy the ones you mentioned as well.

[MusicJunkie]

I agree, her early Christian stuff was really good. My favorites are "Sing Your Praise To The Lord" "Thy Word", and "My Father's Eyes". I enjoy the ones you mentioned as well.
I felt like she started getting generic and cheesy when she went full-on pop in the 90's with Baby Baby, etc... I thought that the stuff she was doing in the 80's that was Christian but also pop was mainstream sounding enough to draw in people who don't normally listen to Christian music anyways. My older sister was all into Pat Benatar and Madonna and Chrissie Hynde back in the early/mid 80's but I remember she had Amy Grant tapes as well.

[Brad Russ]

Derek Webb
David Crowder*Band
Rich Mullins
Jars Of Clay
John Mark McMillan
Todd Agnew

Good choices. I like The David Crowder Band. They seem to be getting more and more popular all the time. Jars of Clay's another one I'd add to my list. Awesome group.

[tv star collector]

Blue Ridge Quartet
Evie
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Little Richard
Gale Storm
Liz Humbard
LeAnn Rimes
George Beverly Shea
Andy Griffith
Willie Nelson

[catlover79]

Steven Curtis Chapman, Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, Twila Paris, Petra...My church band that I am very involved with does these songs quite often:

Your Grace is Enough
King of Glory
Holy Is the Lord
Indescribable
God is in Control
Awesome is the Lord
My Savior, My God
Above All
Take Me In
How Can I Keep From Singing
Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus)
Shout to the Lord
Everlasting God
Let God Arise
I Will Be Here (OK, our band hasn't done this song but I love it. :cool:)

[Brad Russ]

I felt like she started getting generic and cheesy when she went full-on pop in the 90's with Baby Baby, etc... I thought that the stuff she was doing in the 80's that was Christian but also pop was mainstream sounding enough to draw in people who don't normally listen to Christian music anyways. My older sister was all into Pat Benatar and Madonna and Chrissie Hynde back in the early/mid 80's but I remember she had Amy Grant tapes as well.

I'm the same way, I was never a huge fan of her big time pop hits such as Baby Baby, and Heart In Motion, etc. I did like a couple of her crossover hits like Ask Me (which is about child abuse), and her duet with Peter Cetera, Next Time I Fall, but other than those two, there's none that I'd really feel urged to run out to the store for and buy. Recently she went back to her Christian music roots, but I haven't been able to get into it like I did her old Christian stuff. I guess it's like they say, you can't always go home again.

[Brad Russ]

Some of my fav songs:

Amazing Grace: (My Chains Are Gone)
How Can I Keep From Singing
Made To Worship
Gone - Toby Mac
Made To Love You - Toby Mac
Lose My Soul - Toby Mac
I'm Not Who I Was
Amazing Love
Romans V1
Hold Me Jesus
Sometime's By Step
Elijah
Do I Trust You
The Prodigal Son Suite
In The Light
Ocean Floor
Whole Again
Purified
Call My Name
Cry Out To Jesus
Does Anybody Hear Her

[Brad Russ]

Not just a heartwrenchingly beautiful song, but the most touching music video I've EVER seen!!!!!!!!

Casting Crowns - Does Anybody Hear Her (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbpGl_9rrcA)

[Brad]

"You Won't Relent" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUSWXizsxdg&fmt=18) - Misty Edwards
"King & A Kingdom" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx5SzhKf0gU) - Derek Webb
"Creed" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tpq4MoRVV4&fmt=18) - The Late, Great Rich Mullins

[Hollow]

the coventry carol
domine ad adjuvandum me festina
kyrie eleison
spiritus sanctus

all from the medieval and baroque periods, mostly in latin, but christian nonetheless.

[Brad]

Another one of my favorites is "Fall In Line" by Seven Places, but I couldn't find a video for it on YouTube. It is, however, on a video I made for an event at our church, along with "Never Going Back To Okay" by The Afters (and, incidentally, "Hawaii" by The Beach Boys):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypqzf8x8qpQ&fmt=18

[PlayOn]

in no order:
*Fireflight
*Natalie Grant
*Third Day
*Carrie Underwood (when she sings songs like Jesus, Take the Wheel and So Small)
*Switchfoot
*Creed

among others...

[howierules86]

Twila Paris

Right on, man. I thought I was the only one who knows who she even is. She sung one of the best Christian songs I've ever heard, "God Is In Control." A very underrated lady indeed.

[Yooch]

I have to admit my lack of knowledge regarding contemporary Christian music, but in general I like:

certain Johnny Cash spirituals like The Fourth Man in the Fire

Most of the a capella church music from the Gaither specials,

Any bluegrass music with a Christian message: (I find it simple and it speaks right to the heart).

1970s music by the St. Louis Jesuits (simple, upbeat and biblical)

Accoustic Worship, or By Faith's versions of Lord I Lift your Name on High

(All of these are not exactly what you'd call Contemporary Christian music--far from it--but I prefer these to some of the very traditional, organ-accompanied church hymns, which although have great lyrics, the style leaves me flat)

[MusicJunkie]

while definately not a "Christian music" artist, Stevie Wonder did record a powerful religious track off the "Fulfillingness' First Finale" album called Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away. To take into context, this album came out less than a year after a near-fatal car crash and he came back the next year with a very personal spiritual driven album (whereas Talking Book was relationship-driven and Innervisions was socially motivated) and this was arguably the most religious song here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIE6unjkXmc

[Brad Russ]

Right on, man. I thought I was the only one who knows who she even is. She sung one of the best Christian songs I've ever heard, "God Is In Control." A very underrated lady indeed.

It is awesome seeing a fellow Twila fan!! My favorites of hers are God Is In Control, Do I Trust You, Keeping My Eyes On You, and The Warrior Is A Child. She has such an Angelic voice!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pzu-jWpcdw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV1ZY7AWNdY&feature=related

[ABlairican Pie]

the late Mark Heard
Bruce Cockburn
the late Larry Norman
Steve Taylor
Lisa Whelchel
Phil Keaggy
Randy Stonehill
Leslie/Sam Phillips
Stryper
Amy Grant
Debby Boone's 80's CCM albums (NOT "You Light Up My Life")


I'm trying to find the right Christian metal bands, there were a few good ones back in the 80's, such as Barren Cross, Sacred Warrior, Seattle's own Bloodgood (they're back!!), Tourniquet, and Vengeance Rising, though their lead singer Roger Martinez abandoned Christianity and denounced the scene. Demon Hunter is supposed to be good, though I'm not big into metalcore. I have been writing and playing a Christian extreme metal song on guitar called "Impale the Demon Spawn". Kinda like spiritual warfare on a sonic level.


I wonder what Lisa would say if she knew I was listening to "No Remorse" by Metallica right now on the radio.

[InspectorExstead]

my favorite band would have to be hillsong united. and i love "awesome God." anything from them though is good.
i also like switchfoot, kutless, flyleaf, and autumn ashley band.
my favorite worship song would have to be "came to my rescue."

[Schmoopie]

I am a HUGE Amy Grant fan and I first heard her when "Love Will Find a Way" started playing on mainstream radio in 1985. I had a really hard time finding that tape, and had to go to a Christian bookstore. Ever since then I have fallen in love with her. A lot of people turned on her when she went mainstream, but it's nice to see that she's still putting out Christian CD's. I love her mainstream stuff as well, because it's not far from the kind of music she started out making.

I also love Michael W Smith's early stuff, like his Eye To Eye CD, the song "Friends" (the original version), and his CD's "2" and "Big Picture".
I saw him and Amy Grant in concert years ago. He was the opening act so it was like getting two concerts in one! Very cool! I see that he has a couple of Greatest Hits CD's out so I'm going to check those out!

Andrea

[MonarC]

Fly Like a Bird - Mariah Carey

[catlover79]

Hiding Place - Steven Curtis Chapman

[JoPol_wannabe]

My favorite artists & songs are:

Sierra- Freedom, Higher Place & You never change
Mandisa- Unrestrained
Steven Curtis Chapman- I will be here, Live out Loud& Cinderella
Gary Chapman- One of Two & Mary did you know
Jars of Clay- Flood
DC Talk- Just between you and me
Switchfoot - Dare you to move
Chris Rice- Cartoons, Other side of the radio & When did we fall
Amy Grant-Brreath of Heaven (Mary's song) & Takes a little time
Michael W. Smith- I will be here for you, Place in this world & Friends
Brad Reynolds- Hallelujah
Mercy Me- Homesick & I can only Imagine