http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:27:49 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/22/190556.php#comment-714334 <em>"we get to see what marriage looks like through the eyes of two people whose first and greatest love is Christ -- enabling them to love one another that much more."</em> That statement makes me never want to listen to this album again. I feel dirty now. 714334@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:27:49 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/22/190556.php#comment-714318 I agree with your review and your general assessment of "Christian" music. However, I would like to point out, as a fan of Derek Webb since his Caedmon's Call beginnings, that his talent for songwriting does extend into his so-called "Christian" songs. A good musician is a good musician no matter what genre of music he is making. Derek, too, shares your perspective on the majority of Christian music, though he is technically a "Christian artist." But I have often heard him say that a great shortcoming of the Christian music genre is that it focuses on "the top 5% of spiritual things and ignores the other 95%" -- Derek, on the other hand, has always written songs about the full 100% of life, crafted with reckless abandon from a Christian perspective (which simply cannot be separated from his songwriting in any form, because it is part of who he is). To quote him again, "Anything Jesus is Lord of, you can write a song about. And He is Lord of all." In the case of the beautifully crafted "Ampersand," we get to see what marriage looks like through the eyes of two people whose first and greatest love is Christ -- enabling them to love one another that much more. 714318@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:43:37 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/22/190556.php#comment-712901 Do you like the word mellifluous or the concept. Or perhaps, you simply like that I can use it in a sentence.*laugh* 712901@blogcritics.org Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:12:48 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/22/190556.php#comment-712849 You had me at mellifluous. 712849@blogcritics.org Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:24:34 EDT