TOP 100 CHRISTIAN ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
Doug Van Pelt
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Now, which Blindside album should we pick?
RNS Robot
child of the 90s so this list won't be all encompassing but here's
some thoughts
Project 86 - Songs to Burn Your BRidges By (though Drawing Black Lines
will end up as their representative, and I can't entirely argue with
that in terms of 'impact'- And The Rest Will Follow might be their
most consistently solid 'album' though, DBL and StBYBB have weak
second halves)
POD Satellite
Stavesacre Speakeasy (Sorry, Absolutes is average. Won't be shocked to
see Friction because it's people's 'first' but Speakeasy is easily
their best album)
Grammatrain - Lonely House
DC Talk - Jesus Freak
Common Children - Delicate Fade
LSU - Grace Shaker
Starflyer 59 - The Fashion Focus, Old
Relient K - Forget & Not Slow Down
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (I came late to the party and think
their first two albums are overrated)
Value Pac - Jalapeno
Pep Squad - No Doy!
Bleach - Again, for the First Time
Tourniquet - Pathogenic Occular Dissonance
Plumb - Chaotic Resolve or s/t
Skillet - Hey You, I Love Your Soul (their best, most creative and
artistic album)
Danielson - Tri-Danielson (Omega)
Aleixa - Disfigured
Circle of Dust - S/t
Argyle Park - Misguided
Chatterbox - Despite
Massivivid - Brightblur
Audio Adrenaline - Some Kind of Zombie
Bride - Snakes in the Playground
Caedmon's Call - 40 Acres
Chasing Furies - With Abandon (ONLY ONE ALBUM... BAH!)
The Choir - Flap Your Wings (or more likely one of their earlier
albums)
Delirious? - Mezzamorphis
Disciple - BY GOD
Echoing Green - Supernova or Winter of our Discontent
Five Iron Frenzy - Quantity is Job 1 EP (their best output, EP or no)
Guardian - Buzz
Jars of Clay - Good Monsters
Joy Electric - Robot Rock, CHRISTIANsongs for early stuff; Tick Tock
Treasury or Hello, Mannequin for recent - Melody sucks!
Larry Norman - Only Visiting This Planet
Leaderdogs for the Blind - s/t WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS BAND
Michael Knott - Rocket & a Bomb
MxPx - Life in General
Plankeye - Relocation
Poor Old Lu - a Portrait of the Eighth Wonder
The Showdown - Temptation Come My Way
Siloam - Sweet Destiny
Stryper - To Hell With The Devil
Underoath - In Regards to Myself
gramesy
Here's a few I've loved over the years, in no particular order:
Tourniquet- either Psychosurgery or Pathogenic (can't make up my mind,
but definitely one of not both should be there)
Vengeance- Human Sacrifice
Deliverance- Weapons of our Warfare
Believer- Sanity Obscure
Mortification: Post Momentary Affliction
Galactic Cowboys- Space in Your Face
P.O.D.- Fundamental Elements of Southtown
Project 86- And the Rest Will Follow or Drawing Black Lines
King's X- Dogman
MXPX- Life in General
mewithoutYou- Brother, Sister
Switchfoot- The Beautiful Letdown
Thrice- Vheissu
Blindside- About a Burning Fire
DC Talk- Jesus Freak
FIF- Our Newest Album Ever
MuteMath- self-titled (not heavy, just really, really good)
(Petra Parenthesis: The first Christian rock song I ever heard was
"This Means War", and that album is probably their "heaviest", but I
like Not of this World the best.)
Can I put a U2 album on here? If so, "War".
I'm sure there's a lot of other great ones I'm forgetting, and I'll
probably do a facepalm about a minute after I hit Send.
68n8
All time favorites in my sort of personal chronology:
Newsboys- Going Public - "Shine" Defined my adolescence
DC Talk - Jesus Freak - can't beat fat guys with tatoos in the lyrics
POD- southtown - opened my eyes to heavy
Living Sacrifice - Hammering Proccess
Spoken - Echoes of the Spirit Still Dwell - still a personal favorite
Tourniquet - Anything
Blindside - Silence - "Caught A Glimpse" is still my favorite intro to
any song/album
Jeremiah's Grotto - Through it all
Chevelle -Pt #1
Dogwood - More than conquerors
***does ska count in this list?***
Insyderz - skalleluia
Then I'm not sure which FIF or Supertones record I'd choose, I have
more favorite songs from those guys than albums
***other not so rockish albums****
Jars of Clay - Jars of Clay
Burlap to Cashmere - Anybody Out There
John Rueben
Project 86 - Drawing Black Line
babybug76
In no particular order.
Common Children - Delicate Fade
Grammatrain - Flying
Sometime Sunday - Drain
King's X - Dogman
Blindside -A Thought Crushed my Mind
Project 86 - Drawing Black lines
Mewithoutyou - Brother/Sister
U2 -War
Pedro The Lion - It's Hard to find a friend
Delirious? -Mezzimorphises
Stavesacre - Speakeasy
Chevelle - Point #1
Galactic Cowboys - At the End of the Day
ninety pound wuss - shorthand operation
Precious Death - South Paw
TheEarthWontHum
Thrice - Vheissu or The Artist in the Ambulance
Blindside - The Great Depression
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
Crash Rickshaw - Self-titled
Demon Hunter - Summer of Darkness
The Elms - The Chess Hotel
Flyleaf - Self-titled
Haste The Day - Burning Bridges
House of Heroes - The End Is Not The End or Say No More
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
Maylene & the Sons of Disaster - II or III
Neon Horse - Self-titled
Norma Jean - Redeemer or The Anti-Mother
The Out-Circuit - Pierce The Empire With A Sound
Project 86 - Songs To Burn Your Bridges By, ...And The Rest Will
Follow, or Picket Fence Cartel
so long forgotten - Things We Can See and Things We Cannot
Staple - Self-titled
Stavesacre - Speakeasy
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound or The Beautiful Letdown
On Feb 11, 11:23 am, Doug Van Pelt <dougvanp...@gmail.com> wrote:
phattony57
I'll try to exlude the CCM and Pop flavored albums. I'll keep in mind
that Christian "rock" changed (just like secular rock) over the past
several decades...my favorites include:
Larry Norman - Only Visiting This Planet (1972)
Larry Norman - In Another Land (1976)
Daniel Amos - Shotgun Angel (1977)
Daniel Amos - Horrendous Disc (1978)
Kerry Livgren - Seeds of Change (1980)
Daniel Amos - Alarma! (1981)
Petra - Never Say Die (1981)
Sweet Comfort Band - Hearts of Fire (1981)
Daniel Amos - Doppelganger (1982)
Petra - More Power To Ya (1982)
Servant - World of Sand (1982)
Servant - Caught In The Act of Loving You (1983)
Steve Taylor - I Want To Be A Clone (1983) [although this was more of
an EP]
Steve Taylor - Meltdown (1984)
Petra - Beat The System (1984)
Prodigal - Electric Eye (1984)
Kerry Livgren - Timeline (1984)
Daniel Amos - Vox Humana (1984)
Degarmo & Key - Commander Sozo and the Charge of the Light Brigade
(1985)
Prodigal - Just Like Real Life (1985)
Steve Taylor - On The Fritz (1985)
Darrell Mansfield - Revelation (1985) [don't forget the amazing album
cover on this one!]
Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart - Sheep In Wolves Clothing (1985)
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command (1985)
Tonio K - Romeo Unchained (1986)
Michael W. Smith - The Big Picture (1986) [yes, MWS was actually
rocking on this one]
Stryper - To Hell With the Devil (1986)
Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart - Crack The Sky (1987)
Steve Taylor - I Predict 1990 (1987)
T-Bone Burnett - The Talking Animals (1988)
Allies - Long Way From Paradise (1989)
REZ Band - Innocent Blood (1989)
The Call - Let The Day Begin (1989)
The Swirling Eddies - Outdoor Elvis (1989)
Degarmo & Key - The Pledge (1989)
Petra - Beyond Belief (1990) [or Unseen Power (1992), they could've
easily been a double album they're so alike]
77's - Sticks and Stones (1990)
Whitecross - In The Kingdom (1991)
Daniel Amos - Kalhoun (1991)
Allies - Man With A Mission (1992)
Lost Dogs - Scenic Routes (1992)
Newsboys - Not Ashamed (1992)
Two Pound Planet - Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox (1992)
77's - The 77's [Pray Naked] (1992)
Randy Stonehill - Wonderama (1992)
White Heart - Tales of Wonder (1992)
Believer - Dimensions (1993)
Audio Adrenaline - Don't Censor Me (1993)
Mortal - Fathom (1993)
Dakoda Motor Co. - Into the Son (1993)
Dighayzoose - Magenta Manta Love Tree (1993)
Various - Metamorphasis (1993) [a collection of Circle of Dust,
Brainchild and Living Sacrafice...I wore this CD out playing it so
much!!]
Daniel Amos - Motorcycle (1993)
Bride - Snakes In the Playground (1993)
Lost Dogs - Little Red Riding Hood (1993)
Galactic Cowboys - Space In Your Face (1993)
Two Pound Planet - Whispering Delicious (1993)
Steve Taylor - Squint (1993)
Various - I Predict A Clone (1994) [tribute to Steve Taylor, if
tribute albums count]
King's X - Dogman (1994)
77's - Drowning With Land In Sight (1994)
Newsboys - Going Public (1994) [when Steve Taylor starting helping
them it was very noticable!]
Pushstart Wagon - Squeaky Clean (1994)
Ken Tamplin - Tamplin (1994)
DC Talk - Jesus Freak (1995)
Fleming & John - Delusions of Grandeur (1995)
Johnny Q Public - Extra Ordinary (1995)
Fold Zandura - Fold Zandura (1995)
Grammatrain - Lonely House (1995)
Argyle Park - Misguided (1995) [wore this one out too!!]
Holy Soldier - Promise Man (1995)
Poor Old Lu - Sin (1995)
King's X - Ear Candy (1996)
Leaderdogs for the Blind - Lemonade (1996)
Brainchild - Mindward (1996)
Skillet - Skillet (1996) [before they ventured off into electronica]
Common Children - Skywire (1996) [they just kept getting lighter after
this one]
Bleach - Space (1996)
Newsboys - Take Me To Your Leader (1996)
Various - Never Say Dinosaur (1996) [again, only if tribute albums
count]
Dogs of Peace - Speak (1996)
Tourniquet - Crawl To China (1997)
Rose Blossom Punch - Ephemere (1997)
Zilch - Platinum (1997)
Reality Check - Reality Check (1997)
Audio Adrenaline - Some Kind of Zombie (1997)
Fold Zandura - Ultraforever (1997)
Kosmos Express - Now (1997)
DC Talk - Supernatural (1998)
Galactic Cowboys - At The End of the Day (1998)
Massivivid - Brightblur (1998)
Mukala - Fiction (1998)
Human - Out of the Dust (1998)
Flick - The Perfect Kellulight (1998)
Kosmos Express - Simulcast (1998)
Zao - Liberate Ex Inferis (1999)
Switchfoot - New Way to Be Human (1999)
Pete Stewart - Pete Stewart (1999)
Chevelle - Point #1 (1999)
Project 86 - Drawing Black Lines (2000)
AP2 - Suspension of Disbelief (2000)
P.O.D. - Fundemental Elements of Southtown (2000)
Embodyment - Narrow Scope of Things (2000)
It seems like the post-2000 albums will get plenty of votes here.
Although I would like to throw in:
Blindside - The Great Depression (2005)
as my Blindside choice!
Sycamore
The Last Temptation // Brutal Planet - Alice Cooper
Dichotomy - Becoming The Archetype
The Monster Who Ate Jesus - Blaster the Rocket Man
Blindside - Blindside
Rock in A Hard Place // All Stand Together - Bloodgood
Fist Full of Bees - Bride
Storm the Gates of Hell - Demon Hunter
Electric Boogaloo - Five Iron Frenzy
Memento Mori - Flyleaf
Save Me From Myself - Brian 'Head' Welch
The End is Not The End - House of Heroes
Only Visiting This Planet - Larry Norman
III - Maylene and The Sons of Disaster
It's All Crazy, It's all False, It's All A Dream, It's Alright -
mewithoutYou
Dial M - Starflyer 59
Jekyll and Hyde - Petra
And The Rest Will Follow - Project 86
Heaven and Hell - Rez Band
Rocks Into Rivers - Seabird
The Torment - Seventh Angel
No Sir, Nihilism is Not Practical - Showbread
Zoom Daddy - The Swirling Eddies
Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance - Tourniquet
High Gear - Whitecross
Sycamore
Oh yeah, got to have Squint by Steve Taylor
On Feb 11, 9:23 am, Doug Van Pelt <dougvanp...@gmail.com> wrote:
Jason
First Watch <> Guardian
Fire And Love <> Guardian
Miracle Mile <> Guardian
Buzz <> Guardian
S/T <> Legend
Blind Faith <> Legend Seven
S/T <> Whitecross
Hammer & Nail <> Whitecross
Triumphant Return <> Whitecross
In The Kingdom <> Whitecross
Atomic Arena <> Barren Cross
State Of Control <> Barren Cross
Rattle Your Cage <> Barren Cross
Kinetic Faith <> Bride
Snakes In The Playground <> Bride
Scarecrow Messiah <> Bride
S/T <> Fear Not
The Bottom Line <> Crystavox
A Liquid Earth <> Novella
Beginnings <> Nouveaux
Battle Cries <> The Brave
Psycho Surgery <> Tourniquet
Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance <> Tourniquet
Vanishing Lessons <> Tourniquet
Weapons Of Our Warfare <> Deliverance
What A Joke <> Deliverance
Stay Of Execution <> Deliverance
S/T <> Holy Soldier
Last Train <> Holy Soldier
History <> Xalt
Get It <> X-Sinner
Get Ready <> Sure Conviction
Soldiers Under Command <> Stryper
To Hell With The Devil <> Stryper
In God We Trust <> Stryper
Behind Enemy Lines <> Recon
Beyond Belief <> Petra
Jeckyll & Hyde <> Petra
S/T <> King James
Die Happy II <> Die Happy
Goesaroundcomesaround <> Fono
S/T <> Kutless
Shot In The Dark <> Main Line Riders
Unbreakable <> Fireflight
mtor...@isd.net
the bat) to only have one album per artist/band, and I'll try to keep
it short. Yeah, right. In no particular order, here goes.
Undercover- Branded, Balance of Power
Seventy Sevens- self-titled, Sticks and Stones, Pray Naked, Drowning
with Land in Sight
Vengeance- Human Sacrifice
Crucified- Pillars of Humanity
Tourniquet- Psycho Surgery
Andy McCaroll & Moral Support- Zionic Bonds
Steve Taylor- Squint
Stryper- To Hell with the Devil
Chasing Furies- With Abandon
Tonio K- Romeo Unchained
Adam Again- Homeboys, 10 Songs, (SO hard to choose just one from AA)
Altar Boys- Against the Grain, Gut Level Music
Gideons Army- Rock & Roll for your Soul
Chagall Guevara- self-titled
King's X- self-titled
Barren Cross- State of Control
The Lead- The Past Behind
Blaster the Rocket Boy- Succelent Spacefood for Teething Vampires
Daniel Amos- Fearful Symmetry
Project 86- Songs to Burn your Bridges By
POD- Fundamental Elements of the Southtown
Stavesacre- Friction
Charlie Peacock- West Coast Diaries II
The Showdown- Back Breaker
Bloodgood- Detonation
OC Supertones- Supertones Strike Back
MXPX- the Ever Passing Moment
Five Iron Frenzy- 2 Electric Boogaloo
Galactic Cowboys- Space In your Face
Dig Hay Zoose- Struggle Fish
Mortification- Triumph of Mercy
Daniel Band- Straight Ahead
Bride- Silence is Madness
Rez Band- Innocent Blood, Silence Screams, Civil Rites...(sorry, can't
choose just one)
Anberlin- Blue Prints for the Black Market
The Choir- Chase the Kangaroo
Demon Hunter- Summer of Darkness
WhiteHeart- Freedom
LSU- Shaded Pain
Mad at the World- Seasons of Love
Disciple- self-titled
Petra- On Fire
Julie Miller- Orphans & Angels
Living Sacrifice- Reborn
Saviour Machine- II or Legend Part 1
Randy Stonehill- Return to Paradise
GRITS- Dichotomy A and B
Larry Norman- Something New Under the Son
Jars of Clay- self-titled
Soulfood 76- Original Soundtrack
Vector- Mannequin Virtue
Terry Taylor- Knowledge & Innocence
One Bad Pig- Swine Flew
Sacred Warrior- Master's Command
Nobody Special- Call it Whatever You Want
Violet Burning- self-titled
Shout- In Your Face
(for you, Doug) Lust Control- Fun, Fun Feeling :)
I'm sure I missed a few, but there's my favorites off the top of my
head
brett beauchamp
Hearing that album for the first time was the moment I realized there
was christian metal that didn't suck. Maybe my high school friends
wouldn't laugh at this one.
skyzone
And at the very top of this list : Galactic Cowboys (1991), of
course...
Livgren Kerry - Seeds of change - 1980
Keaggy Phil - Town to town - 1981
Kansas - Vinyl Confessions - 1982
Petra - More power to ya - 1982
Delabays Claude - Graffity - 1983
AD - Time line - 1984
Mr Mister - Welcome to the real world - 1985
Volz Greg X. - The river is rising - 1986
White Heart - Don't wait for the movie - 1986
Edin-Adahl - Miracle - 1987
Taylor Steve - I predict 1990 - 1987
Joshua - Intense defense - 1988
The Awful Truth - The awful truth - 1989
Giant - Last of the runaways - 1989
Jet Circus - Step on it - 1989
King's X - Gretchen goes to Nebraska - 1989
Mastedon - It's a jungle out there - 1989
The Violet Burning - Chosen - 1989
Zaffiro David - On the other side - 1989
Stryper - Against the law - 1990
Undercover - Balance of power - 1990
Galactic Cowboys - Galactic Cowboys - 1991
Rez - Civil rites - 1991
Siloam - Sweet destiny - 1991
Uthanda - Groove - 1991
Bride - Snakes in the playground - 1992
Die Happy - Die Happy - 1992
Mortal - Fathom - 1993
Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine - 1993
Wish For Eden - Pet the fish - 1993
Atomic Opera - For madmen only - 1994
Curious Fools - Curious Fools - 1994
Tourniquet - Vanishing lessons - 1994
Fleming & John - Delusions of grandeur - 1995
Hoi Polloi - Happy ever after - 1995
Johnny Q. Public - Extra ordinary - 1995
Leaderdogs For The Blind - Lemonade - 1995
Aleixa - Honey lake - 1996
Aunt Bettys - Aunt Bettys - 1996
Believable Picnic - Believable Picnic - 1996
Dissident Prophet - We're not grasshoppers - 1996
Klank - Still suffering - 1996
Walker Rob - Strobe - 1996
Bad Little Duck - Full color inside - 1997
Grammatrain - Flying - 1997
Plumb - Plumb - 1997
Rose Blossom Punch - Ephemere - 1997
Bleach - Static - 1998
Kosmos Express - Simulcast - 1998
Pound Hound - Massive grooves - 1998
Rackets & Drapes - Candyland - 1998
Skillet - Hey you, I love your soul - 1998
Eternal Decision - Ghost in the machine - 1999
Fono - Goes around comes around - 1999
Kohllapse - Distant mind alternative - 1999
P.O.D. - The fundamental elements of Southtown - 1999
Stewart Pete - Pete Stewart - 1999
Cooper Alice - Brutal planet - 2000
Cush - Cush - 2000
Platypus - Ice cycles - 2000
These Five Down - These Five Down - 2000
Crunchy - All day sucker - 2001
East West - The light in guinevere's garden - 2001
Atticus Fault - Atticus Fault - 2002
Celldweller - Celldweller - 2003
Fighting Jacks - The dying art of life - 2003
Slow Coming Day - Farewell to the familiar - 2003
The Accident Experiment - Arena - 2003
The Juliana Theory - Love - 2003
Demon Hunter - Summer of darkness - 2004
Eluveitie - Vên - 2004
Further Seems Forever - Hide nothing - 2004
Apoptygma Berzerk - You and me against the world - 2005
Eisley - Room noises - 2005
Extol - Blueprint dives - 2005
Mae - The everglow - 2005
Meadow - We all collapse - 2005
The Myriad - You can't trust a ladder - 2005
Thrice - Vheissu - 2005
Yellow Second - Altitude - 2005
After The Sirens - What I have to give, let it be enough - 2006
Mute Math - Mute Math - 2006
Red - End of silence - 2006
Venus Hum - The colors in the wheel - 2006
After Edmund - Hello - 2007
Anberlin - Cities - 2007
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 - 2007
Davis John - Arigato ! - 2007
DUG Pinnick - Strum sum up - 2007
Lovedrug - Everything starts when it ends - 2007
The Lionheart Brothers - Dizzy kiss - 2007
Driver - Sons of thunder - 2008
Head - Save me from myself - 2008
Seabird - Til we see the shore - 2008
The Afters - Never going back to OK - 2008
Falling Up - Fangs! - 2009
Flyleaf - Memento mori - 2009
Paper Route - Absence - 2009
The Soldier Thread - Shapes - 2009
Until June - Sound of defeat - 2009
vanhenge
77s - Pray Naked
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Storyboard Highrise
(both)
Blindside - A Thought Crushed My Mind
Stavesacre - Speakeasy
Embodyment - The Narrow Scope of Things
Grammatrain - Lonely House
Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
Disciple - This Might Sting a Little
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - I
Demon Hunter - self-titled
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety
The Pits - La Guerra
Bleach - Space
Kosmos Express - Simulcast
mewithoutYou - A-B Life
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