Cheese just gets better with age. :-)

Okay, the stuff with them in the jeep driving around reminds me of the male model roommates trekking for frappucinos in the jeep to Wham! in "Zoolander."

Great. Now this video will remind me of those models' tragic death in a freak gasoline-fight accident.

Wonder if they were ha ha ha heh heh heh hip hop heaven bound?

One minute of that was all I could take. Glad I missed this when it was all the rage.

It was good stuff in comparison to the dominant CCM stuff of the era. There really weren't a whole lot of alternatives.

Anyone who argues for the decline of Christian artistry should be forced to reckon with this:

the 80's were style'n

Oh, am I ever so glad that DC Talk decided to ditch the Hip Hop.

I wouldn't say they ditched it--it was still very much a part of Jesus Freak; better to say that they invented a new and remarkable fusion (and along with it, really ramped up the depth of their lyrics). In the end, they couldn't hold it together (Supernatural is a vastly inferior album), but what they accomplished was no less significant for all that.

And Alan, good point--but it's worth remembering that even at the time, "God Good Devil Bad" was panned as a pretty poor piece of work (accompanied by comments from critics, iirc, that D&K had done much better and they hoped the band hadn't lost it; unfortunately, they had).

The Eds disagree with y'all's panning of GG-DB



Okay, so, they don't really like it.

I didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea.

Ahh, yes, Kim Boyce--that was the name I was trying to remember, for her song "Faith"--maybe the worst theological atrocity ever committed in the name of CCM.

You know, I was watching that D&K video (never heard of it or them before) and thinking that this was way better than the DC Talk thing.

Then they hit the chorus. Sheesh.

When I was a senior in high school, DC Talk came to my summer youth camp as the worship leaders. This was, of course, when they were just DC Talk instead of "DC Talk." If you get my drift.

Anyway, these guys had been out of Liberty University for only a couple of years or so (if my memory serves me correctly - it may have been longer than that.) One night, after the evening devotional, I was in one a dorm room with a few of the counselors. The door opens and these guys came in with another counselor - it was about 10 PM, I'd say. We all huddled around the room and talked about the Bible, theology, and such and prayed until about 3 AM. It was an awesome time.

Ah, that takes me back to high school and college. Good times - bad music.

DC Talk was IT back then; very cutting edge. A friend of mine was at Liberty with them and did the beat box on their first album. Hilarious and we spent many hours analyzing his skillz.

I loved DeGarmo and Key - that video is just sad.

Man, nothing from the 80s holds up. What a terrible decade in music and style.

I like the obligatory hommages - the yankee cap and the cute blonde.

D&K was spouting Tim LaHaye theology before Tim LaHaye ever wrote a book.......but I always like their sound - anyone remember "Long Distance Runner"??

Man, nothing from the 80s holds up. What a terrible decade in music and style.

Some Top Lists from my brother and me

There was quite a bit of good music in the 80's. It just wasn't the stuff getting play on Christian Radio and "Approved by your local Baptist Youth Minister"

Look, I'm a big Steve Taylor/Chagall Guevara guy, but not even I think his 80's stuff holds up (musically speaking).

He's better off when someone else sings what he writes (Newsboys, Guardian, etc.). He even said as much about the tribute album, "I Predict a Clone."

Even if you don't, the fact remains that Calvinator's right overall--Charlie Peacock and the rest of the Warehouse Records gang (Vector, Steve Scott), Mark Heard, the 77s, the Choir (though iirc, their tour de force, Circle Slide, was early 90s), Daniel Amos in their various incarnations, Adam Again, Phil Keaggy, Michael Card, Bob Bennett, Randy Stonehill (not all of it, though) . . . and that's just off the top of my head.

OK, just checked Marty's list, and I was right on Circle Slide; I can't believe you two dissed Mark Heard and Vector, though.