Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Cash was such an excellent singer/songwriter...
It's too bad he was a Christian country singer most of the time. :sadgreen:
Never really considered Cash a 'christian' singer/songwriter so much as a very satirical, sometimes dark-humoured man who wrote and sang some beautiful songs, regardless of the genre.
Heck I like most christians about as much as I like them bashing on my door at 10am when I'm hungover and no amount of god is going to help me overcome some of those sins. :haha:
One of those sins would yes, probably be Trent Reznor, the boy's too pretty for his own damn good...
Halcyon+On+On
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Originally posted by Lilith
Never really considered Cash a 'christian' singer/songwriter so much as a very satirical, sometimes dark-humoured man who wrote and sang some beautiful songs, regardless of the genre.
Yeah, I considered him in that same way for a long time, but it seems as though only his most popular work was of the dark humour/satire persuasion.
He did a surprising amount of christian gospel music though. The same christian upbringing that lead him to sing gospel though was probably what gave him sort of a sick lot on life - that which does not kill us makes us stranger, right? :toothless
Lilith
I was thinking more along the lines of Cartman in a southpark episode deciding to make a Christian record so he could make a crap-ton of money!
But I'm a cynical old bint... :p
Halcyon+On+On
1959 – Hymns by Johnny Cash
1962 – Hymns from the Heart
1968 – The Holy Land
1973 – The Gospel Road
1979 – A Believer Sings the Truth
1984 – I Believe
1986 – Believe in Him
2000 – Return to the Promised Land
:nervous:
And if you need some humourous reading to dispel your doubts of his piety:
Usually taking what the opposite of what those sorts of people say can be considered the truth, so I'll leave the rest to you. :stongue:
Lilith
lol!
No one took Glenn Danzig seriously, least of all Glenn Danzig! :haha:
Danzig sold his 'naughty' appeal to pimply boys in their teens wearing metal shirts who where probably the same children of the only other people to take Danzig seriously, christian extremists, just to piss their parents off for making them go to sunday school.
I'm not limited in my appreciation of church music either, some of it's genuinely good, highly musical and well worth dropping the pitch of and throwing behind a particually wicked drum and bass line, for completely the wrong reasons it was ever made for in the first place ;)
