CHRISTIAN ROCK IS SO GREAT!!! BAD RELIGION, THE CRAMPS, IT'S ALL AWESOME! By the way, The Happiest Band in the world aka The Polyphonic Spree are spreadin' the word aren't they?

i dont think it would matter if, say, a wicked band came along and was really good and later mentioned God. i think its when they come along as religeous and THEN sing.... plus it kinda forces views on the unsespecting public who suddenly start singing " i feel. like. i'm. reborn" but with a really good hook... no offence y'all by the way

i'm not going to get into a arguemnt with you cos i am not feeling well :-( *poor me!* but i just thought your sweeping generalisation at the presense of a christian makes you feel uncomfortable was a bit out of order - are you telling me that you will now check out lowdrive? (obviously avoiding the faith section?!!) :-) and anyway - i don't want to argue with you - arn't you that lovely drummer i spoke to a while ago? respect to the drummers! :-) peace x

I find exactly the same thing, you're getting on fine with someone, thinking 'What a nice intelligent gentle person you are' and then the conversation subtly starts to change direction, you suddenly notice their eyes are all shiny and in place of hands they have tambourines, whats more its at that point that you realise that they are not alone they have several other 'friends who come up and they try to introduce you to them, and they're having a get together, and you have to run away down the street screaming.

Sorry, my mistake, I meant superb!

No. Next!

I dont really think calling the pope names will have any affect at all. Of course rappers normal repartee of 'bitches' and 'Ho's' is moronic.
Rebelling is indeed difficult now, 'Raging against the machine' is pointless, it is after all a machine, our emotions, mean nothing to its continuing existance, unless this translates into effective action.
If enough people support something nowadays, then our soft democracy will allow it grudgingly, but drag their feet (e.g. recycling).
Perhaps the future way of 'rattling the bars of the cage' should be to point out our own conceits, after all it seems (from evidence of other threads) that we are well aware of the worlds situation.
So future songs of rebellion should be to make ourselves feel uncomfortable and provoke our individual selves to change. I suppose rebellion should be uncomfortable.
I think rebellion got the shit kicked out of it by its commercial exploitation.

System of a Down's album "Steal this record" is quite an amusing bit of anarchy though, does anyone know if this has happened/any court cases.

Most peoples idea of rebelling nowadays seems to be copyright flouting.

Its rather depressing really.

"Yes but we also wouldn't have all the social liberalism that is the benchmark of our society today. The death penalty would still be here. Abortion would be prohibited. Those are just like two things and I'm sure there's many more."

True, but England wouldn't be populated by skanky chavs and 14 year olds with 3 kids. Don't get me wrong, from a purely personal, selfish point of view I love social liberalism; But the bigger picture is that we seem to be regressing socially.

Hehe I don't even remember what I said, but it's nice to know someone agrees, and since we're on the subject of chavs (I think), yes I do hate them, the arrogant fuckin' cunts ruin everything!

not sure i believe you that they kick ass.
hang your head in shame.

just being labelled as 'religious rock' would put me right off any band that i hadnt heard. has anyone had the misfortune to have had albums by the Gouranga Powered Band forced upon them? i bought one once. graaave mistake. but theyre just so damn persuasive!