Your Love is Better than Wine

As someone who loves, loves, loves music, it's taken me quite a while to get into Christian music. Since I recognize that what I fill my mind with is critical, over a year ago I started to listen to positive, encouraging K-LOVE. (Yes, they preface their call sign with their tag line. I think all two of my readers know how I feel about that. Hi mom!)

I now love worshiping in my car and even know many of the songs/artists at this point which makes singing along that much easier. But . . .

Whenever I hear a song that I dislike and change the station, I am immediately reminded by non-Christian radio stations how much better mainstream music is. While I really like the Revelation Song, Phillips Craig & Dean simply can't hold a candle to Radiohead. As such, I'm thinking they, and other Christian bands, hold limited appeal to a larger audience.

So here's what I propose: Give select portions of the Bible to well known and/or infinitely cooler bands who have a talent for soulful pop tunes and ask them to write and perform their own songs based on the lyrics. They don't have to be believers; they simply have to enjoy a good challenge. My recommended bands would include, but not be limited to, the following -- not because they're my favorites (not all of them, at least) but because I think they could do a bang-up job.

• Sonic Youth
• Liz Phair
  
• Matthew Sweet
• Beck
  
• Counting Crows
• Jakob Dylan/The Wallflowers
• Sheryl Crow
• Radiohead
• Cracker
  
• Wilco
  
• David Bowie (of course)
  

Based on their rendition of The Carpenters' Superstar, I honestly think Sonic Youth could do an amazing, languish-filled lamentation taken directly from the Psalms and generate a big hit.



While not even a remotely Christian song, I wonder if Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy was quoting the Song of Solomon 1:2 when he rose to fame with Kiss Me back in the day?



See, it could happen.