Is mewithoutYou the best Christian music of all time?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Easily. Seeing them in June now, can't wait, I'm feeling like a 14-year old girl about to see Justin Bieber.

I am so going to wear the shirt of a band that promotes atheism to be "ironic", just like I changed into an Ampere shirt after I was dunked.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Allegri's Miserere is Christian music, so no.

*listens*

OK I made it about a minute in. This most certainly does not compare to this or this.

Also I can't understand any of it. It might as well be in the original Latin.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Tweed sent me this a bit ago pointing out based on this the new record should be great. He was right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2k_3bUdrg

I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but I'll definitely be picking up the vinyl version on Tuesday when it hits.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Devil Wears Prada are nothing but very generic fifth wave metalcore indistinguishable from dozens of other bands.

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The Power of Failing was probably better than anything mwY has done.  you may categorically argue that Mineral was not 'Christian music', but neither is mwY a 'Christian band' nor Christian rock.

That album has like only like two Christian songs on it. Most of Mineral's more Christian songs were on EndSerenading. Also mewithoutYou has had far more explicit Christian references in their songs than anything Mineral had done (also think of the meaning of "A->B Life")

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Lots of atheists like the Christian music I do. It's not like it's the awful stuff on Christian radio or whatever.

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Oh so it is in Latin after all? LOL. Nathan do you have a last.fm? It'd be funny to compare us.

Tweed, if you get an LDS baptism are you going to wear a band shirt and if so which one? I wore a Jawbreaker shirt.

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So apparently YouTube has some built in thing to help with shaky videos now. Ha, awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyyy0AURbv

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"of all time" is so fitting to the personality of the OP. Seriously? "Of all time"? Have you declared yourself judge of all music from the 500's to present? Oh, but you have certain tastes, and your tastes are "right", and we should agree with you then, and your tastes say that "mewithoutYou" is good, and you like it more than other things, so obviously it has to be the best. Right.

Uh, it's not much different than if you proclaimed The Doors the best band of all time.

As for me? I'd say "What Wondrous Love is This?" from that church hymnal is my favorite.

This is most certainly better than this. I wish I had recorded them playing it, but honestly it would've been just a blur with how much jumping I was doing during that song. That hymn doesn't even make me want to raise my hands, which should be a minimum for any Christian song.

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Yes Cathcon, that's a big factor into why my church has so many ex-Catholics. The pastor who baptized me in our pre-talk said that well over half the people who get baptized there were baptized Catholic or Lutheran as babies, and I've talked to tons of people who left the Catholic church there. Could it be because they were bored with it and wanted the hand raising and all that?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes Cathcon, that's a big factor into why my church has so many ex-Catholics. The pastor who baptized me in our pre-talk said that well over half the people who get baptized there were baptized Catholic or Lutheran as babies, and I've talked to tons of people who left the Catholic church there. Could it be because they were bored with it and wanted the hand raising and all that?

Then they weren't choosing religions based on religious factors. They wanted entertainment. Great life choice.

There was obviously more to it than that. One of the pastors who was raised Catholic is a married woman. Obviously there would be no future for her in the Catholic Church.

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lol I didn't think anyone besides Tweed and Lewis remembered that (funny thing is that was a song reference but I can't even remember what song it was, I'm sure I still have the record though). I suppose baulexus just gave us an example though.

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I'm familiar with the band but I don't think it was them.

Hey Tweed would you raise your hands seeing mewithoutYou? I noticed a bunch of the people in attendance did during certain songs in a rather reverent manner (basically the ones with an explicit reference to God and whatnot) which made it obvious which kids were Christian and what kids weren't but liked their music anyway. I wonder if Cathcon would keep his hands down too.

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Nope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLydhMo-hI

This is.

Ugh, that's just like typical Christian contemporary crap, bleh.