The Petra Zone

Better lyrics, some one who sings and doesn't scream, is that too much to ask.


Do yourself a favor and go buy the Kanye West cd, The College dropout, AMAZING cd. Featuring Never let me down, too bad 99 percent of CCM isn't as spiritual and moving as this.

What I meant was if the radio station announced the name of the band being Petra before playing Woulda Coulda Shoulda, people who are not fond of Petra may have made a special effort to "sink" the song by calling in and telling the DJ to lose it just because they don't want to hear Petra. For examp...

I was just wondering, why you guys thought it should have been nominated? It had very little impact in stores or radio, I doubt many in the ccm industry even heard it. Glad Bebo's song got nominated as song, Jars should have been all over the place. But the biggest joke was MWS as artist of the year...

SO what you are saying is that since petra calls themselves a ministry, that should automatically get them played on the radio? First of all I would hardly call them a ministry, you have to pay to get into a concert, you have to pay to get a cd, so if they are a ministry, they are a ministry only to...

This might sound mean, but I don't mean it to. The main thing that is stopping Petra from getting anywhere is the voice. The voice will always, ALWAYS make everything Petra does sound like hair metal, and people are way over that, and younger kids just laugh it off. It's not the 80's anymore, that t...

Here's my problem Mike, you just can't stop making excuses. To you, it's all about how everyone is out to get Petra, and how they are victims. What did you expect from the radio stations? "Oh sure we'll play petra for you, even thou we know you will never hear it, and are just trying generate fake b...

LOL, look at my posts and you will see where you are wrong. What I was talking about was NOT about J and H, but about Revival, that discussion is about J and H. If you are going to try and make me look wrong, at least find a discussion about the right album. Did you even read the posts I made? So he...

A list was given of the radio stations they wanted called, most did not have internet radio. As a matter of fact, further down the discussion the same person who made the request told fans to make sure what city the station was in they were calling, in case the dj asked them where they lived. But wh...

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How has it changed? The person who made the request still posts here, it can't be that different.

It's easy for you to try and turn things around, but when a band has such a hold on fans that they are willing to lie for them, what does that tell you?

I did not, a radio station director was the one who found out and sent out a FYI to the other stations. But, even if I did, why shame on me? Shouldn't the shame be the ones who lied and requested to hear a song on a station they knew they didn't get? Shouldn't the shame be on the person who made tha...

I think you blame ccm too mcuh for petra's state. Hair metal is not big anymore, and with John as lead singer they sound like hair metal no matter what. It wouldn't matter what ccm did with Petra, it has nothing to do with ministry, petra is NOT a ministry they are pay for play, how is that a minist...

If CCM's focus was still where it should be, Petra would be a much bigger band today.

What does that have to do with what consumers BUY? The only way petra would be a bigger band today, is if they sold more albums, consumers decide what they buy.

I keep thinking about what happened with Mercy Me when someone called a secular station during an all request hour and started a second wave of popularity for that song. What if something was organized like that so people at least had a chance to hear something from J&H on secular stations. If it p...

Well, as long as you say it's CCM, and not U2. U2 has never pimped or sold it's faith to sell records in the ccm market. U2 is where it is, not because it drops Jesus' name at every given chance, they are where they are because of the music. You seem to have a hate for ccm, yet if it wasn't for ccm ...