The Petra Zone

I have at least 500 CDs purchases over the last 30 years and many cassettes and some vinyl as well. Too big a job to list them, but I can tell you the following about my CCM collection: Petra: All of the CDs, a few cassettes and vinyl Resurrection Band: All of the CDs, a couple of cassettes, 2 vinyl...

This is why I consider all music apart from the artist(s). People are people. Saved or lost, people make great music and bad music. Saved or lost, people live decent lives and jacked-up lives. If we idolize "Christian" artists, we do ourselves and them a huge disservice. We WILL be let down at some...

Diehardpetrafan:) wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 04, 2019 12:02 am

I haven't listened to enough of them to actually know their albums but the 80s is always the best part for anyone seems like

I'm a real sucker for the 80s stuff

A lot of people like their earliest albums the best, but I like their albums from the mid/late 80's onward. I don't know why but I do. I think a lot depends on what's happening in our lives when we are discovering these albums. It's pretty hard to top the albums that we listened to during our forma...

Never got to see that video back in the day because my parents wouldn't get a VCR. YouTube is so handy for keeping these gems from disappearing forever. Back in the 80s, I was blissfully unaware of these issues with Stryper, as were all of my fellow Stryper fans. We also didn't know that Petra was g...

Diehardpetrafan:) wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:21 pm

Haha yeah, my favorite is hands down Someone sleeps & I need you love

Those are both great songs, too

The way you went through a period of just listening to a bunch of that stuff reminds me of myself- I started listening to Stryper in October of last year and after them I got into Whitecross in January and all through March I got into a bunch of different Classic Christian Rock bands and songs. In ...

I have met Michael Sweet and Oz Fox, but would like to meet Bob Hartman, John Schlitt, Greg X. Volz, Glenn Kaiser, Wendy Kaiser, Michael Roe, and Terry Scott Taylor

Yes! To be fair though Christian music at the time was less popular and often would have had a smaller budget I suppose, so a number of bands had slightly sub par production. Even some petra albums would sound better with better production. For example Beat the System to Unseen power era Petra. Whi...

The way you went through a period of just listening to a bunch of that stuff reminds me of myself- I started listening to Stryper in October of last year and after them I got into Whitecross in January and all through March I got into a bunch of different Classic Christian Rock bands and songs. In ...

Another long-winded response from me coming up. I have loved the Resurrection Band since my brother got Live Bootleg for Christmas back in 1984. I've always thought they were just as good as Petra, or very close to it. I made an 80-minute compilation CD about 15 years ago with my favourite songs of ...

I think on an album or two the production could have been better. Lyrics are somewhat simplistic but not bad. Overall it's the guitar work that I like the most. Yeah, I totally agree with you on these things. Just imagine how great a song like Run from the Darkness could have been with great produc...

Diehardpetrafan:) wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:23 pm

I'm Sorry
He's the Creator
& You Don't Need the Blues

Those are the first three I listed Coincidence, or are you working your way through the list?

That's great, either way!

Diehardpetrafan:) started a Daniel Amos topic, so I thought I would start a DANIEL BAND topic. Daniel Band were a hard rock band that put out 5 decent albums in the 80s. I've always thought they were underrated. For those of you that know them, what are your favorite Daniel Band songs? For those of ...

Too hard for me to pick favourites, so I'll post a list of songs, in chronological order, that I recommend for people wanting to get to know DA better. For those of you annoyed by my breaking the rules, I have put a ** beside what might be my top 5 at this time: I Love You #19 Hound of Heaven I Beli...