The Petra Zone

Well, I was one of those Petheads that almost 12 years ago listened for the first time the Double Take Album...
Sincerely... I was totally dissapointed...
Now, after almost 12 years later... and almost 12 years older...


I say: I like the Double Take Album.

I still hate it. It makes me sad and I am embarrassed for them when I hear it.

agreed. I have tried to like it. I can't do it.

I like every other album in the discography, even the weak ones (No Doubt and God Fixation spring to mind), but I just can't get into DT.

YMMV of course.

It took you 12 years to like it? That's like me with most Rush or U2 songs. It happens but I always wonder why it takes so long- is it really that terrible?

Same here, its just not Petra!!!

Well, I sort of like it. I do like Dance and Praying Man very much. Unfortunately songs like Beyond Belief, This Means War! and He Came, He Saw have lost a bit too much of their edge in the new versions. If they wouldn't have hired the Nashville String Machine it might have become a much better unplugged album. But for me Dance and Praying Man are really excellent new versions. Breathe In was the biggest mistake of this album in my opinion. Orta is fine when he sticks to his solo stuff, but trying to sing lead for Petra and then write a song that is lyrically kind of sub-par is just too much.

I do like some of DT, but it was a sad waist of a major record label really.. imagine if that was JAH on Word around 2000?

i'll admit it's an album I barely play, although I did really like The Longing. I also liked parts of Just Reach Out. When I perform that song at our youth group, I sing it the way it was originally written, but the last time I do the chorus, I modify it so it sort of sounds like the Double Take version. Gives it a nice twist, I think... I think I like Just Reach Out on that album because it probably sounds the closest to the original, for me anyway.

rexreed wrote:
It took you 12 years to like it?


Well, the answer is... yes.

I really like Dance, Praying Man, Judas Kiss, This Means War and Creed...
I like (well, more or less) the other songs...

And the Pete Orta song???... I don't like it...

But I still go with albums like Jekyll & Hyde, Beyond Belief, On Fire, Wake Up Call and More Power To Ya... That's the real PETRA!

Petra sold out, because they thought they had to. They should have told the labels where to put it and called it a day. JAH should have been their last album in 1998. They would have created a demand for their return that would have sustained them a bit longer. That is my Monday morning QB opinion. Petra means rock. Then they went soft and techno, they were sending a mixed signal. Nobody wants to hear and see middle aged dudes performing that stuff. Go rock or go home. Petra changing genres was like NASCAR race teams changing to Volkswagon Beetles with pretty little flowers painted all over them. It just doesn't work.

brent wrote:
"Petra sold out, because they thought they had to. They should have told the labels where to put it and called it a day. JAH should have been their last album in 1998. They would have created a demand for their return that would have sustained them a bit longer. That is my Monday morning QB opinion. Petra means rock. Then they went soft and techno, they were sending a mixed signal. Nobody wants to hear and see middle aged dudes performing that stuff. Go rock or go home. Petra changing genres was like NASCAR race teams changing to Volkswagon Beetles with pretty little flowers painted all over them. It just doesn't work."


I'm 100% with you...
Yes, now I like the DT Album, but PETRA means ROCK!... not soft music...
I still think that a "Jekyll & Hyde Part 2 Album" is still a good idea...

JAH2 is a great idea.. beef it up even a little more with Dream Theater type sound and you have a gold record.

Thumbs up to Brent Handy producing JAH2

I must admit that I do like Double Take, especially Breathe In.
I look at it as a novelty album though.

I don't think the album will ever grow on me. It was such a disappointment. I was expecting a solid unplugged album, much like what they did with Ready, Willing and Able on video, but what I got was the only Petra that I really couldn't find much of anything good to say about it.

Amen