Positive Entertainment Reviews

Now that we are at the start of the new year and the year is 2015, i am hoping and praying that this is going to be a fresh start and a brand new season. May God bless this new season as we progress and move forward to what God has for us.
My very close friend helped me to start up this blog and I did my very first review at June 1st 2013 and i never done a blog before and it was brand new territory for me at the time i started doing music reviews. I am hoping to update some of my past review in the future if necessary and i pray that i will improve on the music reviews for years to come.

This blog started round about the time when i heard a sermon about impacting our frontlines which is about shining God's light in our everyday situations while we are at school, College or University, Or whether we are at work or whatever situation we find ourselves in.
This blog was born out of my concern that most Contemporary Christian Music, CCM for short has been so underestermated and marginalised from the general market. I wanted to help people understand that there are some awesome and exciting bands and artists in the CCM scene that are not boring at all and quite a lot of them sound quite similar to the artists that are in the general market and that we hear on the radio.

CCM consists of the same musical genres that are found in regular mainstream music including
Pop, Rock, Indie, R&B/Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Reggae, Ska, Country and Western, Blues, Gospel and many more. Stylisticly, Christian Music and Praise And Worship are not musical genres since CCM is more of a music industry, not a given musical art form.
The CCM Bands and Artists i have reviewed include the likes of Guvna B, Lecrae, Kings Kaleidoscope, Switchfoot, Mercyme, Colton Dixon, Skillet, Canton Jones, All Star United,
Newsboys, Tobymac, Papa San, Family Force 5, Mandisa, Royal Tailor, Philippa Hanna, Phil Wickham, Dweeb, Israel Houghton, Peter Furler, The 29th Chapter, House Of Heroes, Da Truth, Trip Lee, Deitrick Haddon, Kirk Franklin, POD, OC Supertones and many more.

Also i have included some music makers that are not christians by faith and are not part of CCM, but have written some songs that could come of good use for the Church whether it is about Community, Making a positive change for the better and working together to make a change. Others could deal with issues of Gossip and spreading false rumours, Wrestling with doubt, refusing to give hate a chance, tackling negative influences in the media and other topics that could be of grateful help to the Church of God, and also to help challenge new artists to be more creative and original.
Artists including Paul Weller, The Jam, Oasis, The Lightning Seeds, Olly Murs, Super Furry Animals, Pulp, Madness, Ali Campbell and a good few more.
I have also included a Live Band review of Sound Effects, a covers band from Rugby, Warwickshire who perform Britpop and Ska songs since i'm a bit of a Britpop Fan.
If you are into Britpop music, i would like to recommend All Star United. They are an American Indie band who are very influenced by Britpop.
All Star United are one of the bands that are from the CCM scene and the lead singer of All Star United is Ian Eskelin.
The Super Furry Animals album i have review is ''Rings Around The World'' and the reason behind the review was to inspire new and upcoming bands to be more adventurous in their creativity and create music that is mindblowingly exciting and innovative.

I have also reviewed albums by the likes of U2, Athlete, Owl City, Carleen Anderson, The Young Disciples and Dolly Parton and they are all Christians that have been in the mainstream music scene.
Owl City is in the CCM Scene and the mainstream music scene and is close friends with the lead singer of Relient K, an Alternative Pop/Punk band that are also in the CCM scene and they are very positive and their music is quite lively and will hopefully put you in the right mood.
The Relient K singer Matt Thiessen co wrote a Kelly Clarkson song ''Long Shot'' with the likes of Katy Perry and it is on the Kelly Clarkson album ''All I Ever Wanted''.

                      MUSIC AND IT'S TRUE INFLUENCE. CALL FOR INNOVATION
                                  AND A TOTAL END TO CULTURAL DIVISION.

All musical art forms can be used to worship God and proclaim has glory across the whole globe so i encourage all music makers that are Christians by faith to create music that is from the heart and i would like to encourage some new and upcoming bands and artists that are going to be doing Worship Music to defy convention and refuse to mimic and copy other praise and worship artists, but create music that is exciting, diverse and mostly from the heart. Last year i reviewed an album by Kings Kaleidoscope and they are the most musically colourful Worship Band of all times and they are a ten piece band. I believe Kings Kaleidoscope could very well be the next pacesetters in Worship Music and they deserve to take the baton and lead the way in Praise and Worship music.

I would like to let you all know that i am hoping to go in a different direction with this blog and i am not limiting this blog to just CCM Artists but i am hoping to review some albums that will hopefully raise up lot of future bands and artists to be more creative and original. I firmly believe that music makers that are Christians by faith can get some awesome musical ideas from a lot of Non Christian Bands and Artists, while at the same time create music that is completely original and don't even think of imitating other music makers. We should never turn music into a product and we must not allow ourselves to set trends and fashions for other Artists to imitate because it is completely unfair and i would rather that we raise up the standard of creative innovation for goodness sake.
We don't need trend setters, we need more innovators that will lead the way in music and challenge other music makers to be original and authentic. No pretence allowed, period.
I am very passionate about music and i cannot tolerate and condone the fact that music has been seriously abused and watered down in the popular music industry.
Most importantly, I have a very strong faith in Jesus Christ and i firmly believe in the absolute truth that God created the whole universe and he made us in his image. Remember, it is God's image in us that allows us to be creative. The problem is we have deliberately ruined God's image in us because we have been manipulated by sin and the devils evil lies.
the devil never creates anything, all he ever does is destroy, corrupt and counterfeit everything that God has created. There is no such thing as the devils music since satan has perverted the gift of music and has constantly turned music into a product and he makes carbon copies of it, and it should not be allowed. music was made to transcend cultures and bring life, light and colour to this planet we call Earth. Music was designed that way and it is a very very powerful tool but we have deliberately allowed satan to water down it's influence in order to divide and seperate other cultures.
An old late 70's cult movie Quadrophenia, paints a picture of the seperation of two musical culture, the Mod's and the Rockers and later on in the film, they get into a massive fight in Brighton.
Sting who's real name is Gordon Sumner appeared in the film and played the Ace Face who later on became a bell boy. Sting used to be the lead singer of The Police. If you have been brought up on The Who, The Jam, and The Police and you are an old generational music listener that prefers listening to the golden oldies of the 60's and 70's who have paved the way for future artists, then you will hopefully relate to this.
Quadrophenia started off as a rock opera album by The Who which was released in 1973. The film came out a few years later while The Jam and The Police were making music.

I would also like to pray that the future Christian Bands and Artists will broaden the lyrical content without the use of overused cliches that overload so many contemparary worship songs. We need to train up new music makers to be more excellent and creative and we must challenge them to hone their musical and songwriting talent and give their full 100% when making new music that is inspiring. I pray that God will raise up new bands and artists that are willing to shine God's light into the pubs and clubs through the method of performed music that is inspiring and lyrically positive. I will also review some more artists that are in the Contemporary Christian Music world to broaden peoples musical tastes and help people that are not Christians to appreciate the Bands and Artists that are in the CCM Industry but are making some awesome music.
I am challenging myself personally to keep on listening to different artists and try out music i've never listened to before since my musical tastes are quite eclectic and diverse and i'm staying true to my musical diversity. Let us stop wallowing in cultural seperation concerning different music styles and stop watering down its influence. If music doesn't transcend cultures and if it doesn't pave the way for future innovation then it is not doing it's job. Remember, music belongs to God so let us use God's gift of music to bring hope, restore communities and unite all nations, and most importantly give God the highest praise since God is in charge of the whole universe and he is the ultimate superstar and a true innovator.
To all the people i have met that have supported my journey of music listening and to the artists both Christians and Non-Christians that have unknowingly connected me to other music artists of different kinds. You are all deeply respected. I must admit, as a music listener, i do need support from people, those i have met and those i haven't met in person to spice up my musical tastes. Thank you all so much. To all the Bands and Artists i have reviewed on my blog, Thank you all for inspiring me as a music listener. I am very proud of all of you.
Above all else, thank you Father God or should i say Heavenly King Dad for giving me fresh life and loving me back to life like in the Celine Dion song. Thank you so much for the interest in music that you have downloaded into my DNA. Please help me use my diverse and experimental music passion to bless other people and help others inspire others to broaden the innovative musical scope.
All music styles belong to you alone since you are the owner of everything in this universe.
Your kaleidoscopic character is ever so inspiring, and it blows me away emotionally.
Father God, please place your super heavenly force field around this whole blog and i would like to pray this  blog will inspire people to see CCM through more positive lenses and encourage future music makers to raise the creative bar up and bring a lot more musical diversity. Oh and please blow away all the boxes and labels that limit and contain us because there are no limits whatsoever with you. We humans have so many limitations but you have no limits at all.
Please get those multicoloured praise rockets up because it is time for a heavenly celebration.

Come on melody makers, i believe it is time to create and invents some new musical styles and make sure you create music that will encourage and raise up loads of new musical and cultural pioneers and start a multi Cultural, hyper kaleidoscopic revolution. Let us all 777UP to God's magnificent glory.

It is time to raise the bar up higher and start a new wave revolution.
May God bless you and may we start moving forward since this is the dawning of a new era.

Oh, and i have decided never to capitalise satans name since the devil is a monster and i strongly refuse to acknowledge him. In fact i will drag satans name through the mud and disconnect his wires. I hate satan so much and his diabolical presence is forever banned.
The devil can get lost, and good riddance. Off with the devils head.