Hey RevJohn. You bare more than a slight resemblance to a certain BTO singer. Is there something you would like to share with the rest of us. Are you infact a clone of Randy Bachman?

Hey RevJohn. Please don't take offence. Just taking care of business.

consumingfire

Hi,

You asked,

Are you infact a clone of Randy Bachman?

As a matter of fact, I am not.

I have been blessed with generic looks that remind a lot of people of other people they know.

No offence taken. I get "Hey aren't you so and so?" all the time.

Grace and peace to you.

John

On the "secular" end of things I would have to say, for me, anything Chris Cornell has been involved with. Whether it was Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave or solo work. He has one of the greatest voices ever. He is uber-talented in songwriting. Too bad he seems to have something against God. Something must have happened in his youth.

Christian bands.. I'd have to say two come to mind. I have been impressed with the talent of Audio Adrenaline who over the last two decades have continually changed things up musically with solid uncomprimising lyrics. The other band is out of Australia called Hillsong which is formed by a group of kids from a Church with the same name. If these guys don't pump you up, I think you better check your pulse!

For my part: The Moody Blues are the best ever.

They can sing with meaning to almost any topic. Their "Keys to the Kingdom" album is fantastic.

The Quintet of the Hot Club of France, with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelly.

C/mon: the GREATEST BAND EVER has to be House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, and the greatest band in Canada is EITHER the simon Fraser University Pipe Band or the 78th Fraser Hifgglanders (Bill Livingstone) from Whitby, Ontario.

I thought everybody would have known this!

the best band that ever was has GOT to be none other than....

*drumroll*

U2.

best band ever. 'the joshua tree' and 'achtung baby' stand alone as two of the greatest albums ever put together.

Our Lady Peace never gets old...they just keep getting better and surprise you with every album. Underoath and Emery are two great bands that a lot of young adults are into as well and can speak their faith in radical ways to kids.

I just can't get into Underoath... they are amazingly popular with today's youth, though.

Best bands ever, though?

Modest Mouse
Arcade Fire
The Beatles
Death Cab for Cutie ( and Ben Gibbard's side-project The Postal Service)
and much, MUCH more!

'the postal service' is awesome.

The Beatles would take top marks from me.

I'm also very fond of U2 and The Eagles.

MikeP said: "C/mon: the GREATEST BAND EVER has to be House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, and the greatest band in Canada is EITHER the simon Fraser University Pipe Band or the 78th Fraser Hifgglanders (Bill Livingstone) from Whitby, Ontario."

Oh, no not THE BAGPIPES AGAIN!!!

RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!

Yeah, I'm gonna have to give it to U2 as well. Did anyone see the cool new U2 by U2 book out? It's got some awesome pictures and a great story of faith behind them too.

Honourable mention to REM.

I'm glad you used the word "Bands".

The obvious to me are The Beatles & U2. The Clash, The Doors and The Velvet Underground all get honourable mention.

Christian: just delving into this "genre" but my favourites are Casting Crowns and Hillsong.

What about best Canadian bands?: Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Sloan, Rush.

Best Canadian band, hands down is Rush. Neil Peart along with Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater and Lester Estelle from Pillar (although not Canadian) are the three best drummers ever. Wicked talent.

For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12:29

Johnny and the MoonDogs

THE BEATLES MAN.

ALL THE WAY

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors, The Ramones, Bad Religion, Misfits, Tool, The Tragically Hip, The Guess Who, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Soundgarden, The Pixies, Wolf Parade, The New Pornographers...

And I'm just getting warmed up.

I used to hang out with friends in the basement of Jim Kale singing with the "Guess Who". Chad Allen was their lead singer then

Burton Cummings wasn't part of that group yet but he was with the Devrons who played at our High School dances.

I used to cut through Randy Bachman's yard to my wife's house just two blocks away.

Donnie MacDougal who joined later on was also a friend of mine from school.

My Favourite secular are Elvis, Tractors

Christian - Gaithers groups

I think my favourite drummer would be consumming fire!!

Hey CF, maybe you could come up this summer and we'll get playing together.

There's a few of us that play gospel and country. I find so many country songs sing about life and the Lord.

I can almost hear you hitting the highhat with the brushes right now!

Keep on praising the Lord, Brother.

IB

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Great rockers, and some of the most awesomely poetic lyrics ever.

IBelieve. I'm on my way. And thank you.

For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12:29

hmmm... where to start
Should I skip AC/DC on this site?
BTO Bad Company Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Boston
Cranberries CCR Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Cure Deep Purple
Depeche Mode Eagles Earth, Wind and Fire ELO Enigma
Erasure Fleetwood Mac Foghat Foreigner Genesis Grand Funk GNR Indigo Girls
Jefferson Airplane or___ (whatever they picked at the time)
Jethro Tull Kansas Little River Band Lynyrd Skynrd Mamas & Pappas
Police REM Rolling Stones Steve Miller Band Three Dog Night U2
Van Halen ZZTop
I LOVE music

Depeche Mode, Genesis, Joy Division, Red House Painters, Aimee Mann, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Doves, Enigma, Delerium, Infected Mushroom, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, Bloc Party, Sufjan Stevens, Forward Russia!, Public Enemy, Future Sound of London, Peter Gabriel, The Incredible Moses Leroy, A Tribe Called Quest, Ida, Radical Face, Seu Jorge, Sun Kil Moon, Jorane, Cuong Vu, King Crimson, Loreena McKennitt, The Magnetic Fields, Men Without Hats, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Miles Davis, Nine Inch Nails, Oval, The Notwist, The Organ, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Stars, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, The American Analog Set, Feist, Iron & Wine, Rufus Wainwright, Godspeed You!Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Clipse, God is an Astronaut, She Wants Revenge, Sigur Ros, The Stills, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Brian Eno.