Lost Canine 
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Someone set a TST disc of the week. Let's all listen together and post our thoughts. Any takers?
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baxter
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i'm a taker. Who will pick it?
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servantsteve
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How about Bibleland? It's not the most popular, but I love it!
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Joey T.
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I’m getting my money back tomorrow. I’m sick of having to make an effort to like any of your music. And it is time for you to record something encouraging and less muddled sounding Christian.......
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baxter
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Bibleland it is. So, do we listen to it all week?
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Captain Pedantic
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I won't go back to Bibleland my freind died there I loved him too much.
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baxter
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Was he savagely attacked by the midgets or by Debbie Boone?
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John Foxe
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Debbie.
She's working here. She's **** lucky to be on the payroll.
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PuP
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I'm in for BibleLand. Greg and Jerry on geetars, Gene on production and piano, sweet mercy!
But nothing else all week? My ADD won't stand for it! It was tough enough listening to just ZD for one whole day last week!
But I'll change my sig for the occasion!
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Lost Canine
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Bibleland it is then.
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bereal
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I'll be in Bibleland!
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baxter
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i'll meet you by the river of life!
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04-04-2004 23:37 |
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Captain Pedantic
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Bibleland is in the Cd player of my Car and I'm up to Bakersfeild. (difficlut to drive and type...)
I keep forgetting how much I love this Cd. When it's on the shelf i think about it's raw roughness and how I just hated Bakersfeild.
But now I love the whole thing. except constance she still bugs me a bit.
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Joey T.
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Debbie.
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hands down worst Da song ever! even including that first country album..... 
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John Foxe
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If you think that's the worst DA song ever, what does that reduce
"Shedding the Mortal Coil" to?
Man, a few songs like that I just cringe when I hear 'em...
Oh, and "guilty" seriously annoys...
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DwDunphy
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Perhaps we need some criteria for discussion to gel this thing together?
Feel free to add topics as we go:
Favorite Bibleland track: Constance Of The Universe
Love it. I'm a big fan of the Kinks and Ray & Dave would take to this like ducks to crackers, yee haw. The main guitar figure is reminiscent of "Tired Of Waiting For You" and the worldview at that moment is very Davies-like. But what makes it truly hang together is that the band plays the hack out of it.
Close second: I'll Get Over It
Least Favorite: Broken Ladders To Glory
Which is odd because it's one of my favorite DA songs, but it sticks out hard on this set. Bibleland is as close as the band ever came to God-honest punk rock. Hard, loud, aggressive, angry, not fussy. Broken Ladders, while being a poetic, ballad-like entrypoint, leaves the listener dangling over the audio assault to come.
Why is the recording this way: I have to believe there was pressure from above. Gene, Ojo and Brainstorm allowed the artists on their label unprecedented freedom, but then Word started mashing all the rock labels together into the W.A.L., soon dismantling them. I can only imagine Word sending messages to Brainstorm: kepp it safe and friendly.
So in typical contrarian DA fashion, we get the seething stomp of "Pete And Repeat", the deal-with-it essence of "The Bubble Bursts", and the incorrigible nature of "She's Working Here". The line "she's nada lucky to be on the payroll" strikes me as a bit of the flipping bird to the suits.
Where does it rank for me: It's not one of the first discs I go to, I'll qualify that. It was, on initial release, much like Kalhoun where I listened to it incessantly for months. I know the songs intuitively now, but as I said before, it is very much the DA punk album and sometimes you need the right mood for a listening experience.
Having said that, it is much meatier than most angry punk discs, even the political ones, and certainly more poetic than anything the genre produced. "Out In The Cold", "Broken Ladders", even in it's sarcastic fashion "Bibleland" have more sheer lyrical prowess, detail and figurative language than the norm. It's easy to pass off the set as "Terry & Co. really p****d off", but there's wonderful attention to creative detail that goes unrivalled here.
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Joey T.
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Originally posted by John Foxe
If you think that's the worst DA song ever, what does that reduce
"Shedding the Mortal Coil" to?
Man, a few songs like that I just cringe when I hear 'em...
Oh, and "guilty" seriously annoys...
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those are both great songs! she's working here is not.... 
but then again, that's just my opinion, i could be wrong........ 
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Mountain Fan
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Originally posted by DwDunphy
Perhaps we need some criteria for discussion to gel this thing together?
Why is the recording this way: I have to believe there was pressure from above. Gene, Ojo and Brainstorm allowed the artists on their label unprecedented freedom, but then Word started mashing all the rock labels together into the W.A.L., soon dismantling them. I can only imagine Word sending messages to Brainstorm: kepp it safe and friendly.
Where does it rank for me: It's not one of the first discs I go to, I'll qualify that. It was, on initial release, much like Kalhoun where I listened to it incessantly for months. I know the songs intuitively now, but as I said before, it is very much the DA punk album and sometimes you need the right mood for a listening experience.
Having said that, it is much meatier than most angry punk discs, even the political ones, and certainly more poetic than anything the genre produced. "Out In The Cold", "Broken Ladders", even in it's sarcastic fashion "Bibleland" have more sheer lyrical prowess, detail and figurative language than the norm. It's easy to pass off the set as "Terry & Co. really p****d off", but there's wonderful attention to creative detail that goes unrivalled here.
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I don't really understand why some don't like Bibleland. I haven't listened to it that much yet (recently got a cassette) but I did hear some of the MP3s from it for awhile and thought it rocked. But then I didn't care for the Alarma chronicles that much musically (from what I have heard so far). Even if I'm not in the mood for certain DA, I can still usually read the lyrics and be moved. I think DA really started to shine with Darn Floor Big Bite and have only gotten better since. My favorite tracks and albums are in large part dependent on what I'm going through at the time.
I recently gave our pastor MBD and he has really liked it. In a recent conversation I basically told him I think that DA and some of my other favorite artists haven't been that commercially successful because they are serious about their work and desire to get into the meat of life. Most people don't want to do much more than scratch the surface.
Sorry, I guess I haven't done much to gel this conversation. DA simply amazes and leaves one breathless at times. Their genius admidst life's insanities. More inspiring than most any stuff from CCM that got airplay. WOW!
So far "I'll Get Over It" is probably my fave on Bibleland.
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PuP
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I forgot!
The Feelies were loaded in the WinAmp playlist and I started playing that before remembering the DotW. I'm switching to BL now.
I can say that I cannot listen to Out in the Cold without singing it the rest of the day. That emotional outburst grabs me everytime.
I agree with DW that although Broken Ladders is one of DA's best tracks, it seems out of place on this album.
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