Here's a sister thread I made for the one Elanor made. (Elanor's thread "What's your favourite hymn?": http://holyworlds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1814

What are some of your favorite contemporary Christian music songs?

A few of mine:

Everything by Lifehouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjDojEOiMcE

To Bring You Back by Paul Alan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0OUiKWOAI

Surrender by BarlowGirl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at9z-ewIhOo

Grace Like Rain by Tod Agnew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU2h9dXP ... re=related

They always give me Holybumps! *shudders*

~Calen

I like Casting Crowns

'Who am I'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othmFqaw0Yk&feature=fvst

and 'Voice of Truth'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwsvqVmFV6Y

and Casting Crowns 'Does anybody hear her'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOJW4Uwy3c

Are Keith Greens songs CCM?

I love his song 'Born Again'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVPMda-O ... re=related

I like Casting Crowns ('Does Anybody Hear Her?', 'Voice of Truth,' 'I Am'), The Newsboys ('Born Again', 'Something Beautiful'), Todd Agnew ('Grace Like Rain'), Matthew West ('My Own Little World'), and Amy Grant.

I really like "A Mighty Good Leader" by Audio Adrenaline.
And "Some Kind of Zombie" by the same band.

I don't have links but I have lots of favorites.

City on Our Knees -Toby Mac

Lose My Soul -Toby Mac

In Christ Alone -As done by the Newsboys.

It Is You -Newsboys

He Reigns -Newsboys

Hallelujah -Newsboys

Unbreakable -Fireflight

Run

Selfish Song -both by Paul Colman.

If Keith Green is, I like a few of his. I like the Christine Dente/Margaret Becker/Susan Ashton group. I also really like Colin Buchanan, an Australian singer/songwriter, he's really good. My favourite album of his is "Real Hope". When I get time, I'll rassle up a few of his songs for you to hear.

I know it makes me sound old but...

Champion ~Carman

I used to love Carman! I was probably six the last time I heard some of his songs.

As a musician, I knew I couldn't stay away from this thread for long. To save time and space, I'll just list one song per artist, with a mix of some of my favorite bands and favorite recent songs. If I did a list of all my favorite CCM songs, that might overload the HW forum. I'll also leave off most metal and rap, since while they fall into the broad term CCM, they do not exactly fit in the CCM genre as played on the average Christian radio station. Plus I'll just put songs from the past 20 years. This is by no means a remotely comprehensive list.

Newsboys: Shine

DC Talk: Jesus Freak

Casting Crowns: Praise You In This Storm

Mercyme: Bring the Rain

Barlowgirl: Never Alone

Plumb: I Can't Do This

Falling Up: Moonlit

Tobymac: Diverse City

Group 1 Crew: Movin'

Krystal Meyers: Make Some Noise

Michelle Tumes: Dream

Todd Agnew: Grace Like Rain

Kerri Roberts: No Matter What

Disciple: 321

Audio Adrenaline: Some Kind of Zombie

Carman (w/Mylon LeFevre): In the Name of the Lord

Steven Curtis Chapman: Dive

Skillet: Savior

Jeremy Camp: Take My Life

And this is easily less than 1% of the songs I could list.

I like the newest MercyMe album, Generous Mr. Lovewell, Nicole Nordman, Brandon Heath and most of the K-Love radio songs.

Oh, Jonathan, once I looked up the lyrics to 'Shine' by the Newsboys and tried to sing it...

I found where you can hear some samples of the songs by Colin Buchanan. This is my favourite album, as I said, "Real Hope".

http://orders.koorong.com/search/produc ... 0000618667

Some of my favourites are-

The Word Became Flesh

Jesus My Lord

Glory to the Rock of Ages

Press On Mums.

I also like some of the songs on this kids album.

http://orders.koorong.com/search/produc ... 0000603988

Tell me what you think of our Aussie artist!

That sounds like it might be fun, but since you put I'm guessing that it wasn't.


Nice guitar playing.

Hahaha! Actually, we have his big music book that contains the sheet music of every one of his songs, and we've been learning to play some of them.

I like most of the songs on K-LOVE too and the artists you mentioned. I could go ahead and have a long, tiring list of CCM songs I enjoy as I did with the hymns--yea or nay?

If you've seen my post on this thread, you might can guess that my vote is "yea".

Ok, here's a list:

Steven Curtis Chapman-(Dive, Fingerprints of God, Great Expectations, I Do Believe, Next 5 Minuets, Speechless, Cinderella, Live Out Loud)

Ginny Owens-(I Wanna Be Moved, Without Condition, Free, If You Want Me To, Springs Of Life, Symbol Of A Lost Cause, Own Me)

Watermark-(Take Me There, The Glory of Your Name, More Than You'll Ever Know, The Purest Place, Captivate Us)

Chris Rice-(Untitled Hymn, I'm Smellin' Coffee, Welcome To Our World, Deep Enough To Dream, Smell The Color 9, What A Heart Is Beating For, Questions For Heaven, Cartoons, Billy Joe McGuffrey, When Did You Fall In Love With Me, Clumsy)

Todd Agnew-(Blood On My Hands, In The Middle Of Me, Grace Like Rain, My Jesus, Mercy In Me, Where Were You)

Shane & Shane-(Burn Us Up, Beg, Embracing Accusation, When I Think About The Lord)

Matthew West-(My Own Little World, History, Next Thing You Know, A Few More Days)

Rebecca St. James-(Don't Worry, One, Wait For Me, In Me)

Selah-(Bless The Broken Road, Gentle Healer, Ain't No Grave, All My Tears)

Mandisa-(My Deliverer, The Definition Of Me, Not Guilty, Broken Hallelujah, Freedom Song, Only The World, True Beauty, Voice of A Savior, Unrestrained, Shackles, Never Gonna Steal My Joy, Oh My Lord)

33 Miles-(What Could Be Better, Stand Amazed, There Is A God, Thank You, Just One Of Those Days, One Life To Love, My Offering)

Sarah Groves-(Conversations, Toy Packaging, The Word, Painting Pictures of Egypt, Generations, What Do I Know, Cave Of Adullum, Know My Heart, Tent In The Center Of Town, Past The Wishing, Everyday Miracles, Rain, Stir My Heart)

Nichole Nordeman-(Holy, To Know You, Every Season, Sunrise, Brave, Finally Free, Is It Any Wonder, I Am, What If, Fool For You, Why?, Real To Me, No More Chains, Gotta Serve Somebody, Someday)

And I could go on forever...I'll list a few more artists, but without the songs.

Brandon Heath
JJ Heller
Amy Grant
Twila Paris
Big Daddy Weave
Paul Colman
Newsboys
Chris August
Barlow Girl
Superchick
Toby Mac
Mercy Me
Chris Tomlin
Sanctus Real
Tenth Avenue North
The Afters
Casting Crowns
Kutless
Britt Nicole
Francesca Battistelli
Natalie Grant
Switchfoot
Aaron Shust
Phillips Craig & Dean
Jadon Lavik
Rush of Fools
Nicole C. Mullen
Avalon

And, and, and...hehe.

Disclaimer: Any person(s) listed here does not mean I endorse all of their music or like all of their songs.

I know what you mean with "And, and, and...".

Nice disclaimer.

God -Rebecca St. James/KJ-52

Well, you asked for it.

UPDATED: 1/15, 11:10

Steven Curtis Chapman- Fingerprints of God, Cinderella, Live out Live, Meant to Be (for the new VeggieTales movie)

Twila Paris- Days of Elijah

Todd Agnew- Grace Like Rain

Matthew West- My Own Little World, Something to Say

Mandisa- Shackles, My Deliverer, Voice of a Saviour, He Is With You, Never Gonna Steal My Joy

Kutless- Strong Tower, One Day, What Faith Can Do

Chris Tomlin- Your Grace is Enough, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, Amazing Grace [My Chains are Gone], Made to Worship, Our God is Greater, How Great is Our God, We Fall Down, Indescribable, I Will Rise

Chris August- 7x70, Starry Night

Michael W. Smith- Open the Eyes of my Heart Lord, Our God is an Awesome God, Here I am to Worship

The Newsboys- Shine, Born Again, Something Beautiful, He Reigns, You are My King [Amazing Love]

Switchfoot- This is Your Life, Dare You to Move

tobyMac- Lose my Soul, Breaking Through, Lose My Soul

Francesca Battistelli- Free to Be Me, Beautiful Beautiful, Lead Me to the Cross, It's Your Life, I'm Letting Go

Dave Barnes- God Gave Me You

Matt Varnum- Hold Us Together

Amy Grant- Better than a Hallejuah

Mark Schultz- He Was Walking Her Home, He's My Son

Casting Crowns- Does Anybody Hear Her?, East to West, Glorius Day, Slow Fade, American Dream, Between The Altar and the Door, Until the Whole World Hears, Who Am I, Praise You In This Storm, Voice of Truth, If We Are the Body

Sanctus Real- Lead Me

Chris Rice- Untitled Hymn

The Afters- Light Up the Sky

MercyMe- I Can Only Imagine, Bring the Rain

The Museum- My Help Comes from the Lord

Tenth Avenue North- You've Been Remade

Aaron Shust- My Saviour My God, Give Me Words to Speak

Big Daddy Weave- Every Time I Breathe, What Life Would Be Like

BarlowGirl- I Need You to Love Me

Natalie Grant- Your Great Name, I Will Not Be Moved

Echoing Angels- You Alone

Phillips, Craig, & Dean- Revelation Song, Let God Be God, Mercy Came Running, Counting on God, The Distance, Spirit of God is Here, Great Are You Lord, Name Above All Names

Third Day- Lift Up Your Face, Make Your Move, Children of God, Surrender, Trust in Jesus, Gone, What Have You Got to Lose, I'll Be Your Miracle, Cry Out to Jesus, I Wanna Sing a Song for You, Your Love Oh Lord

Jars of Clay- Little Drummer Boy (Christmas)

Jeremy Camp- Walk By Faith, This Man, Jesus Saves, I Still Believe

Brandon Heath- Give Me Your Eyes, Leaving Eden, Your Love

Bethany Dillon- All I Need

Plumb- In My Arms

Kerri Roberts- No Matter What

Colin Buchanan- The Word Became Flesh

Various- You Raise Me Up, Here I Am to Worship

Sidewalk Prophets- The Words I Would Say, You Can Have Me, Hope is Born this Night

David Crowder Band- How He Lives, Here I Am to Worship

Luminate- Come Home

I like these long lists of songs. They reminded me of some I forgot, plus a few more that belong on even my most basic list.

Kutless: Run

Britt Nicole: Believe

Jars of Clay: Flood

Red: Breathe Into Me

Thousand Foot Krutch: Fire It Up

Family Force 5: Love Addict

The Letter Black: Best of Me

Yes, how can one ever list it all? It's like asking what's your favorite book...

Thanks.





Gooo, Elly! Yay for long lists; and such a nice one yours is, with artists I had forgotten to mention!

P.S. Completely random, but there needs to be more smilies on this site...

Thank ye! *curtsy*

My list on the 1st page is updated.

The first three you mentioned are all GREAT songs! =)

eruheran

Here are links to some of my favorites.

"He Was Walking Her Home" By Mark Schultz is one of the most amazing sweet songs.

"I Am" By Mark Schultz a nice worship song. I love his version of it.

"Starry Night" By Chris August

"Better than a Hallujah" by Amy Grant

"Something Beautiful" by the Newsboys

"Born Again" by the Newboys

Casting Crowns: Glorious Day is my new favourite!

I love that song! Oh, and also "Blessings" by Laura Story. Great message.

*gapes at thread*

Wow... those lists go on FOREVER.

I like Christ Tomlin too... and has anyone heard of the Sons of Korah?? Their CD's (I've songs from Shelter, Ressurection, Rain, and Sons of Korah) are AWESOME. They take NIV Psalms and put them to music.

Same here, entirely! Only I usually jump onto YouTube instead of buying it.

My new favourite artist is Francesca Battistelli. (No surprise there for some members ) Chief among her songs being:

Free to Be Me
Hundred More Years
Angel By Your Side
This is the Stuff
So Long
Don't Miss It

Oooo! I have more!

Walking on the Stars by Group 1 Crew

Your Love is Extravagant by Casting Crowns

Closer by Shawn Mcdonald

What do I Know of Holy? by Addison Road

The One Thing by Paul Colman

God in this City by Chris Tomlin

Sooo good! I love listening to these songs. *hugs self* ^^

~Calen

No surprise at all.


*is glad to see someone else mention Group 1 Crew*

I'm super, super picky about CCM songs. (and no, I don't think rock is evil or anything like that. )

I don't like hardly any girl singers, because they sing too sensuously. I don't like hardly any popular bands because their songs are so vague and abstract. And I don't like a lot of styles because they seem too worldly. Then again, there are tons of artists that just plain aren't my style.

However, I find I like the most random things at times. I'm usually very die-hard acoustic, and yet Owl City is growing on me. Go figure.

So I may have to look up some of the artists y'all have mentioned on Pandora. Who knows? I might find some new favorites.

All that said -- my favorite CCM song at the moment is definitely East to West, by Casting Crowns (some of you who know me well will probably not be surprised at this).

I also like:

Voice of Truth, and Courageous by Casting Crowns

How Can I Keep from Singing by Chris Tomlin

Pretty much anything by Phillips, Craig and Dean

The Arms that Hold The Universe by Fee

Everything on Adie Camp's Only You album

Quiet My Heart by Brooke Barretsmith

You Love Me Anyway by Sidewalk Prophets

I'm Not Who I Was by Brandon Heath

Mum's been playing a lot of Don Fransisco lately, and I realised what brilliant lyrics his songs have. Amazing. So I've started listening to them too.

Dito to that! And some are just downright ubiblical. The other day (month, whatever) I was listening to the radio, and I got the part in Mikeschair's "Someone Worth Dying For," and it suddenly struck me how unbiblical that is! If we're worth dying for, there is nothing amazing about Christ dying for us. I can understand that they were trying to make the point that we're special and God loves us, which is perfectly true, but I think sometimes we go to the far extreme and forget that we are nothing but dust and vapor. And that makes Christ dying for us all the more beautiful.

I love the songs "Light up the Sky" and "Lift Me Up" by the Afters. And most of the MercyMe songs.

I love listening to K-love.

There are way to many to list here...
Sea of Faces, Promise of a LIfetime, What Faith Can Do, All Of The Words (Kutless)
What if His People Prayed, Stained Glass Masquerade, Voice of Truth, Praise You In This Storm (Casting Crowns)
Indescribable, Amazing Grace, Our God, God of This City (Chris Tomlin/Passion)
All of Amanda Falk's songs
Walk on the Water (Britt Nicole)
Heaven is the Face (Stephen Curtis Chapman)
The Words I Would Say (Sidewalk Prophets)

And many others, but it takes a really long time to copy down my whole iTunes list. It also takes a long time to copy-paste and take out the songs times, albums, etc.

So no one's heard of the Sons of Korah?

@Grace: I rarely ever listen to new Christian music, unless I am sat down and forced to hear it. I stick to the few artists I know, or much of the old stuff. I don't listen to many girl singers either, but I think you would really like Francesca Battistelli. She has beautiful songs, with such good lyircs!

I listen to quite a bit of the more mild stuff like Phillips, Craig and Dean (though my parents say they're actually old ). I've heard a couple Francesca Battistelli songs, and I like them fairly well... I like "This is the Stuff" but don't care for "Free to be Me." Her voice is lovely, just not my style...remember, I'm the person who'd take Broadway music and soundtracks over anything contemporary any day.

*chuckles* "Free to Be Me" could well be my theme song. Some of the older artists I like, not many people have heard of. Such as Dion, for one.

Run Kid Run's "War is Over" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjQu66ESo8

Close Your Eyes "Valleys" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkpYTU7bg38

Switchfoot's "Dark Horses" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_5oE0ijhKg

Someone I have started listening to recently is Aaron Keyes.

Some of my favourites:

I love that last one, "Not Guilty Anymore," Elanor.

Yes, that is probably my favourite out of all of his songs.

I love Carman! Which is funny because I'm not a big fan of CCM My favorite song, besides Champion, is Revival in the Land.

I like Sunday is on the Way, Serve the Lord and Revive Us by Carman