Old Enough to Forget

I went through a weird phase where I pretty much only bought Christian "rock" music. Kids in our youth group would recount as fact how bands like Rush had altar calls for Satan, and KISS stood for "Kids, or Knights in Satan's Service" or something equally ridiculous, and we ate it up (sometimes I had seconds), gleefully repeating this and other tales of pure bullshit amongst ourselves. Yeah, there's a name for this: bearing false witness - but as kids we were kind of stupid. While I have a lot of CCM (contemporary Christian music) that I am still very fond of, there are a lot of bands that I'd never have given the time of day to if it hadn't been for the inevitable comparisons to their "secular" counterparts. There were even guide books to help. Sort of like substituting meat to make a vegetarian dish. There were some notable exceptions where artists stood out, and their recordings actually had some production value and didn't sound lik...