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Michael W. Smith - The Michael W. Smith Project

Released early in 1983 I picked it up shortly after it came out. It was a weird looking album with a nerdy sweater wearing guy who was grinning like he'd taken the last Oreo off the plate of cookies in Sunday school. Whoever designed the cover was going for "current" because the cover had a computer generated looking background that seemed to be inspired by Tron, and that was current. The album opens with a cheesy synthesizer arrangement of "Sonata in D Major" before launching into "You Need a Savior" a song that pretty much stopped me in my tracks. "What was this strange music coming from the stereo? This is good - not just "Christian music good" but, good - good. I was buying a lot of really questionable Christian music in the early '80s that got a pass because it was Christian, and therefore inspired by God and therefore good for you. After all, like Larry said, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" but in reali...