This was a watershed album for me. For a couple of years from '81 through '83 I listened to a lot of Christian music. Some good, some really good and a lot of really ... really questionable stuff that was truly awful. At the time I played Colours a lot ... I mean, A LOT. Even at the time despite my desire to like everything on it, the album was felt wildly uneven but I ... did ... not ... care. I loved this record. I'd first heard Resurrection Band in the spring of 1981 (sometimes memories do have a time stamp) when a friend played the opening track to their 1978 album Awaiting Your Reply. "Waves" sounded like Led Zeppelin, which at the time wasn't actually a selling feature for me. People may not remember but there was a time not that long ago when music like this was controversial. Many of the televangelist talking heads proclaimed this was THE DEVIL'S MUSIC. What Resurrection Band and their contemporaries were doing was truly out of the ordinary for Ch...
A place where I just blather on about shit I either miss, or am excited about, or just found and want to share. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally don't know what I'm talking about, but sometimes I do. This generally reads like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the images ... mostly it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget