If this graphic image doesn’t look familiar, click the links at the bottom of this piece for two recent rants about Christian music on radio, and modern worship in churches.
All this weekend, K-LOVE has been offering an online feed called “K-LOVE Classis: 80s, 90s and Early 2000s.” You can catch it at this link.
It’s in some respects, the K-LOVE that never was, though the station’s beginnings trace back to 1980.
There were a lot of people doing a lot of creative things in the earlier days of what we call CCM, but like K-LOVE itself, this is a rather safe, sanitized version of another generation’s Christian music. Perhaps what I’m longing to hear would be more of an Air1 classics station (Air1 is a sister station network to K-LOVE.) The first hour was interesting, but then everything started sounding the same.
Some of the trip down memory lane contained a few familiar songs — we played “Guess the Artist” while waiting for the ten second delay of the song ID onscreen — there were only a couple that really resonated where I turned the volume up high, and remember I was making my living full time from sales of this music in the 80s. (My wife handily won the artist guessing contest, however.)
We’ve discussed Christian music a few times here, so I don’t want to belabor this, you can read those articles at the following links.
- March 20, 2018 — What’s Wrong with Christian Radio is Purely Intentional
- June 11, 2018 — Becky Goes to Church (Modern Worship)
Also, if you missed this 14-minute video,
- July 8, 2018 — The Problem with Christian Music (video)
Thinking Out Loud 
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