Ahhh, the 90s! What a decade of great music. Truth be told, though this is the decade of my formative years, and therefore my favorite overall decade of Christian music, I’ve put off making this list. Well, better said, I’ve delayed finishing this list for a long time. Many a […]
Author: Josh Balogh
Josh is a Christian music nerd/historian whose wife calls him a "perpetual nostalgianator" a word she made up, but makes sense if you know him. He loves reading, writing reviews and blogs, list making, watching old movies, playing card games, and all things music. Some of his all time favorite bands and musicans include Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, Relient K, Dctalk, The Beatles, Twenty One Pilots, Brooke Fraser, Andrew Peterson, PFR, Young Oceans, Jon Gibson, The Gray Havens, and Coldplay.
“1996” by Josh Balogh
It’s time for another yearly retrospective! Here’s my picks for what a Top 10 would have looked like had I been making them twenty five years ago. Of course, I have the benefit of hindsight, but to be fair at least seven of the ten were favorites then and I […]
“Fun Songs of 90s CCM” by Josh Balogh
Goofy. Weird. Odd. Fun. Tongue-in-cheek. Witty. Cringe-y. The 90s of Christian certainly hits its zenith of genres both good and bad. It expanded to include a greater portion of rap, ska, swing, hard rock, industrial and just about any other splinter genre of music that existed at the time. And […]
25 Years Later: Audio Adrenaline, “bloOm”
So—Let’s get the obvious out of the way—how in the world can this album already be twenty-five years old?! It seems like just yesterday I would have been enjoying the sweet sounds of “Never Gonna Be as Big as Jesus” on the radio, rocking out to the delicious riffs of […]