The RoseBuds - Ep 57 - Our 5 Favorite Songs By Bands We Don't Like

   In this episode of The RoseBuds the gang countdown their favorite songs from bands they are not really a fan of.  Also they talk about Chopped.

Episode 57 - Our 5 Favorite Songs By Bands We Don't Like

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The RoseBuds - Ep. 52 (One Year!) - Our Favorite Songs Of All Time

    In the RoseBud's year anniversary they countdown their favorite songs of all time.  Instead of the normal five to ten they go for their top 20.  Will Nirvani make it?  Just listen to find out!

Episode 52 (One Year!) - Our Favorite Songs Of All Time

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Top 10 Flyleaf Songs

By Darin Skaggs

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Top Ten Flyleaf Songs

     Flyleaf came around at just the right time in my life.  They were a hard rock band with a female singer that had a unique voice, pretty much everything I wanted in my music.  Lacey Sturm led the pack and did it well.  About two years ago she left the band and I really have no interest in the new singer of the group, it’s just not the same without her.  So this top 10 list will strictly be Flyleaf with Lacey.  They have a short number of songs with only three albums in the last nine years, all of them solid records.  So before the list begins here are some honorable mentions.

HM: Set Apart This Dream (Memento Mori), The Kind (Memento Mori), Great Love (New Horizons)

10. There For You (Flyleaf)

Flyleaf’s debut is a great hard rock album, occasionally Lacey will scream on the record.  But near the end of the record is a slow, sweet song all about just wanting to be there for someone.  It’s the first evidence that Flyleaf can do calmer songs just as well as hard rock.

9. Fully Alive (Flyleaf)

     A Flyleaf staple that combines everything that makes them great; a hard rock anthem that secretly, but not really, is all about God.   The track is really uplifting and gets your head bopping.

8. Fire Fire (New Horizons)

     This song opens Flyleaf’s third album and Lacey’s final.  The song is almost a return to form hard rock wise.  Lacey screams “Fire, Fire, Fire. Fire from the tongues of liars” you can’t help but love it.  The track even hints Lacey’s departure; the whole album is pretty much a goodbye letter to the fans.

7. This Close (Memento Mori)

     Memento Mori is a strange album, filled with odd lyrics.  This song takes the cake as the strangest.  It is a song that seems to be about pretending to be someone you’re not (“I’ve been looking through your window. I’ve been dressing in your clothes. I’ve been walking dead, watching you, long enough to know I can’t go on.”)   This song takes a chance on being different and succeeds.

6. I’m So Sick (Flyleaf)

     The track that started it all, the first song most people heard from good ol’ Flyleaf.  It’s a great opener to their debut and lead single.  Almost nine years later and I’m still listening to it constantly.

5. Treasure (Memento Mori)

     Another song where they make a sweet, encouraging tune.  The song says to the listener they will be a treasure and makes you feel like your worth something of value even when you don’t.

4. So I Thought (Flyleaf)

     Flyleaf makes a brilliant choice to close out there first record.  It’s soft, Lacey’s vocals shine through in a beautiful way and it ends with praising Jesus for always being there during the good and bad times.

3. Broken Wings (New Horizons)

     I said New Horizons was a goodbye letter to the fans and this song is the final track on the album.  After a whole album of Lacey saying it was fun, but I have to go, there is this track.  The song opens with “Thank you for being such a friend to me” and only gets more touching and emotional from there.

2. Arise (Memento Mori)

     The closing track for MM is a great rock song, but it’s the finale that makes it so high on the list.  Lacey sings “Arise and be all that you dreamed, all that you dreamed” over and over in such an inspirational way you can’t help but feel inspired.

1. All Around Me (Flyleaf)

     It’s funny that one of Flyleaf’s more popular tracks is the one that is all about worshiping God and how it makes you feel.  Though the reason it’s so popular with the mainstream is because it’s also just a great rock track.  This song is so effective all around (pun intended) that my previous top ten list artist, David Crowder Band, covered this song on one of their records.

Top 10 Favorite David Crowder Band Songs

 

By Darin Skaggs

     Here begins a journey in which I take ten bands  I like and countdown my ten favorite tracks from them.  Just so you know, this is my favorite not what I think are the greatest.  So here we go…

     For me, worship music is a tough genre to pull off.  Some artist do it well, but are not creative enough musically and others just can’t seem to pull off interesting lyrics.  The only artist that does it truly well is David Crowder Band.  They make music that is interesting enough to just have on.  And if you just need some good worship music, DCB is the go to.  So without further or do, here it goes my top ten favorite David Crowder Band songs.

Gotcha, here are some honorable mentions: Because He Lives (Give Us Rest), God Almighty, None Compares (Church Music) and Church Music - Dance[!] (Church Music)

10. Here Is Our King (A Collision)

     This song is one of their more popular songs.  It does everything right.  It is catchy, lets us know there is a God who is there for us and has metaphorical Bible like lyrics comparing the blooming of a rose to how we feel about God.

9. After All (Holy) (Give Us Rest)

     With its calm, whisper like verses and strong, anthem like choruses After All helps DCB’s finale album be one of its most powerful.

8. How He Loves (Church Music)

     Probably DCB’s most popular songs, being sung in the majority of church services, and does not seem to be going anywhere.  Their version so pure and calming, you can’t help but feel something every time you listen to it.

7. Oh Great God, Give Us Rest (Give Us Rest)

     DCB, while making beautiful, powerful worship music also can have a sense of humor about them naming their finale album Give Us Rest.  With the title tracking opening the album, the song is almost a prayer for the world (“Have you seen this place it’s all a mess”) and themselves (“I’ve done my part too well I ‘fess”)

6. Never Let Go (Remedy)

     Never Let Go is a simple song with its only mission to give the listener peace that God, well, never let’s go.  The whole Remedy album is an attempt at bringing peace to the listener and this track is a highlight.

5. Wholly Yours (A Collision)

     The first third of A Collision is full of classic songs like Here Is Our King and Foreverandever Ect but nothing quiet tops Wholly Yours. It makes for a great worship song and DCB is having fun with their lyrics, “You are Holy, Holy Holy.” Then near the end of the song proclaiming “I am wholly, wholly, wholly Yours.”

4. Can I Lie Here (Church Music)

     An unconventional track from DCB, but a great one.  Taking the idea of “Love like a child” and making it their own. Throughout the song he asks if he can lie in His arms much like a vulnerable child.

3. Surely We Can Change (Remedy)

     Closing out their best record, in my opinion, is a beautiful song that with the choruses struggles with the temptation from man and the immense love of God.  Of course, choosing the love of God and wanting to save the world the song proclaims “The whole world’s about to change!”

2. Oh, Happiness (Church Music)

     Maybe the bands least worship like song and again maybe it is their most.  For the chorus David Crowder brought about twenty of his friends to all sing “Oh, happiness! There’s grace, enough for us and the whole human race.”  With this song, and most of Church Music, DCB attempts to rewrite the rules for what worship should be. The song is pure fun and gives us what it promises, happiness.

1. The Glory Of It All (Remedy)

     Maybe the most powerful worship song I’ve ever heard. Hiding a small church service in the song preaching God was there at the beginning and will be till forever, then says if you’re lost come to Him.  The chorus stirring your emotions each and every time it is sung.