Lately in the LeBlanc household we have had another rebirth of ’80s music. The School Girl is a huge ’80s music fan as am I. I think we own about two dozen of those Time-Life Series CDs on music from the 1980s. These times always prompt conversations like “do you remember such-and-such band?”, etc. Well, I got to thinking about one such group, Christian rockers Stryper. I remember really enjoying their type of hair metal and it is cool that they had such a great message in their music.
This for some reason brings me to the time they decided to stray from their Christian music roots and put out an album that had nothing to do with their faith. This album was called Against The Law and was released at the beginning of the ’90s. I really enjoyed their take on the Earth, Wind & Fire song “Shining Star“:
Of course this record had the obligatory power ballad, “Lady“. I can still remember riding around in the G-Man’s EXP back in that summer blasting this tune around the back roads of The Glade.
Sometimes I wish there were still bands pumping out hair metal tunes. That’s exactly what the world needs now: more ’80s metal!
Dear God, literally. I remember Stryper. My dad used to listen to them all the time. Them and some band called Last Adam, they’re quite similar.
I’m no christian these days but, about twelve months back, I listened to them again. And you know what? Faith’s irrelivant where awesome riffage is concerned.
“To hell with the devil”, indeed.
I have been a Stryper fan since junior high…back in the days of “Soldiers Under Command”. Looking on their MySpace profile recently, I found out that they have a new album due out in the fall of this year and also that, sadly, Michael Sweet’s wife is battling cancer.