Only Visiting This Planet

Only Visiting This Planet

Only Visiting This Planet
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Performer: Larry Norman
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 2001
Music Label: Solid Rock Records

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Music Review: Among CCM's Most Influential Albums for Good Reason
Rating: 5 Stars

Larry Norman's music is usually only available through his eponymously named website. As his albums are reissued as remastered CDs, it is good to see them more publicly available.

Norman didn't invent Christian music, but he helped define what it could be for the late 20th century. Long before Amy Grant, DC Talk, and Michael W. Smith was a long-haired guy wearing black talking about politics, Jesus and love. Churches weren't sure what to do with him, and the secular music world wasn't sure they didn't like him. His wasn't a hippie, or was he? Believers and atheists were conflicted, and Norman wound up forging a change in modern Christian music.

Norman was funny in his shows, with the kind of humor never heard at church camp, and with a message that left Christians unsettled. "Only Visiting This Planet" was one of the albums to showcase Norman's lyrical style and biblical insight, first being released in 1972.

His signature song, "I Wish We'd All Been Ready," would have been enough to make this a worthy album. Futuristically, he laments for those who did not accept the salvation of Christ prior to the Second Coming.

"Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music" answers the scorn of the church, and the cynicism of the world.

"I Am The Six O'clock News" aims sharply at the sense of complacent distance we have while watching the news of international violence, using the currency of the Viet Nam war as his backdrop.

"Why Don't You Look Into Jesus" is directed at Janis Joplin, as Norman watched, as we all watched, the self-destruction of one of the greatest blues voices ever. Norman saw the problem and gave a suggestion. The song, with edgy lyrics, was banned from being played on many Christian radio stations.

"Gonorrhea on Valentine's Day,
And you're still looking for the perfect lay,
You think rock and roll will set you free,
You'll be dead before you're thirty-three,
Shooting junk till you're half insane,
Broken needle in your purple vein,
Why don't you look into Jesus, he's got the answer."

"The Outlaw" highlights the sometimes forgotten aspect of Christ's life, that in his three years prior to crucifixion, he lived as a rebellious, wanted man hanging out with the dregs of society. The clean-cut, anti-hippie suburban churches bristled, and sometimes, embraced Norman because of this challenging reminder.

"Some say He was an outlaw, that He roamed across the land
With a band of unschooled ruffians and a few old fishermen
No one knew just where He came from or exactly what He'd done
But they said it must be something bad that kept Him on the run."

I fully recommend "Only Visiting This Planet" by Larry Norman.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
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Description of Only Visiting This Planet

This is the re-release of Larry Norman's classic Christian rock CD, "Only Visiting This Planet". This relase also includes bonus tracks "Peacepollutionrevolution", "Righteous Rocker (Delta Swamp Version", "The Outlaw (Peace Mix Remake), & "Reader's Digest (Solid Rock Studio Remake)".

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