Rockin Revival

Servant - Rockin Revival

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Artist: Servant
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2006
CD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Music Label: Retroactive

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Music Review: The Legacy of Truth
Rating: 5 Stars

Let me admit the biases first: Servant was our band, by that, I mean part of our commune, managed and formed by my dad, and all the people in it close friends of mine. So I am going to be pretty supportive.

For many the music of Servant was too cutting and dangerous to listen to, for who wants to hear a call to repent, that you, the church, are not actually following Jesus Christ? Isn't contemporary Christian music supposed to just make Christians happy, and be a safe outlet to dance?

Servant was cutting edge- the first Christian band with an extensive light show, the first to use lasers, and the band that gave Petra their start. The lyrics speak to the foundational elements of our commune, HMS. The Jesus Movement never produced a tome like the Westminster Confession; for us, our theology was expressed in our music. Even today, when I contemplate an ethical action, I consult the Bible, and the music I grew up with.

Look Out Babylon is amazingly prescient for our times. "Wear the oil flows the most, is where the tension lies." To hear prophetic lyrics like "Soldiers in Afghanistan; sanctions in Iraq" from 1981 is just scary. It's a call against war, to see that Babylon, representative of the evil in humanity, is actually us in the West.

Isolated speaks to how a Sunday and Wednesday church, as Keith Green also spoke of, is not what Christ had in mind. Lonely Christians, isolated Christians, these are the antithesis of Christ's message- he calls us into community. Ad Man has got a fun ring to it, speaking of the mammon of advertising that calls us to a different god- there is no god but money.

The two finest songs on this album are perhaps the finest songs Servant ever produced. Suburban Josephine was sung by Sandie Brock and written in part by my mom. One day while they were in the van, she looked over, and said, "That looks like a suburban Josephine." And the lyrics just started tumbling out. A story of a woman sung to the old shooby-doo-wah 60's sound, she desired, ever since she could remember, to serve Jesus. But one day she fell in love with someone else, that she could touch and see. Now she has soap operas for breakfast, and a 21" colour television, and needs to get her hair done right because her husband comes home soon. She has traded in the dream Christ gave her for the American dream. But you can't serve two masters. And one day, while watching the Price is Right, she saw three friends fly by, up into the sky...

I'm Going to Live is a song that I think of again and again throughout my life. It's lessons were omnipresent in my thoughts the last time I was held up at knife point, and influencing my words. Bob Hardy tells the story of two guys who came up to him and demanded some cash, or they would kill him. He told them that they could have his money (what does that matter anyway?) but they couldn't have his life, for his life belongs to the Lord, and he was going to live forever. Then the song begins.

There's no way we can lose. Our life is not forfeit, for we are already dead. To live is Christ, to die is gain. In the end, the robbers get all the cash, and a whole lot more as well.

And at the end of every concert, the audience rises to it's feet, yelling out in unison the ballad "I'm Gonna Live Forever", over and over, till the beat became part of the blood of our veins.

Shallow Water
World of Sand + 2

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Description of Rockin Revival

According the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, Servant's 1981 release ROCKIN' REVIVAL was a huge step forward, adding the keyboard sounds of Matt Spransy for a richer, fuller sound. The band's desire was to reach the ears and hearts of those who might not feel so comfortable in church buildings. As a result, their music shied away from self-centered, Jesus-and-me praise lyrics. They avoided easy rock styles that typified most CCM of the day. Instead, Servant championed edgy, passionate, driving rock music, with aggressive stage performances filled with a kingdom message spiced with strong social commentary. A young man named, Doug Pinnick would co-write "I'm Gonna Live," which would garner significant radio play, and become a favorite of Christian music fans for years to come. Pinnick would eventually be best known as part of the mainstream hard rock trio, King's X.

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