Stryper!

[Kiwi]

Random question: in which podcast did Stryper first get mentioned?

[NH Baritone]

Random question: in which podcast did Stryper first get mentioned?

And why? For Christ's sake, WHY?

[ScottBarger]

Because Emery feels that that Stryper is the pinnacle of Christian culture.

[Pseudonym]

Because Emery feels that that Stryper is the pinnacle of Christian culture.

As bizarre as I find this concept, I have to admit that worse choices could have been made. Thank the Lord that Emery wasn't into NewSong or DC Talk.

[Kiwi]

Growing up it was always Petra for me. But Stryper do have a much cooler logo.

[NH Baritone]

Because Emery feels that that Stryper is the pinnacle of Christian culture.

And if not at the pinnacle, where on that mountain of culture do Palestrina, Josquin de Prez, J.S. Bach, and Ralph Vaughan Williams lie? Among the scattered scree & talus?

[Pseudonym]

And if not at the pinnacle, where on that mountain of culture do Palestrina, Josquin de Prez, J.S. Bach, and Ralph Vaughan Williams lie? Among the scattered scree & talus?

Emery appears to believe that it's not really culture unless it involves tights, lipstick and hairspray.

Under that assumption, let's be fair, Palestrina and Vaughan Williams would have looked terrible in makeup. Des Prez (and Thomas Tallis, for that matter) really could have done something better with their hair. As for Hildegard, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Mozart there's only so much you can do when you're wearing a habit or a wig.

I think that Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar deserve credit for their impressive moustaches, which could be considered the Victorian equivalent.

In my research for this post, I looked up St Romanos the Melodiator, and I was shocked to discover that there's a marked resemblance between him and Glenn Kaiser of The Resurrection Band:



Not drawing any conclusions at all, but if they'd had fuzz boxes in 6th Century Constantinople, you never know what might have happened.

[NH Baritone]

And if not at the pinnacle, where on that mountain of culture do Palestrina, Josquin de Prez, J.S. Bach, and Ralph Vaughan Williams lie? Among the scattered scree & talus?

Emery appears to believe that it's not really culture unless it involves tights, lipstick and hairspray.

I'm a gay man. I know plenty of men other than Emery that, in a different context, live by rigidly employing those exact rules.

Under that assumption, let's be fair, Palestrina and Vaughan Williams would have looked terrible in makeup. Des Prez (and Thomas Tallis, for that matter) really could have done something better with their hair. As for Hildegard, Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Mozart there's only so much you can do when you're wearing a habit or a wig.

I also know men who make a habit of wearing a wig. Some of them can work miracles with their faux locks.

I think that Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar deserve credit for their impressive moustaches, which could be considered the Victorian equivalent.

Grand mustaches were not left behind at the change of the last century: