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Awesome CD!

cancersurvivor87 | USA | 04/09/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD Is Awesome!! I recommend that you buy it right away. Oh yeah, The Bonus Tracks are on Disc 1: 16. Ready Fuels - Anberlin 17. Clear - Watashiwa Disc 2: 16. Monday In Vegas - Lucerin Blue 17. Loved Ones - Starflyer59. Hope that is helpful. Anyways, This is an Awesome Album! And another Good thing, is they are Christian Bands!"

Experience the Alternative - WOW!

Susan Prince | Humboldt, TN United States | 05/18/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"X 2003 is loaded...heavily loaded. This is your CD is you feel a need to rock out! Wow! Packed from beginning to end of this two CD set are songs from some of today's best Christian alternative/rock bands. There are some new bands listed on here as well and this CD I'm sure will help get their name out there.There are many times during the year that Christian stores will offer the "Simply Familiar" "Simply Christian" rock and pop music samplers at "Simply Irresistible" prices that "Simply Get Forgotten" a lot of times. (I "simply" don't understand the "simply" tag on that promotion) The main purpose of these is to expose the new artists and promote new albums by familiar artists. X 2003 is put together by a collaboration between Tooth & Nail, Forefront and Sparrow Records and may be the best collection of Christian alt/rock music put together yet. Disc One leads off with the appropriate "Get This Party Started" from Tobymac. It really sets the mood for the rest of the collection, despite the editing blunder that abruptly cuts the song off in the middle of a word! Not a sentence, but a word, just seconds from the actual ending of the song. Pillar takes off next with their big hit "Fireproof" from their album of the same name. Disc one continues with songs from established bands like the OC Supertones, Mxpx, Bleach and Five Iron Frenzy. There are a few new bands introduced to the listener as well, such as Justifide, Sanctus Real and Holland. Switchfoot is represented by their track "You Already Take Me There" which is a somewhat bizarre choice since they do have a newer album out with other songs that would have made excellent choice to be on this disc. As bonus tracks we hear from new bands Anberlin and Watashi Wa. Relient K starts off disc two with "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips and Things Like Chemistry" and then Audio Adrenaline keeps things going with "Summertime". Again, another bizarre choice because of the fact AA has a newer release that could be featured, but regardless, the song fits really well with the energy of this collection. Disc two is my favorite of the two discs because there are some awesome rock tracks on here. "Your Touch" from Kutless, "John Woo" off of the Newsboys "Thrive" CD which is a great release from them. Further Seems Forever is a new band with a very unique electronic-style rock sound, that at times is rather "experimental", and lend their song "The Sound" to this CD. There is some youthful rap-rock offered from PAX 217's "Engage" and some hip-hop from The Cross Movement and Peace of Mind which features KJ-52 on vocals. Jeremy Camp lends his song of surrender to the party with "Take My Life" and is appropriately followed up by his fiancée's band The Benjamin Gate's "Lift Me Up". Disc two also features Tait, Tree 63, Delirious?, Skillet and Demon Hunter. The bonus tracks are from Lucerin Blue and Starflyer 59.This set is a great sampler of the Christian music that is out there from these record labels, and is definitely something Christian youth can enjoy and listen to with friends who may not be Christian. This is for the listener who enjoys the heavier rock style and wouldn't last one minute with the radio dial on K-LOVE. You get 34 songs in this collection that are up-tempo, energetic, and simply RAWK!4 of 5 stars"

X2003

Susan Prince | 01/31/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"X2003 is one of my favorite cd's that I own! It features some great songs that really rock out!
The only reason that I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was because there are several songs that are a little too slow for my liking.
But this cd definately rules. It has many differant varieties of rock (soft rock, heavy rock, rap, contemporary-rock, punk, heavy metal) and many differant awsome groups.
Kutless, Pillar, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Demon Hunter and Pax 217 are some of the heaviest groups on this album, and Tobymac, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, Tait, Switchfoot and the Supertones are some of the other softer (but definately not SOFT!) groups. Then there's also inbetween groups, like MxPx, Peace of Mind, The Cross Movement, and Five Iron Frenzy.
Sounds like a cd you could only own in your dreams, doesn't it? And there's many more unnamed groups such as Jeremy Camp, Superchick, Benjamin Gate and Sanctus Real! And MANY, MANY MORE!
What an awsome cd! I want to listen to it just talking about it. This cd rocks, and if you don't own it, BUY IT RIGHT NOW!"