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The Eggman's avatar

Great read! I grew up in a very small and isolated mountain town in Colorado, around this same time. I must have been 15 or 16 when, one day at the skatepark, some punky kids showed up and told us they were in a band that was playing in a nearby (but distant to us) town’s church, and gave us a cassette. We were all into punk, but mostly the Epitaph/Fat Wreck variety that the older siblings had turned us onto, and we actually dug this tape quite a bit. It was melodic and catchy, had some dumb song about a hamster that got caught in a ceiling fan…. Anyhoo, this band was called F4X, and I listened to the tape quite a bit, but only weeks later learned that this stood for “Fools For Christ” and they were a Christian Punk band. We all laughed and poked fun, but most of us still rocked this tape in our walkmans, haha. I was never a Christian, but at that time you could say I was a “Hardcore Atheist". ever heard of this band? I was curious not long ago and found a mention SOMEwhere.

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John's avatar

This was quite relatable for me. I discovered Blaster the Rocketboy/man in high school but I got super into them in college. As a sheltered homeschooled Christian kid, their music felt safe enough that it didn’t push me outside my comfort zone, but dangerous enough that it also felt way more interesting than any Christian music I’d heard previously.

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