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Oklahoma Howdy to All,

I just wanted to find out if anyone enjoys Internet radio from time to time. It's completely free if you don't mind putting up with some advertising, and that includes the software.

I have about 6 really good Christian stations that I like to listen to in the background while I study the Bible. There is a huge number of Christian stations to choose from for all kinds of tastes in Christian music. I like the old-fashioned Gospel music that is rarely played on regular Christian radio stations.

Winamp appears to be one of the best players, and it's completely free. There's also a pretty good selection of really old and rare radio shows that played in the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. Only the older people will even know what I'm talking about (i.e. Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Jack Benny). Everyone complains about dirty programs on television, and I just wanted to let everyone know there are free and completely clean alternatives. My favorites play the old Gospel music.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Brother BEP - what are some of your links (the URL)?

Oklahoma Howdy to Brother JudgeNot,

I use Live365 for all of my music. I think that it is the biggest and has the most choices. I have dial-up, so I thought I wouldn't have many choices, but I was wrong. It's:

http://www.live365.com/ (http://www.live365.com/)

They have hundreds of choices for the slow and old dial-up modems and thousands of choices for broadband and cable.

One of my favorites is called All Quartets. I guess my second favorite would be Bluegrass Gospel. All Quartets is beautiful and old Gospel music mainly from the 50s and 60s. I think that some of the Bluegrass Gospel is much older than that. There was a time when large numbers of people worked long days in the fields picking, planting, cultivating, etc. Bluegrass Gospel is some of the music they sang while they worked. At the end of a hard day, they added instruments (i.e. lead guitar, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass fiddle, violin, harmonica, and piano if they were real lucky).   :D  A lot of the instruments were home made. I've heard it both ways, with and without the store-bought instruments.  I like both of them.

Love In Christ,
Tom
 

Thanks Brother BEP!  I work in an "inside office" - in other words, I am in an interior office towards the center of the building, with no windows (that's Okay - beats a cubicle!) and as a result I get no radio reception.  The big Christian station in NorCal is KLOVE – they are like 10 million watts but I can’t pick even them up in my office.  

I hear Christian music in my immediate office future…  ;D

Brother, you are most welcome. I think that you will enjoy it. There really isn't that many advertisements, and some of the advertisements come by graphics. If you minimize your player, you don't see any of the graphic advertisements. I listened to another one today called Southern Gospel Live, and I think that it was live. It was really fun to listen to.

Love In Christ,
Tom

uh...your a  tad slow Tom  :P  I posted online radio links in the music thread months ago lol...it`s all I listen too...but i`m going to check out your link too  :)

Oklahoma Howdy to Shylynne,

 ;D  How in the world did I miss that post? I could have been listening to Internet radio weeks earlier. There is no comparison to the selection and quality. Well, the only thing I know to do is read all of the messages again and see if there is something else I missed.   :D   ???  OH!, but then I'll get behind on the new messages.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

I don't have time to listen much to radio music, but I enjoy the old gospel favorites--today's pop Christian or whatever they call it can't compare with the genuine gospel music.  A favorite CD I've found is "Burl Ives Gospel"--about 32 selections of the best.  It's very well done.

Oklahoma Howdy to Symphony,

 :D  That's the beauty of music. You can do something else and listen to it in the background. I don't remember the name of the album, but my mother has a Gospel album from Burl Ives. It's probably a portion of the CD you are talking about. You're right about Burl Ives. He has a beautiful voice, and his Gospel music is some of the best. Some of the younger people are probably thinking, "Who's Burl Ives?" They mention some of the newer folks, and I don't have a clue.   ;D

Brother, it sounds like both of us would at least have to be in our 20s.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

You can hear a lot of the popular Christian radio programs from the Web, as in recorded. For example, I think Point of View and Truths that Transform put their daily programs up for listening.

www.thefamily.org has a lot of free downloadable music, the lyrics are all available too.

www.prophecyclub.com has a lot of radio programs recorded you can listen to that are really interesting.

- Alan

Oklahoma Howdy to Alan,

First, I don't think that I've had an opportunity to welcome you to Christians Unite. SO, WELCOME!!

Thanks for those links, especially the one with the lyrics. I am trying to collect some lyrics to really old Gospel music, specifically the ones that aren't in most Hymn books.

Love In Christ,
Tom

My Fav internet radio is Radio Y (http://radioy.com).  They feature both Christian Rock and R+B, Rap on two different players, with no ads.

Ian

Oklahoma Howdy to NoizyChristian,

First, WELCOME!!!


I'm an old guy, and I really don't know much about rock Christian music. However, I do enjoy bluegrass and country style Christian music. My favorite styles are the old ones, including quartets. I like to enjoy great Christian lyrics, and I have a hard time hearing them in some of the rock styles.   ;D  Maybe I just need a better hearing aid.

My tastes would boil down to being able to hear beautiful and blending voices singing beautiful Christian lyrics. I enjoy the older instruments for the same reason - they blend together with everything else in a way that old guys like me enjoy. As an example, some of my favorite instruments always include the piano, organ, and violin. For the bluegrass, I enjoy banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and other instruments that are typically associated with old style music that people played 50 years ago and more.

Well, I guess that I bored you to death with my bland and old-fashioned tastes. I guess that I'm stuck in the past and I like it.   :D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Thankie Tom ;D

I have Live 365 somewhere on my computer, lol.  Now all I have to do is find it, sheez...


Love,

MsGuidedAngel

MsGuidedAngel,

Sister, if you enjoy old fashioned Gospel music, try "All Quartets". If I remember correctly, you have a fast connection, so you will have a huge choice of stations. I have the old and slow dial-up, but I still get a pretty good selection. I really enjoy leaning back and enjoying beautiful Gospel music several times per week.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Oooo Yeah I love Old Time Gospel Music!!  uh huh, I am on DSL still, it's much better than dial-up!!!!!!


Love Bro,  \o/

MsGuidedAngel

Bro Tom

Thanks for the link to the christian radio online. I wil definetly check this out in the morning... It's funny how, when i became born again, i really was not that fond of the old sort of Gospel music and hymns. Was into the newer, more modern stuff. But now i find the words to the older stuff are so much more meaningful. Thats not to say i don't like the newer stuff anymore. Much of it is so so good... Before i became a child of God and even after conversion, i really could not stand Amazing Grace. But now you've guessed it. It's my fav hymn. Just awesome words...Anyway, i have wandered a bit here  ;)

If anyone is intrested in listerning to a couple of online radio stations here in the UK, click the following links and hope they bless you.

http://www.ucb.co.uk/

http://www.premier.org.uk/

Love in Christ

Joey

Hello Joey,

Brother, I'm glad that you are enjoying the music. Thanks for the links.

I'm an older person, so my tastes in music are obviously old fashioned. I would say that I really enjoy listening to music with a Biblical message, a pretty melody, and the harmony of beautiful voices and instruments. That's probably why my favorites are the quartets and various family groups.

Bill Gaither specials on television always have a variety of beautiful music with a stage full of sweet Christians who sing and play for the Lord. Many of the artists are over 60 years old, but they still have a beautiful testimony with their music.

Brother, I do listen to contemporary Christian music from time to time. I've also tried to listen to Christian rock, but I'll have to confess that I'm probably not wired right to become a fan.   :D   Some of the hard stuff blows my old circuits.   ;D   Please - I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the hard 220 stuff - I'm just wired for 110.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Hello

"Some of the hard stuff blows my old circuits. " Funny!!
Are you refering to, what I would call, "Christain Acid Rock"?
This type of music not only blows my circuits but it also
fries them too. The bible says to "make a joyful NOISE unto
the lord". (And thank God that He said that too, because I
can't sing!) I thought what blackeyedpeas posted above
was humorous!

Here are a couple I listen to,

  http://www.klove.com/
  http://knwc.nwc.edu/page.php



Jim
 

ha, I used to work for KLOVE when they were in Santa Rosa, California!



Here's a better player for internet radio called;




Blessings, \o/

KristiAnn
MsGuidedAngel

Seven,

Brother Jim, I really don't know what some of the music terms mean these days.   :D  They might call it Christian Acid Rock. I'm stuck in the 50s and 60s. Most of the Christian Music I listen to would probably fall into these categories: old fashioned quartet, traditional, country, bluegrass, and Southern Gospel. Many people ask what Southern Gospel is. That's the really old style music that field hands sang and played either while they worked or at the end of a hard day in the field. My dad's family were sharecroppers, and they all sang and played numerous instruments. There are probably thousands of Southern Gospel songs that most people have never heard. There are others that became so popular that almost everyone has heard them. Many of the verses to the most popular songs were made up while they worked. So, the music may have been published with standard verses, but hundreds of additional verses were never published.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Hello blackeyepeas,

LOL.. What I mean by "Christain Acid Rock" would probably
be best described by the mid-60's and 70's era. Lot of the
hard-rock-bands during this era was pretty heavy,
e.g. "AC/DC". A small number of Christain band cater in this
type of music. Trust me, its very far from the old fashioned
quartet, traditional, country, bluegrass groups of the 1950's
and 1960's. I can't say that I'm fond of the types of band
music that you mentioned, but its much better than the
heavy christain metal bands these days!


Jim

Oklahoma Howdy to Seven,

Brother Jim, I would simply have to be honest and say that I don't know what Christian acid rock is.  ;D  The Beatles were about as wild as I got, and I seriously doubt they fit in that category. I guess that I could easily be called a "square" and definitely not "hip".   ;D  See, I'm using old terms, and I really don't know what the young people call it these days.   ;D  Whatever they call it, that's me.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Here are a bunch more links for you all...

http://www.christianrock.net (http://www.christianrock.net) - biggest Christian rock station on the net. They play all the latest hits.
http://www.christian-hiphop.net (http://www.christian-hiphop.net) - biggest Christian hip hop station on the net from the folks who brought you Christianrock.net...
http://www.christianhardrock.net (http://www.christianhardrock.net) - hard rock version of Christianrock.net from the same folks...
http://www.classicgod.com/trirock.htm (http://www.classicgod.com/trirock.htm) - lots of classic rock and metal along with more recent stuff and songs by independent groups...
http://www.cmradio.net (http://www.cmradio.net) - 7 different formats for your listening pleasure.
http://www.reignradio.com (http://www.reignradio.com) - similar to Tri-Rock Radio. Lots of old stuff and new stuff - metal, hard rock, rock and ocasionally even hip hop / rap.

Have you tried onlineTV2? (It also has radio, video, newspapers, etc.):
http://www.shareto.com/mp3_audio/streaming_audio/onlinetv.html

WinAmp is good, too.  Quicktime is also good, get the free player version: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html