Good collection, weak songs disc 2
Posted November 24, 2007
By Nathan,
Wow hits 2008 is the collection of all the Christian hits in 2008, even though the songs were released in 2007. Disc 2 is more of the rock collection, but it does ask a question about what Mandisa is doing on a rock album.
The smash hit by tobyMac "Made to love" is a great choice, and one that will be mentioned when the Dove awards come around. Barlow Girl's "I need you to love me" is a pretty weak song despite its success. "Something Beautiful" by the Newsboys is a nice pop song but "me and Jesus" by Stellar Kart is way overrated. Punk band Hawk Nelson put out the nearly worthless song "the show", while Relient K's song "forgiven" is the best of the Wow songs.
Jeremy Camp should have made have made Wow hits with "let it fade", but is on board with "what it means". Mat Kearney's "nothing left to lose" is a great pick, while the over-popular Mandisa has "only the world", which is almost the biggest error on this disc. "Don't give up" by Sanctus real has good lyrics but is a so-so song, While the hugely popular "stand in the rain" by Superchic[k] is not really as powerful as it seems.
Red made Wow for the first time with their song "breathe into me", and Jars of Clay put out another amazing song: "work". Two worthsip songs on Wow hits disc two are "Tears of the saints" song by Leeland (which is good) and "I believe" by Building 429 (which is not so good). And the appearance of NRG will probably be more surprising that good.
A pretty so-so collection of the harder hits around Christian music, which is disappointing that most of lyrics of these songs are not strong. Over all Wow hits disc one and two are not that good, and is over all not worth getting.
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