All your favorites keep on coming back here on the Praisedown! This week Alex and Heath welcome back GTM’s very own Dalton Stuart! Join us as we bumble and jaw-jack through the following topics:
- What is your Family Force 5 nickname?
- The ups and downs of having your brain break!
- Of course Veggie Tales erotic fan fiction exists, but why?
After we make all the poseurs log off, Dalton leads us through an exciting crash-course on Family Force 5, and their 2006 release Business Up Front, Party in the Back!
In a world with a lot of bands, Family Force 5 is a lot of band. I could be talking about how each member of the band has a nickname, or that they have been known play a drum machine the size of a refrigerator at live performances. What I actually mean is that Family Force 5 is so acutely a product of their time that I cannot help but be endlessly fascinated by them.
The hair band of the mid-2000s, like Family Force 5 and others, is nothing like the soaring, heartfelt, melodic energy of the 80s hair band. Hair bands in the 2000s draw from the seemingly opposite wells of post-hardcore music, and the burgeoning Crunk genre. Despite the styles of these two eras of hair showing a stark contrast, the most fascinating thing about them is the same: how “right now” they both are, and how quickly, comically, and poignantly they become “back then.”
Even the cover of Family Force 5’s first LP Business Up Front, Party in the Back is like peering into a window to the past despite being barely over a decade old. The album cover features loud colors and contrasts, extremely stylized lettering, and shots of some of the members of the band break-dancing, others mid-jump. For as utterly strange I find Business Up Front, Party in the Back, we all agreed back then that it ruled! Kountry Gentleman and Love Addict experienced massive crossover success, showing up in films, video games, and TV. Family Force 5 shows us a time that adults my age are embarrassed to remember but don’t want to forget.
Business Up Front, Party in the Back is not a record I would strongly identify as a Christian one. I get the impression that Family Force 5 just wants to have a good time that Christians also get to have. Although, I wish the spirituality of this record would manifest more purposefully than what feels like an average of one or two lines per track.
For full reviews and thoughts, please take a listen to the episode below!
The Praisedown with Heath and Alex – Ministry of Horny Walks: Family Force 5 with Dalton Stuart
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