So last week we featured this little mini-series. I'm not sure how long it will last, but I do keep coming up with more examples.
To review, sometimes you hear a song, and it reminds you of another tune. Maybe it's the words, maybe it's the guitar riff or melody - but some element of it shakes the dust off some musical memory that's been tucked away in the attic of your mind.
Other times, there's an obvious homage - an intentional sampling of a beat or phrase. Then there are the rare times in my experience where there's an unintentional direct parallel.
Today's set of songs include the first examples of this "phenomenon" that I remember noticing.
As a high schooler, I fully dove in to the new wave of CCM music that was coming out. Bands like Switchfoot, Third Day, Smalltown Poets, Newsboys, and of course dc Talk and Jars of Clay were emerging as credible artists that produced good music.
Not fully able to differentiate every group, I confused these two artists due to their synonymous songs.
"Kindle" - Between Thieves
Around1997-98, I heard this song on the radio and I'd also been hearing from my friends and Christian magazines about a new group called "Third Day" who had a song called "Consuming Fire". So naturally I assumed this was Third Day. Eventually I realized it wasn't and liked the song enough to buy the album.
This may be the most obscure CCM artist I've ever featured (which is saying something) but their first album was solid even if many of the songs sounded the same. All these years later, I had forgotten that this song wasn't titled "Consuming Fire" but "Kindle" instead.
"Consuming Fire" - Third Day
Whereas the Between Thieves song is descriptive of the Holy Spirit, this song includes those ideas but also connects to Hebrews 12:25-29.
For me, this is quintessential Third Day. For all they became as a CCM supergroup, this style is what made them stand out.
Bonus Feature - "All Consuming Fire" - Jennifer Knapp
I had forgotten about this song until I went searching for these others. But I'm pretty sure I had this album at one point so I'm going to include it. It's musical style is far removed from the rock of the other two.
It seems as if there have been other more recent songs with this as a title or theme but I'm cutting this off at the three I'm most familiar with.
