rec.music.christian

CCM Discography FAQ-Version 8.6

Sept 25,1995

  1. Explanation of CCM Discography
    1. Acknowledgements
    2. Purpose of the Discography
    3. Sources for the Discography
    4. Other FAQs for the CCM crowd
    5. Discography Format
  2. Discography FAQ

1.0 Explanation of CCM Discography

1.1 Acknowledgements

This discography would not be in existence without the hard work and efforts of the original maintainer, Peter David Thompson. Thanks for all your hard work "pdt"!

I could not maintain this list without the support, encouragement and help of the many thousands of CCM fans out across the Internet! To everyone, "thanks for everything"...suggestions, additions, AND corrections! With your help, this list can be an accurate and complete reference source for CCM music...both of the past and the present!

Special thanks to those who have made contributions to this discography in the past few weeks:

*** Peter David Thompson		*** Dave Hettesheimer
*** David King				*** Ron McMahon
*** Miles O'Neal			*** Doug Rendall
*** Nigel Fryatt			*** Calvin Murthy
*** Jeff & Amy Penner			*** Shari Lloyd
*** Martin Beck				*** Kelly Lichtenwald

1.2 Purpose of the Discography

This discography attempts to provide a comprehensive and correct listing of groups' and artists' works that are of interest to the rec.music.christian newsgroup.

This inevitably covers a wide range of musical styles, lyric style and content, and artist's purpose in the creation of music. It also explains the contents of, and some of the gaps and inaccuracies, in the discography; the information was supplied by net people, who got it from album covers, faulty recollections, and various other sources. Be warned that the information listed may not be 100% accurate; however, if you see something wrong, please let me know and I'll correct it!

There is also the necessity that someone draw the line at what goes in and what stays out. That someone is me, and I reserve the right to reformat, exclude, include, trim, or expand your submissions as I see fit. However, please do not be discouraged from submitting additions or corrections in the format described below to:

cumph@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
who, in real life, is Matt Honnold (Matt at E.I.U.).

1.3 Sources for the Discography

This FAQ and discography is posted biweekly (during the school year) and monthly (during the North American Summer) to the following groups:
rec.music.christian rec.music
Sources for the Discography on the World Wide Web are as follows:
MY HOMEPAGE:  http://www.ecn.bgu.edu/users/cumph/main.html
		(non-HTML marked-up copy...for the time being)

    http://www.netads.com/rmc/
      (rec.music.christian site)
    http://www.netads.com/rmc/FAQ.disco.html (current CCM Discography)

Special thanks to Miles O'Neal for keeping the www site updated.


1.4 Other FAQs For The CCM Crowd

There is a weekly posting in rec.music.christian detailing access methods and contact people for the multitude of FAQs (including this FAQ) designed for the CCM crowd.

1.5 Discography Format

FOR AN INDIVIDUAL ARTIST:

  Lastname, First  (Groups the artist is associated with)
  Lastname, First  (OLDER NAME)
  19     Album you're not sure of the decade of
  199    Album you're not sure of the year of
  1990   Album you are sure of the name of  {notes on album} {tracks mm:ss}
  1991   Boxed set {This album, that album, another album}
  1992   Compilation album {co: 1 new track}
  1993a  First album of 1993
  1993b  Second album released in 1993
  --     General comments about the artist.


FOR A GROUP:

Group Name  (CURRENT)	(Groups that the group members are associated with)
Group Name  (OLDER)
Group Name  (OLDEST)
  19     Album you're not sure of the decade of
  199    Album you're not sure of the year of
  1990   Album you are sure of the name of  {notes on album} {tracks mm:ss}
  1991   Boxed set {This album, that album, another album}
  1992   Compilation album {co: 1 new track}
  1993a  First album of 1993
  1993b  Second album released in 1993
  --     General comments about the group
Please make sure you follow this convention for discography submissions, as it adds significantly to my workload to have to reformat your submissions.
Last updated: 25 October 2001

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