Newsboys

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- Go
- Released 2006

- Shine...The Hits
- Released 2000

- The Greatest Hits
- Released 2007

- Adoration: The Worship Album
- Released 2003

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One of the more media-exposed Christian rock bands of the '90s, Newsboys formed in the late '80s around a core of John James, Peter Furler, and Philip Urry. Though early in their career the band was panned for a perceived over-reliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped secular music's alternative revolution in the early '90s for an image makeover, with good results. The group gained six number one singles on the Christian charts, and have been featured in more secular media outlets than the average Christian band. Step Up to the Microphone, their first album for major label Virgin, followed in 1998; Love Liberty Disco appeared a year later. In celebration of the new millennium, the Newsboys also observed their own career with the greatest-hits package Shine...The Hits, issued in fall 2000. Their most elaborate work to date, Thrive, was issued in spring 2002 and led to one of their biggest CCM hits ever, "It Is You." Over ten years into their own career, that fall Newsboys Remixed was released, offering new takes on several of their biggest hits. The band issued Adoration: The Worship Album in April 2003. The record included both originals and Newsboy versions of well-known worship songs. Guitarist Jody Davis left the Newsboys in late 2003 in order to care for his daughter, Bethany, and Byan Olesen took his place for a little over a year. He left in 2004 to work on his own band, Casting Pearls, just after the Newsboys released their second worship album, Devotion. Paul Coleman, an Aussie singer/songwriter, came aboard as the band's new guitarist, and the next two years found the band touring the globe and working on the songs that would become their first pop album in four years, Go. That album, released in October 2006, was the first to be released on the band's own Inpop Records. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

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- - Amazing group!
  - - By Painterofwolves
    - 5/13/2009 16:23:43
  - The Newsboys are probably the first group I ever started listening to as a kid and even now their music is still one of my favorites.
    The new album is absolute amazing! Good job guys! I can't stop listening to it!
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- - Step up
  - - By DANGIT
    - 5/1/2009 19:55:27
  - Step Up to the Mircophone is the Essential christian rock album , make no mistake it is what all other artist should look to as the standerd in ccm
    
    artist should look to as the standerd in ccm
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- - God has Blessed Them!
  - - By DieReborn
    - 3/4/2009 22:09:15
  - The Newsboys have from the start shown their fans that God is the center of their world. Their music has changed but their focus hasn't. The fact that they are successful and openly a Christian band says that God has been helping them throughout their career. I hope that they will be around for a long time!
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- - Uncommon
  - - By phpbb3
    - 10/22/2008 23:18:44
  - This kind of band is hard to come by nowadays. These guys still openly sing about God instead of hidden messages like most bands do now-a-days. Newsboys will ALWAYS be a favourite!
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- - only on VHS
  - - By Music4Kate
    - 9/1/2008 06:38:50
  - if you're a Newsboys fan, you've got to watch "Down Under the Big Top." It's like ten years old and really corny but I can't help from quoting it sometimes. I owe it all to my old roommates.
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