Audio Adrenaline

Item: Some Kind Of Journey (Video)
Author: Doug Van Pelt

Some Kind Of Journey (Video)

(1998)

Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

Label Standard PublishingHM Magazine #74November/December 1998

alternative rock ccm

While Audio A retains a safe sound that garners them the trust and endorsement of youth workers in the USA, they don't deserve to be totally dismissed as ccm drivel. What they've done here by chronicling the real-life questions and comments of seven people who traveled with the band on tour last winter is a cool thing. What's cool about it is it's real. It's like MTV's Real World with seven believers as the group, and they tackle issues most of the time, rather than the conflicts of simply living together. You hear some cool points brought up and you get the feel that some of these people are authentically cool.

This is actually a video curriculum for youth workers to use in a discussion setting. Each segment is broken up so as to stand on its own and can be used to spawn the same kind of discussions captured on film. There's not enough footage to make this a genuine musical acquisition to the AA fan's collection, but does succeed at being a good useful tool for a youth worker. Besides, I couldn't think of a funner topic than body piercing to discuss in Sunday School.