Are you familiar with the early Christian ska band Sonseed?  Perhaps you are.  For a couple of years, they’ve been a viral success on YouTube for their song “Jesus is my Friend,” recorded on a TV show called The First Estate back in the early 80’s.  It’s annoyingly catchy and will get stuck in your head.  Check out the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8

So it’s cheesy, features a couple of good lines like “he touched me deep inside,” good for some laughs at the expense of Christians.  But, at a blog that has sort of championed the viral cause of this video, I read an interview with the lead singer Sal Polichetti.  In it, explained that most of the band members got together as the result of needing to prepare music for a special Mass in the late 70’s at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in New York City.

Now if you take a look at the music they produced, and try to imagine it fitting any sort of Mass…well, it makes a chill go down your spine.  Interestingly, one of the band members, at the time, was a monk (CSC) at the time.  Their marketing guy is now a Catholic priest.

So, it seems that perhaps Sonseed grew out of the Spirit of Vatican II (not saying I hate their music, just that if they formed for the express purpose of playing music at Mass, something’s wrong.)

Here’s Sal’s interview.