Various Artists
Isaiah 53:5: A Tribute To Stryper
(1340, 1999)

 
 
Executive Producers: Mark Fisher

Known Formats
CD – catalog # 777, lyrics included - no

Featured Albums
The Yellow And Black Attack {1}
Soldiers Under Command {2}
To Hell With The Devil {3}
In God We Trust {4}

Songs
1.   {3} Disciple -- "More Than A Man" (3:54)
2.   {2} Blood N Fire -- "Surrender" (4:28)
3.   {4} Fringe -- "Lonely" (3:56)
4.   {4} Dinner Mint -- "The World Of You And I" (4:22)
5.   {3} Augenkristall -- "The Abyss (Burning The Great Divide)" (4:22)
6.   {3} Nailed -- "To Hell With The Devil" (3:33)
7.   {2} Derron's Tuba -- "Soldiers Under Command" (5:21)
8.   {1} One Bad Apple -- "You Know What To Do" (4:51)
9.   {3} The World Inside (with Don Colborn) -- "Honestly" (4:46)
10. {3} Honeymooner -- "Calling On You" (4:50)
11. {4} Aimee Clark -- "I Believe In You" (3:21)
12. {4} Estis P@rc -- "It's Up 2 U" (3:56)
13. {3} Antioch -- "Free" (3:44)
14. {2} Wonderboy Phd -- "Makes Me Wanna Sing" (3:01)
15. {1} Racing Elijah (with Blood N Fire) -- "Loving You" (4:12)

Total Time – 62:35
 

Comments: This tribute is tons better than the previous one on Flying Tart.  The melodies follow the originals pretty consistently, and most of the rockers are great.  The area where this still falls a little short (I think) are the ballads.  Three of the Stryper ballad tunes (tracks, 9, 10, and 11) are covered as straight ballads instead of power ballads, and Stryper fans know that the Yellow and Black Attack rarely recorded a ballad without some big guitars.  Another quite noticeable oddity about this tribute is that there are no covers of songs from Against The Law, which was one of Stryper's better selling albums (2nd best, I think).  But overall, this is still leaps and bounds above the Flying Tart nonsense.