In a former life I was a trendy Christian musician and worked in radio. After years of playing, being around the scene, and working in a Christian radio, I stopped listening to music.

The ratio of good CCM tunes to bad was mind numbing. Seriously, after ten years "Jesus Freak" from DC Talk was still considered current in some circles.

I was a D.J. about the time "I Can Only Imagine" was fresh to the ears. Worship music was also becoming a big industry. It became so big, that four songs were record by 30 different artists.

"Coming up, Open the Eyes of my Heart from Sonic Flood, followed by Open the Eyes of my Heart from the Newsboys!"

So I became sick of music. After years of buying nothing but Christian records, pushing the trends of the modern church, I was done. I didn't want to hear anything.

This happens to fans of any sort of music, but this was my experience. I quit listening to music. I was out of radio and could not stand the thought of listening to music on any station because I easily tired of a stations 40 songs repeating over and over. Occasionally I would come across an artist I liked, but work days became full of talk radio and podcasts.

The discovery of the music social network Pandora opened my ears back up. The services allows you to customize stations around your tastes. I was up to the challenge.

The first station I created contained Weezer and Flaming Lips. Other artists that Pandora thought I would enjoy played is this station. This kept me entertained for weeks. Then I wanted some Dave Matthews. Pandora played a completely different list. Songs from one station rarely played in the other.

Then I got nostalgic for my old Christian music that I had abandoned. I hoped that Pandora could turn me on to new bands that I could enjoy.

I made a station with Five Iron Frenzy, Plankeye, and a few obscure others. I soon became sick.

Since these bands were part of the Christian scene, music from all Christian genres played. While I like FIF, I did not want to hear Switchfoot. Pandora allows the user the give a song a thumbs down. Normally, this will prevent similar songs from playing, but Christian music is lumped together. It was like listening to MXPX made you a Chris Tomblin fan.

So I thumbed down Switchfoot because I'm not a huge fan. Two songs later another Switchfoot song came up. I thumbed it down. The next song was from Switchfoot. I thumbed it down. Relient K - okay good enough. Six songs later.. Switchfoot. Thumbs down. Then - Bride.. Bride? Bride from 20 years ago... really.. Pandora thinks I would like that based on my previous likes/dislikes?

So I went directly to Pandora's Christian Rock station. At this point I thought that I just didn't like anything. I thumbed down anything I didn't like. I tried to be objective, if this was the first time I heard the song, I would let it play and make a decision the next time around.

So after weeks of customizing stations I have come to the conclusion that I do not like the majority of Christian music. The irritating part is that there was so little to choose from? Why do the same artists continue to play? Why is there only one brand of Christian rock?