Dubbed “evangelical rock’s court jester,” Steve Taylor shook up the Christian music world in the 1980s with his brash and biting tunes. This punk rock-loving Baptist minister’s son gleefully jabbed at secular decadence and sanctified hypocrisy. The Best We Could Find (1988) serves up some of his most lyrically incisive and musically provocative tunes. You can hear echoes of New Wave acts like Devo, Elvis Costello and the Motels in Taylor’s work; vocals-wise, he sneers like a sermonizing Sex Pistol. But it’s his words that carry the real punch — in songs like “”Bad Rap (Who You Tryin’ To Kid, Kid?)” and “Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Number’s Up” he wages war on hip intellectuals and selfish secularists with dazzling spews of verbiage. With equal vigor, he attacks church conformity in “I Want To Be A Clone” and slack theology in “Whatever Happened To Sin?” Taylor sought to wake up the consciences of his audience, probing at tender spots while blazing through a host of pop music styles. The Best We Could Find is good stuff indeed.