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Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:08 am
Current Christians: What are your favorite hymns/worship songs? What emotions do they evoke within you?
Former Christians: What were your favorite worship songs? When thinking back to/listening to it now, what emotion is evoked? What did you feel back then compared to now?
When I was a Christian, I preferred the "old timey" stuff due to its lyrical depth. I always had a problem with those who embraced "gifts of the spirit", so repetitive hymns that were meant to trigger tongue-speaking episodes always ruffled m'feathers. Not only that, they annoyed me badly.
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:11 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 12:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Never been a christian...but, it depends on what I'm working with. If all you've got is a couple of peeps, a guitar, and a mic, you can't beat bluegrass devotionals. Now...if you can arrange for an organ and a full choir...you'd be a fool not to.
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:12 am
May I link a video that isn't mine? It's just a hymn I'd like to show you. Good old southern baptist music.
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:16 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 12:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We've got a forum playlist thread for it. I've been known to post gospel music...still haven't been tarred and feathered for it. Knock yourself out.
(it better be purty, purty like we like it)
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:18 am
I'll post it as a reply here, and there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u67Lb1RyXTU
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:21 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 12:22 am by Rev. Rye.)
Honestly, I listen to a fair amount of religious music. I just ask my religious music the same thing I ask of my secular music: something either nice or interesting to listen to.
For instance, here's the last album I listened to, The Gospel at Colonus. As bizarre as the idea of taking the black sheep of Sophocles' Theban trilogy, turning it into a gospel musical, and having the Blind Boys at Alabama play Oedipus, (Yes, all of them, simultaneously) is, it's still pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZyQP_zrD2U
Granted, a lot of the stuff I had to listen to at church is boring.
And now for a quote from Bob Dylan:
Bob Dylan Wrote:“Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else. Songs like “Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain” or “I Saw the Light”—that’s my religion. I don’t adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I’ve learned more from the songs than I’ve learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.”
It also helps that one of my favourite films includes a hymn as a major motif:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9LnkKQfuc
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 12:22 am
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I consider myself fairly versatile when it comes to music.
Maybe I have an illness coming on and that's the reason I vomited all over myself.
Sorry, that was a bit rude wasn't it.
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 1:20 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 1:44 am by Athene.)
A lot of that old-timey shit gives me the f*ckin creeps; Even did as a believer, it did. The monotonous drone/chanting has a sinister quality to it, IMO; It brings uncompromising, blind obedience to mind. I can't even listen to a second of Bringing in the Sheaves without being reminded of Children of the Corn.
Even in regards to more contemporary Christian music, I find something disturbing/unsettling about chanting words of worship to some thing ; A wee bit primitive, scary, and crazy.
Ick.
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 1:41 am
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RE: Christian Music
June 27, 2016 at 9:08 am
I prefer old school gospel.
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