Favorite/Least Favorite Songs to Sing in Church - Page 4

*AQuietPlace* · #31 06-01-2010, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Now "A Quiet Place" what is a "hokey Southern Gospel?" You may have hurt my feelings.

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Hokey Southern Gospel would be the music that is not of a high quality.

Strong twang in the voices.

I'm getting hives just thinking about it.

The majority of groups at a Gaither concert wouldn't qualify as hokey, imo.

MissBrattified · #32 06-01-2010, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by SOUNWORTHY

My all time favorite is "Amazing Grace" I get the same feeling when I hear it as i get when I hear "The National Anthem." My least favorite song is almost any 7/11 song.

7/11? What is that?

Sam · #33 06-01-2010, 09:04 AM

Remember

I may never march in the infantry
shoot with artillery
ride in the cavalry
I may never zoom over Germany
But I'm in the Lord's army
(the marching, shooting, riding, and zooming all had appropriate actions)

or

Give me oil in my lamp, oil in my lamp
oil in my lamp I pray.
Give me oil in my lamp keep me shining in the camp
shining till the break of day

or, when it was your birthday everyone would sing to you:

A happy birthday to you, a happy birthday to you
may you feel Jesus near every day of the year.
A happy birthday to you, a happy birthday to you
and the best year you've ever had

some of those just don't fit in with the contemporary, culture current, seeker friendly services we have now.

Margies3 · #34 06-01-2010, 05:57 PM

The one song that comes to mind for me (that I really, really DISlike strongly!) is "Oh I Want to See Him".

The reason is that we had a man who led our worship services many years ago who absolutely LOVEd this song. And because he loved it, we sang it every Sunday (sometimes both morning and night!), every Wednesday for Bible Study and most Fridays (for Youth Service). This went on for months and months. Tooooooooooo much!!

mizpeh · #35 06-01-2010, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

Favorite: How Great Thou Art

Least Favorite: [U]When I Think About the Lord[/U] - that song is like nails on a chalkboard to me. It has no resolution. The music goes.... da da DA da, da da DA, da..... over and over and over.... it never comes DOWN and rests. Makes me want to SCREAM!

"When I think about the Lord, how he saved me, how he raised me..."

I haven't heard or sung that song in worship before. I checked it out and felt the presence of God as I sang it with Christ for the Nations Music. Downloaded if from Amazon.

I like that song!

*AQuietPlace* · #36 06-01-2010, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by mizpeh

I haven't heard or sung that song in worship before. I checked it out and felt the presence of God as I sang it with Christ for the Nations Music. Downloaded if from Amazon.

I like that song!

I love the words. But the tune sets my ears on edge. I need for things to "land" as MissB put it.

Jack Shephard · #37 06-01-2010, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Well...I think that sometimes we think worse of each other than secular people do. They don't always have the framework--it's just another "religious" song.

Most songwriters write from some emotional place or experience, so from that perspective, I think we can understand how songs like these come to be. I don't like to make it anymore deep than it is; people are just people and they jot down words that express their feelings or thoughts.

Sometimes I think we underestimate God's ability to touch people's hearts through our ignorance or feeble attempts at expression, and sometimes the things we think are the most "foolish" may be the very thing that tugs at a sinner's heartstrings. In the meantime, the song or sermon or testimony that spoke volumes to us might fly right over their head! I don't think it's so necessary to spend a lot of time sanitizing everything.

This is a good view. I am not sure I agree totally because I would say most people have some sort of view of Pentecostals whether it is snake handlers or sometype of mental pitcure. So for a song to be sang like "I'm a Pentecostal" can either confirm or at best rearrange ones view of the pentecostal movement. The song doesn't speak for all of the pentecostals out there, but it certainly gives the impression of self worship, IMO.

GraceAmazing · #38 06-01-2010, 08:59 PM

Oh, this thread is right up my alley...I'm a Worship Pastor

Love just about everything...from country/southern gospel to black gospel...seriously...including the new praise and worship.

If you knew me, you would know music is my life, so I love just about everything....EXCEPT opera...gross...period...

And I agree AQP about "When I Think About the Lord"...I did hear this song at Eddie and Sherri's church in January and they played fast...it was definitely different, but very neat...

As for not liking repetitive music Miss B....how do you handle black gospel girl???

oletime · #39 06-02-2010, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

7/11? What is that?

Any song with 7 words sung 11 times or nearly so, like im a friend of god,he calls me freeeind !!!!

MissBrattified · #40 06-02-2010, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by GraceAmazing

Oh, this thread is right up my alley...I'm a Worship Pastor

Love just about everything...from country/southern gospel to black gospel...seriously...including the new praise and worship.

If you knew me, you would know music is my life, so I love just about everything....EXCEPT opera...gross...period...

And I agree AQP about "When I Think About the Lord"...I did hear this song at Eddie and Sherri's church in January and they played fast...it was definitely different, but very neat...

As for not liking repetitive music Miss B....how do you handle black gospel girl???

I knowwwww...lol. It's my musical vice. If the vamps get too over the top, though, I get annoyed. The ones that aggravate me are those that vamp kind of like this:

I've come to praise him (repeated 25x)
I've come to (repeated 25x)
praise him (repeated 25x)
praise (repeated 25x)

A bridge with some repeats doesn't bother me too much, as long as it isn't too long.

I place MOST choir music in the "fun" category--fun to sing, fun to sway with, fun to play...not necessarily what I want playing all day long on Pandora. Some of the newer black gospel is more jazz/blues style, and I like SOME of it. (particularly Tonex & that other guy...can't think of him at the moment.) I dislike those that go in the hip-hop direction.

I have extremely eclectic tastes, too, and I go through phases. Right now I'm in an Eric Clapton phase, and I may hang out here awhile.