Which style of music?

[Marathoner]

51 minutes ago, Stan Murff said:

Awe man... I was just about to cut a gospel polka album and ride it to the top of the polka charts!

Weird Al Yankovic is a tough act to beat. Better come armed with kazoos. 

[Logostician]

I like songs where people bare their souls and call out to Jesus, like James Taylor in Fire and Rain:

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus?
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way 

 

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

[Willa]

By the way, Rachmaninoff  when played by a 21 year old Russian kid named Ivan Bessonov  absolutely blows me away.  I used to try to play Rachmaninoff when I was still taking piano lessons but could never come close to his speed, clarity and accuracy.  He is amazing!  

[Starise]

I find lyrics from some of the songs from my earlier days popping into my head sometimes.

Does anyone remember the hymn " Leaning on the everlasting Arms"

Lyrics-

1

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!

 Leaning, leaning,
Safe and secure from all alarms;
  Leaning, leaning,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.

2

O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!

3

What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!
I have peace complete with my Lord so near,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!

 

I love those comforting lyrics. I guess noone gets in any hurry when they lean on someone. The speed of those hymns generally reflects that sentiment.

[Still Alive]

I participate in the worship team in my church. Music is a very contentious element of modern churches. There are some (though as time passes, more and more of them are "going home") that really think the old hymns are really all we should do. There are many of them I really love, but I also think some of the new stuff is just as good and many times better. 

But there is a "background noise" for many of us that the old stuff is the best. After all, how do you beat Amazing Grace or It is Well? But what people don't realize is that there are thousands of those old songs in hymnals all over the country. And most of them, IMO, are terrible. But what we focus on is the 20 or so that are great and really timeless, leading to the false impression that all the old stuff is the best. It isn't. And, frankly, the same argument can be made about secular music and "classic rock". 

[Starise]

12 minutes ago, Still Alive said:

I participate in the worship team in my church. Music is a very contentious element of modern churches. There are some (though as time passes, more and more of them are "going home") that really think the old hymns are really all we should do. There are many of them I really love, but I also think some of the new stuff is just as good and many times better. 

But there is a "background noise" for many of us that the old stuff is the best. After all, how do you beat Amazing Grace or It is Well? But what people don't realize is that there are thousands of those old songs in hymnals all over the country. And most of them, IMO, are terrible. But what we focus on is the 20 or so that are great and really timeless, leading to the false impression that all the old stuff is the best. It isn't. And, frankly, the same argument can be made about secular music and "classic rock". 

Heh heh, I well remember trying to pick one of those 20 "best hymns" from a hymnal with 500 songs in it. If you play anything else, you get a deer in the headlights look.

[Mozart's Starling]

I mean if mainly depends on what the song glorifies. I am a big rock guy and always liked Creed for having what I refer to as "righteous rock". Rock is a very masculine form of music which is why it appeals to me, but that doesn't have to mean it is all about rage, drugs, and sex as is the stereotype. Depends on the spirit and lyrics of the song largely imo. It's really only the more extreme ends of the specrtrum like metal and heavier stuff with screaming demonic bents that I'd say are incompatible with a believer.

Edited September 13, 2023 by Mozart's Starling

[Willa]

16 hours ago, Starise said:

I find lyrics from some of the songs from my earlier days popping into my head sometimes.

Does anyone remember the hymn " Leaning on the everlasting Arms"

Lyrics-

1

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!

 Leaning, leaning,
Safe and secure from all alarms;
  Leaning, leaning,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.

2

O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!

3

What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!
I have peace complete with my Lord so near,
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!

 

I love those comforting lyrics. I guess noone gets in any hurry when they lean on someone. The speed of that hymns generally reflects that sentiment.

When I led hymn service in the nursing home we sang it in double time--that was the way the 80 year old lady played it on the piano so that was the way we sang it!

[Willa]

16 hours ago, Still Alive said:

After all, how do you beat Amazing Grace or It is Well?

It is Well is one hymn that I can sing slower.

[Still Alive]

8 hours ago, Willa said:

It is Well is one hymn that I can sing slower.

Have you ever heard the Rebecca st james version? She's singing it pretty straight, but the band is doing something completely different from what we're used to.