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Songs For Worship - only £9.99 + P&P

  
 
Brigade du jour
20:03 / 16.01.03
This isn't an advert in any conventional sense ... okay maybe it is really. I can't decide whether to buy this fantastic-looking album, as advertised on channel Five in the UK, because it would only be one of those ironic things I keep hearing about. But it just sounds so damn funny!

If anyone hasn't heard of what I'm talking about, I suggest you watch channel Five at about 10am on a weekday, because this advert plays a lot between things like The Wright Stuff - ideal viewing when I get home from work and need a giggle.

Tracks include "He Has Made Me Glad", "My Life Is In You, Lord", "Blessed Be The Lord God Almighty" and of course the neo-classic "Shine Jesus Shine". These are by artists as diverse (and totally unfamous unless you regularly attend church in progressive Christian fundamentalist areas in the United States) as Don Moen, Rich Mullins, Twila Paris, the Maranatha Singers and Delirious? (sic)

Hypno-soporific Christian pop music, let's go!
 
 
reddog
20:32 / 16.01.03
The same company do the same adverts for Rock classics and over used and under fresh Country and Western etc....
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
23:35 / 16.01.03
I have to defend Rich Mullins here. His work was far superior to most Christian artists. Lookup the songs If I Stand, Peace, and Hard To Get (The Jesus Demo version, not the Jesus Record).
 
 
Seth
11:00 / 17.01.03
If you're really going to do this (and I so don't recommend it), I'd limit mysef to a few genuinely good records by Christians involved with worship leading. Terl Bryant's first album (Psalm) is great, with some of the best hymns and outstanding production values and musicianship. Joanne Hogg's Looking into Light is almost an essay in which hymns stand held and shoulder above the rest.

They're both ex-members of Iona, so expect celtic sounding stuff. Iona are no unlike Clannad crossed with Marillion (a lot better than it sounds). I can't remember if either album contains Be Thou My Vision which is officially the best song ever written (but not one that should be owned in just any version, as not al of them do it justice).

Besides that, I'd also recommend the Black Peppercorn's Tumbling Ground (Kevin Prosch' secularish album). It's tragic, beautiful and wonderful, made all the more effecting because his troubled personal life have been made uncomfortably public in recent years. It also has some of the finest drumming you'll ever hear (Martin Neill is a complete genius, and very kindly lent me his brass snare after I trashed mine at a very embrarrassing moment).
 
  
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