Hymns/Religious Music You Like

[lordpasternack]

Be they guilty pleasures, or shamelessly open additions to your musical tastes: Now is the time to confess to all the god-songs and religious music that you listen to, so that you can gain consolation in not being the only one transgressing in this fashion, and potentially be absolved by one of our popes here.

This has been overdue since this Edinburgh meet. This will also help some of the consummate reprobates here familiarise themselves with hymns - so that we can have a better sing-song next time. I'll get the ball rolling.


This was the main one that was played at my baptism in Loch Lomond back in the Summer of 2005:




I think this was another one that was played at my baptism:




Very soulful - two songs with a lovely female voice:




This is a hymn that I can now reinterpret in terms of fellatio - and in accordance with my prayer:




Love this one:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutmEjdbedE&NR=1[/youtube]


Another happy-clappy, slightly broody number:




Very up-beat, rocky, happy-clappy one:





That'll do for now...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE

[Animavore]

None of it. Not one song. Always hated church songs. They were my least favourite part of church as a kid. Even my nieces hate them. and double

If I wanted to listen to meaningless tosh I'd at least listen to Alanis Morissette and retain a mote of dignity.

The singing as well! Gah. Its every bit as souless and expressionless as prayer, ritual and every thing else related to the circus church.


Sorry. had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now.

[AshtonBlack]

None of it. Not one song. Always hated church songs. They were my least favourite part of church as a kid. Even my nieces hate them. and double

If I wanted to listen to meaningless tosh I'd at least listen to Alanis Morissette and retain a mote of dignity.

The singing as well! Gah. Its every bit as souless and expressionless as prayer, ritual and every thing else related to the circus church.


Sorry. had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now.

My eyes glaze and I want to drift into blessed unconsiousness whilst listening to that.

Now the MUSIC is a different matter, some of that I can appreciate on a technical level.

[klr]

None of it. Not one song. Always hated church songs. They were my least favourite part of church as a kid. Even my nieces hate them. and double

If I wanted to listen to meaningless tosh I'd at least listen to Alanis Morissette and retain a mote of dignity.

The singing as well! Gah. Its every bit as souless and expressionless as prayer, ritual and every thing else related to the circus church.


Sorry. had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now.

Spoken like a true ex-Catholic.

[Animavore]

None of it. Not one song. Always hated church songs. They were my least favourite part of church as a kid. Even my nieces hate them. and double

If I wanted to listen to meaningless tosh I'd at least listen to Alanis Morissette and retain a mote of dignity.

The singing as well! Gah. Its every bit as souless and expressionless as prayer, ritual and every thing else related to the circus church.


Sorry. had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now.

My eyes glaze and I want to drift into blessed unconsiousness whilst listening to that.

Now the MUSIC is a different matter, some of that I can appreciate on a technical level.

Well I can appreciate a CGI laden film on a technical level but, that won't help save it if its core is lifeless.

[Trinity]

I love Amazing grace but more because it's "soul music" rather than it's word content. And Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

[lordpasternack]

I love Amazing grace...

I love it too:

[Animavore]

Spoken like a true ex-Catholic.

I'm not sure I ever was a Catholic. My mam brought us (my brother and sister and I) to church once a week and we done a little in school (I missed out on the intense Catholic brainwashing classes) but, it was never spoke of in our house. My dad used to not go to mass so that sort of planted the seed.

I remember when I was young I used to go to my grannies and she has all these pictures of Jesus and Mary and the Pope as well as crucifixes...

I used to think it was the scariest place on earth. I used to loathe having to stay up there some nights :shudder:

EDIT: Seed not 'see'

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Only one way to do Amazing Grace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V84STSWVp3g

[klr]

Spoken like a true ex-Catholic.

I'm not sure I ever was a Catholic. My mam brought us (my brother and sister and I) to church once a week and we done a little in school (I missed out on the intense Catholic brainwashing classes) but, it was never spoke of in our house. My dad used to not go to mass so that sort of planted the see.

I remember when I was young I used to go to my grannies and she has all these pictures of Jesus and Mary and the Pope as well as crucifixes...

I used to think it was the scariest place on earth. I used to loathe having to stay up there some nights :shudder:

Yes, that would get to you alright at that age.

Your childhood experience sounds not too dissimilar from mine. My father was a reluctant churchgoer, and it was obvious even to to a child of eight that he didn't really dig this voodoo at all, and that this was just something that had to be done sometimes.

[Animavore]

Spoken like a true ex-Catholic.

I'm not sure I ever was a Catholic. My mam brought us (my brother and sister and I) to church once a week and we done a little in school (I missed out on the intense Catholic brainwashing classes) but, it was never spoke of in our house. My dad used to not go to mass so that sort of planted the see.

I remember when I was young I used to go to my grannies and she has all these pictures of Jesus and Mary and the Pope as well as crucifixes...

I used to think it was the scariest place on earth. I used to loathe having to stay up there some nights :shudder:

Yes, that would get to you alright at that age. :think:

Your childhood experience sounds not too dissimilar from mine. My father was a reluctant churchgoer, and it was obvious even to to a child of eight that he didn't really dig this voodoo at all, and that this was just something that had to be done sometimes.

I used to just hate the way they looked at me with those pathetic, depressing faces and those silly glowing hearts they used to have.

I was thinking yesterday, as I walked up the beach, imagine if human beings went extinct and some other creature a few million years in the future became intelligent like us, I dunno, the ancestor of a squirrel or something. And their archaeologists keep finding these gold and silver trinkets buried in the ground of an ape like creature stuck on to a cross.
Surely they would think What sort of messed up creatures were these things?

[Shaker]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBYLNbKo ... re=related[/youtube]



(and Vaughan Williams was an atheist, as it happens).

This sort of thing. Absolutely lap it up by the yard. Proper hymns, too, (usually 19th/early 20th century ones) if they have a good, four-square tune, such as you used to get on Songs of Praise circa 1978 - none of this awful modern mince.

[lordpasternack]

Shaker - I could have sworn that the church in the first clip was St Aloysius RC Church near the centre of Glasgow - but clicking through reveals that it isn't. But for you to see - this is St Aloysius in Glasgow:



I went there a couple of times (including one Easter) just for the choir. It was lovely. The only thing was that I stood out a bit like a sore thumb because I clearly didn't know all the parts of Mass off by heart.

I also nipped in a few times with the sole purpose of using their loos, during the day when it was quiet, while admiring the gorgeous building... And I once sneaked up into an emppty little hall and took command of a piano for a short while.

[lordpasternack]

Sorry to endorse the toffs here - but I also stumbled upon Eton's Founder's Prayer a while back. I like the nice high notes. I don't like it when it all starts to sound a bit "samey" - as I feel a lot of this evensong stuff can after listening to it a while. I like something from the melody to reach out and grab me.

It's short and sweet.

http://www.etoncollege.com/UserFiles/Flash/founder.swf