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Date: 20 Dec 2005 4:52 pm
Hope this doesn't cross the line or cause any disputes but I'd love to hear songs you consider inspirational.
What made me think of this is a song I heard by Brooks & Dunn in the car over the last few days/weeks called "Believe" and it just gives me chills. Neat song.
Another song that I love is Amazing Grace...heard it played on a Navajo flute once...made me bawl like a baby. :oops:
Date: 20 Dec 2005 6:48 pm
"Hurt"......Johnny Cash. :cry:
Date: 20 Dec 2005 7:23 pm
Paula,
how could you liking inspirational music be crossing the line or cause disputes....?
Everyone has their own taste in music, and I respect that. Being an avid follower of christian/gospel/inspirational music for over 30 years, I share the same taste as you.
Many people do not know that for every genre of music, there is a christian counterpart. There is christian country, christian lounge, christian jazz, christian blues.....even christian acid rock!
Also, people would be suprised to know that contempary christian music is the fastest growing segment in the music business today.
My favorite type of christian music is contempary praise and worship. I'm also old enough to love the old hymns too. I also like what I call "Classic praise & worship from the 70's and 80's....back from the "Jesus movement" days....
I have well over 1000 Christian songs in my itunes alone....
My favorite song this time of year is "Mary, did you know". There are many artists who have done it, but one of the best is done by
Kathy Mattea........
Frank D.
Date: 20 Dec 2005 7:26 pm
That is a great album lint. Lone Rider and the first one are real good. NIN version is nowhere near as good as JC's.
My Aunt plays Amazing Grace on the flute at family funerals. When she is done you have nothing left for a while.
Date: 20 Dec 2005 7:29 pm
Anything by Zep(especially off of 4 or In through the Outdoor), or Floyd. Like Steely Dan to when I'm feelin a lil more mellow.
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Date: 20 Dec 2005 8:16 pm
Some different ones, for a lot of different reasons:
Bridge Over Troubled Waters.....Simon & Garfunkle
Oh Holy Night.....Various Artists (believe it or not Glen Campbell sings this very powerfully, you'de be shocked)
Both Sides Now.....Judy Collins
Endless Love......Lionell Richie
Madman Across the Water......Elton John
Golden Country.......R.E.O.
Alone Again (Naturally)......Gilbert O'Sullivan
Lost Without Your Love.....Bread
That's The Way I Always Heard it Should Be.....Carly Simon
Something In The Way She Moves.....James Taylor
Night In White Satin.....Moody Blues
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face......Roberta Flack
Date: 20 Dec 2005 8:37 pm
Paula and lint,
Thank you. I took a shower and laid on the kids bed with nothing but the aquarium lighting the room. Put on the Johnny Cash CD with the favorites picked. Listened to a couple of songs, but my wife sitting in the rocking chair singing with JC on Bridge Over Troubled Water was very soothing and provided some very welcome healing. My favorites on that album end with Danny Boy.
Course the next in the shuffle is Korn's version of Another Brick in the Wall, that sort of broke the mood.
Date: 20 Dec 2005 9:23 pm
Frank
I just didn't want to start anything regarding religion, etc, especially this time of year.
I love a lot of different kinds of music...have even been finding myself really enjoying orchestra music since my younger daughter took up violin. Listening to the high school kids play Phantom of the Opera was incredible. My older daughter is in choir...and listening to them sing is incredible.
To me the inspiration comes in many forms...not necessarily christian but always in something that moves me in some way....whether its tears, chills, laughter...and thats what I call inspirational music, music that touches me in some way.
Date: 20 Dec 2005 9:28 pm
Gee, I feel kinda outa place w/ my inspirational music I posted. :roll: I was inspired easily in my youth I guess. :?
Date: 20 Dec 2005 9:38 pm
Chris hates it, but I love it - Nature. I have various Cd's of nature, the waves crashing, the thunder rolling, crickets chirping all with various music in the background. My favorite on there would be the haunting sounds of Amazing Grace. (The said thing about Amazing Grace is when I start humming it out of the blue I get scared, it has been my experience that a bad phone call is in the not so distant future :cry: ) But then on the other hand give me a little AC DC, G 'N R, Metalica, then go country, or even some of the new stuff that I just don't know how to class. I like a little bit of everything I guess.
Sherri
Date: 20 Dec 2005 9:47 pm
Guns & Roses and Metalica??? NOW WE'RE TALKIN'!!!!!!!! 8) 8) 8)
Date: 20 Dec 2005 10:23 pm
You had the right plan Rob. :wink:
My Christmas music nerve has been rubbed raw over the past month. :x
When Paula mentioned music....I felt an uncontrollable urge too listen too the stuff that really feeds my soul and kicks me right square in the chest. :shock:
If I hear "Jingle Bell Rock" one more time...I just may climb up on the roof and start emptying the chamber on the neighborhood inflatable Santas, Snowmen and Candycanes that over-populate the hood. :twisted:
I just feels good too be semi-depressed again. :D :wink:
Date: 20 Dec 2005 10:24 pm
Bill_D wrote:
Guns & Roses and Metalica??? NOW WE'RE TALKIN'!!!!!!!! 8) 8) 8)
Shoot, the stuff I posted was stuff that "get's me" when I hear it, for various reasons. Other stuff?
Songs of Foghat, ZZ Top, Hank Jr. and YES, Eagles, Clapton.
Date: 21 Dec 2005 12:01 am
Music does move the soul........my tastes are also somewhat eclectic.
I also like James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bread, Beatles, Jim Croce, Chicago,
Blood, Sweat and Tears, Carole King, etc,etc.
Also, I like a canadian folk singer named Stan Rogers....
Thank God for ipods.....
Frank D.
Date: 21 Dec 2005 10:49 am
Vivaldi and Baroque.
I like the organs in some of the baroque. Since I became Orthodox there is no more organ music in church. Choir music only. It's beautiful in it's own right...but I miss a church organ every now and then.
Date: 22 Dec 2005 6:01 am
How I could of neglected to mention my main man Stevie Ray is beyond me. Was at his last concert(up by you Paula), didnt hear he died till 2:00 the next day, when I awoke from my coma. :roll: :cry:
Shakin' like a tree, rollin' like a log
Shakin' and a rollin' now, that ain't all
Hey hey hey, look at little sister
Hey hey hey hey, look at little sister
Date: 22 Dec 2005 6:22 am
Bill_D wrote:
How I could of neglected to mention my main man Stevie Ray is beyond me. Was at his last concert(up by you Paula), didnt hear he died till 2:00 the next day, when I awoke from my coma. :roll: :cry:
Shakin' like a tree, rollin' like a log
Shakin' and a rollin' now, that ain't all
Hey hey hey, look at little sister
Hey hey hey hey, look at little sister
I don't know why, but somehow I had missed that he had died out at Alpine! Reading some of ths stories about his last concert and his decision to leave that night gave me chills. He definitely had a gift.
Date: 22 Dec 2005 8:14 am
buttlint wrote:
"Hurt"......Johnny Cash. :cry:
I'll second that......
If you have'nt seen the video, it's worth a watch.
http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/e/cash11403.html
Date: 22 Dec 2005 5:08 pm
Emmo wrote:
buttlint wrote:
"Hurt"......Johnny Cash. :cry:
I'll second that......
If you have'nt seen the video, it's worth a watch.
http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/e/cash11403.html
That was moving. :?