I love O Holy night, please tell me you sang it with all the proper choruses and not just deciding to repeat O night at the end of every verse (seriously that's my biggest pet peeve with this song because the original endings are so amazingly God honoring).
Speaking of does anyone else ever get surprised by an updated (and often woosified) hymn in church and think, that's not how it goes.
I kind of had this discussion yesterday. We have a rather young worship team at our church. They are a great team,but they tend to change hymns somewhat to suit their more modern musical tastes. I am having a problem with that, not because its un-scriptural because I know it isn't. Its just that Fanny J Crosby, Frederick Oakley, John Newton & others poured their hearts into those hymns. The team tends to speed up the tempo of the hymn and the drummer gets involved in a big way. Maybe its just me, I love the way some hymns have been re-done: like Wayne Watsons version of "It is well," but sometimes we change and shorten them unnecessarily.
I often tell me friends that most hymns are as good as a sermon, if we sing all the verses. Sing (and meditate on) a couple of good hymns on Sunday morning and even if the pastor collapses and can't preach that day, I'd consider myself suitably fed.
Having said all this, I'm sure Sonflower did a sterling job.