Humming hymns

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Karlon

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ThereRoseaLamb said:
There is always one song or another in my head. lol I love the hymns, I grew up with them. It's funny, we attend a small country church with mainly older folk. We started going there when we got married and my parents attend too. So after a few months my hubby said "how do you know all these hymns by heart and the older people don't?" Well, my father always wanted us to commit songs to our memory instead of having to read them. So I have a library of songs in my head. I'm not much for some of the newer music, it just doesn't seem very deep to me. Not a hymn but "This is The Day (the Lord has Made)" has come into my mind the last couple mornings.
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quite interesting. i have always been attracted to the wonderful gift of memory. your father was a wise man. you could be a singer in a band teaching all the cheaters using phones how to memorize lyrics. iPads & phones are a great excuse for laziness amongst musicians. imagine this: you go see a band, & the lead singer is looking down towards the floor all night because his iPad is set up about 3 to 4' above ground. so fake that is. it's the singer more than anyone in a band that needs to associate with the crowd. when a band post pops up on the computer & if i see the singer cheating which is 99 out of 100 times, i just go to something else quickly. besides that, there may be 1 or 2 good bands out of 50 anyway around here. supplemental: would you say there any rock bands that wrote deep music as in complicated time & arrangement structures, contrapuntal vocal patterns & deep mature lyrics? if so, tell me what bands you do like.
 
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ThereRoseaLamb

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Karlon said:
quite interesting. i have always been attracted to the wonderful gift of memory. your father was a wise man. you could be a singer in a band teaching all the cheaters using phones how to memorize lyrics. iPads & phones are a great excuse for laziness amongst musicians. imagine this: you go see a band, & the lead singer is looking down towards the floor all night because his iPad is set up about 3 to 4' above ground. so fake that is. it's the singer more than anyone in a band that needs to associate with the crowd. when a band post pops up on the computer & if i see the singer cheating which is 99 out of 100 times, i just go to something else quickly. besides that, there may be 1 or 2 good bands out of 50 anyway around here. supplemental: would you say there any rock bands that wrote deep music as in complicated time & arrangement structures, contrapuntal vocal patterns & deep mature lyrics? if so, tell me what bands you do like.
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Oh no, no reading the lyrics for us! Of course we traveled as a family group before there were phones to read off of. The old glory days. lol We had a group that sang sometimes in the same places we did and we were surprised when we got up to the stage one night and all the words of their songs were written on their floor monitors. No, we were not allowed to have the words on stage with us. There were times we would learn a song and sing it the next morning in concert. But family harmony does make it a little easier to put songs together. My father always said that when you are singing a song, you're telling a story. He was big on engaging with the crowd. Few can put a song across the way my dad could. Sadly he has been diagnosed with early dementia, which crushes me. With over a hundred songs in his memory I can't understand how he could come down with such a disease.

I'm not sure what would be considered rock bands. I kind of grew up on whatever music we could get in eastern Canada. My father sang all different styles of music. People that probably most have never heard of like Dallas Holm, Keith Green, Rusty Goodman, and so many more back in the day. A lot of it was Southern Gospel. I do like some of Crowders music and Zach Williams. I don't know exactly where Carman fit, what genre, but I grew up on his music and was able to meet him before he passed away. Growing up on his music and being able to tell him so in person was an honor. I will give any music a listen but as I said, not really into songs that say nothing and just repeat and repeat a phrase. But harmony will always be my favorite music :)
 
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ThereRoseaLamb

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Lynx said:
A lot, like a LOT, of the older music wasn't very deep either. We don't sing them any more because they didn't make the cut so history has forgotten them.

There's modern music that is deep though.


Starting with me
I promise to be
Always grateful
Faithfully
Life is a gift
That we all receive
You gotta be grateful
Faithfully
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That's the devils music!! It uses drums and guitars!! lol Ok I'm going to have to go look up more of his music. Funny story, the church we attend now was against anything but A-cappella music. The former preacher preached against it. He was there for 30yrs or so. A pastor friend of ours took over the church and didn't tell us till we were headed to the stage that these people had not had music played in the church for years. Oh boy!! We had our own sound system, and we were anything but quiet. We tried to keep it down in smaller churches but still, they were gonna hear us. I was afraid there was going to be a church split after we sang that night. It went over better than expected and they even allowed us to become members of their church.

As I said in my other post we listened to whatever we could get our hands on. We had a very small Christian bookstore in town and the owner was a fan of Southern Gospel. But he got very little of any type of music in. So usually it was peoples private collections that they would share. No Amazon back then. lol I do enjoy different styles of music. I guess I'm a lot about the message of a song because of being a singer. I forgot to mention a group I have enjoyed over the years Philip, Craig and Dean. Their music has always had a message and they are all great singers besides.
 
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ThereRoseaLamb said:
That's the devils music!! It uses drums and guitars!! lol Ok I'm going to have to go look up more of his music. Funny story, the church we attend now was against anything but A-cappella music. The former preacher preached against it. He was there for 30yrs or so. A pastor friend of ours took over the church and didn't tell us till we were headed to the stage that these people had not had music played in the church for years. Oh boy!! We had our own sound system, and we were anything but quiet. We tried to keep it down in smaller churches but still, they were gonna hear us. I was afraid there was going to be a church split after we sang that night. It went over better than expected and they even allowed us to become members of their church.

As I said in my other post we listened to whatever we could get our hands on. We had a very small Christian bookstore in town and the owner was a fan of Southern Gospel. But he got very little of any type of music in. So usually it was peoples private collections that they would share. No Amazon back then. lol I do enjoy different styles of music. I guess I'm a lot about the message of a song because of being a singer. I forgot to mention a group I have enjoyed over the years Philip, Craig and Dean. Their music has always had a message and they are all great singers besides.
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Corey lamb's faster songs are better. His voice seems too strident for slow songs. His slow songs are good, it's just that his voice is a little too strong for them.

Only problem is, he only ever did the one album...

If you listen to the first song on this album, break the cycle, watch the music video that goes with it. It actually helps a lot to explain what the song means. I think he needed more words in that song. He's actually singing about how he doesn't want to be famous, he wants the world to hear Jesus in his song instead of himself.
 
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I have most of the people you mentioned in my collection.

I only have Phillips Craig and Dean's first album. It was pretty good. After they started singing other people's songs, they just lost me.

Turn up the radio
And sing a song of sympathy
Turn up the radio
Let freedom ring in harmony
 
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Karlon

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ThereRoseaLamb said:
Oh no, no reading the lyrics for us! Of course we traveled as a family group before there were phones to read off of. The old glory days. lol We had a group that sang sometimes in the same places we did and we were surprised when we got up to the stage one night and all the words of their songs were written on their floor monitors. No, we were not allowed to have the words on stage with us. There were times we would learn a song and sing it the next morning in concert. But family harmony does make it a little easier to put songs together. My father always said that when you are singing a song, you're telling a story. He was big on engaging with the crowd. Few can put a song across the way my dad could. Sadly he has been diagnosed with early dementia, which crushes me. With over a hundred songs in his memory I can't understand how he could come down with such a disease.

I'm not sure what would be considered rock bands. I kind of grew up on whatever music we could get in eastern Canada. My father sang all different styles of music. People that probably most have never heard of like Dallas Holm, Keith Green, Rusty Goodman, and so many more back in the day. A lot of it was Southern Gospel. I do like some of Crowders music and Zach Williams. I don't know exactly where Carman fit, what genre, but I grew up on his music and was able to meet him before he passed away. Growing up on his music and being able to tell him so in person was an honor. I will give any music a listen but as I said, not really into songs that say nothing and just repeat and repeat a phrase. But harmony will always be my favorite music :)
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i mean big level rock bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, The Doors, Robert Plant, etc.
 
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ThereRoseaLamb

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Lynx said:
I have most of the people you mentioned in my collection.

I only have Phillips Craig and Dean's first album. It was pretty good. After they started singing other people's songs, they just lost me.

Turn up the radio
And sing a song of sympathy
Turn up the radio
Let freedom ring in harmony
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I have a couple of their CDS. One of my favorites they did that always makes me have a good cry is "When God Ran". I haven't really kept up with them. Most of those I listen to I have been able to hear in concert over the years and I'm more prone to listen to people I've heard in person. Well, I can do that now. Not so much growing up as I said.
 
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ThereRoseaLamb

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Karlon said:
i mean big level rock bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, The Doors, Robert Plant, etc.
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Oh, I thought we were talking Christian bands. I didn't know anything about those bands until I met my husband. He's introduced me to all sorts of bands. My parents weren't big on rock music or much secular music. So I'm just now hearing some of these bands that my hubby grew up on.
 
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ThereRoseaLamb

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Lynx said:
Corey lamb's faster songs are better. His voice seems too strident for slow songs. His slow songs are good, it's just that his voice is a little too strong for them.

Only problem is, he only ever did the one album...

If you listen to the first song on this album, break the cycle, watch the music video that goes with it. It actually helps a lot to explain what the song means. I think he needed more words in that song. He's actually singing about how he doesn't want to be famous, he wants the world to hear Jesus in his song instead of himself.
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This song has been everywhere lately. I finally had to look it up because the chorus was stuck in my head. Do you know it? By Forrest Frank.
Odd that he only did one album. Perhaps he just didn't have the backing and support he needed to do another. Checking his music now on Youtube.


https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...2762536239E98B9C83082762536239E98&FORM=VAMGZC
 
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ThereRoseaLamb said:
Oh, I thought we were talking Christian bands. I didn't know anything about those bands until I met my husband. He's introduced me to all sorts of bands. My parents weren't big on rock music or much secular music. So I'm just now hearing some of these bands that my hubby grew up on.
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listen to Zeppelin, they have a huge catalogue of super great tunes. in many people's opinions, the best band ever, better than the beatles too. check out "Going To California", "The Rain Song", "No Quarter", "In The Light", "I'm Gonna Crawl" & "Down By The Seaside".
 
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