Comments on: THE SACRED AND THE INANE http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/08/18/the-sacred-and-the-inane/ E AHO LA'ULA Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: dw http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/08/18/the-sacred-and-the-inane/#comment-91 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/08/18/the-sacred-and-the-inane/#comment-91 I can make a list of the ten worst church songs of the last twenty years, and every one of them makes "Songbird" by Kenny G sound like, well, a good song. Matt Redman and Delirious are driving me from the church. Couple of years ago, our church decided to replace the 40 year old hymnals with new ones. I suggested that with the rampant sensitive Matt Redman and praise chorus thing going around we should not even buy hymnals, since we use them once a service, if that. I was told that the hymnals came with the song license, so we had to. But, wow, there were some 70s and 80s era hymnals with "contemporary" songs that were more dated than synth-pop. I can make a list of the ten worst church songs of the last twenty years, and every one of them makes “Songbird” by Kenny G sound like, well, a good song. Matt Redman and Delirious are driving me from the church.

Couple of years ago, our church decided to replace the 40 year old hymnals with new ones. I suggested that with the rampant sensitive Matt Redman and praise chorus thing going around we should not even buy hymnals, since we use them once a service, if that. I was told that the hymnals came with the song license, so we had to. But, wow, there were some 70s and 80s era hymnals with “contemporary” songs that were more dated than synth-pop.

]]> by: Harry http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/08/18/the-sacred-and-the-inane/#comment-92 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2003/08/18/the-sacred-and-the-inane/#comment-92 When you guys get done working out the Lutheran hymnal, would you kindly send one to the Methodists? Maybe there are many centuries of musical tradition behind it, but it seems like the 1800s predominate, and some of the language is just painful. And most especially, would you please, please, please remove all songs that rhyme "love" with "move" or "prove"? When you guys get done working out the Lutheran hymnal, would you kindly send one to the Methodists? Maybe there are many centuries of musical tradition behind it, but it seems like the 1800s predominate, and some of the language is just painful. And most especially, would you please, please, please remove all songs that rhyme “love” with “move” or “prove”?

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