Talking of philosophy
Look at this two posts in one day! I have a confession to make, I tend not to like Christian music. I know that’s going to be a shocking revelation to some…sorry. For sure I like worship music but when I’m worshipping or focused on God. I find it strange as background music, normally if I have worship music on it’s at full volume and I’m screaming my lungs off to keep up with these guys. I don’t want to upset anyone I just find it odd to have worship music in the background at 5 on the volume, I know some people find it a real benefit to hear this all the time, one friend of mine talks about filling your house with praise and I would not for one minute criticise that concept. But….
Contemporary Christian Music or CCM (deary me even the genre sounds bad) I have a real problem with because it can be so bad, so often it’s getting something from the mainstream, trimming off the bits that are a bit dubious, throwing in some christian words and selling it to christians who think that anything with a back beat is of the Devil.
I think Tom might tell me off for being so cynical on here so I better get positive quickly, one word Switchfoot.
I have been absolutely addicted to Switchfoot at the moment. They are a great band, excellent musicians but the thing that sets them apart for me is Jon Foreman. He ability as a lyricist gets better and better with each album.
On the rat race
When success is equated with excess
The ambition for excess wrecks us
As top of the mind becomes the bottom line
When success is equated with excess
On modern relationships and promiscuity
My baby and me
We’re missing the same stuff
We’ve all got a disease
Deficiency of love
We don’t know what we’re doing
We do it again
We’re just amateur lovers
With amateur friends
On materialist/atheist thought
I still can’t believe that all we are
And that all of are dreams are nothing more than material
Souls aren’t built of stone,
Sticks and bones
And souls aren’t built of stone
Two of my favourite songs we written before they were on a major check out Sooner or Later (Soren’s Song) and Something More (Augustine’s Confession).
July 27th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I that is why I like “worship” music so much - because it is very difficult to have it on in the background with the volume set to 5. I often try to have it on in the background, but very soon I find myself dropping whatever I am doing, cranking the volume and worshipping God at the top of lungs. Maybe this explains why I didn’t do better on homework assignments at school and why I so frequently burn the food that I cook.
I think its worthwhile though.
oh ye, and i like the switchfoot lyric, “the shadow proves the sunshine.” not sure if it was a stolen concept, but i’ll give them the credit.
July 28th, 2007 at 12:14 am
i read the linked article - should we re-record the ep using only the harp?
July 30th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Yeah I have been relistening to some of switchfoots earlier stuff lately - I think my favorite song is “New Way to be Human” which is the title track off their 1999 album. Its maybe not the most developed lyrically as their newer stuff but I love the energy that seems to have gone into making it and the lines
“You’re throwing your love across
my impossible space
You’ve created me
Take me out of me into…
A new way to be human”
really sum up what the song is about - how Gods love can take us out of where we are and into another place with him . Also the video is remarkably good for an late nineties CCM band
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSuI1wCACxY&v3
Check out Chem 6A and Erosion as other good early tracks.
Rich
August 11th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Well Andy what can i say.. you may have to stay away from my office as i have delirious? , tim hughes, chris tomlin, and co playing in the background. particularly when i am having a heavy day.
Mags
August 11th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
heehee, I would just come along turn it up really loud and sing and scare everyone on the ward.