Hallelujah He is Here - Chataway

[DutchOma]

Well here you are then I don't post often, but just to save Nickel a job...

But I like that one too - the line about the purple headed mountain and the river running by reminds me of where I was brought up. Maybe I just like unpopular cheese! My tastes are pretty wide ranging though and I do like lots of other stuff too.

I've never learned Child in a Manger in the gaelic, although I love hearing it sung. I'm off to google it now to find out which song had the music first.

Ah ha! According to wikipedia the tune is a traditional gaelic one (Bunessan) and the carol dates from the 19th century. In the 1930s the tune was taken by a hymn writer and MHB was written to fit the existing tune.

The things you learn on Mumsnet .

Maybe it should be marketed as an educational tool .

I too have a very eclectic taste when it comes worship music. It comes from being subjected introduced to several different forms of worship as I grew up. Everything from HC to very liberal. I'm really glad for it now. It means I don't feel out of place anywhere.

Our music is generally modern, but we also get some cheese (including GK) and some traditional hymns. God uses all of them to speak to me, and sometimes I think he speaks most throught the ones I like worst. I've always said he has a wicked sense of humour .

That should be 'through'.

yes, When I survey the Wondrous Cross - with the normal tune - is the most powerful hymn.
We did it to a 20th century tune by Marshall -

do we have to write in acronymns for all crap hymns/songs/composers now?

it could get confusing!

creatovator - i know what you mean - I once was recommended a version of the Lord is My Shepherd, and thought it was lovely, then I realised it was Stuart Townend!
I was tricked into liking Stuart Townend!

I reasoned that it's not as bad as GK, so it'll do.

Come on nickel, Stuart Townend cannot be seen in any way as close to GK, or offensive I like TLIMS.

We could have a game. Guess the cheesy worship song from initials.

Too obvious to do SJS, but what about MWMWFCTK?

I also like a wide range, creator, and a wide range of styles though am a bit un-fond of organs

I love that one too Nickel. It's funny you mention it because I was singing along to it on the cd player in the car the other night. I wish there were modern versions of more of the other psalms.

more cos of the HC connection rather than like GK

I don't know any cheesy worship songs [innocent] so i can't guess it.

I think Stuart Townend's ok (though not keen on ICA ). One of the great things about his songs, unlike so many worship songs that are written for bands and then adapted for congregations to sing, is that they have a range that most pew-sitters can manage. So many worship songs actually have a range for tenor - so too high for a lot of men and women will find the top notes too high and transposing down an octave is too low.

I did an ALM in music and we had a session on modern versions of psalms. There are loads, but many of them aren't very well known.

Yes agree with them being more congregation friendly. And they have good tunes. But I have a live ST worship album and it's a bit....meh. You really have to be there

But ICA is genius. One of my favourites of all time :)

It's funny, MHD. I am not a fan of organ music either: it always just sounds a bit muddy to me. [Waits to be chucked out of Nickel's quiche ]. But the organ is just right for hymns and things... (a place for everything and everything in its place!). Our organist is fabulous mind. At the church I went to growing up the organist was about 93 and everything was played lentissimo and with a striking disregard for key signatures. [Ouch!]

No idea of your acronym MHD, but love 'When I survey the wondrous Cross'. When I was a child my gran, who'd had several strokes and didn't make a lot of sense (mixture of mild dementia and severe aphasia) lived with us, and she used to get settled in on the loo and run through her repertoire of hymns (which she could get out perfectly of course, though she couldn't ask for a cup of tea... ). That was a particular favourite of hers, along with 'The Lord's my shepherd' and 'The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended'. A slightly maudlin collection, admittedly, but my memories are tinged with amusement as they take me back to her, ensconced on the loo with her zimmer frame and her bloomers round her ankles, singing her little heart out.... (Now there's an image to take you all into the weekend, eh?)

talking of organs - i wanted to get something a bit more funky for dh for valentine's day (we kind of skipped christmas...), so i went to the local music shop and got organ music of beach boys and also a collection of children's songs

hope he likes them!

xposts tuo.
that's sad. :( but also lovely :)

I like some organ music. I particularly like Bach's toccata and fuge in D minor - see, I even like classical music cheese! Also the passacaglia and fugue in C minor. When it comes to worship though I prefer a variety of styles. My Gran used to sing hymns too in the midst of dementia. Don't remember her singing them in the loo though.

bloody passacaglia.
it was on youtube playlist on random, and dh was cuddling dd, so couldn't even see it and could barely hear it, and he said "oh, you've got passacaglia". i made him repeat 4 times cos i didn't understand what he said, then he laughed at me for not knowing what he was talking about! i'd never heard of it before.

Got that one MHD. Can't stand it. Like ICA though.

Nickel is going to kick me off her side now as I'm not keen on organ music either.

I really like ICA. Such a lot of theology in one song. Excellent! Chose it last week at CBS in fact, when we were studying Romans 9.

Can't get your long acronym MHD! I like a range of styles, but admit to being on the more HC end of the spectrum with band, flags and dancing. Organ has pomp and majesty, but tbh I find it less easy to really engage in worship. In our church we don't have an organ as we are in a converted factory. Drums, keys, lead and bass guitars all feature frequently, cello, fiddle, brass, flutes on a less regular basis.

ah yes, got it! You'd be very welcome to come and stay for the weekend MHD, and come to church with us (maybe for the worship leader's new album launch? )

Got it, got them all now.

Ooh I posted and it disappeared! Can I join the chat? I am currently going to what my mum would call "happy clappy" church (Pioneer church), but tomorrow am going to go to my local C of E.

I love modern worship, but not completely comfortable in my current church.

Welcome to the thread, practicallyimperfect! Hmm, I generally abbreviate names, but I wasn't sure what to abbreviate yours to! Can I call you pi? I'm a mathematician, so the name appeals! :)

I'm stuck on mhd's acronym. While I'm thinking some more, I'll say that I too love ICA, used to play it in the car on the way to work, although BBTNOTL has superceded it as my current favourite. It's not cheesy at all, so I don't know why I wrote it as an acronym. :) It is a bit HC, though, I think.

I love organs when they're played well. But then, at one time I was singing in a church choir when a new organist joined us... who I'm now married to! :o And I've also sung in a choir that sings in cathedrals when their own choirs are away. Think cathedral acoustics, good four-part singing, just the right hymn and a talented organist with a great instrument. You stop singing and listen to the echo for a good five seconds. Foretaste of heaven, that. :o

Goodness, grins aplenty from me today! Anyone would think my dh was due back in an hour or two...