Monday, August 29, 2011

Best Christian song

Just so we´re clear - I am a Christian, nuff said :) I´m going to rant about Christian contemporary music today.
I love old fashion classical praise music - all of it. I get goose bumps whenever I sing, listen or play classical Christian pieces. I just love the purity and glory of the music. I feel like I am really praising God with that kind of music. I have tried in some sort of new age frenzy to listen to contemporary Christian but have discovered that it´s NOT my cup of tea. It´s loud, obnoxious, overly complicated, very long, boring lyrics and often really badly sung.

I recently visited a new church which uses contemporary praise music (my own church is traditionalist) and honestly, I could not focus on God because I was too busy wincing in my seat because the music was so bad and the singers couldn´t carry a tune (as a classically trained musician, I can carry a tune). It was not fun and the praise was lost because the music was so loud and nobody really knew what was going on. I really wanted to bust out some Bach pieces but alas did not (in hindsight I should have done so, it´d have saved my ears a lot of pain).

So I´ve been racking my brain and I realized that there is essentially one song I love which is Christian contemporary.It´s "Give me your eyes" by Brandon Heath. I can listen to it a 100 times, I know it pretty much by heart and I use the lyrics as a personal prayer. So it´s not al bad :)

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