Headline: Man Killed By Amazing Grace.
Here's something you didn't know about me. And how could you?
Church music - I mean honest-to-goodness religious hymns - put me to sleep like an infant on a washing machine. There's something about the pitch of the organ and the sound of the choir that make me drift off this plain and into another place. It was the bane of my Sunday mornings when my parents took me to church and at 10:31, as the choir filed in, I went into a thick meditative trance. My ears popped. Something rolled my eyes back and I was out of my body. It mucked up my Sundays. And it still happens at most weddings.
It goes without saying that this isn't the best experience on the highway. So when the 31 Classic Hymns turned out to be exactly that, I was a little concerned. Thankfully there was enough orchestra action that I could just about fool my brain into thinking that I was listening to a soundtrack. But that organ made me neeeervous.
The good news is that this CD was the dark horse - completely unexpected and really spectacular. I was expecting some dry Gregorian stuff (and was a little worried that the 31 tracks were the selling feature!) and instead, got some really involving and really amazing music. Great CD. Total surprise.
Church music - I mean honest-to-goodness religious hymns - put me to sleep like an infant on a washing machine. There's something about the pitch of the organ and the sound of the choir that make me drift off this plain and into another place. It was the bane of my Sunday mornings when my parents took me to church and at 10:31, as the choir filed in, I went into a thick meditative trance. My ears popped. Something rolled my eyes back and I was out of my body. It mucked up my Sundays. And it still happens at most weddings.
It goes without saying that this isn't the best experience on the highway. So when the 31 Classic Hymns turned out to be exactly that, I was a little concerned. Thankfully there was enough orchestra action that I could just about fool my brain into thinking that I was listening to a soundtrack. But that organ made me neeeervous.
The good news is that this CD was the dark horse - completely unexpected and really spectacular. I was expecting some dry Gregorian stuff (and was a little worried that the 31 tracks were the selling feature!) and instead, got some really involving and really amazing music. Great CD. Total surprise.
posted by J. at 10:14 PM
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The short notes on this CD: purchased among other, more traditional "in utero" CD's such as Mellow Classics, because I thought Patty would like to play it for Spuds. Turns out she has heard most of these songs too often at too many funerals and didn't want it. So, into my blitz it went and yeah, it was great. There's a Gospel one coming sometime (I forget where it's filed).
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