Anyone else taking the KLOVE challenge?

[Royd]

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Good words, boring music, sing songy tune. Doesn't lend itself to being locked into the memory bank as something you'd just rip off a a couple of strains out in the middle of nowhere, by yourself.

 

[frostbite]

I play in the band, and I have to say, there's some of the contemporary music that is wonderful, but a lot of it just hasn't been culled by the sorting process yet. Thirty years from now much of it is likely to drop off the playlist never to be remembered, just like most other forms of music. There's some of it that I play, and do my best to play well, that does NOT inspire me, and some that I love to sing. Same with the hymns in the hymnbook. Beethoven, Bach, Wesley, and others all did some great work. But some of those hymns played too slow and too quiet or too poorly in too small a cathedral are also uninspiring to me.

There is only about 10 percent of the music I've written myself that I still like 5 years after I wrote it!

The thing about the contemporary music on the radio is that a lot of it is too personal and too complex to work well for congregational singing, especially for us old fogies who are used to following the written music because we want to sing the right notes. That's why I'm in the band, gives me the opportunity to learn the music faster because I have sheet music, from which I can go off into improv licks when it's appropriate. But that performance grade music is tough for people who don't listen to it all the time on the radio to sing.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with trying to improve one's spiritual state by listening to a Christian station sometimes, or all the time, instead of listening to musical genres that glorify bad behavior, or that cause tension or frustration for the listener. I also understand that some folks are going to be frustrated and tense having to listen to music they don't appreciate on a Christian station! That's okay, music is really close to being our underlying machine language, and the kind of music a person likes is a very subjective and personal thing; it's pointless to criticize someone else's music preference, just as it's perfectly natural and fine to have your own.

Not that there isn't "bad" music out there, but for me, "bad" means poorly played or poorly sung, off key or out of time.

Okay, I've gone on way to long now, have a lovely day, all.

 

[donrae]

I just gotta pitch in here that KLOVE is all listener supported. No advertising. So they have no financial reason to get you to listen to them. It is a ministry. And they don't ask you to listen only to them, just Christian music. It really does change folk's lives.

 

[eenie114]

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Good words, boring music, sing songy tune. Doesn't lend itself to being locked into the memory bank as something you'd just rip off a a couple of strains out in the middle of nowhere, by yourself.

Correction: It is your OPINION that the music is boring. Somebody else could find it very pleasing. This is entirely a matter of opinion, as I have tried over and over again to point out.

 

[Tanichca]

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[Tanichca]

And Royd, have you ever heard the song Courageous? It's catchy, and it's a song about true manhood (honesty, respect for others, loyalty, love of your fellow man, etc.)

 

[Ec_Prokta]

Tani, this might seem like a silly question, but how do you deal with not being able to listen to other genres, like Classical or Folk?

 

[Tanichca]

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If they come on and I can't control it (in such laces as the gym, my grandma's car, a friend's house) than it doesn't count. But all music I can control my listening of must be Christian. I am filching a little bit... Celtic Woman (folk songs) is still on my iPod, because there is an element of Christianity in those songs.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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If they come on and I can't control it (in such laces as the gym, my grandma's car, a friend's house) than it doesn't count. But all music I can control my listening of must be Christian. I am filching a little bit... Celtic Woman (folk songs) is still on my iPod, because there is an element of Christianity in those songs.

All right, thanks for the explanation!

 

[Royd]

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I'm courageous enough to speak my mind, instead of just going along to get along. BTW, that was a cheap shot, because you don't know me, but I'm man enough to let it slide without running, crying to the mods.

The music of that song could be written for any of today's pop music. Pop rock, pop country, pop Christian. It's mundane and generic. Once again, it's not something that wants to grab hold in my memory bank.