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The thing which irritates me is the way the words seem to be forced to fit the music with no poetic prose or depth whatsoever. No-one says you're not allowed to like it. But 'Come and join the celebration' does go down well at our pretty serious-minded church, especially on Christmas morning. But there's not a lot of cerebration around in that kind of music, is there?īut in all seriousness, given everything else that you might possibly be wanting to sing at Christmas, why on earth would you sing 'come and join the celebration' (at Christmas or at any other time)? 'Come on and celebrate' - presumably the stricter Reformed churches would wish to make this 'cerebrate' instead. (Quite possibly there is - 'celebration' has a specific liturgical meaning for the 'new' charismatic churches in the 1970s and 1980s, and that's where most of our slightly-out-of-date songs come from, and slightly-out-of-date is nearly always the worst)

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There is something about that word that makes it a generator of bad songs. Which I already ranted over in the dead thread. but it's a change from waving their hands about!Īlmost as bad as 'Come on and celebrate'. The children cower and cringe with embarrassment, while the oldies (in a bid to appear 'trendy') do this 'wiggle' which looks somewhat strained to say the least. I don't believe anyone wouldn't prefer to be singing Hark the Herald Angels, but it's some kind of weird enforced tradition. My parents' church sings it every year on Christmas day and insists on calling it 'modern'. I don't agree with you about much, but I hate that song too. I thought, 'Yeah, that sounds about right!'

She commented that Graham 'seemed to write a new hymn every five minutes.' and we wonder church congregations are diminishing! I remember hearing Pam Rhodes interviewing the writer, Graham Kendrick, on 'Songs of Praise.' Most Christmas carols, such as 'Away in a Manger' and 'Silent Night' are, let's say optional, but this one song is sacrosanct for Christmas morning 'family' worship. Let me start with that all time Christmas classic everyone knows. Thread: Yet more crappy choruses, wonky worship-songs and horrible hymns Board: Dead Horses / Ship of Fools. Ship of Fools: Yet more crappy choruses, wonky worship-songs and horrible hymns

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