Thursday, November 1, 2007
Life Changing Disc
In 1987 I was reclined in my Honda crx listening to the brand new 'tape' I had bought of U2's Joshua Tree. I listended and sureveyed each lyric as I read the tiny print of the tape jacket. I went on to wear that tape out and then I purchased the disc...The music caused me to reflect to be introspective and at the same time it lifted and inspired...to this day when I hear the staccato base line of With or Without You i'm somewhat transfixed anchored and challenged music is powerful..What is your most transforming album and where where you when you heard it and how did it affect you?
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There was never one album that changed my life and thought, rather it was the music and experiences while listening that changed me the most. In the modern era there has been one underdog that I have identified with more than any other. With the advent of the final chapter this past year I can say that it is the finest series of 6 movies ever produce with the caveat that number 5 missed the mark a little.
That series is Rocky. In 1997 I purchased the CD and a player so I could listen to the CD while working out. Just imagine the challenge of a heavy set of squats with the Theme blasting in the background. Or riding a bike listening to "Philadelphia Morning." Or "Take it back" getting into the gym.
Being an Underdog is a state of mind, right now people are calling Superior an Underdog. With Christ as our heart, our stuff in the basement, we will plant and the theme to Rocky will be our main song for the first year after launch.
david wilcox's big horizon.
found it in my brother's collection and allowed his story-telling to infuse the beauty, wonder, and grace of god into my heart.
he was the first artist who truly pierced me. and he did it so simply.
The year was 1983, my friend turned me onto a band called U2. We were heavy in Young Life and wanted music with a message to listen to. The album? WAR..I bought the record, wore it out, bought the tape, wore it out, and to date have probably had the CD twice..to this day I can not read Psalm 40 or listen to the news without the lyrics to 40 or Sunday, Bloody Sunday running through my head. I was 16 years old and forever changed as far as looking at the world through social change. They touched me in a way I will never forget, took a kid who was caught up in herself and opened her eyes to a large world.
This is my favorite band of all time. Love that they just tell it like it is.
Peace,
Sara Gwathmey
Love it! I will sing, sing a new song!!!!!
Growing up in a house where music was practically a centerpiece in our life, there isn’t a day that goes by when I hear a song that brings back memories. I can be racing through the grocery store, in between leaving work and taking my daughter to dance class, and I will hear the first few measures of an old friend on the store’s Muzac and find myself stopped in the middle of the aisle. Suddenly I’m taken back 20, sometimes 25 years where life was so much simpler. The sights, the sounds, the smells, all come back to me just because I hear John Denver singing about how good it is to be back home again. Or, Gordon Lightfoot is talking about creeping down the back stairs at Sundown. Songs like that were the soundtracks of my childhood.
It wasn’t until my teenage years that my brother introduced me to a new and upcoming artist I had never heard before that sang about things I had heard briefly mentioned in church, but hadn’t applied to my life. But when a friend bought me Michael W. Smith’s “i 2 (EYE)” tape for my 16th birthday, I found myself reading and studing each lyric in the tape jacket not really knowing what an impression it would make on me, but they left me intrigued enough to learn more about the One he sang about. After memorizing the words to “Secret Ambition” and “On the other side”, I asked questions, questions my parents didn’t have the answer to. Little did I know that while I researched the answers to my questions and memorized more songs that made me question more things, God was preparing me. I found a church that showed me I had found the right answers and I learned that I had a voice to use and I could tell people about the One who had all the answers that I was looking for. All the while, God was preparing me to be the wife of a Minister of Music.
The Cure "Disentegration" 1988
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