Category: Music

You know… sometimes mere mortal youth pastors like myself can’t express our desire to help the hurting. We truly do want to be there. These guys are just better at showing you how we feel.

HT to Tim Schmoyer

HT to serialyouthpastor

That’s all I have to say. I’ll be reviewing it later tonight and my review will publish next Monday before the release.

It’s a busy day for the McLane family… we’ve got soccer in the morning, friends coming in the afternoon, and house guests coming after the Notre Dame-Michigan game. So these are the next 10 tunes the family will be rockin’ this morning. As always, no cheating… ratings included.

1. I’ve Found Jesus (Passion Worship Band) ***
2. You Know I’m no Good (Amy Whinehouse) *****
3. Hollywood (Collective Soul) ***** (Just did a review of this for YMX, it’ll post next week)
4. Earthquake (Family Force 5) ****
5. How Great is Our God (Chris Tomlin) *****
6. Golden Slumbers (K.D. Lang; Happy Feet Soundtrack) ****
7. When You are Here (Jeremy Camp) ***
8. You Never Let Go (Matt Redman) ***** (Paul’s favorite song)
9. Glory Revealed (Candi Pearson) ***
10. Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) *****

I really did mean to do this on Saturday, but I forgot. So here goes… here are the next 10 tunes travelling down the narrow pipeline from my laptop into the void between my ears. No cheating, ratings include.

1. American Idiot (Green Day) *****
2. Great is the Lord (Starfield) *****
3. Foreverandever (DCB) ****
4. Light Live (Hillsong United) ****
5. Somebody’s Watching (Toby McKeehan) ****
6. Yellow (Cold Play) ****
7. Holiday (Green Day) *****
8. Can’t Save Your Soul (Jake Smith) *****
9. Beyond Measure (Jeremy Camp) ***
10. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day) *****

Seems either iTunes is going through a punky Green Day phase… it may be random but I’m calling for a conspiracy. If you haven’t check out Jake Smith yet, he’s worth a gander.

It’s kind of a slow Saturday. Hot and sticky in Romeo. The kind of weather that just makes you want to do nothing outside. So, without any further introduction here are the next 10 songs piping into my ears. No cheating, rating included.

1. God’s Gonna Cut You Down, Johnny Cash ***** (Little shout out to my earlier post today)
2. Tell Me Who, Chris Tomlin ***
3. Enough [Acoustic verion] Chris Tomlin ****
4. I Will Not Be Silent, David Crowder Band ***** (Can’t get this song out of my head)
5. Made to Worship, Chris Tomlin *****
6. I Saw the Light, David Crowder Band *****
7. Peachy, Family Force 5 *****
8. Heal Yourself, Ruthie Foster ****
9. Our God Reigns, Tomlin/Crowder/Redman *****
10. Wonderwall, Oasis *****

Um, I think I need to shake my iTunes or something. That’s quite a string of songs from Six Step Records.

This isn’t brand new, but it is powerful. I know from a musician standpoint the celebrities and musicians involved likely did this as a tribute video. But considering the words and the people involved…. it’s powerful. The music if obviously from the late Johnny Cash.

Who do you recognize? You may have to watch it twice to place all the faces.
ht to Think Christian

Sitting here at a local coffee shop this morning, sipping a mocha and nibbling on a bagel. I need to get back into this routine sooner rather than later. Today is a good day. Bob’s surgery went well. I’ve got my favorite youth group trip of the year leaving tomorrow. I’m going to a very encouraging conference late next week. And one of my favorite people is moving back to Romeo later next week. All of that leaves me in quite a mood today.

Without further delay, here are the next 10 tunes piped into my cranium: (no cheating, ratings included)

1. The Truth (Relient K) ***
2. Omigod You Guys (Legally Blonde, the musical) *** Yeah… that’s embarrassing.
3. Holy Heart (Charlie Hall) ****
4. You’re Worthy of My Praise (Passion Band) *****
5. Miss Sarajevo (U2) *****
6. All the Earth (Passion Band) ****
7. The Story (Brandi Carlile) *****
8. Solto O Frango (Bonde do Role) ****
9. Desire (U2) *****
10. Possibilities (Santus Real) ****

Two more thoughts…

• Saturday shout-out to Dave. He’s having fun in Belfast and I wish I could be there.
• I’m seriously thinking of adding a "Customer Service Report" column to my blog. This area is full of businesses that I frequent a lot. Some have great customer service and others… well, are like the place I went yesterday.

It’s a muggy day in Romeo and Kristen is off to gather some fruit and vegitables from a local roadside stand… which means only one thing: It’s July in Michigan. And it doesn’t get much better than July in Michigan. Dog days, Tigers games, people going up North, school still a mile away.

Here are the next 10 songs running between my ears as I eat my Lucky Charms this magnificent muggy morning midway through Summer. (No cheating, ratings included)

1. Casting Off (This Beautiful Republic) *****
2. Take a Little Time (Jeremy Camp) ****
3. Angels in Tophats, Cups Full of Blood (House of Heroes) ****
4. World (Five for Fighting) ****
5. I Hate Everything But You (Derek Webb) ****
6. My Way (Robin Williams, Happy Feet Soundtrack) ****
7. Zeros Ones (Derek Webb) ****
8. All Creatures of Our God and King (Bethany Dillon) ***
9. Rock of Ages (DCB) ****
10. Hit Me Up (Mia Ferrel, Happy Feet Soundtrack) ****

Actually, looks like the next hour or so will be kind of lame. Oh well!

Wherever you are when you see this, you must get up and dance. Living room, dorm, kitchen, coffee shop, office, whatever… do the funky chicken!

A couple weeks back I reinstalled everything on my computer. This meant I installed a new operating system, new versions of tons of stuff… and it also meant I reorganized all my data.

In the course of this process, I had to move where my music folder was stored. Actually, I didn’t have to do that… but to clean things up I now have all of my music in a single folder. Long story short, when I reinstalled iTunes, I was basically starting over.

The hard part of this is that I had all 3000 songs rated. Now, I have to start over!

The fun part is that I’m rediscovering a lot of music. The bad part is, 3000 songs is a lot of stuff to rate. For now I am cheating and rating whole albums at a time. But over the next few weeks I’ll be rating everything 1-5 again individually. Stuff that is 4-5 stars automatically goes on the ipod, stuff that is below doesn’t.