My mix had ended and my legs just weren’t ready to stop walking. They were really tensing up and cramping and I needed another couple minutes to walk it off. Thankfully I always pack some spares so I simply pulled out this wonderful acapella spiritual that I first heard on the O’Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack and walked off those extra couple minutes in peace. This song is the perfect way to cool down after a long and tiresome run.
Category Archives: Praise And Worship
80. David Crowder Band – A Collision or (3+4=7)
I can still remember the first time I heard David Crowder Band. My sister had just gotten back from Japan for a visit. I asked her if she had been listening to anything new lately and she put on this album. She prefaced it with “This is a little weird.” Yes. If weird means creating one of the best Christian worship albums ever; then very weird. This album has everything! Quiet piano tracks, pop, rock, folk, alternative, bluegrass and electronica are mixed and matched to maximize the uniqueness of this worship music. It’s one thing to have an album with all of these genres on it. It’s another to have them mashed together. A song will start out as bluegrass and end as arena rock, or the other way around! The album is perfectly structure to give you one song after another seamlessly. Even with such a huge mash-up of sounds, the album never feels forced or convoluted. While you might be shocked on your first full listen of the album of the variety of sound from one song to the next, by the 3rd or 4th listen, you’ll be taking it all for granted. That is a sign of some really great mixing that it stops becoming a bunch of different things and is just dubbed uniquely Crowder. You wont even bat an eyelash when you hear acoustic guitars with digital blips floating over them or when the album transitions from an old school hymn to a synth heavy epic sing-along to an all out banjo filled folk song. And lets not forget the lyrics. Many are taken directly from the Bible or Hymns. For anyone complaining that worship music all sounds the same, its time for some David Crowder Band.
What does it make me feel like?
Heaven came down to earth and glory filled my soul.
What to listen for Track by Track
– The opening line of Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven “… but nobody wants to die” and the violin that accompanies it.
– How Come and Listen starts the album off slowly, with Crowder’s quiet singing and piano asking you to lean in and listen to the story. That piano!
– The digital blips in Wholly Yours and the bridge
– The band poking fun at themselves with Foreverandever Etc… about how often worship music repeats itself by playing the broken record noise to end the song
– (A Quiet Interlude) being just that
– Everything about Soon I Will Be Done With the Troubles of the World
– 2:52 of Be Lifted or Hope Rising!!! By far one of the best moments on the album!
– I Saw the Light and how it transitions back into traditional sounding Crowder near the end.
– The repetitive final 2 minutes of the Sufjan Stephens cover O God Where Are You Now?
– (B Quiet Now) !!!! Because it is incorporated into the lyrics of the song and connects back to (A Quiet Interlude)
– Do Not Move is my favorite track on the album. It was the one that hooked me in. My sister had but on the album and up to this point, I was shocked and excited to have found such an interesting band. Then the electronic whistles combined with the strumming guitars for this song and I was completely blown away. Not to mention, this song is LOUD! I love the little piano juxtaposed with the glitchy electronic keyboards. And 3:35!!
– “And he set me on fire!” All the lyrics of You Are My Joy! And the drums.
– The dancyness of We Win! And how powerfully charged it is. “We’re gonna shout loud, loud until the walls come down!”
– The sheer beauty and peace of Rescue is Coming
– The ending! The way the last two tracks come together giving you insight into the character of David Crowder and also a beautiful finale.
Example Track
Song of the Day 01/20/2013: Matt Redman – 10,000 Reasons
We sang this in church today and it was amazing. This is definitely my favorite new worship song discovery of 2012. A great sing-a-long chorus and a powerful meaning. What more can I ask for?
Song of the Day 12/31/12: David Crowder Band – Because He Lives
I find it only fitting to end 2012 the same way that David Crowder Band ended an amazing career in 2012. The final track on their swan song love letter to all their fans; I have to admit that I cried the first time I listened to this almost 2 hour album in its entirety last January while sitting with the news that the band was breaking up. If only every band could go out on album as good as this one with and ending as perfect as this song. I couldnt hope to end the year on a better note.
Just when Im about to catch up, I go and do a thing like enter the final stages of planning an elaborate surprise proposal to the love of my life and now FIANCE! Im sorry this site has fallen off in that time but I fully intend to bounce back. Though probably not till next week considering Im now spending some time with said fiance in New York.
Song of the Day 10/15/12: Brian Johnson – We Cry Out
YES! So I’ve wanted to make this a song of the day for a really long time but I originally got this song off a mix CD and I had no idea who sang it. I spent a long time sifting through covers a while back and could never find this version, so I gave up. Somehow I just found it! The youtube video is wrong too, it’s actually by Brian Johnson. Sometimes there’s just something about a specific live version that you fall in love with, and I just didn’t have the heart to share this song unless I could find this version. The little guitar plucking parts are my favorite.
It’s kind of a crappy production to be honest. It’s hard to hear the back up singer as she sounds drowned out and there’s a lot of people yelling in the song, but after years of listening to it that way, it’s the version I love. It’s similar to my love of the song “Fear of the Dark”, by Iron Maiden, where the fans sing along to the guitar solo in the live version. I just can’t listen to the studio version without feeling like something is missing.
Song of the Day 02/21/11: Paul Wilbur – Kadosh
A couple of different people asked me about the song Abbey and I sang, that wasn’t in English. It’s called Kadosh. Sorry the video is cut at the beginning, but all the other versions are Hebrew/Spanish and this was the only Hebrew/English version I could find.
Song of the Day 02/20/11: Kari Jobe – The Revelation Song
This was one of the songs we sang in the Pine Room last night, that really struck my heart. Thanks for leading, Abbey.
Song of the Day 02/19/11: Hillsong United – Shout Unto God
Still on fire from an amazing weekend away with the wonderful youth of New Life, being filled with the spirit and praising God. The entire weekend’s song of the days are worship songs. This is the song I was walking around singing all over the camp.
Song of the Day 08/03/12: Hillsong Live – Cant Stop Praising
I have this song completely stuck in my head right now so I literally cant stop praising His name. I love worship music that has horn sections, multiple backing vocals, crazy bridges, and words that I can agree with completely. I also love how the song just keeps going every time you think they’re done. Lord, today and every day, I just can’t stop praising your name. Worshipping has an uncanny ability to take me out of my self-centered nature.
Song of the Day 12/25/10: Keith Green – Because of You
What better way to give a shout out to Jesus on his B-day, then with Keith’s joy.
Song of the Day 11/25/10: Hillsong – With Everything
I posted a video for “What Matters More” the other day and professed (though none of you were able to read it), that Derek Webb was the dark underbelly of Christian music. He’s willing to talk about whatever was relevant, rather then what THE MAN deems important for “Christian rock” labels. Hillsong is probably the poster child for stereotypical Christian worship music, and while often I do have to admit I’m not impressed, they also release a lot of amazing worship music. This epic track is for me, the one I most love to sing along to at the top of my longs when I’m feeling down. A very, very simple song shouting praise for the Lord that could be just like any other song, breaks down in the 5th minute, into one of the most awesome sing along moments ever! It builds so well and it just keeps going and going, and huge props to the drums. Also, I love sing alongs where you don’t need to know the lyrics cause they just say things like “woah oh oh”. Hahaha. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. Happy Thanksgiving everyone . And thanks to all of you for your continued love and support of this project.
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