"Spirit In The Sky" by Norman Greenbaum. Also the best fuzz guitar lick of all time.
"Many Rivers To Cross" Also from "The Harder They Come" soundtrack and the best reggae album of all time.
"Ave Maria" by Aaron Neville. If you don't hear the voice of God on this cut, you probably will never hear it at all. Unless Mavis Staples is at the mic.
A very interesting thread which goes a long way towards verifying my idea that there is no such thing as a non religious person. I had this belief while I was an atheist many years back and still believe it as a Christian
@artemus_5- I am a non-religious person, so perhaps there is such a thing. Of course, you may have some definition of 'religious' that would force me into being so unwillingly, but words can mean different things to different people.
I'm also not a religious person. But I don't have a problem with religious music.
The Pärt "Te Deum" is probably my favorite piece of music from any genre from the past year or so. When it was new to me, I listened to it every day for weeks; now, a year later, I'm still listening to it at least once a week. The version on ECM is extremely well recorded, too, and well performed. It's about half an hour long. From his "Tintinabuli" period, so neo-medieval: the voices are accompanied by a digital recording of an Aeolian harp (!) and a prepared piano (!!).
But I forgot to mention Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" ("The Creation"), in the performance by Gardiner on Archiv. That is one of my "reference recordings": the orchestra, chorus and solo voices are brilliantly compelling in every way. There's a version of this composition in English, too, also performed on original instruments and conducted by Hogwood that is very fine. Haydn himself revised the score to work with the different cadences of English words. But the German in Gardiner's version will never be bettered.
Yeah, how could I forget the Byrds' Turn Turn Turn? Their vocals never sounded more beautiful. McGuinn's 12 string guitar solo rings like church bells. It's one of those guitar solos that prompted me into taking up the guitar, oh so many years ago.
@artemus_5- yes, I'm sorry - it's something I use quite often that you don't seem to be familiar with. It's called humor. But that's kinda what I'd expect.
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