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Sorry to ask on a weekend, but I thought this should run on the Sabbath: If you were able to design your own religious service so that it reflected how you feel about spirituality, what music would you play? Don't worry about finding others to worship with you, just curious about your personal "sacred" music.

― Mark, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bach,Country Singers,Mahalia Jackson,and the noise of grief and joy. ( Keening or Throat music or the Wailign at the wailing wall or qwalli)

― anthony, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pärt, Taverner, Russian choral music, a bit of serener Aphex, Charlemagne Palestine's collaboration with Pan Sonic, Kraig Grady, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Dead Can Dance. A small slice, but it would do for starters -- oh yeah, and Sun Ra and something from the Church of John Coltrane in San Francisco.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This question was inspired by 5 listens in the last 24 hours to the first track from Gas' _Zauberberg_. Not far from Christian music tradition, w/ deep organ drones that go on forever. But tweaked enough to get me inside and kneeling in a pew.

― Mark, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It wouldn't be any different from all the music I normally listen to.

― Josh, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

big black - songs about fucking and billy bragg's workers playtime

― Geoff, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Billy Bragg defintly but i cannot see Big Black at Mass :)

― anthony, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom Waits. The Avengers. The Gun Club. The Stooges. Kraftwerk. R. Kelly. David S. Ware.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Music for Airports' by Eno - secular spirituality. 'Schlingen-Blangen' by Charlemagne Palestine - holy organ drone. 'Dark Was The Night' by Blind Willie Johnson - 'cos some of us are sinners. 'Your Song' by Aretha Franklin - maybe there is a god after all... 'Alabama' by John Coltrane - the one true church of JC. 'Take Me to the River' by Al Green - the only rev I respect. 'Jesus Is a Dying Bedmaker' by John Fahey - touched by the hand of God. 'Oh Happy Day' by Spiritualized - should leave the mourners uplifted.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anthony - it all depends on which branch of the catholic church you turn up to!

― Geoff, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"A Love Supreme" is an obvious one, I guess...

There is a real Church of Saint John Coltrane in San Francisco, recently evicted from its storefront location due to gentrification of the Mission District but I think it has relocated.

Ras Michael and The Sons of Negus is some pretty heavyduty Rastafarian spiritual music.

The Stanley Bros. have some goose-bump-inducing songs about a very Old Testament creator.

I was really hooked on a 2-cd set called "The Real Bahamas" of hymns and spirituals by Joseph Spence and his family among others. "I bid you goodnight" is unbelievable.

― fritz, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Augustus Pablo for sure--Rastafarian or not, it's hard not to hear him as someone reaching to a higher calling. Penguin Cafe Orchestra-- best Sunday-morning music I can think of.

― M. Matos, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nothing. It echoes oddly.

― Lyra, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Carter Family. I played them at Mass today. Sent the whole chhurch into weeping. Got in trouble though.

― anthony, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jackie Wilson: Higher and Higher. I'm sure you could work a funky jam in there somehow and make it last for an hour on Sunday.

― JM, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nina Simone.

I'm such a goddam nitpicker, but Fritz, the Church of John Coltrane was not in the Mission, but Western Addition.

― Sean, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you ever been? I tried half-heartedly to contact them at one point for a newspaper piece, but never got a call back.

― fritz, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've been to the Church of St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane, but not for a service. They Church used to have a radio show in SF and I won a phone-in contest that asked for the names of the two people thanked in the notes to A Love Supreme who didn't play on the album. I had to go to the church to get the shirt (I used to live about six blocks from the place.)

It was a tiny room (yes, in Western Addition, two blocks from Haight St. at Divis. & Oak) with a dozen or so pews. I hung out while I waited for the woman from the radio to show up. She was an Elder of the church. Two guys were setting up the stage for an evening service. To test the microphone, they read the liner notes to "A Love Supreme" Gregorian-chant style! Then they started wailing, drums and sax. Very cool. Sister Williams showed up and gave me this ugly t- shirt and a big hug (extra big because she was a very big woman.) Very cool evening, all in all.

More info. here:

http://www.saintjohncoltrane.org/

― Mark, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some records I'd keep near the holy water...

* HOCHENKEIT "Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys" * ART OF NOISE "Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?" * ASH RA TEMPEL "Ash Ra Tempel" * AMON DUUL II "Tanz Der Lemminge" * LOU REED "Metal Machine Music"

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Roky Erickson, Sylvester, ELO, Cardinal, Sly & the Family Stone, PM Dawn, Staple Singers, Al Green, the Archies, Inner City, "MMMBop".

― Arthur, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten years pass...

some fave's from our house church:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MsPSSKAMY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2_6qL0GZrE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF81AAC31E3F7DBA6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTIKffFPFv0

― heavymeddle, Monday, 12 March 2012 02:06 (fourteen years ago)

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