The Kingdumb Melodies

by WTWizard 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  snowbird

  Snowbird....I didnt even realize we sang that....I guess I was truly Blind, daft,

  Not blind, honey child, just misguided. Oh, please forgive me for calling you Granny in my earlier reply. May I, instead, call you Big Sister?

  Love, Snowbird
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  SacrificialLoon

  I was old enough to remember the switch from the pink to gold songbooks, and it was terrible. Even years later people just never got into singing some of those songs in the gold book. I'll admit I enjoyed singing some of the songs, mostly the ones that were carried over from the old book that actually had a melody.
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  bluebell

  O and what about the one i was reminded of in another topic "tho 1000's will be falling, yes at your very side"

  YUCK
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  veradico

  Let's not forget song #125:
  
  "I know that in this crucial hour
  
  My faith will yet be tested.
  
  Around me swarms the Devil’s crowd
  
  Like bees that were molested.
  
  But I can ever beat them off
  
  Beneath divine protection."
  
  I never could keep a straight face during these verses, and I spent almost all my time keeping a "straight" face.
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  Frequent_Fader_Miles

  In my entire JW experience I've always found that there was hardly any emphasis placed on singing as a whole. You were limited to those dry, tasteless renditions. As a child I remember the live music during the break at assemblies ... flourishes and all, it was great. Of course the "Society" has done away with all that. Even at the Hall where we had a piano, and an accomplished player ... they stopped his embellishments.

  A close relative of mine used to render a quite stirring rendition of "A Prayer of Thanksgiving" in their own opera style.
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  WTWizard

  I noticed that there are no more live performances of this s***. They have the CDs, and they are so poorly recorded that the most entertaining part is when they put the wrong disc in or push the wrong button. Then the song they are instructed to sing will not match the song that they are playing, and everyone would try to sing the correct song to the wrong accompaniment. They would get half a stanza before anyone would fix the problem. I guess they don't know when to fix these mistakes.

  I would like nothing more than to switch the CDs on them. They think they have the correct CD, and they push the correct button. In fact, the CD in the player would be 50 Cent's The Massacre, and they would get the song In My Hood to come up. I wonder how long it would take them to realize that there is a problem, and how many swear words would come up while they are fixing it. Perhaps they would get far enough along to reach the gunshot in the song before fixing it! At the very least, it would be funny. (If I were the attendant, I would do it on purpose and make sure it goes all the way through even while the conductor was trying to get me to fix it.)
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  Frequent_Fader_Miles

  They have the CDs, and they are so poorly recorded that the most entertaining part is when they put the wrong disc in or push the wrong button. Then the song they are instructed to sing will not match the song that they are playing, and everyone would try to sing the correct song to the wrong accompaniment. They would get half a stanza before anyone would fix the problem.

  LOL Oh how I remember these illustrious occasions as well! It happened many times in the Hall I attended. You would think that the rank and file would at least recognize it was the wrong song ... but alas! There would be one or two over zealous JW nitwits trying to outshine everybody else, pretending that they were familiar with the song while no one else was. HA HA!
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  Stealth453

  I wonder what would happen if we played them backwards?
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  WTWizard

  If you played the accompaniment backwards, it would likely sound like a chimpanzee demolishing the piano. Played forward, it sounds as bad: I think having someone demolish the damn piano would be much more fun. Too bad you can't do that with a CD. You also can't badly detune one of the notes on a CD like you could on a piano. The damn CD can't even be eaten like a tape could!

  One thing I would like is to have had the record keep skipping. Or, the tape get eaten. The tape would be ruined, and they would waste half an hour or more trying to get all the tape out of the player. A dab of rubber cement on the pinch roller would do that trick. Unfortunately, I don't know any way to mess with a CD except putting a copy of 50 Cent's The Massacre CD with a counterfeit Watchtower label on the back in the player. Then watch the bedlam when the swearing starts.
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  Pubsinger

  Doh!

  Someone did the "Like bees that were molested" line before me

  I was reading the "Christian Rock" thread someone posted over the weekend.

  Now I know it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea and some will not listen simply because of the lyrical content, but it's totally possible to find "Christian Music" in most of the contemporary genres - rock, pop, indie, dance, soul/r&b etc.

  When I first discovered this after leaving JWs I listened to a lot of it.

  I buy quite a bit of music and I find I can easily listen to Christian music and non-Christian stuff side by side.

  But Nobody inside the JWs listens to their own music outside KH. It's awful by any standards. And if they did they'd be very tired of the same 225 songs they've had for 25 years.