Great comments, everyone. I noticed that the WTS chose the old standby "We're Jehovah's Witnesses" a song from 2 songbooks ago that has a fairly decent melody and an easy lyric to remember. Why didn't they choose a new song?
Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 02-27-11 WT Study (SING)
by blondie 35 Replies latest jw friends
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JW GoneBad
The new song book is no doubt another reason why attendance will continue to be a problem at JW meetings. More and more are going to look forward less and less to the new songs. So, another reason to miss meeting. As it is, you get the over-all feeling that most are having trouble with the new words & music.
The GB should have left well enough alone!
Good summary of the lesson Blondie.
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inbetween
glad we missed meeting this time. I was sick (really !) wife kind of faked it, she was really not in the mood to go (funny, she is mentally still in ..kind of...)and I didnt stop her from staying home...
But as a good dub, I prepared of course ;-)
and once again, I wonder, who writes articles like that ? especially the reason given for the new song book, because light got brighter , huh ?
why not simply change the terms form "new order" to "new world" etc, doesnt need to compose completely new music , mostly depressing tunes anyway ?
There is little subtsance lately in the articles, its usually a repetition of certain topics like: how to improve field servcie ? How to avoid satans influence (internet, entertainment, porn, apostate etc) How to behave at meetings, assemblies etc, you name it,
very rare are indepth discussions , it all remains on the surface, and almost in every article, they contradict themselves or write some really stupid comments.
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punkofnice
Mrs Punk and Daughter Punk were saying last night out loud and in front of me when I was trying to watch the Simpsons: 'OooOOooOOooH, wasn't the Watchtower about singing GOOD this week!'
I think they think they can drop these little hints to draw me back to the meetings.
It just pushes me further from the mind control seeing how petty it all is that adults have to stoop to dropping verbal hints. Typical JW nonsense!
A good watchtower..........hah! whatever next? Armageddon is close?
Do me a favour!
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pirata
Do they bring in Prince, George Benson, Rebbie Jackson, etc.?
They did bring in George Benson. Then the GB decided it sounded too Christendom and prevented it's release. I managed to find a copy and they are the best sounding English renditions I have ever heard.
*** km 3/05 p. 3 Announcements ***
? A number of publishers have telephoned the branch office regarding certain recordings of Kingdom songs sung in a popular style that are presently being circulated among Jehovah’s Witnesses. They wonder if these recordings have the organization’s approval. We are aware of these recordings and would like to inform you that they do not have our approval. Please do not circulate or download these recordings from the Internet. We trust this information will clarify matters.
So does the new songbook have the harmony lines any more? Does that mean no one can sing harmony?
The re-used older songs (at least there was no melody change) still preserve the 4 part harmony. Some of the newly added songs do not use 4-part harmony, they seemt to be written for piano playback. There may be a few exceptions to these statements, I didn't look through every single song in the book.