From the 1980s Young Messiah… the song is “Every Valley Shall Be Exalted”… the group is “First Call.”
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17 December 2007 at 11:36 pm
The only idea worse than the Young Messiah is the guy’s shirt. Or the blond lady’s perm. Or the guy’s perm. Or the blond’s tube socks and boots. Oh, forget it. It’s all bad.
I saw them in concert once. Really.
18 December 2007 at 4:01 pm
When I was in Christian radio, I had a silly, but effective method for determining which artists were serious, and which were shallow. Look at their album covers for the past ten years and see if there hairstyle “evolved” with the times. The guy with the same haircut for the past eight CD’s usually also had the deepest/best lyrics. First Call: ten albums - ten hairdo’s. Draw your own conclusions.
18 December 2007 at 5:59 pm
There are many things to which I was not exposed for which I owe my fundamentalist upbringing due credit. This is surely one of them.
18 December 2007 at 9:59 pm
Oh, man! Greg, now I’m re-evaluating whether I should even continue to read your blog! (insert smiley face here)
This is baaaaaaaaaddddd…really bad, my friend. I can’t quit laughing. Thanks for the humor.
19 December 2007 at 9:01 am
Wow, how much more cheesy can you get? Oh, wait… I forgot…there’s more of the young messiah!!!!!!
19 December 2007 at 10:46 am
More! More!
Where’s the rest?!
19 December 2007 at 12:59 pm
Sorry to swim agin the tide, here, fellow GL, but…
I love Handel’s Messiah AND the Young Messiah.
(Audible gasps!)
Do you object to the music, the performance, or the clothing?
I’m going to guess your answer is probably, “Yes.”
19 December 2007 at 1:00 pm
The above comment was from me, Greg Long, not that “other” Greg.
19 December 2007 at 6:20 pm
I was thinking about this today, and I think we have a conundrum. Can we really, in good conscience, continue to sing songs from the CCM movement? What are fundamentalists going to do with Handel now that his music (albeit fine by itself) has association issues?
We’ve got trouble.
20 December 2007 at 5:15 pm
The 1980’s! BAD decade! Tapered pants, pointy shoes, mullet haircuts, pleated pants, and that’s just the men! Yikes!
Thanks Greg! Now I have that song drumming in my brain!
22 December 2007 at 2:15 pm
Well, I loved First Call and I liked this performance (at least it is more relevant than the original). It is not the 1980’s any more and hair and dress styles have changed–surely you people are not so shallow as to hold that against them.
23 December 2007 at 12:12 pm
If I’m not successful in getting that out of my head, I’ll be coming for you, Linscott.
23 December 2007 at 4:24 pm
Mercy me, you think THAT was a bad sung song, what about THIS atrocity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkiNa1nphY
23 December 2007 at 5:17 pm
The durability of Handel’s Messiah, would show itself in its original format, with simplicity of accompaniment, even when sung by practiced, though untrained grade schoolers. Such would outshine the crassest of christo-tainment’s efforts at contextualization. Why oh why does christendom let entertainers do their worship work for them? We’d do better to plug in a
Gaither Fishtales video
, and let Bill and Gloria theologize and try to one up the veggietales…
The mangled arrangement of the music in this video is only exceeded by the dated “oh-so-trendy” look of the performers. Perhaps their motives are better than it appears…It simply rings as out of context now, and is as worthwhile as the permed mullet…
Went to a YM special back in 96(?), it was rude…Twila Paris, as she sang “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” went on and on about we were to watch how for the original Christianized lyrics, which had been removed over the years. She proceeded to sing, and made this huge, overblown gestured point of singing “if the Lord allows” instead of “if the fates allow.” On cue, all the people erupted in “yah, you tell em”-type cheers and applause. And the song was rescued from secularism…yay God!
23 December 2007 at 5:18 pm
sorry, hacked up a html furball with that link insert…
25 December 2007 at 8:42 am
Wow. That was rather……..terrible.
31 December 2007 at 9:12 am
Further evidence that the crooked still needs to be made straight, and the rough places plain.
Talk about being blinded by the light!