Best and worst hymns?

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Oh my gosh. I can hear the Brubeck in my mind now. I sometimes attend a parish where they actually change the meter to 6/4, and I don’t know if they are changing it on purpose or not! 🤣 “Sing of the Lord’s goooodness…”
 
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Good Lord, they had Let There Be Peace On Earth for the closing hymn. It’s the extended 4th of July weekend, so we wouldn’t want anyone becoming jingoistic…
 
Interesting. AG is my favorite hymn. Different strokes for different folks.
 
I think you mean Sing of the Lord’s Goodness. I am a church musician and I have played it a lot. I can see why you see the similarity with Take Five, but it is a really only the 5/4 time on the chord progression on the verses that sound so similar. The melody and the refrain are not similar at all.
 
Myself included, except it’s titled as “Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory.”
 
Worst: Most songs written before 1960.
Best: Most songs written after 2000.

I’m 60 years old and really enjoy the contemporary music that is played in our church.
 
I added two hymns this week (something I have never done in one week); and oldie (There is a Wideness in God’s Mercy) and a newer one (Christ Be Our Light). I heard great things on the latter.
 
Another to the worst list: His Peace Is Flowing Like A River. This was used as a protest song back in the 1980s when local militant nuns were organizing marches against one of the few Air Force Bases in the state here. No clue as to why it was in the line-up at Mass last weekend.
 
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I added two hymns this week (something I have never done in one week); and oldie (There is a Wideness in God’s Mercy) and a newer one (Christ Be Our Light). I heard great things on the latter.
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I’m not familiar with the first but our choir sings “Christ Be Our Light” on a semi-regular basis.

At the Saturday evening Mass we ended with “Lord of the Dance” - man I want to burn that CBW II! As soon as they started it I thought of my father-in-law, a dedicated choir member in his United Church of Canada parish. I remember how he ranted when they switched to “that red hymnal” as he called it, practically spitting out the term, and how he hated that song, whose lyrics 30+ years later still don’t make any sense to me.
 
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This weekend, we had Rain Down by Jamie Cortez as the “Gathering Song”. Awful. This tune must hold some sort of record for the number of times God appears in the lyrics.
 
Rain Down – those “down home” chord changes are so repulsive.
 
I heard that while visiting this weekend. I had not heard it. My shocker, and the new candidate for worst hymn though was the second hymn. In a weird twist on the Bread of Life discourse, they sang, “I Myself am the Bread of Life.” Now if this is not the worst song, then the placement within the context of John 6 would at least be the worst use of a bad song.
 
We sang that one at all Masses this Sunday. Gave some of us hope that a cooling rain might happen. No way.
 
Yes, I agree with that. It’s become a mantra for a whole generation; a mantra that doesn’t work.

For me, anything composed on the last three or so decades of “touchy-feely” everybody is okay B.S. falls into the category of do not want.
 
And, who did the nuns think were keeping the hordes away from them and the country? Perhaps they would have enjoyed going to Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopa, or parts of Mexico where there is no trustworthy military. Gotta love the utter lack of commonsense at times…
 
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