Bohemian Rhapsody

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I found one good “Christian rock” station once that seemed to be playing a lot of Christian emo band type stuff. Like Skillet’s “Invincible”. Unfortunately I have not been able to find that station again. The ones I do find are more in the wimpy pop vein.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
They do in one parish I go to. The “youth Mass” has a rock band with drums and amplifers, playing stuff like “Lion and the Lamb”.
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I always go to the Saturday Vigil Mass, with the exception of the last two Easter’s, when I went on Sunday morning so I have little to compare it to.
I will say that the Easter Noon Mass on Sunday had better music than the Easter Vigils I’ve been to, and the Saturday Vigil.
 
It’s not just in the UK that the Catholic music ain’t so hot. It’s a generally accepted fact that you get what you pay for, and the Catholic Church doesn’t tend to pay much. Plus, everything’s messed up since the 1960s-- JK.
 
I think his funeral was a Zoroastarian service. I’ve never met anyone from that religion and know almost nothing about it.
 
There are quite a few of those. I usually enjoy listening to Steve Kuban , Don Moen , Bob fitts and Matt Maher . I usually find them melodious and inspirational
 
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Zach said:
Do you have the same moral concern about the musicians who protested apartheid but are now silent about the racism, land seizures, violence and murder of whites in modern day South Africa?
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Those things aren’t equivalent. Nobody has a moral responsibility to speak out about each and every important cause. If we did we’d all spend all our lives protesting about one thing or another. On the other hand, we all have a responsibility to refrain from committing acts that actually violate a moral code. Playing to an all-white audience in Apartheid South Africa was a bad thing to do. They went out to South Africa knowing perfectly well what the regime was like and they knowingly played to an audience that was all white. They could not have failed to have realised when they accepted the booking that the venue would be racially segregated. I cannot see how it can be a morally good choice to take money to play at a venue from which black people are excluded. But, on the other hand, as I say, there are bad things happening all over the world and none of us can try to do something about all of them. The surviving members of Queen are not committing an immoral act by failing to identify this issue as one to speak out about any more than they are committing an immoral act if they fail to speak out about anything else.
 
JSAD said:
Is anything that pointed out wrong ? I don’t need to mind read to know he was a professional musician.

By the way you did the same thing assuming he was generous
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I was giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming the best motives on his part, which is more than you did, my judgmental friend.
 
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Why ? What judgement did I pass ? Is making money a bad thing ?
You are also judging me by accusing me of being judgemental .
 
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I was specifically interested in UK because it’s a small and densely populated area and I would not expect what’s happening in Catholic churches to be too different from Anglican. Whereas in USA we have far fewer Anglican churches spread through a large area and hugely diverse Catholic churches. There are US Catholic churches, especially in cities or near colleges or run by orders, that have awesome music, though the musical styles are all over the map. There are also a lot of ethnic Catholic churches that have a distinct ethnic flavor to the music (Spanish, Filipino etc). Where you get the “terrible music” is usually some isolated area or suburban parish where the commitment is lacking as the other person said.
I could pick from about 25 places for Sunday Mass and I know from past experience which will have great music and which will have terrible and which will have just ordinary. It’s not all a matter of pay either, some of it has to do with what resources are available.
 
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Speaking of popular music (ant this might belong in another thread) but the idea of popular music being used in worship, I think this might be good. Has nothing to do with gay writers.


Edited to say, for those of you who might not know, the artist is Josh Groban. Video excerpts are from “The Passion of the Christ”
 
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I loved Queen. I was with them to about News of the World, Crazy Little Thing Called Love maybe. I did fall off a bit as did most of the US I think partly because of the Freddie gay thing and partly because the music was not really as strong. I was never a Freddie fan; I was a Brian May and Roger Taylor fan. But I liked Freddie and cannot picture Queen without him anymore than you can picture the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger. I would watch a documentary film not a dramatic film. Queen really came alive live on stage, much more so than in recordings. I am more of a blues, rock’n’roll kind of person, or even Buddy Holly type pop, soul, Motown, punk. But even I think Queen had a lot of great songs and they were all so different. I really miss David Bowie too - that one hit me hard. The world seems lesser without him. As for the gay thing, I am not into avoiding people because they are gay. I think that is weird, inhumane. It doesn’t affect my capacity to hold to teaching at the same time, that it is a disorder but I still like people who are gay. Though I am getting so I won’t watch shows with gay married couples and stuff so maybe you have a point. But Queen and I go way back. :hugs: We’re old friends.
 
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Nobody had an inkling.
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Uh, with a band named “Queen”? I was hearing him called gay back in the '70s when I was in elementary school. If pre-pubescent school kids caught on, you can be sure adults were stoking the rumor mill.
 
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