Music Update
Recently i have been listening to a different band than the usual. I heard a song on my sister's car radio (she is getting her mp3 player and speakers installed this week) and i really liked it, so i downloaded some of the band's songs and i really like them. The band is quite old, but still popular today. Started in 1988 i think, They sing songs like "Bad Day", "Shiny Happy People", "Night Swimming" and "Everybody Hurts". If you havent already guessed it the band is R.E.M. Their most famous song however is called "Losing My Religion". What i realised when i heard this song was it didn't speak to me as losing God, but was infact the transition between believing God is a religion as Him being the supreme being, to the realisation that putting your trust in Him, relying fully on Him, and Depending totally on Him is a faith, and thus 'losing your religion' is really losing the label that anyone can use to say 'yea i'm a christian' to saying 'i believe in God and am willing to give my life to serve Him, and honour Him, and Love Him and His creation."
Here is a list of the songs i have heard from R.E.M, top being the most reccomended, bottom being still reccomended but not so much
Losing My Religion
Everybody Hurts
The One I Love
Shiny Happy People
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Bad Day
Stand
Radio Free Europe
Night Swimming
Man On The Moon
Oh also, i did some peer mentor training today at the Christchurch College of Education. It's for the year 9s (Third Formers) next year that i'll be looking after. It's going to be approx. 6 of us per class. There are about 400 year 9s coming to Cashmere next year. I've been told it's the second largest secondary school in Christchurch, second to Burnside of course. It was a fun, but very sweat filled, day.
That's about all i have to say
Here is a list of the songs i have heard from R.E.M, top being the most reccomended, bottom being still reccomended but not so much
Losing My Religion
Everybody Hurts
The One I Love
Shiny Happy People
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Bad Day
Stand
Radio Free Europe
Night Swimming
Man On The Moon
Oh also, i did some peer mentor training today at the Christchurch College of Education. It's for the year 9s (Third Formers) next year that i'll be looking after. It's going to be approx. 6 of us per class. There are about 400 year 9s coming to Cashmere next year. I've been told it's the second largest secondary school in Christchurch, second to Burnside of course. It was a fun, but very sweat filled, day.
That's about all i have to say
posted by Rayd at 3:49 pm
4 Comments:
although i like listening to R.E.M as well, i still have a hard time with it when the lead singer is a homosexual and the contradiction that it brings.
Maybe writing songs like this will bring him to God.
Good listening, Andrew.
r u serious andy?? 400? dats lykkk three of our year groups..i fink we only got lyk 116 in our form..try n b nice 2 da yr niners.. remember how u were bak den n give dem lollies or nutella n dey'll listen 2 everyfing u say
you mean i give you some nutella and you'll do everything i say. ;)
It's a shame that he is gay, i didn't know that until you posted, but regardless the way we interpret someone else's lyrics are relevant to us and so how they were originally intended to mean specifically does not have to be relevant to us as we listen. It still is good listening.
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