"Tell me, what do you sing when you gather for your meetings?"
SmuckersTheDog the came up with Baby Got Back by the ever-relevant Sir Mix-A-Lot
I offered Coconut by Harry Nilsson - the logic of that song speaks to me like the logic of Ray's posts.
A great many people offered Lennon's subliminal Imagine, which if you ask me is a bit of a soft option.
To be honest I'm not one for singing badly together. Trying to space the inherrantly irational preaching of some salt-and-pepper haired minister with some haphazardly vocalised hymns always seemed odd to me. But get a few glasses of jesus-juice in me and I get down like the US financial markets.
So, say we got together and we had to sing one song what would it be?
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"Dear God" by Sarah McLachlan (originally written by some other band whose name escapes me at present)
ReplyDelete"Stairway to Heaven"
ReplyDeleteby The Beatnicks
"a few glasses of jesus-juice in me"
ReplyDeleteOh my god you're a vampire!!!???
The "Star Spangled Banner.'-----
ReplyDeleteJimmy Hendrix circa 1970
God by John Lennon.
ReplyDeleteLyrics here.
"Dear God" is by XTC. Great song.
ReplyDeleteGood one, Dale.
ReplyDeleteWow that dear god song is nicely depressing, I reckon that's a definite hymn in the making.
ReplyDeleteI like stairway to heaven because everyone could get involved in the last "and she's buyyyying..." bit.
"Oh my god you're a vampire!!!???"
Does a bloody mary count?
Joan Osborne Parody - What If God Smoked Cannibus.
ReplyDelete"What if Goooddd smoked Cannibuuuus...
Hit the booong liiiike some of uuuuus...
Drove a tyyye-dyyyyed miiicrobus,
And he subscribes to rolliiiing stooooone..."
Vagon'El,
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Oh my god you're a vampire!!!???
ReplyDeleteVampire, catholic, same difference...
Does anyone know "Run to Paradise" by the Choirboys?
ReplyDeleteIn actuality this is my fav live band/karaoke song. The chorus is awesome, you can sing loudly with no tune and it doesnt sound that bad. And there's some relevant lyrics too.
Quasar'El and Vagon'El,
ReplyDeleteGet with the program!
I'd say call me Vag'On but it sounds too much like a female hygiene product.
ReplyDeleteBut the entire discussion is pointless, since we all know we sing Satanic Death Chants and laugh maniacally at the Evil Atheist Conspiracy meetings.
ReplyDeleteVagon'El
ReplyDelete"Does anyone know "Run to Paradise" by the Choirboys?"
No, but please send link to utube. I want to hear it!
Frog'El
The Humpty Dance (is your chance to do "The Hump)
ReplyDeleteNo question. Hands down.
Quas'El said...
ReplyDelete"But the entire discussion is pointless, since we all know we sing Satanic Death Chants and laugh maniacally at the Evil Atheist Conspiracy meetings."
Shhhhhhhh. Especially don't say anything about the "snacking on fetuses" part. K?
or the other stuff
Run to Paradise
ReplyDeleteThe relevant lyrics are the last verse, enjoy!
Nick Cave singing:
ReplyDelete"Into My Arms"
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms
And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms
And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candlew burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms
Frog' El wrote:
ReplyDeleteShhhhhhhh. Especially don't say anything about the "snacking on fetuses" part. K?
OK, but you have to stop singing the death chant with your mouth full. It totally ruins the harmonics!
PS: I'm evolving! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAGGH!!!
Quas' El +†+ sez:
ReplyDeletePS: I'm evolving! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAGGH!!!
I am sore afraid of what you have become!
I am sore afraid of what you have become!
ReplyDelete[hoarse voise]
You have not yet seen tiniest fraction of my epic powaah! FEEEAAAR MEEEEE!!!
AllFiredQuasnDoug' El +†+ Burton !!!
ReplyDeleteI'll be hiding under my bed if anyone needs me.
AAAAAAAAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
ReplyDeleteYOU FOOLISH FOOLS CAN NEVER DEFEAT ME!!! YOU'RE FAR TOO BUSY BEING FOOLISH!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, I feel kinda weird.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Hey! What happened? Who trashed my lab?!
[Glares accusingly at Froggie and Non-Magic]
I..uh...I was under the bed the whole time and it was all Froggie'EL I swear it I swear it I swear it!!!
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to announce I am now:
ReplyDeleteIn His grip, til His nets are full, shalom.
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I think I just swam through a web tide...***frog shaking head****
ReplyDeleteI think I'm Ok....
Oh My God! What the hell is that thing?!?!
ReplyDeleteOh wait, it's just Vag- AAAARRRGH, it's eating my braaaiin!!!!
[Glares accusingly at Froggie and Non-Magic]
ReplyDeleteNope. We are innocent as the virgin Mary.
Morbid Angel - "Crush The Priest"
ReplyDeleteBecause I find Satanic death metal as hilarious as Christian rock.
Nope. We are innocent as the virgin Mary.
ReplyDelete[With a mutated Vag'On attached to head]
So... it was you two getting it on with God?
Holy crap, my lab got trashed by a sex crazed omnipotent being! AWESOME!
Mandrellian said...
ReplyDeleteMorbid Angel - "Crush The Priest"
Because I find Satanic death metal as hilarious as Christian rock.
Way yes and thanks for commenting!
I cruise through your site. Very well done. Thanjs for stopping by.
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ReplyDeleteWell, keeping with the anthems ...
ReplyDeleteWith the Moomin!
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa ...
Moomin!
(Mandrellian's fault, not mine)
Thank you good sir1
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ReplyDelete"Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground. For so many reasons.
"It's a bad religion
ReplyDeletefrom a broken nation
it's a contradiction"
Highway to Hell and Hell's Bells by ACDC. Satanist atheist that I am.
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If You Open up Your Mind too Much... (Take My Wife)
ReplyDeleteby Tim Minchin.
Hahaha, I love your new names everybody.
ReplyDeleteWhile we're on the subject of music, I like Lennon's "I Found Out" and the ironic lyrics in the Stones' "Far Away Eyes"
YOU FOOLISH FOOLS CAN NEVER DEFEAT ME!!! YOU'RE FAR TOO BUSY BEING FOOLISH
ReplyDeleteNo silly video game references while choosing an atheist theme song. That's one of my rules.
Anyhoozle, for a song, may I suggest RAtM "Killing in the name of..." Not a family song though, so perhaps not completely appropriate, but there it is.
In Heaven, there is no beer.
ReplyDeleteThat's why we drink it here.
And when we're gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer.
Link!
No silly video game references while choosing an atheist theme song. That's one of my rules.
ReplyDeleteOh, that wasn't me: that was Jesus Phelps AllFiredQuasnDoug' El Burton with a badge +†+ Comfort. He uses my profile sometimes.
I'll kick him for you.
By the way: CodewordConduit, that was awesome. I love Tim Mitchin.
ReplyDeleteHe's ace, just watched his dvd :)
ReplyDelete4'33" by John Cage
ReplyDeleteI thought about mentioning the internationale but I was somehow afraid, they would take it serious...
ReplyDelete(Hey, after enough beer sitting at a fire with somebody playing the guitar and when we're done with all the Beatles songs, we do sing it. It's a nice melody and for what reason ever, everybody seems to know the text, or at least most of it)
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Lyrics here
Can't believe I still remember that song - I last listened to it maybe 20 years ago. The band is so unlike anything that I normally enjoy; even watching the video now, I wonder how I stumbled on it. However, it brings back lots of college memories, and the lyrics I think are spot-on for this group)
By the way: CodewordConduit, that was awesome. I love Tim Mitchin
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of him before this blog, but I love that clip...
In a 1997 interview in Newsweek, Bob Dylan said-
ReplyDeleteHere's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light"—that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I've learned more from the songs than I've learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Dylan was born and raised Jewish, became a born-again Christian for a few years in the late 70's, and now follows no organized religion.