Yes, some still sing Shine Jesus Shine. As a matter of fact, some of us are still singing “Isn’t He Beautiful”, as in “Isn’t he beautiful…beautiful isn’t he”.
Remember that one? It’s REAL bad.
Any song that talks about “creation/skies/stars/suns/clouds/rain drops/snow/rocks/etc singing God’s praises”…arn’t there any people who want to praise God?
A few of us were joking about this the other day. I’ll have to say “Trading My Sorrows” is number one on my list, but thankfully, I haven’t heard it in years.
The church I attend is pretty good about mixing it up. The songs that are on heavy rotation are met with open arms though… so far.
Oh. My. Goodness. If I hear “I Could Sing of Your Love Forever” one more time, I might scream! Every time it’s sung, we literally sing it FOREVER, and every time we get to the “like I’m dancing now” part, I look around me. No one ever dances. Ever. Especially because the music doesn’t lend itself to dancing. It’s slow!
Breathe
There is history there, you know when the team leader falls in love with a song and it just never seems to go out of rotation?
I wanted to wrap my fingers around her neck until she could no longer breathe….did I share too much?
Bunch of punks! (except Shaun Groves, of course The irony of this question goes along the same lines as those “Worst Songs of All Time” lists. The actual worst songs would never be listed because no one knows them. The ones people are naming here are only listed because they’re so hooky and singable that they generally catch in your brain and you can’t get them out.
how can i keep from singggggggingggggg. actually, we don’t sing that. because it makes me nauseated and i might puke on my mac. idk what my deal is.
and this is random, but why is it that every beauty pageant contestant who doesn’t have any other talent options does sign language to shout to the lord?
Not really fond of that song Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord… It really bugs me!! How are u guys doing? I miss your cute little bald head (although I am not at Sandals anymore) it was nice to know there was a fellow Fresnan down the freeway!!
we hadn’t done “i could sing of your love forever” in years. but we did it using a coldplay chord prog last sunday and it rocked our worship service. old school stuff just needs to sit for a while/be given a facelift sometimes.
this post proves the need for people to keep writing new stuff.
from a church plant in Kentucky where the pastor is micromanaging and choosing all our songs – 9/10ths of the songs above are on our current “playlist.”
i could never sing Holy is the Lord again, and i really don’t think i would miss it.
ps: has anybody ever noticed how hard it is to sing that song (a lot of tomlin songs actually) without sounding like a complete hick? its like the songs only work with a texas accent…
my vote … Mighty to Save. . When Joel Houston was asked about that song he replied, “we wrote that song 2 years ago. God gave us a new song”
its time to write people.
Oh no guys!!!!! I love, love, love “Oh Happy Day”…but only when it is really loud, and done by Steve Fee or James David Carter and with Jared Roman on the lights in the auditorium! It just makes me want to jump around and sing…it fires me up! (Maybe its just my personality…or maybe its because my 2 “nieces” under 3 years old, both know all the words and sing it… it is precious and will melt your heart!)
you know, los has a point in the “mighty to save” post. we’re all talking about how tired we are of these songs, but guess what? someone actually wrote all of them! how many of us actually have the ambition to go and write something new rather than complain about how sick we are of the songs that someone did spend the time to write?
Oh trading my sorrows… I used to call that my chording exercises… especially when you have a leader that changes keys twice… and doesn’t warn you…
or holiness, holiness is what I need… righteousness, righteousness… (I always wanted to add stuff) brand new socks, brand new socks are what I need… (yeah, I’m going to hell too I guess)… LOL
There’s No One Like Our God, Holy, and Awesome God (Your Voice). The first two I never really have liked and the third one has been done a lot and needs to sit on the bench for a while.
Also, our church has done You Never Let Go a TON recently, I love that song but it’s getting a little too much for me..
Graham himself (we are not worthy) is coming back to our church in a couple of months. When he sings Shine Jesus Shine it sounds fresh again – when anyone else sings it then it sounds awful!
Clay, Jesus love them all when sung with the right heart and attitude. These are about the ones WE can’t stand. By the way, the only version of “Oh Happy Day” that I liked was the Lauren Hill/Sister Act 2 version….they rocked it. But my choice is “Come, now is the time to worship.” We should worship Him in everything we do, but YES, thank you for reminding me to come and worship now. I appreciate that.
Amazing Love
Marvelous Light
Blessed Be Your Name
God of Wonders
The Heart of Worship
Give Us Clean Hands
Reign in Me
Indescribable
I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
Sweetly Broken
And when you deviate from the norms, you get “I didn’t know that one song. Do we always have to sing new ones?”
To which my devious little heart wants to reply “That’s kind of the point…”
Worship peeps know what I’m saying.
Grete, I actually laughed out loud at that one! I feel the same way about the song and the “feel like dancing” part.
I don’t know why we sing it BUT for some reason we started singing “Down to the river” from “O! Brother” and I loathe it deeply. OH YEAH, and “Thy Word” can go the way side too. Don’t know why we sing it but I hope we stop REALLY soon.
How Great Is Our God. like seriously, I never liked the song, I mean NEVER! why do people insist on singing songs over and over again, that are just not that great.
I am not sure what the title of it is.. but I know it is sung in both Spanish and English – something about saying no, no, no to pain, suffering, sickness, etc..
It’s a heretical little piece that promotes a lie of a gospel.
I dunno if this is considered a “worship song”, but if I never sing “I Could Only Imagine” again, it would be too soon. I’d NEVER want to sing it again.
I’m trading my sorrows
I’m trading my shame
I’m laying them down
For the joy of the Lord
I’m trading my sickness
I’m trading my pain
I’m laying them down
For the joy of the Lord
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Amen
I am pressed but not crushed
Persecuted not abandoned
Struck down but not destroyed
I am blessed beyond the curse
For His promise will endure
That His joy’s gonna be my strength
Though the sorrow may last for the night
His joy comes with the morning
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Amen
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UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Ok, I’m not at this church anymore… so this is ok right? We used to sing “Days of Elijah”. There is this part that where you sing “There’s no God like Jehovah”, over an over again. It was done in such a way where you could sing sock it to me, sock it to me at the same time. It was the worst song ever… oh yeah and there is no God called Jehovah. It’s yahweh! If you like this song that is cool, I’m not a fan.
I concur – probably cuz the old worship leader who only knew 4 chords sang it every Sunday before he was dismissed. Hate, Hate,Hate that song. Men singing with the ladies following. I want to go puke when I hear it….
Just lurking about had me laughing so hard I can’t focus on just the one we wore out. BUT . . . sometimes that whole catalog of worship songs they advertise on TV . . . maybe it’s just the ad that annoys me . . . I just never really enjoyed “I could only imagine” I do pray that GOD does
RAIN IT DOWN
Happy Day
Shine Jesus Shine…it really needs to retire.
Shout to the Lord… Owait, I’m NOT singing that.
people still sing “Shine Jesus Shine”? I’d like to give “Everlasting God” a rest … especially the absurdly over the top Lincoln Brewster version.
Yes, some still sing Shine Jesus Shine. As a matter of fact, some of us are still singing “Isn’t He Beautiful”, as in “Isn’t he beautiful…beautiful isn’t he”.
Remember that one? It’s REAL bad.
salvation is here. marvelous light. all i need.
really just marvelous light. that song is played out like Republicans in the white house. woop woop.
“I Could Only Imagine”… haven’t sung it yet… hopefully it stays that way for another 12 months.
anything that’s played like this:
CAPO 4
G / D / Em / C (loop)
ha, ha! great question los!
Ironically, it’s I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever.
Anything Chris Tomlin’s recorded. I know…going to hell.
Any song that talks about “creation/skies/stars/suns/clouds/rain drops/snow/rocks/etc singing God’s praises”…arn’t there any people who want to praise God?
Blessed be the name.
someone pleeeease kill that song
Holy Is The Lord. I don’t know…maybe it’s the song…maybe it’s Tomlin. Either way, let’s let this one rest a while people. Huh!?
A few of us were joking about this the other day. I’ll have to say “Trading My Sorrows” is number one on my list, but thankfully, I haven’t heard it in years.
The church I attend is pretty good about mixing it up. The songs that are on heavy rotation are met with open arms though… so far.
grace like rain, waves of mercy (not that I’ve sung them in the last 12 months…but i’d like to continue the trend)
Give me Clean Hands
I concur with Daley Hake.
There’s a lot to choose from, but I’ll go with Happy Day.
Played out.
Following rehearsal yesterday… Better is One Day. Unfortunately we will do it on Sunday.
Oh. My. Goodness. If I hear “I Could Sing of Your Love Forever” one more time, I might scream! Every time it’s sung, we literally sing it FOREVER, and every time we get to the “like I’m dancing now” part, I look around me. No one ever dances. Ever. Especially because the music doesn’t lend itself to dancing. It’s slow!
I’m also going with I Could Sing of Your Love Forever. For the same reasons.
King of Majesty.. mannnnn
Forever.
My church sings that song every. single. week. It’s SOOOO annoying.
“Trading My Sorrows” or “Everyday”
Lord I lift your name on high could be retired permanently as far as I am concerned.
Friend of God.
Enough already. I get it. I am a friend of God. Really. I know it by now. Who am I? I’m a friend of God.
looks like I could sing of your love forever wins it. but Shout to the Lord needs to hit the bench, with Praise you in this storm.
Breathe
There is history there, you know when the team leader falls in love with a song and it just never seems to go out of rotation?
I wanted to wrap my fingers around her neck until she could no longer breathe….did I share too much?
Bunch of punks! (except Shaun Groves, of course
The irony of this question goes along the same lines as those “Worst Songs of All Time” lists. The actual worst songs would never be listed because no one knows them. The ones people are naming here are only listed because they’re so hooky and singable that they generally catch in your brain and you can’t get them out.
Sorry for the name calling, I got a little worked up.
Los, please tell me you’ve seen this:
http://personman.com/top_5_worst_worship_songs
It’s hilarious.
Mine right now is Sing to the King. We over did it big time.
Great and Mighty is He, and our team seems to be stuck on doing Give us Clean Hands the wrong way with the whole verse sung on only two notes.
Not to Us or pretty much anything Chris Tomlin.
Lord I Lift Your Name on High, or Come, Now is the Time to Worship
happy day
how can i keep from singggggggingggggg. actually, we don’t sing that. because it makes me nauseated and i might puke on my mac. idk what my deal is.
and this is random, but why is it that every beauty pageant contestant who doesn’t have any other talent options does sign language to shout to the lord?
Not really fond of that song Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord… It really bugs me!! How are u guys doing? I miss your cute little bald head (although I am not at Sandals anymore) it was nice to know there was a fellow Fresnan down the freeway!!
http://donelrn.blogspot.com
we hadn’t done “i could sing of your love forever” in years. but we did it using a coldplay chord prog last sunday and it rocked our worship service. old school stuff just needs to sit for a while/be given a facelift sometimes.
this post proves the need for people to keep writing new stuff.
from a church plant in Kentucky where the pastor is micromanaging and choosing all our songs – 9/10ths of the songs above are on our current “playlist.”
I think I’m going to go cry now…
Friend of God… or anything Israel. All his songs are sooo repetitive that I wonder if he can even write real songs.
i could never sing Holy is the Lord again, and i really don’t think i would miss it.
ps: has anybody ever noticed how hard it is to sing that song (a lot of tomlin songs actually) without sounding like a complete hick? its like the songs only work with a texas accent…
Here I am to Worship. We start way to many services with that. Please go away.
more than likely the one song you don’t wanna do is possibly a song that connects with someone else…
I like the fact we do something on a regular basis that doesn’t quite fit my palette, but is savory to someone else.
-c
how about…
“something about that name” or…
“all hail king jesus” or…
“celebrate jesus, celebrate!” or…
“give glory to god church” (sung to the tune of chariots of fire…)
and one more:
“caint nobody do me like jesus.”
ok, i’m done.
Nothing wrong with a Texas accent….My vote would be for “awesome God”, never done it, never will.
anything by Tommy Walker
my vote … Mighty to Save. . When Joel Houston was asked about that song he replied, “we wrote that song 2 years ago. God gave us a new song”
its time to write people.
“Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned.”
Kidding…
“Lord, Reign In Me”
“Everybody Praise the Lord”
“Above All”
Oh no guys!!!!! I love, love, love “Oh Happy Day”…but only when it is really loud, and done by Steve Fee or James David Carter and with Jared Roman on the lights in the auditorium! It just makes me want to jump around and sing…it fires me up! (Maybe its just my personality…or maybe its because my 2 “nieces” under 3 years old, both know all the words and sing it… it is precious and will melt your heart!)
you know, los has a point in the “mighty to save” post. we’re all talking about how tired we are of these songs, but guess what? someone actually wrote all of them! how many of us actually have the ambition to go and write something new rather than complain about how sick we are of the songs that someone did spend the time to write?
Open the Eyes of My Heart.
Great lyrics, but waaaaaay overplayed.
Oh trading my sorrows… I used to call that my chording exercises… especially when you have a leader that changes keys twice… and doesn’t warn you…
or holiness, holiness is what I need… righteousness, righteousness… (I always wanted to add stuff) brand new socks, brand new socks are what I need… (yeah, I’m going to hell too I guess)… LOL
Oh Ryan… I got 5 new ones… but I don’t lead worship anymore so they sit in a notebook.
So… people ARE writing…
every song on our current rotation. please don’t get me started on our “contemporary” service.
and im not joking. if we never played any of the songs on our rotation again i would smile for once at practice.
p.s.
we tried crowders version of “oh for a thousand tongues” tonight. horrible.
Consuming fire . . . great words but man I fall to sleep hearing the melody! Brutal.
hooray for writing. sorry if my post sounded a little cynical. it was just something i’ve been feeling more convicted about lately.
Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!
Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!
Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!
Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!
Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!
Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!
Man,
Y’all are just playa hatin’! Who cares if we like it or not—–does HE like it? And before you answer—-how do you know?
There’s No One Like Our God, Holy, and Awesome God (Your Voice). The first two I never really have liked and the third one has been done a lot and needs to sit on the bench for a while.
Also, our church has done You Never Let Go a TON recently, I love that song but it’s getting a little too much for me..
Clay. The question is still…If you could not sing one song for the next 12 months…What would it be? C’mon Clay. We know you dont love them all…
“TAKE TAKE TAKE IT ALL, TAKE TAKE TAKE IT ALL!”
oh and “salvation is here”, “marvelous light”, and “all i need”
only one song??
I wouldn’t mind not singing ‘How Great is our God’ fo ages…
and i’d be very happy to nor sing ‘Days of Elijah’ EVER EVER again…. Ever
What’s that with all you americans (I assume you are…
) that you’re not keen on singing Chris Tomlin’s songs?
I really don’t understand.
(But yeah, Party is just a bad song…)
I’d stick with Shine, Jesus, Shine… (Although I never ever sing that song…)
Blessed be your name or any Chris Tomlin stuff, we murder them anyway!!
Graham himself (we are not worthy) is coming back to our church in a couple of months. When he sings Shine Jesus Shine it sounds fresh again – when anyone else sings it then it sounds awful!
Come Thou Fount of Heavenly Blessings.
I don’t think I’m in any danger of ever having to sing that again.
Clay, Jesus love them all when sung with the right heart and attitude. These are about the ones WE can’t stand. By the way, the only version of “Oh Happy Day” that I liked was the Lauren Hill/Sister Act 2 version….they rocked it. But my choice is “Come, now is the time to worship.” We should worship Him in everything we do, but YES, thank you for reminding me to come and worship now. I appreciate that.
Amazing Love
Marvelous Light
Blessed Be Your Name
God of Wonders
The Heart of Worship
Give Us Clean Hands
Reign in Me
Indescribable
I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
Sweetly Broken
And when you deviate from the norms, you get “I didn’t know that one song. Do we always have to sing new ones?”
To which my devious little heart wants to reply “That’s kind of the point…”
Worship peeps know what I’m saying.
David, that just hurts my feelings… at least half of your songs are on my top 20…
…and on SixSteps records for that matter.
Grete, I actually laughed out loud at that one! I feel the same way about the song and the “feel like dancing” part.
I don’t know why we sing it BUT for some reason we started singing “Down to the river” from “O! Brother” and I loathe it deeply. OH YEAH, and “Thy Word” can go the way side too. Don’t know why we sing it but I hope we stop REALLY soon.
any that have words!
Spiritual masterbation read this..http://openapologies.org/?p=18
“Trading My Sorrows”
Would be OK except for that “Yes Lord” thing, but MAN does that song grate on me (as well as half of our team)
Amazing Love (You Are My King)
….blah!!! Can’t stand it! Wish I never heard it!
How Great Is Our God. like seriously, I never liked the song, I mean NEVER! why do people insist on singing songs over and over again, that are just not that great.
As the deer…..panteth for the water…. etc.
“Come, Now is the Time to Worship”. Especially don’t put it at the END OF THE SERVICE!! True story.
I am not sure what the title of it is.. but I know it is sung in both Spanish and English – something about saying no, no, no to pain, suffering, sickness, etc..
It’s a heretical little piece that promotes a lie of a gospel.
Yea, I am blunt about it.
HA! Sizz nailed it!
I often cringed, singing, “No, Lord, No, Lord, No Dear LORD!!”
Friend of God by Chris Tomlin. I like the guy, but every once in awhile a terrible song comes along. Does anyone remember “We’re gonna Party”.
We used to do a song called How Could I But love you!
O ya! we tried to be mature about it, but come on!!!
glad we dont sing it anymore
what’s this “happy day” song?
is it “O happy day” or a different one?
Sizz – I think that’s the one I am talking about. I HATE that song!
I dunno if this is considered a “worship song”, but if I never sing “I Could Only Imagine” again, it would be too soon. I’d NEVER want to sing it again.
Words and Music by Darrell Evans
I’m trading my sorrows
I’m trading my shame
I’m laying them down
For the joy of the Lord
I’m trading my sickness
I’m trading my pain
I’m laying them down
For the joy of the Lord
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Amen
I am pressed but not crushed
Persecuted not abandoned
Struck down but not destroyed
I am blessed beyond the curse
For His promise will endure
That His joy’s gonna be my strength
Though the sorrow may last for the night
His joy comes with the morning
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
We say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord
Amen
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UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Anysong that requires you sing the same line over 3 times just to get it in your head..
Not going to mention the ones Im singing to myself right now as not to offend anyone
Ok, I’m not at this church anymore… so this is ok right? We used to sing “Days of Elijah”. There is this part that where you sing “There’s no God like Jehovah”, over an over again. It was done in such a way where you could sing sock it to me, sock it to me at the same time. It was the worst song ever… oh yeah and there is no God called Jehovah. It’s yahweh! If you like this song that is cool, I’m not a fan.
Steven Says:
Open the Eyes of My Heart.
I concur – probably cuz the old worship leader who only knew 4 chords sang it every Sunday before he was dismissed. Hate, Hate,Hate that song. Men singing with the ladies following. I want to go puke when I hear it….
“Come Sail Away” by Styx, I used to love the song, wait, we DON’T sing that at church. Nevermind.
Just lurking about had me laughing so hard I can’t focus on just the one we wore out. BUT . . . sometimes that whole catalog of worship songs they advertise on TV . . . maybe it’s just the ad that annoys me . . . I just never really enjoyed “I could only imagine” I do pray that GOD does
Anything Tomlin. He writes good songs but its frustrating doing at least one of them every week!!!!
Why are you all on your asses complaining about music that glorifies my name??