The High Fidelity Challenge

Birty has challenged me to take the High Fidelity Challenge. This is hard & subject to change daily !!!

Top Five Lyrics That Move Your Heart
(I don't listen to a lot of Christian music and I son't ever listen to hymns when I'm not singing them in church. I was therefore surprised to find lots of that kind of thing on this list. I guess it tells you what moves me).

5. Take to the World- Derek Webb

go in peace to love and to serve
let your ears ring long with what you’ve heard
and may the bread on your tongue
leave a trail of crumbs
to lead the hungry back to the place that you are from

and take to the world this love, hope and faith
take to the world this rare, relentless grace
and like the three in one
know you must become what you want to save
‘cause that’s still the way
He takes to the world

go, and go far
take light deep in the dark
believe what’s true
He uses all, even you


4. Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder - (John Newton 1774)
verse 1:
Let us love and sing and wonder
Let us praise the Savior’s name
He has hushed the law’s loud thunder
He has quenched Mount Sinai’s flame
He has washed us with His blood
He has brought us nigh to God


3.All I Need Is Everything - Over the Rhine

Slow down. Hold still.
It's not as if it's a matter of will.
Someone's circling. Someone's moving
a little lower than the angels.
And it's got nothing to do with me.
The wind blows through the trees,
but if I look for it, it won't come.
I tense up. My mind goes numb.
There's nothing harder than learning how to receive.


Calm down. Be still.
We've got plenty of time to kill.
No hand writing on the wall:
just the voice that's in us all.
And you're whispering to me,
time to get up off my hands and knees,
'cause if I beg for it, it won't come.
I find nothing but table crumbs.
My hands are empty. God I've been naive.


All I need is everything.
Inside, outside, feel new skin.
All I need is everything.
Feel the slip and the grip of grace again.


Slow down. Hold still.
It's not as if it's a matter of will.
Someone's circling. Someone's moving
a little lower than the angels.
This voice calling me to you:
it's just barely coming through.
Still, I clearly hear my name.
I've been fingering the flame
like tomorrow's martyr.
It gets harder to believe.


All I need is everything.
Inside, outside, feel new skin.
All I need is everything.
Feel the slip and the grip of grace again.


So from now till kingdom come,
taste the words on the tip of my tongue.
'Cause we can't run truth out of town,
only force it underground.
The roots grow deeper
in ways we can't conceive.


All I need is everything.
Inside, outside feel new skin.
All I need is everything.
Feel the slip and the grip of grace again.


All I need is all I need.


2. Double Cure - The Vigilantes of Love

yeah today i'm sick of all i am
today is my setback
first i swear i love you
then i stab you in the back

i wanna drink out of that fountain
on a hill called double cure
i wanna show you my allegiance Lord
yes i wanna be a son of Yours

so tired of all my toys
they never last for long
they keep beaming dreams and wishes
to a big dish on my front lawn

bet you all have got a story
you're just aching to tell
haven't we thrown our coinage
down the wishing well

so go and call your neighbor
proceed with all due haste
go grab your wife and sweet family
see there is no time to waste

we're gonna drink out of that fountain
on a hill called double cure
i wanna show you my allegiance Lord
yes i wanna be a son of Yours

ask me why i love Him
He gave riches to this poor
yes and i will one day see that face
over yonder shore

1. Be Thou My Vision- (ancient Irish poem, ca. 8th century)

verse 4:
Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise
Thou mine inheritence, now and always
Thou and thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my treasure thou Art



Top Five Instrumentals
(This one was hard. I don't listen to many instrumentals, I guess).

1. Freddy Freeloader - Miles Davis

2. Blue Train - John Coltrane

3. Run Dark Olive - Linford Detweiler

4. Willoughby - Over the Rhine

5. Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi Trio


Top Five Live Musical Experiences
(There are so, so many! I guess these 5 just stand out in my mind).

1. The Actual Hoots of Joy live at Taylor University, 1995ish

2. U2 - Busch Stadium, St Louis 1993

3. Over the Rhine - Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, Ohio anytime in the early to mid 90's

4. James- Bogarts, Cincinnati 1995ish

5. Adam Again - Bushnell, Illinois, 1997


Top Five Artists You Think More People Should Listen To

1. Over the Rhine

2. Derek Webb

3. Joseph Arthur

4. Ryan Adams

5. The Shrubs


Top Five Albums You Must Hear from Start to Finish
(Why don't you just ask me whaich of my kids I love most?!?)

1. The Joshua Tree - u2

2. Good Dog Bad Dog - Over the Rhine

3. Scenic Routes - The Lost Dogs

4. Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices

5. Real Folk Blues - John Lee Hooker


Top Five Musical Heroes

1. Johnny Cash

2. Bill Mallonee

3. Bob Dylan

4. Robert Rottet

5. Bob Pollard