Religious music

[LSD]

I've for some reason really gotten into a religious music kick lately. Christian, Islamic, Hindu, it doesn't matter, I just love the emotional musicality of it. I still hate the message, but fuck, the messenger's beautiful.

I found some great links at some professor's website, but if anyone has any good religious chants, songs, etc... (not "Christian rock" shit, real traditionalist music), I'd really appreciate it, Takbir type crap included.

[Comrade J]

My friend has the Muslim call to prayer as his alarm tone on his phone, even though he's 100% athiest :lol:
Not entirely relevant to the subject sorry, but I thought it was quite amusing when I slept at his house and then come 9am - "ALLAAAAH! ALLAHU AKHBAAAAR!" It's pretty weird shit, but it's very haunting

[EwokUtopia]

This site has some good stuff http://magnatune.com/genres/world/

Go to Joglaresa for some fine tracks of Mediaeval songs about Mary Magdeline (who is probably my favourite character in that whole book, which is for the most part overrated and overly censored [slapped together some three centuries after the supposed death of the protagonist, to make matters worst, they cut out the best books, which I suppose were revolutionary in a way for that period, thus making a communal spiritual bond into a patriarchial farce from what was a spiritual belief that held merit considering the circumstances of the Empire that oppressed, and would later corrupt it into what we now know as Christianity, but I am going on a rant now.])

Ya Elah has really good Multifaith tracks coming from a Jewish tradition. All the stuff on this site (and it goes beyond just religious or world music, they have some good blues and classical) is multitracked, so explore through that.

All the Surah's of the Qu'ran (which is highly poetic by nature and meant to be sung in Salat) are readily available, all you have to do is google it. Also, simply type "sufi" into youtube, limewire, or google and youll find tonnes of Mystic Islamic practises (ranging from whirling dervish's, to Qawwali, to Dhikr, and much more! Sufism is quite the intrancing belief system if you read into it as well)

If you are into 60's rock, then look for a band called the Electric Prunes, they did an entire album of rock-infused mediaeval gregorian chants.

Searching for such types of music as Klezmer (Jewish), Bhajan (Hindu), or Nasheed (Islamic) will get you tonnes of results as well.

Good Luck, and Enjoy.

[homeo_apathy]

my favorite religious song is - atheist anthem by leftover crack... :P


"From high up on yer crucifix
You preach about my triple 6
You spit about my this and that
And yank away yer welcome mat
With a coupon jesus christ will save
So don't you christians misbehave
'cuz satan makes the list himself
And it's rotting on the warehouse shelf

And all the boys in the straight-edge scene
are in the basement huffing gasoline, they're
Dead, dead, dead, dead
their god is dead to me!
And when the laws of God just make ya pissed
You better become an atheist Your
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Your god is dead to me!

When the greed of man is not appeased
All will rot sick and diseased
Once again the fallen towers
The Tortured death of every hour
And at the toll of the final bell
You lead the righteous down to hell
When all the world is dead and gone
All I ask is bring me along!

Nuclear Apox spells your doom
like the t.v. in your living room
each bomb kills a million dead
it melts yer skin and implodes yer head
And now you get your judgement day
You think you'll float up then away
But yer guilty just like everyone
You turn to ash when the burning's done

There's a hunger within you
a tapeworm deep inside
or maybe it's just cancer
the doctors can't decide
but yer stomach keeps on growning
as yer body wastes away
and yer getting ill & weaker
every single fucking day

we are alone"