Favorite Rich Mullins albums?
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Favorite Rich Mullins albums?
Been a Rich fan for years. Here’s how I rank them:
The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol II
Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth
A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
Never Picture Perfect
The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol I
Pictures in the Sky
The Jesus Demos
Brother’s Keeper
The Jesus Record
Rich Mullins
What are your favorites?
The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol II
Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth
A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
Never Picture Perfect
The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol I
Pictures in the Sky
The Jesus Demos
Brother’s Keeper
The Jesus Record
Rich Mullins
What are your favorites?
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This is another guy I want to listen to more; I have hardly sampled his catalogue at all.
So I'll just name 2 songs that are among my favourites to play on acoustic guitar:
If I Stand
Hold Me Jesus
So I'll just name 2 songs that are among my favourites to play on acoustic guitar:
If I Stand
Hold Me Jesus
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"Songs" That was easy.
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That’s cheating!L8T wrote:"Songs" That was easy.
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Pethead wrote:That’s cheating!L8T wrote:"Songs" That was easy.
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The World As Best as I can Remember It I - "Calling Out Your Name" is my favorite song of his (yes, above THAT ONE)
Winds of Heaven Stuff on Earth - It has THAT ONE. 'nuff said
The World As Best as I can Remember It II
Never Picture Perfect
Pictures In the Sky - This one and the self-titled have great songs but suffer from 80's CCM production.
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Liturgy, Legacy... (should probably be ranked higher but there's no nostalgia in it for me)
Jesus Record
I don't have the others
Winds of Heaven Stuff on Earth - It has THAT ONE. 'nuff said
The World As Best as I can Remember It II
Never Picture Perfect
Pictures In the Sky - This one and the self-titled have great songs but suffer from 80's CCM production.
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Liturgy, Legacy... (should probably be ranked higher but there's no nostalgia in it for me)
Jesus Record
I don't have the others
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Not a big fan but Liturgy, Legacy and spam in a Can is decent. Unpopular opinion but Awesome God is cheesy and feels like it's written for youth groups. I like Rick Elias solo much more.
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I’m not big on Awesome God either. I find it oddly cheesy for RM.Black Rider wrote:Not a big fan but Liturgy, Legacy and spam in a Can is decent. Unpopular opinion but Awesome God is cheesy and feels like it's written for youth groups. I like Rick Elias solo much more.
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From the 15-20 or so songs of his that I've listened to, I really enjoy the songwriting and lyrics but some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
At times I've felt like Phil Keaggy had this problem as well; the songs were great but not the arrangements.
At times I've felt like Phil Keaggy had this problem as well; the songs were great but not the arrangements.
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I don’t think anyone who likes “The Gift of Music” can complain about cheese.Sevenoneself wrote:From the 15-20 or so songs of his that I've listened to, I really enjoy the songwriting and lyrics but some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
At times I've felt like Phil Keaggy had this problem as well; the songs were great but not the arrangements.
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Pethead wrote:I don’t think anyone who likes “The Gift of Music” can complain about cheese.Sevenoneself wrote:From the 15-20 or so songs of his that I've listened to, I really enjoy the songwriting and lyrics but some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
At times I've felt like Phil Keaggy had this problem as well; the songs were great but not the arrangements.
Point awarded: Pethead.
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Sevenoneself wrote:some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
Yes! Especially the first two albums. They're good songs (lyrics, melodies) but I'd love to see someone take his vocal tracks and completely re-record the instruments with all new modern pop arrangements.
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Pictures in the Sky has some of his best songs, but the production does it no favors.
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eatbugs wrote:Sevenoneself wrote:some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
Yes! Especially the first two albums. They're good songs (lyrics, melodies) but I'd love to see someone take his vocal tracks and completely re-record the instruments with all new modern pop arrangements.
I'd like the same to be done with Phil Keaggy's True Believer. Record real drums, and re-mix what's there.
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Sevenoneself wrote:eatbugs wrote:Sevenoneself wrote:some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
Yes! Especially the first two albums. They're good songs (lyrics, melodies) but I'd love to see someone take his vocal tracks and completely re-record the instruments with all new modern pop arrangements.
I'd like the same to be done with Phil Keaggy's True Believer. Record real drums, and re-mix what's there.
Yes, not just re-master, but a whole new mix. That's already my favorite Keaggy album (see that thread) and a redo/remix/re-record would be even better than a Rich Mullins one because Keaggy's alive to oversee it.
Sorry to hijack the thread.
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eatbugs wrote:Sevenoneself wrote:eatbugs wrote:Sevenoneself wrote:some of the arrangements seem out-dated and/or cheesy.
Yes! Especially the first two albums. They're good songs (lyrics, melodies) but I'd love to see someone take his vocal tracks and completely re-record the instruments with all new modern pop arrangements.
I'd like the same to be done with Phil Keaggy's True Believer. Record real drums, and re-mix what's there.
Yes, not just re-master, but a whole new mix. That's already my favorite Keaggy album (see that thread) and a redo/remix/re-record would be even better than a Rich Mullins one because Keaggy's alive to oversee it.
Sorry to hijack the thread.
That's OK, it was I who hi-jacked it; you just commented on mine! Pethead, I'm the one to blame!
It's one of my top 3 favourite Keaggy albums (see that thread as well) and I'd love to see it happen. I'm not sure if you're familiar with his interviews concerning that album; he wasn't very happy with how it turned out, b/c his record label had hired a producer to make Keaggy a commercial success and so most of the creative decisions were made by this producer, and True Believer was even written by him, not Keaggy. Keaggy's wish was that Son of Man would have been the single of the album, not True Believers.
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I had never even heard of this person until I befriended my priest on Facebook.
Perhaps I'll go listen now.
Perhaps I'll go listen now.
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Might as well continue the cross-threading...
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Theonymic wrote:I had never even heard of this person until I befriended my priest on Facebook.
Perhaps I'll go listen now.
Others on the forum will be able to provide you with more information, but I can say that Mullins was more ecumenical than many evangelicals at the time, and was actually hesitant to even be labelled as evangelical. The Ragamuffin moniker, which he used in an album name and a band name, came from the writings of catholic priest Brennan Manning, whom Mullins was very intrigued by.
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All of his stuff I have on cassette except "Songs", so, it's really easy to just listen to that.
I heard RM playing at a church in Cincy, in 87'. It was a special night and we knew we were hearing someone special even though there were only a few hundred people there. We bought "Winds of Heaven....." even though the release date is 88'. That is still probably my Fav with "Picture Perfect" coming in second.
I heard RM playing at a church in Cincy, in 87'. It was a special night and we knew we were hearing someone special even though there were only a few hundred people there. We bought "Winds of Heaven....." even though the release date is 88'. That is still probably my Fav with "Picture Perfect" coming in second.
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A live album was just released. It was recorded at some camp in 1984 so it pre-dates his debut album by several years. Some of the songs became Amy Grant songs, some made it onto his self-titled album. The recording seems to be two or more concerts spliced together as it's just him on a piano, him on a guitar, then him on a piano again, but with different recording quality. Either way it is just him playing. The "bonus tracks" are more live cuts. The sound quality is pretty good, especially for 1984. Maybe someone who helped back it can fill us in more on it.
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