The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.
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Showing posts with label Byrds. Show all posts

10 Albums of Bob Dylan Material


  1. Any Day Now Joan Baez 1968
  2. Dylanesque Bryan Ferry 2007
  3. Hollies Sing Dylan The Hollies 1969
  4. Masters of War Mountain 2007
  5. Portraits of Bob Dylan Steve Howe 1999
  6. Lo & Behold Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint 2007
  7. Judy Collins Sings Dylan: Just Like a Woman Judy Collins 1993
  8. A Tree With Roots - Fairport Convention & Friends And The Songs Of Bob Dylan Fairport Convention 2018
  9. The Byrds Play Dylan The Byrds 1979 and 2002 (Compilations)
  10. Postcards of the Hanging Grateful Dead 2002 (Live compilation)

10 Great Acts from the Sixties


1. The Beatles
2. The Kinks
3. Manfred Mann
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. The Byrds
6. Simon and Garfunkel
7. The Monkees
8. The Hollies
9. Donavon
10. Dionne Warwick
(We won't bother with my under impressed by this time)

10 Bird references in Beatles Songs

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/02/24/recording-lovely-rita/

1. And your bird can sing
2. Blackbird
3. Blue Jay Way
4. Free as a Bird
5. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
6. Flying
7. Dear Prudence (The wind is low the birds will sing that you are part of everything)
8. Till there was you (There were birds in the sky but I never saw them winging)
9. I am the Walrus (Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna)
10. Money (The best things in life are free but you can keep them for the birds and bees)

Jesus is just alright



Do do do, etc ... 

Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right, oh yeah
Jesus is just all right with me 
Jesus is just all right

I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care what they may know

Jesus is just all right, oh yeah
Jesus is just all right

I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say

Jesus is just all right, oh yea
Jesus is just all right Do, do, do, etc.

Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right, oh yeah
Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right

Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right, oh yeah
Jesus is just all right with me
Jesus is just all right

Storming performance though I don't think the band were evangelically convinced on this matter.

10 Popular Songs that feature the 12 string guitar

1 A horse with no name (America)
2 Turn turn turn (Byrds)
3 Hotel California (Eagles)
4 Give a little bit (Supertramp)
5 Free fallin' (Tom Petty)
6 Stairway to heaven (Led Zeppelin)
7 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
8 Space Oddity (Davi Bowie)
9 More than a feeling (Boston)
10 Pinball Wizard (The Who)

Best ofs 06

Next up is an album of 25 hits by the US answer to the Beatles - The Byrds. The key to the Byrds sound, I guess, is the Rickenbacker or what I call the jangly guitar. A large part of the genius is taking Bob Dylan and making him palatable to non-purists like me. This Definitive Collection probably has too many tracks on it and would have been improved by being pruned. Less is more. But then we may have missed the two Arthur Reid Reynolds tracks (Jesus is just alright and Glory, glory). Who was that guy? Also glad to see Turn Turn Turn (from Ecclesiastes) here Bells of Rhymney - words by Monmouthshire born Idris Davies. My favourite seven:

1. Chestnut Mare
2. Turn Turn Turn
3. My back pages
4. The bells of Rhymney
5. Mr Tambourine Man
6. I'll feel a whole lot better
7. All I really want to do