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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent - What did you expect?, 2 Sep 2008
I'm one of the fortunate ones who attend Hillsong Church London so we get the albums early :o) The worship team play a selection every week ad it's amazing. The writers of these songs are so talented. The album has a great selection of fast and slow songs. I got this album over a month ago and I haven't felt the need to listen to anything else! The first two songs are very upbeat, they are Your Name High and Run. The song Stronger and Healer, Desert Song and Where We Belong are also favourites. You Deserve from the previous United Summer Camp Festival 'In A Valley by the Sea' is also on here.
By it - you won't be disappointed!!!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Finest Collection of Worship Music I've yet found..., 19 Jan 2009
I went to Soul Survivor this summer and, as is the cliche, was blown away by the worship music. Of course, the difficulty with Soul Survivor music is finding a CD with all the best worship songs on it, which is a good CD in its own right.
And this is the wonderful thing with this CD - it has THE song of Soul Survivor 2008: Your Name High, which I can remember the audience humming like a memetic mantra & yet somehow has yet to get nauseating. There are also other amazing songs that really grow on you, such as the title track and songs such as Run & Stronger, which are profoundly powerful & are on a par with anything that bands such as Kings of Leon or Coldplay have done lately...
Of course, not all of it is perfect, and the CD suffers from two major weaknesses. The first is that the good songs up to track 10, rather eclipse the songs later on the CD, which become slightly run-of-the-mill.
The second weakness is not the fault of Hillsong, but is related to the whole 'Guglielmucci' scandal that broke at the end of August 2008. Track 8 (Healer) is an awesome track, but is marred by its writer having lied about his having cancer. It is almost as if every single note of its powerful resonance became poison in the ear overnight. Of course, it is forgivable, but that doesn't mean the song is absolved of its jarred, twisted nature.
However, these weaknesses are only 1) because the first few tracks are SO good and 2) because of track 8, which is still a very moving song (even if for false motives). Furthermore, in the words of Francis Bacon "There is nothing that is beautiful that does not have an aspect of ugliness about its proportion". As with the church, the beauty of these songs is made somehow more manifest by the fact that humans are flawed, rather than less. Maybe this is why Hillsong is so appealing - it is raw, human & soulful and I'm positive that its influence in Christianity can only be a good thing, in spite of supposed shortcomings...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow oh wow!, 18 Dec 2008
I recently bought this album and I must say that it is absolutely amazing!! Praise the Lord!! I especially am captivated by the following songs: You'll Come, Stronger and my utmost favourite Your Name High. My church sing some Hillsong music on Sundays and it is awesome to finally own a copy of the album which has helped me enter into His gates.
The biggest thing with this Hillsong album is that it has taken me into God's Presence and kept me there, from a high shout of praise to the sweet worship for my Lord and King. Amen!
Hillsong Music NEVER disappoints me and I own almost all their albums. Hallelujah!!
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