Friday, 11 September 2009
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How to Make Beatles Song Titles Christian
Let’s face it: The Beatles made zillions of great songs. Wouldn’t it be better if their songs had a little more Jesus in them?
Here are some songs, when their titles are changed *slightly* become super awesome Jesus jams.
- “We Can Work it Out” becomes “We Can’t Work it Out”…a song about justification by faith never got your toe tapping like this one.
- “The Long and Winding Road” becomes “The Long and Riding Road to Emmaus“, a melodic tale of Paul’s faith journey.
- “She Loves You” becomes “He Loves You”…it’s awkward at face value, considering Christians’ perceived hatred of all things gay, but it’s theologically spot-on.
- “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” becomes “Lucy in the Sky with Grandma“…it’s a way to explain death to little kids. Lucy died. So did grandma. Now they’re hanging out in heaven pogo-stick racing.
- “I Want to Hold Your Hand” becomes “I Want to Shake Your Hand”…the band at church can play this song during the greet-those-around-you time of the service.
- “I’ll Follow the Sun” becomes “I’ll Follow the Son“…this one is painfully obvious.
Some song titles you don’t even have to change…in the context of Christian music, they make total sense:
- “You Won’t See Me”…a song either about God the Father (for the O.T. Jewish people) or the Holy Spirit (for the N.T. people)
- “You Know My Name”…about how God knows us intimately, and he doesn’t even have to look up your number. He can just send you a direct message on Twitter.
- “The Word” (not to be confused with Amy Grant’s “Thy Word“)
- “I Want to Tell You”…a fab way to rock your friends’ faces with evangelism.
- “I’ve Got a Feeling”…the theme song of Pentecostals
- “I’ll Be Back”…a song sung by Jesus not about The Terminator, but about his impending return to establish the kingdom of God
- “Here, There, and Everywhere”…a tune that answers the question: Where is God?
Fantastic mustaches.
…and if all the Beatles songs were Christian, would songs about Jesus be bigger than Jesus?
What are some I left out?
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Blasphemy --not to the Christian faith but to Beatles fans.
definitely wouldn't bode well for the purists of the Beatles... heck... ppl made a fuss when I tried to rearrange a Coldplay song into Christian words... oh the flack people would receive if that happened...
I agree with Strangebrain.
Changing the names and words to Beatles songs to make them into Christian songs is blasphemy. I used to listen Beatles music all the time, and still listen to them - just not as much as I used to.
To this day, the only person who can properly sing Lennon/McCartney or Harrison songs are John Lennon, Paul McCartney or George Harrison. No one else should even attempt to cover said songs. Especially those done by George Harrison, seeing as he is my favorite. He's been my favorite since not long before he died on November 29, 2001, which also happens to have been my 15th birthday.
I agree. This is blasphemy. 0 props.
@Strangebrain@xanga - Thank you.
God. You people love making things 'Christian'.
What the hell? Was this supposed to be funny?
Fail joke.
<li>“I Want to Hold Your Hand” becomes “I Want to Shake Your Hand”…the band at church can play this song during the greet-those-around-you time of the service.
hah i hope not.
Guys, lighten up. Yes, it's a joke.
shouldn't the one about Paul's journey be "The Long and Riding Road to damascus"? He was after all saved while going to Damascus.
This was almost as dumb as the "Does God hate vampires?" post. Wtf?
@nyclegodesi24@xanga - Jokes are supposed to be funny.
This is demented. Some years ago on a Christian radio station they played a Christian cover of Paul McCartney's 'maybe I'm amazed', and they said they would not play the original but that this is okay because the singer is Christian. I rang up and said that, hey, Paul McCartney WROTE the song! As it was it's a deeply spiritual song, when you look deeper, and God inspired that song, whether fully consciously or not, Paul was writing that song to God.
God inspires all, or the majority, of music...even those songs that may seem otherwise, with a more astute ear and tender heart you see they are inspired by, and yearning for, God.
As goes with The Beatles ouvre. Or however that's spelled.
Goodness, it's a joke. It's not suppose to be taken seriously. I think of it as a sort of satirical commentary on how Christians can take nearly anything and think how if they add just a drop of Jesus, it's all good.
Some of these are pretty clever. Didn't exactly rolfcoptered myself, but I did chuckle.
try to make a Slayer's album Christian. Just replace "hate" with "love" and you have "God Loves Us All"
@Strangebrain@xanga - @hippiechristian73102@xanga - @methodElevated@xanga - @Shy___Away@xanga - @Lil_Firefly_25@xanga - @sierrraa@xanga - @S_K_O_T@xanga - Just a friendly FYI... Much of the stuff (as I have learned about) that Paul wrote after he went solo was increasingly anti-Jesus despite Paul's notions for "love for all", etc. Ironically, this anti-Jesus man was preaching the SAME message that Jesus was, yet he preached AGAINST Jesus. Curious, huh?
Not to mention that a lot of his stuff was getting highly inappropriate - especially for his day and age - and would likely start getting close to requiring "parental advisory" notices if his stuff was released today. Either way, his messages were not the sort of "love everyone" that he or the Beatles were "known" for.
Now, I don't think that the author of this post was being all-out serious. Perhaps just a dose of light-hearted humor was all he was after. Maybe he was just trying to prove a point or get people thinking without trying to get all preachy.
But consider this...take a look at it from the Christian perspective for a moment. If God's ways really ARE best and perfect, then everything else is virtually (and I say virtually because there ARE things out there that DO measure up to His standards but I'm not about to try to list them or speculate in detail) less that perfect.
You see, in general, humans have taken EVERYTHING GOOD that God made and perverted it. Sex is good, but outside of its design for marriage it is bad. Alcohol and wine? Also good. But when used to get drunk = bad. Money? Trivial. Just a useful tool to conduct business. But when abused, stolen, etc, then that's bad.
Actually, if it's good, then it's still good. It's the MISUSE of those good things that's bad.
I would speculate to say that the point here made by the author, if not just for a dose of spirtual humor, is that if we want to get to the point where things aren't even a TINY bit perverted or otherwise off base from what's REAL and TRUE, then all it takes is juat a little "change" in thinking. Or in this case, a title twist.
Hey, I'm not going to say the Beatles (or even Paul) didn't have some good-sounding and positively-worded lyrics. Even I find myself singing and playing along when I hear some of their songs come on the air. ("Yellow Submarine" is still bouncing in my head as it played on the radio at work...*chuckles*) But as Christians living in a less-than-perfect, perverted world, we aim for what's better, what's BEST...what's PURE. No Christian is perfect, either. We all know that. That's just painfully obvious. But hey, please, don't knock us for trying to present a simple message using well-known titles. The Beatles may have been popular, sure, but they weren't any better than anyone else and they certainly didn't have ALL the aspects of PERFECT living figured out. They were just human like the rest of us.......very talented humans, no doubt.
I hope this came across as just a friendly message. I'm certainly not trying to sound critical towards any of you. Again, this was just food for thought...like, a BIG meal thought. LOL My apologies if this came across as mean, etc. Wasn't my intent.
you're completely crazy....
If this is a joke it's not funny at all.
@NaitoOfNarnia@xanga - God is always of most prime importance, that's the truth.
And then there are the things in life.
And while I am a Beatle Fan, I realise that all four were flawed human beings...and that is actually what makes their music, and most music, so poignant. It was often good, but not always right. That yearning, those achievements, those weaknesses, those mistakes, that reach, is something we can all relate to. I'm a major music fan, but I have NEVER worshipped any musicians as "idols", I always knew that is wrong.
Each Beatle, and in particular Paul and John, often did and said very wrong things...but in that search, that quest, that honesty...we can see things, we can find inspiration through what they did right, and take lessons from their mistakes and transgressions.
I realise I should have stressed that more with what I wrote.
Music can remind us of God, music can take us part way to God, but not all the way. Neither can any other person take us all the way. We each have a song to sing, and vitally, we all must journey to God.
God bless you!
@S_K_O_T@xanga - Are you referring to Bryan Duncan's version of "Maybe I'm Amazed"?
If you are and if I remember correctly, Bryan doesn't even change the words to the song, but he does start singing "Amazing Grace" at the end. Personally I wouldn't say it was absolutely horrible, but it wasn't any good either. Bryan's rendition overall was somewhere between "really bad" and "so horrible that I'm going to change the station now".
Maybe the Christian radio stations think that singing "Amazing Grace" at the end of a classic rock song makes it acceptable for Christian radio.
Same goes for Rebecca St. James' 1997 rendition of John Lennon's "So This is Christmas". Don't even get me started on that one.
I agree with the first commenter.
A poor attempt at humour...
better luck next time, dear revelife poster.
@Strangebrain@xanga - Yes.Correctness at it's fullness.
Unfortunately, I'm positive someone has already thought of this and recorded these "Christian" covers.
@NaitoOfNarnia@xanga -
But as Christians living in a less-than-perfect, perverted world, we aim for what's better, what's BEST...what's PURE.
Exactly... and throwing religious words into timeless Beatles hits is not better, best or pure. Or anywhere near it.
@sierrraa@xanga - AHHH....
I was trying to remember the last time I took back my eprops...that was it!
yeah, not everything needs to be Christian Bro.. Let the music be it's self.
@sierrraa@xanga - funny is relative.
@subSacred@xanga - HAH i was there when you asked something like "how do I NOT give e-props to this post?"
@Pcgecko85@xanga - Hahaha now THAT made me laugh out loud.
I love this. I love the Beatles. They're the best band ever. But Jesus is better.
The band Apologetix does parody versions of songs from several different genres. They have a few Beatles songs. Like Yes, Today, a parody of Yesterday about becoming a Christian today. And Revelation, a parody of Revolution, and also Hell!, a parody of Help! They also have an album title that parodies Magical Mystery Tour (I don't remember what theirs is called) but it doesn't actually have Beatles songs on it.@StarAndSpiral@xanga -
Hell! a parody of Help! ....???
yikes.