If could pick only ten: praise albums

January 30th, 2008 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Song Selection

I thought about titling this post “Top ten greatest praise albums ever”, but could only think of three that fit the bill, and a few others that are great but their influence is extremely minimal. I also realized that subconsciously constrain myself to a genre when thinking through this (ROCK AND ROLL!). Thus, I declared myself completely unfit to write such a post and instead am opening it up a bit.

If I could pick only ten praise albums to choose songs for corporate worship from, they would be as follows:

  1. Illuminate - David Crowder Band
  2. The Cutting Edge - Delirious?
  3. Sonicflood - Sonicflood (Jeff Deyo, really)
  4. Offerings - Third Day
  5. Live From Austin - Chris Tomlin
  6. Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman
  7. Enter The Worship Circle: First Circle - Waterdeep and 100 Portraits
  8. The Best of Passion So Far - Passion Bands
  9. ??
  10. ??

See what I did there? I condensed what would have been about 6 other albums into a few best-ofs :) I also couldn’t come up with a 9 or 10 off the top of my head (that is to say, I couldn’t pick two from the 15 or so that came to mind… each with one or two songs on them.)

How about you?

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3 Responses to “If could pick only ten: praise albums”

  1. On January 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pm; Steve said:

    I’m a fan of UK and Canadian worship. I find in general that American worship is more ‘performance’ oriented, while UK artists focus on simplicity, melody and singability. I gravitate toward Paul Oakley, Stuart Townend, Matt Redman, Brian Doerksen, David Ruis etc. The American exception is Vineyard music, which I find surprisingly unpopular in the U.S.

  2. On February 6th, 2008 at 9:27 am; Travis Swan said:

    I don’t know that I could pick ten, but I love these worship albums:

    Faith and Devotions of a Satellite Heart - The Violet Burning
    Ardent Worship - Skillet
    Stronger Than My Heart - onehundredhours
    Starfield - Starfield
    The Longing - The Longing

  3. On May 9th, 2008 at 8:26 am; Jonathan DeGroot said:

    I like to listen to my dad play his acoustic guitar in the living room when he thinks no one is listening…

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