First One

The first is always the wierdest for me, somehow I feel like there's this image of something I want to present and that it's very important for me to get that image across. So this time, I'm not going to think so much about it, and just talk about:

The first Christian album I've ever heard(and still one of my favourites).







Let Your Glory Fall - Don Moen












I'd been going to church for some time before this...playing in the music team and hearing odd bits of music here and there(mainly Vineyard and Hosanna). This was just before Youth Alive came out with the album that changed contemporary Christian rock(in my opinion and in Sitiawan Wesley at least) - Jump To The Jam. Hillsongs also let loose with All Things Are Possible a bit later(never heard the earlier ones yet).

But amidst all these new and wildly radical sounds(to me at least), Let Your Glory Fall stood out. Firstly, cos I loved the instrumentation - the first fast track - We've Come To Bless Your Name, is a perfect example of how a big band worship still can move people around as much as an all out rock ensemble! And for some weird reason, some time after that, we really used songs from this album in MYF(the youth fellowship back in sitiawan)...for dances and sketch presentations. At least 2 songs were MYF Camp theme songs, sung and resung to punctuate the high point of worship in various music sessions (mention Hallelujah to The Lamb and Deeper In Love to any ex-MYFer and they'll know what you're talking about).

Music that was good to listen to while studying on my dad's old cassette player, music that would cause me to stop and ponder on the lyrics while the song played, that's what makes a good album, IMHO. Planetshakers, Hillsongs, Michael W Smith were still to come, but for that period of my life, and as something that pushed me to play more music and listen to more cassettes, Let Your Glory Fall filled the spot in my cassette drawer as the 'Most Played' one.