What's your favorite Hymn and why?

[PaloAltoCougar]

... and not exactly a hymn but a quite moving "hymn-like" song, "Hallelujah":...

I like various versions of the song (Pentatonix, not so much--the pain of a single male performer usually works better). I enjoy the idea of MoTab performing it, including the verses relating to sexual dysfunction.

[Topper]

My faves:


Christmas - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Uplifting and optimistic)

I love this song.

And depending on the soloist,

"Amazing Grace."

and not exactly a hymn but a quite moving "hymn-like" song, "Hallelujah":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ

[Goatnapper'96]

My faves:

Primary - My Heavenly Father Loves Me (The essence of life)
Smack - Come Thou Oh See See (it was a lot funnier 15 years ago)
Sacrament - In Humility Our Savior (I hummed it to myself almost every Sunday while deployed to Bosnia before taking the sacrament)
On acoustical guitar - Redeemer of Israel (Jared Coleman could do a mean rendition of this before he quit West Point to go to the BYU and onto NYU law)
Christmas - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Uplifting and optimistic)
Historical/Cultural - Come Come Ye Saints (I'm Mormon and I'm Proud!)
By MoTab - Come Thou Fount
David Archuleta - Be Still My Soul

[Jeff Lebowski]

My ward hasn't had a "rest" hymn in years -- booked out 6 months in advance with musical numbers.
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[CardiacCoug]

My ward hasn't had a "rest" hymn in years -- booked out 6 months in advance with musical numbers.

Redeemer of Israel, High on a Mountain Top, and How Firm a Foundation are a few of my faves as long as they are sung at a brisk tempo.

[Bo Diddley]

Ha, and flystripper is an apostate!


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In my defense, I rarely make it to all four meetings each month.

[Pelado]

Some of us feel the same about the very special performance by the exceptionally talented Ward member. Could we just compromise and make it an hour long meeting instead of 1:10?

I don't get too bothered by performances from exceptionally talented Ward members. It's the "exceptionally talented" Ward members' performances that annoy me. Simple solution - skip the first 1:10 of the meeting.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

A special musical number featuring piano, violin, solo, duet, quartet, choir, etc is great. Rest hymns are an abomination and should be abolished.

Some of us feel the same about the very special performance by the exceptionally talented Ward member. Could we just compromise and make it an hour long meeting instead of 1:10?

[Moliere]

Ha, and flystripper is an apostate!


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[Pelado]

My favorite is Lead Kindly Light.

My favorites include:

Lead, Kindly Light

Lead, Kindly Light

[Bo Diddley]

don't think he is counting fast sunday

[Flystripper]

don't think he is counting fast sunday

[Bo Diddley]

I've always thought the ideal sacrament meeting music schedule is choir one week, a special number another, and an intermediate hymn the other. Five week months could have another musical number or a special choir such as youth, women or men. Wards may be hard pressed to get more than a monthly musical number besides the choir so the intermediate hymn is a nice once a month feature, so long as the music moves along well enough to keep peoples interest and attention. Note the examples used for intermediate hymns in conference.

I don't think this is adding up the way you'd hoped it would.

[Copelius]

A special musical number featuring piano, violin, solo, duet, quartet, choir, etc is great. Rest hymns are an abomination and should be abolished.

I've always thought the ideal sacrament meeting music schedule is choir one week, a special number another, and an intermediate hymn the other. Five week months could have another musical number or a special choir such as youth, women or men. Wards may be hard pressed to get more than a monthly musical number besides the choir so the intermediate hymn is a nice once a month feature, so long as the music moves along well enough to keep peoples interest and attention. Note the examples used for intermediate hymns in conference.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Focusing on the negative, which is my wont, I agree strongly with the above, esp. the endless I Believe in Christ, which has eight verses that McConkie deviously turned into four by simply bridging pairs of verses together. When it's used as the horribly misnamed "rest hymn" between speakers, I being contemplating my exit from the Church, or at least the meeting, while singing about my faith.

A special musical number featuring piano, violin, solo, duet, quartet, choir, etc is great. Rest hymns are an abomination and should be abolished.