Rating 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)
Isn't Tom Jones just fantastic! And isn't his new album, Praise and Blame just fantastic too! With it's wonderful spiritual mixture of Invisible Magic Friend fearing gospel songs and its deep southern blues melodies, this has to be one of the best music albums ever, even better than The Very Best of David Hasselhoff. This man is to spiritual music what I am to celebrity Christian writing - he really is that good.
Right now, he's vying with Eminem for this week's number one spot. Wouldn't it be just fantastic, I mean just fantastic if he pulled it off and became the oldest male chart topper in history? Wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be fantastic? Wouldn't it be just fantastic if all the millions of people listening to me right now at 7.45 on a Saturday morning, went to their favourite online music store and ordered a copy of "Praise and Blame" right now. It really is a really, really good album, and if you can't wait for the CD, you can always get the whole album as an mp3 download. Isn't that just fantastic! As it says in the book of the Ford Fiesta Owner's manual, life doesn't get much better than this.
I'd better not go on about how fantastic his fantastic new album is, after all there's no advertising or product placement allowed on the BBC. I just want to add this though. It takes a man of Tom Jones maturity and deep, deep spirituality to come up with lyrics like this.
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
I've got flowers
And lots of hours
To spend with you.
So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
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Isn't Tom Jones just fantastic! And isn't his new album, Praise and Blame just fantastic too! With it's wonderful spiritual mixture of Invisible Magic Friend fearing gospel songs and its deep southern blues melodies, this has to be one of the best music albums ever, even better than The Very Best of David Hasselhoff. This man is to spiritual music what I am to celebrity Christian writing - he really is that good.
Right now, he's vying with Eminem for this week's number one spot. Wouldn't it be just fantastic, I mean just fantastic if he pulled it off and became the oldest male chart topper in history? Wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be fantastic? Wouldn't it be just fantastic if all the millions of people listening to me right now at 7.45 on a Saturday morning, went to their favourite online music store and ordered a copy of "Praise and Blame" right now. It really is a really, really good album, and if you can't wait for the CD, you can always get the whole album as an mp3 download. Isn't that just fantastic! As it says in the book of the Ford Fiesta Owner's manual, life doesn't get much better than this.
I'd better not go on about how fantastic his fantastic new album is, after all there's no advertising or product placement allowed on the BBC. I just want to add this though. It takes a man of Tom Jones maturity and deep, deep spirituality to come up with lyrics like this.
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
I've got flowers
And lots of hours
To spend with you.
So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
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Lusciously Reverend Lord Professor Bishop Baron Reverend Lord Richard Harries, Baron Pentregarth, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Baron, Bishop, Professor, Lord...
Rating 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)
Isn't the crucifixion just brilliant? Even Jews think it's brilliant. Of course for a long time they didn't think it was brilliant. They thought it was horrible because Christians used to persecute them, but thanks to Hitler's attempted genocide, Christians started to wonder whether persecuting Jews was really a good idea after all. So something good came out of the holocaust in the end - every cloud has a silver lining. Now we're all best of friends and Jews think the crucifixion is brilliant too.
There are some really good paintings of the crucifixion, full of suffering and anguish. They're very artistic. Very artistic indeed. When I see Jesus, naked on the cross, full of suffering and anguish, I think to myself, "That's very artistic, that is."
There's an exhibition of crucifixions at the Jewish Museum in London. It's got a crucifixion by Graham Sutherland that's really nice - lot's of nice suffering and anguish there. There's not quite as much suffering and anguish in Stanley Spencer's but it's still very artistic. Maggie Hambling's, is very dark and evocative of suffering and anguish.
There's even a crucifixion by Chagall. This isn't the famous one. The famous one, the one that isn't on show at the exhibition in London, is really good because it shows the suffering and anguish of Jews, with Jesus looking particularly Jewish. That's one of the other good things that came out of the Holocaust - some really brilliant paintings of the crucifixion, with lots of really good suffering and anguish.
Of course, to we Christians, the crucifixion is more than just a symbol of suffering and anguish. It's a reminder that one third of the Invisible Magic Friend became temporarily visible so that he could experience a bit of suffering and anguish himself. Now he sits there, up in heaven, looking down omnipotently on all of us, saying "Isn't all that suffering and anguish just terrible?"
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Isn't the crucifixion just brilliant? Even Jews think it's brilliant. Of course for a long time they didn't think it was brilliant. They thought it was horrible because Christians used to persecute them, but thanks to Hitler's attempted genocide, Christians started to wonder whether persecuting Jews was really a good idea after all. So something good came out of the holocaust in the end - every cloud has a silver lining. Now we're all best of friends and Jews think the crucifixion is brilliant too.
There are some really good paintings of the crucifixion, full of suffering and anguish. They're very artistic. Very artistic indeed. When I see Jesus, naked on the cross, full of suffering and anguish, I think to myself, "That's very artistic, that is."
There's an exhibition of crucifixions at the Jewish Museum in London. It's got a crucifixion by Graham Sutherland that's really nice - lot's of nice suffering and anguish there. There's not quite as much suffering and anguish in Stanley Spencer's but it's still very artistic. Maggie Hambling's, is very dark and evocative of suffering and anguish.
There's even a crucifixion by Chagall. This isn't the famous one. The famous one, the one that isn't on show at the exhibition in London, is really good because it shows the suffering and anguish of Jews, with Jesus looking particularly Jewish. That's one of the other good things that came out of the Holocaust - some really brilliant paintings of the crucifixion, with lots of really good suffering and anguish.
Of course, to we Christians, the crucifixion is more than just a symbol of suffering and anguish. It's a reminder that one third of the Invisible Magic Friend became temporarily visible so that he could experience a bit of suffering and anguish himself. Now he sits there, up in heaven, looking down omnipotently on all of us, saying "Isn't all that suffering and anguish just terrible?"
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