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10 is a greatest hits album by American Christian rock band MercyMe. Released on April 7, 2009 in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the band's single "I Can Only Imagine". The album contains twelve of the band's number-one singles from five studio albums (Almost There, Spoken For, Undone, Coming Up to Breathe, and All That Is Within Me) as well as a re-recording of "I Can Only Imagine" featuring the London Sessions Orchestra, in addition to two other bonus tracks. Additional content, which varies depending on the version of the album, includes music videos, featurettes, and live recordings. 10 received mostly positive reviews from music critics, and the amount of content as well as the videos included with the album received particular praise. It debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, selling 30,000 copies in its first week. Billboard ranked the album as the 13th best-selling Christian album of 2009 and the 40th best-selling Christian album of 2010 in the United States. Background 10 was released to commemorate the tenth anniversary of MercyMe's single "I Can Only Imagine". In 1999, the band was working on an independent record, The Worship Project, and needed one more song to fill out the project. Lead singer Bart Millard wrote the song while reminiscing about his father's death. Although the band was aiming to produce a worship record of easy-to-sing songs, they included it because it was important to Millard. It was later included on the band's major-label debut, 2001's Almost There, where it became a hit on Christian radio before crossing over and becoming successful on mainstream radio in 2003. Around eight months before the release of 10, the band had been approached by their label about producing a greatest-hits record. The band was initially against the idea, and according to Millard, they felt it had always meant a band was near the end of their career. However, Millard later remembered he had written the song in 1999, and the idea shifted from a greatest-hits record to a celebration of the song's ten-year anniversary, a concept the band was more comfortable with. Content Music 10 includes fifteen songs: twelve of the band's number-one Christian radio singles (three each from Undone, Coming Up to Breathe, and All That Is Within Me, two from Spoken For, and one from Almost There), as well as three bonus tracks. Live versions of ten of the band's songs were also included on some versions of the album "I Can Only Imagine (Symphony Edition)" was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London with the London Session Orchestra. "Ten Simple Rules", described as having a "Fifties twist" sound, was originally included as music video on Hoop Dogz, a children's video DVD. Lyrically, it relates the Ten Commandments. The band had begun playing it in concerts and, according to Millard, it developed a following of fans who wanted it to be put on CD. "Only Temporary", a rock song with
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I Can Only Imagine may refer to: "I Can Only Imagine" (MercyMe song), the 2001 song "I Can Only Imagine" (David Guetta song), a 2012 song I Can Only Imagine (film), a 2018 film based on the MercyMe song "I Can Only Imagine", a song by Poco from Running Horse See also I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best of MercyMe, a 2018 MercyMe compilation album
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"Homesick" is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe. Written by Bart Millard, the song is an expression of grief and longing that was written after the band experienced the deaths of nine people they were connected to in a short period of time. "Homesick" was included on MercyMe's third studio album Undone and was released as the second single from that album. "Homesick" received positive critical reception, with some critics considering the song one of the best from Undone. "Homesick" was successful on both Christian and mainstream radio, peaking at the top on the Radio & Records Christian AC Indicator and Soft AC/INSPO charts, number 3 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts and the Radio & Records Christian AC chart, as well as peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It was ranked at number 13 on the Billboard 2005 year-end Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts, and at number 20 on the year-end Adult Contemporary chart. Background "Homesick" was written during a time of hardship for the band—nine people close to MercyMe's band members had died in a short span of time. Lead singer Bart Millard initially wrote the chorus to "Homesick" following a funeral service for two infants that died in utero, but did not finish the song, as didn’t want to fake his way through writing the song. However, following the death of Millard's brother-in-law, Chris, in a car accident, Millard finished the song so as to play it at Chris's funeral. Millard and the rest of MercyMe intended the song only to be played once—at Chris's funeral—but Millard's mother-in-law encouraged them to record it. Although the record they were going to release, Undone, was essentially complete, the band returned to the studio to record "Homesick" for inclusion on the project. Composition "Homesick" is a ballad with a length of three minutes and forty-one seconds. Lyrically, the song is an expression of grief, pondering Heaven and the time it takes to get there, as well as anger, confusion, and brokenness. The song is set in the key of F major and has a moderate tempo of 72 beats per minute. Millard's vocal range in the song spans from C4–A5. Some comparisons have been made between the lyrical content of "Homesick" and MercyMe's 2001 single "I Can Only Imagine." David Jenison of CCM Magazine referred to the song as the 'sequel' to "I Can Only Imagine." Regarding these comparisons, Millard said "’I Can Only Imagine’ took the focus off of what you are going through and was comforting because it put the focus on where they were going... ’Homesick’ is the opposite because it completely addresses us that are left here. I don’t think as a Christian that it’s right for me to say, ‘I wish you could’ve stayed here,’ because truthfully, we’re getting the raw end of the deal if we really believe what we say that heaven is as great as we want it to
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MercyMe is an American contemporary Christian music band based in Greenville, Texas. The band formed in 1994 and released six independent records from 1995-2000 before signing with INO Records and releasing their major-label debut, Almost There, in 2001. They have since released six other studio albums as well as a holiday album. MercyMe has been awarded the American Music Award for Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist twice, in 2004 and 2010. At the 35th GMA Dove Awards, the band received the awards for Artist of the Year and Group of the Year, while their song "Word of God Speak" received the award for Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year; they also received that award in 2001 with their song "I Can Only Imagine". Their album "Undone" received the award for Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year in 2005. Coming Up to Breathe was nominated for the Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year as well as the Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album. American Music Awards The American Music Awards are awarded for achievements in the American record industry. MercyMe has been nominated for four awards, winning two of them. Billboard Music Awards The Billboard Music Awards reflect Billboard "chart rankings based on key fan interactions with music, including album sales and downloads, track downloads, radio airplay and touring as well as streaming and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, Vevo, YouTube, Spotify and other popular online destinations for music". MercyMe has been nominated for four awards. |- | rowspan="3"| 2011 ||rowspan="1"| The Generous Mr. Lovewell || Top Christian Album|| |- | – || Top Christian Artist|| |- | "All of Creation" || Top Christian Song|| |- |rowspan="1"| 2012 ||rowspan="1"| – || Top Christian Artist|| |- |colspan="10" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes nomination was not for a work Dove Awards The GMA Dove Awards honor artists in the genres of Christian music and Gospel music. MercyMe has been nominated for 18 awards, winning 6 of them. |- |rowspan="1"| 2002 ||rowspan="1"| "I Can Only Imagine" || Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year || |- |rowspan="3"| 2003 ||rowspan="1"| – || Artist of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| –|| Group of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| Spoken For || Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year || |- |rowspan="3"| 2004 ||rowspan="1"| – || Artist of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| –|| Group of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| "Word of God Speak" || Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year || |- |rowspan="5"| 2005 ||rowspan="1"| – || Artist of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| –|| Group of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| Undone || Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| The Passion of the Christ: Songs || Special Event Album of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| MercyMe Live || Long Form Music Video of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| 2006 ||rowspan="1"| – || Group of the Year || |- |rowspan="2"| 2007 ||rowspan="1"| – || Group of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| Coming Up to Breathe || Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year || |- |rowspan="1"| 2008
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The Worship Project is the fifth self-released album by American Christian rock band MercyMe. Produced by the band and recorded by Jim Bryson (the band's keyboardist), the album was released on October 14, 1999. In contrast to the band's previous efforts, which were influenced by grunge music, The Worship Project is a worship album. MercyMe wrote songs for the album using a basic verse–chorus style so as to be easy to learn and sing along to and to easily fit on a PowerPoint screen. The album incorporates alternative, rock, and pop musical styles, as well as "rootsy" elements like organs and violins. Like most independent albums, The Worship Project did not appear on any record charts after its release and received little attention from music critics, with the exception of a review in the UK Christian music magazine Cross Rhythms. However, the album was much more successful than the band's previous efforts, selling over 60,000 copies within a year. The band would release one more album before signing with INO Records and releasing their first major studio album, Almost There (2001). Several songs from The Worship Project were included on the album, including "I Can Only Imagine", which became the band's breakthrough single on Christian and mainstream radio and the best-selling Christian single of all time as of March 2018. Background and composition MercyMe was formed in 1994 by vocalist Bart Millard, guitarist Mike Scheuchzer, and keyboardist Jim Bryson. The band later brought on drummer Robby Shaffer and bassist Nathan Cochran in 1997. Prior to the release of The Worship Project, MercyMe had released four Christian alternative rock albums, drawing influence from the grunge style popular at the time. While playing live, however, the band realized that their original songs from these albums failed to connect with their audiences. In contrast, their covers of popular worship songs were received positively, leading the band to decide to write and produce a whole album of original worship songs. The Worship Project was MercyMe's first attempt at producing their own corporate worship songs; the band blended this style with their style as a rock band. According to Millard, the album was written over three days; the band "decided to lock [themselves] in an old Sunday school room" to write the songs for the album. With the exception of "Beautiful", which was written and composed by Cochran, the lyrics on the album were written by Millard, while the music was composed by the entire band. The band utilized a simple verse–chorus format when writing songs the album, with the songs being designed to easily fit on a PowerPoint screen. The only song on the album not to utilize this format, "I Can Only Imagine", was included at the last minute, and only because it was important to Millard, who wrote the song reminiscing about his father's death. The album was recorded at The Pig Sty in Fort Worth, Texas. It was produced by the band, engineered and mixed by Bryson, and mastered by Eric
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The discography of MercyMe, an American Christian rock band, includes 11 studio albums, two compilation albums, two video albums, and 28 singles. MercyMe, formed in 1994, released six independent albums from 1995–2000 before signing with INO Records and releasing their major label debut album, Almost There (2001). Almost There peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart. The band released Spoken For, their second studio album, in 2002; it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart and No. 41 on the Billboard 200. Its second single, "Word of God Speak", spent a record 23 weeks atop the Billboard Christian Songs chart. The album has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has sold over 550,000 copies. In 2003, mainstream radio interest in "I Can Only Imagine", the band's second single from Almost There, caused sales of the album to surge. "I Can Only Imagine" would peak at No. 5 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost There was eventually certified triple Platinum by the RIAA, signifying shipments of over 3,000,000 copies, and has sold over 2.2 million copies in the United States. In 2004, the band released their third album, Undone, which sold 55,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart. Undone earned a Gold certification from the RIAA in December 2004 and has sold over 627,000 copies in the United States. Its three singles all peaked inside the top three on the Christian Songs chart, with two of them ("Here with Me" and "Homesick") crossing over to the Adult Contemporary chart. The band released Coming Up to Breathe, their fourth studio album, in 2006. The album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart with 58,000 copies sold in its first week. "Coming Up to Breathe" earned a Gold certification from the RIAA in 2007. All That Is Within Me, the band's fifth studio album, was released in 2007. It sold over 84,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart., and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2010. Their sixth studio album, The Generous Mr. Lovewell, was released in 2010 and sold 88,000 copies in its first week. It became their first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. 3. All three of its singles peaked at No. 1 on the Christian Songs chart, and the album has been certified Gold by the RIAA. MercyMe's seventh studio album, The Hurt & The Healer, sold 33,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. Their 2014 studio album, Welcome to the New, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 26,000 copies in its first
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Undone is the third studio album by Christian rock band MercyMe. It was produced by Pete Kipley and released on April 20, 2004 on INO Records. Following the success of MercyMe's previous studio efforts and their surprise crossover hit "I Can Only Imagine”, they were given significantly more resources to develop the album with. The band also brought in a sixth member, guitarist Barry Graul. Unlike the band's previous songwriting style, which was to write the lyrics first, they wrote the music for the songs on Undone before writing the lyrics. Musically, the album is a progression from the band's previous albums, adopting a guitar-driven pop rock and adult contemporary sound, while the lyrics are personal and convey Christian themes. Undone received positive reviews from critics, with many praising the album's lyrics, mainstream appeal, and improved production value from their first two albums, although some felt the album was too similar to the band's previous works. The album won the GMA Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year at the 36th GMA Dove Awards. Highly anticipated before its release, Undone debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, selling over 55,000 copies in its first week. It spent a total of two weeks atop the Christian Albums chart and ranked as one of the best-selling Christian albums of 2004 and 2005. Undone has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold over 627,000 copies in the United States as of April 2006. It ranked as the 38th best-selling Christian album of the 2000s in the United States. Three singles ("Here with Me", Homesick", and "In the Blink of an Eye") were released in promotion of Undone, all of which topped at least one Christian chart format. "Here with Me" and "Homesick" also achieved success on mainstream radio, reaching the top ten on adult contemporary radio charts. Background and recording While MercyMe was recording Undone in summer 2003, they were beginning to experience the unexpected mainstream success of "I Can Only Imagine"; although the band had been promoting their second album Spoken For (2002), "Imagine" was from their first album Almost There (2001). Because of the song's success, the band was given "substantially more resources" by their record label, INO Records, towards making Undone. One major change the band made was adding a sixth member, guitarist Barry Graul, who had previously worked with Whitecross and Jaci Velasquez. Although the band remained committed to being a Christian group and refused to change the lyrical content of their songs or approach to interviews and concerts, they did decide to make some changes; they decided to work with outside songwriters as well as to employ the London Symphony Orchestra to play strings on four tracks. They also opted to change the way they made the album; rather than writing the lyrics before the music, as they had on their previous projects, they decided to write and record
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MercyMe is an American contemporary Christian music band founded in Edmond, Oklahoma. The band consists of lead vocalist Bart Millard, percussionist Robby Shaffer, bassist Nathan Cochran and guitarists Michael Scheuchzer and Barry Graul. The band formed in 1994 and released six independent albums before signing with INO Records in 2001. The group first gained mainstream recognition with the crossover single "I Can Only Imagine", which elevated their debut album, Almost There, to triple platinum certification. Since then, the group has released eight additional studio albums (six of which have been certified gold) and a greatest hits album, 10. The group has also had 13 consecutive top five singles on the Billboard Christian Songs chart, with seven of them reaching No. 1. MercyMe has won eight Dove Awards and has had many Grammy Award nominations. On April 8, 2014, the band released its eighth studio album titled Welcome to the New. Their ninth studio album, Lifer, was released on March 31, 2017, and tenth, Inhale (Exhale), was released on April 30, 2021. History Formation and early years Singer Bart Millard met pianist James Phillip Bryson in Lakeland, Florida, after an invitation from his youth pastor. Both led a praise team on a trip to Europe. They both felt a call to work full-time in music. They later met the guitarist Michael John Scheuchzer, who joined them, then moved to Oklahoma City. The group was officially formed in 1994 in Henderson Hills Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. In 1997, MercyMe moved to Nashville to find a record label. After a year, they left Nashville for Dallas and recorded an album. Then they settled in Greenville, Texas, and served at Highland Terrace Baptist Church. The trio set up a studio and a "living area" in an old abandoned day-care center. Bassist Nathan Cochran and drummer Robby Shaffer later joined the band, accompanying the band in releasing six independent projects before signing with INO Records in 2001. Unlike their first three major label albums, their earlier indie projects tended to orient more towards rock rhythms. The group's name, "MercyMe", originated during Millard's time as a youth ministry intern in Florida. Concerned that her grandson was home whenever she called, Millard's grandmother would exclaim, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" For several years, the band was a mainstay at the popular PlanetWisdom youth conference. The popularity of “I Can Only Imagine” and their meteoric rise led to their no longer leading worship at the conference. Almost There, Spoken For and Undone (2001–2004) After signing with INO Records, Now known as Fair Trade Services, the band released its first major debut album, Almost There. The single "I Can Only Imagine" earned the band a Dove Award in 2002 for song of the year. However, it was not until three years after its release that the song began to gain mainstream success, topping the Billboard 200 sales chart for seven weeks, and peaking at No. 71 on the Hot 100, No. 33 on
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Almost There is the first studio album by the American Christian rock band MercyMe. Produced by Pete Kipley, it was released on August 14, 2001, by INO Records. After releasing six albums as an unsigned band, they decided to pursue a record contract because it became too difficult to sell albums, book shows, and manage themselves. The band was assigned to work with Kipley, who had not produced a major project before. Four songs on the album had previously appeared on their self-released albums; the rest were newly recorded songs. Critics have characterized the music on the album as contemporary worship and pop rock, with a more radio-friendly sound than the band's self-released albums. Almost There received critical acclaim from music critics, who praised the album's songwriting; "I Can Only Imagine" received particular compliments. Critics were more divided on the album's sound. Some felt the album was "innovative" or "fresh", while others felt it was middle-of-the-road or derivative. CCM Magazine listed it in their 25th anniversary edition as one of '100 Albums You Need to Own'. "Bless Me Indeed (Jabez's Song)" was released as the album's lead single; however, it underperformed on the charts, leading initially to poorer than expected sales for the album. The second single, "I Can Only Imagine", peaked at number one on the Radio & Records Christian AC chart in 2002. Its success contributed to a sharp increase in sales, and the song stayed on the Christian charts so long that plans for a third single from the album were scrapped. After the song crossed over to mainstream radio in 2003, the album peaked at number 39 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart. Billboard ranked it as the fourth best-selling Christian album of the 2000s in the United States. Almost There has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold over 3 million copies in the United States. Background and recording MercyMe was formed in 1994 by vocalist Bart Millard, guitarist Mike Scheuchzer, and keyboardist Jim Bryson. Bassist Nathan Cochran joined the band in 1997, with drummer Robby Shaffer joining the following year. In October 1999, they issued their fifth self-released album, The Worship Project. The album proved to be successful, selling over 60,000 copies within a year, but the difficulty of selling albums directly, in addition to having to book and manage for themselves, led the band to pursue a contract with a record label. Millard was directed by a friend to contact Jeff Moseley, who had connections in the Christian music industry, for advice. After being contacted by Millard, Moseley expressed interest in the band, and within a week MercyMe was officially signed to INO Records, a new record label Moseley was helming. Moseley introduced the band to Pete Kipley, who would produce the album. Although Kipley had been involved on some minor projects like radio mixes, Almost There was his first major project. Millard called Kipley an "amazing guy"
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The 33rd Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 25, 2002 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2001. The show was held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. Recipients are listed below, see also full list of nominees. The awards were broadcast live on the PAX TV, the first live national broadcast since 1998. Award recipients Song of the Year "I Can Only Imagine" - Bart Millard; Simpleville Music (ASCAP) Songwriter of the Year Bart Millard Male Vocalist of the Year Mac Powell Female Vocalist of the Year Nicole C. Mullen Group of the Year Third Day Artist of the Year Michael W. Smith New Artist of the Year ZOEgirl Producer of the Year Toby McKeehan Rap/Hip Hop/Dance Recorded Song of the Year "Somebody's Watching Me"; Toby Mac; Toby McKeehan, Michael-Anthony Taylor, Rockwell Modern Rock/Alternative Recorded Song of the Year "Invade My Soul"; By The Tree; Chuck Dennie Hard Music Recorded Song of the Year "Live For Him"; Pillar; Rob Beckley, Travis Jenkins, Brad Noone, Michael Wittig Rock Recorded Song of the Year "Come Together"; Third Day; Tai Anderson, Brad Avery, David Carr, Mark Lee, Mac Powell Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year "I Can Only Imagine" - MercyMe; Bart Millard Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year "Above All"; Michael W. Smith; Lenny LeBlanc, Paul Baloche Southern Gospel Recorded Song of the Year "He's Watching Me"; Gaither Vocal Band; Tina Sadler Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year "Thank You, Lord, For Your Blessings On Me"; Easter Brothers; Russell Easter, James Easter, Edd Easter Country Recorded Song of the Year "Goin' Away Party"; Jeff & Sheri Easter; Bruce Haynes Urban Recorded Song of the Year "Thank You"; Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary; Kirk Franklin Traditional Gospel Recorded Song of the Year "Hold On"; Selah; Jesse Dixon Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year "Anybody Wanna Pray?"; CeCe Winans; Cedric Caldwell, Victor Caldwell, Margaret Bell, Tommy Sims Rap/Hip Hop/Dance Album of the Year "Momentum"; Toby Mac; Toby Mac, Michael-Anthony Taylor, Pete Stewart, Jeff Savage, Randy Crawford, Todd Collins Modern Rock/Alternative Album of the Year "Invade My Soul"; By The Tree; Steve Hindalong, Bob Wohler Hard Music Album of the Year "The Light In Guinevere's Garden"; East West; Bob Burch Rock Album of the Year Come Together; Third Day; Monroe Jones Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year Declaration; Steven Curtis Chapman; Brown Bannister, Steven Curtis Chapman Inspirational Album of the Year Press On; Selah; Jason Kyle, Todd Smith, Allan Hall, Nicol Smith Southern Gospel Album of the Year Encore; Old Friends Quartet; Bill Gaither, Wesley Pritchard, Ben Speer Country Album of the Year From The Heart; The Oak Ridge Boys; Michael Sykes, Duane Allen Urban Album of the Year Just Remember Christmas; Fred Hammond; Fred Hammond Traditional Gospel Album of the Year Hymns; Shirley Caesar; Bubba Smith, Shirley Caesar, Michael Mathis Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year CeCe Winans; CeCe Winans; Brown Bannister, Robbie Buchanon, Tommy Sims Instrumental Album of the Year Freedom; Michael W. Smith; Michael W. Smith, Bryan
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Arto Saari (born November 9, 1981) is a Finnish professional skateboarder and photographer. Early life Saari was born in Seinäjoki, Finland. His mother was supportive of his skateboarding and his first skateboard was a Vision Gator model. Skateboarding Saari first attracted attention from the global skateboarding community when he won silver at the skateboarding world championships in Munster, Germany in 1998 at the age of 16 years. Following the event, Saari was invited by professional skateboarder Danny Way to tour Canada with Plan B, Platinum, and the Red Dragons teams, and received a mailed airline ticket at his family home. Saari's professional skateboarding career commenced following his decision to relocate to the United States after joining Flip Skateboards. Saari was selected as the "2001 Skater of the Year" by Thrasher. To this day Saari remains one of only two Europeans to ever win the industry's premier award. After receiving the award, Saari stated, "I never thought it would actually like ... whatever, happen to me, or what not. Like, it's just one of those things that's just come out of the blue, you know?" In what was perceived as a shocking decision by the global skateboard community, Saari announced his decision to leave Flip in 2008 due to the distress that was caused by the death of Flip rider Shane Cross. Saari joined the team at Alien Workshop. In an interview with skateboard journalist, Chris Nieratko, following his decision (Saari later contacted Nieratko to prevent the interview from being published and the journalist published it on his personal website instead), Saari explained the process of leaving Flip: It was really heavy but they [Flip] took it pretty good. I thought they were going to come and chop my legs off but they were very reasonable about it but it’s been a heavy process. It’s been on good terms. I just felt like I had to move on. I changed all my other sponsors, I might as well. Why stop now? New knee, new liver, new shoe company, new board sponsor ... Yeah, I did shed a few tears. It’s like getting a divorce; even though I’ve never been married other than Flip. I can imagine it’s something like that. There’s parts that you like but there’s parts that you just want to move on past. It’s really hard to deal with. You wonder, ‘Are you going to lose friends? Are you going to lose business?’ It was a tough decision to make and I’m still spun out about it. I can’t believe that it’s all happening but I think it will be for the better for everyone ... I just couldn’t take it any longer. I couldn’t take the madness and I thought it would be better to move on than to stay somewhere where I don’t think I necessarily belong anymore. Things have changed a lot over the years and I thought it would be better to explore something new, to be like a little kid in a candy
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"Spoken For" is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe. Written by Bart Millard, Nathan Cochran, Mike Scheuchzer, Jim Bryson, Robby Shaffer, and Pete Kipley. "Spoken For" has been described as "haunting", and as having a "strong lyrical hook". Spoken For was released in 2002 as the lead single from MercyMe's 2002 album of the same title. It attained success on Christian radio, peaking atop the Radio & Records Christian AC and INPSO charts, as well as at No. 6 on the Radio & Records Christian CHR chart. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 34th GMA Dove Awards. Background "Spoken For" was written by Bart Millard, Nathan Cochran, Mike Scheuchzer, Jim Bryson, Robby Shaffer, and Pete Kipley; it was also produced by Kipley. The song was recorded in several locations; Luminous Sound in Dallas, Texas, The Sound Kitchen in Franklin, Tennessee, Indigo Room in Franklin, Tennessee, HydeAway Sound Lab in Jeckyll Island, Georgia, The Scwoodio in Greenville, Texas, Mountain View Recorders in Glorieta, New Mexico, and Playground Recording in Wylie, Texas. The song was mastered by Richard Dodd at Vital Recordings, and mixed by F. Reid Shippen at Recording Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Composition "Spoken For" is a contemporary Christian song with a length of four minutes and nine seconds. The song is set in the key of D major and has a tempo of eighty beats per minute, with a vocal range spanning from A3-F5 The verse for "Spoken For" (“Take this world from me/I don’t need it anymore/I am finally free/My heart is spoken for”) has been described as "memorable", while the song itself has been described as "haunting". The song's lyrical hook has been described as "strong". Reception Critical reception "Spoken For" received generally positive reviews from critics. Kevin McNeese of New Release Tuesday commented that "["Spoken For"] ...reminds us of the importance and adoration that God places on us". Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today commented that the song is "worshipful", also commenting that "MercyMe is destined for another big hit with ["Spoken For"]... I don't think it'll have the same impact as their signature hit, but it's enough to firmly establish MercyMe's popularity". Tony Cummings of Cross Rhythms opined in his review of the album that "I particularly liked the haunting “Spoken For”". "Spoken For" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 34th GMA Dove Awards. Chart performance "Spoken For" peaked at No. 1 on the Radio & Records Christian AC chart, holding that spot for a total of seven weeks. In all, it spent 36 weeks on the chart. On the Radio & Records INSPO chart, "Spoken For" held the top spot for six weeks, and spent a total of 21 weeks on the chart. On the Radio & Records Christian CHR chart, "Spoken For" peaked at No. 6, spending a total of 28 weeks on the chart. Charts Personnel Credits adapted from the album liner notes. MercyMe Bart Millard – lead vocals, background vocals Jim Bryson – keys,
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The 38th Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 25, 2007 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2006. The show was held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Brian Littrell, Natalie Grant, and Donnie McClurkin. This was the first year in which the awards were called the "GMA Dove Awards" since the 2006 edition was called the "GMA Music Awards". Nominations were announced earlier on February 20, 2007 by Juanita Bynum, Brian Littrell and Thor Ramsey at the Hilton Nashville Downtown in Music City, Tennessee. Following the success from the previous year, Chris Tomlin won six awards, including Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year. Aaron Shust won three awards, including New Artist of the Year. Casting Crowns, Jars of Clay, KJ-52, Gaither Vocal Band, and The Lewis Family each won two awards. Performers Telecast ceremony The following performed: Presenters Telecast ceremony The following presented: Michael W. Smith Brenda Lee Bob & Larry Awards General Artist of the Year Casting Crowns Chris Tomlin Jars of Clay Stellar Kart The Crabb Family Third Day TobyMac New Artist of the Year Aaron Shust Ayiesha Woods DecembeRadio Leeland Pocket Full of Rocks Group of the Year BarlowGirl Casting Crowns David Crowder Band Jars of Clay Diante do Trono MercyMe Male Vocalist of the Year Aaron Shust Chris Tomlin Jeremy Camp Jason Crabb Mark Hall Mat Kearney Female Vocalist of the Year Christy Nockels Krystal Meyers Natalie Grant Nichole Nordeman Rebecca St. James Song of the Year "Bless the Broken Road" – Selah Marcus Hummon, Bobby E. Boyd, Jeff Hanna, songwriters "Cry Out To Jesus" – Third Day Mac Powell, songwriter "In the Father's Arms" – Diante do Trono Ana Paula Valadão, songwriter "Drifter" – DecembeRadio Josh Reedy, Brian Bunn, Erik Miker, Boone Daughdrill, songwriter "God's Still God" – Young Harmony Johnathan Bond, songwriter "Imagine Me" – Kirk Franklin Kirk Franklin, songwriter "Made to Worship" – Chris Tomlin Stephan Sharp, Ed Cash, Chris Tomlin, songwriters "Me and Jesus" – Stellar Kart Adam Agee, Ian Eskelin, songwriters "My Savior My God" – Aaron Shust Dorothy Greenwell, songwriter "Nothing Left To Lose" – Mat Kearney Mat Kearney, songwriter "Praise You in This Storm" – Casting Crowns Mark Hall, Bernie Herms, songwriters Songwriter of the Year Aaron Shust Producer of the Year Brown Bannister Ed Cash Ian Eskelin Nathan Nockels Otto Price Pop Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year "Bless the Broken Road" – Selah "Broken & Beautiful" – Mark Schultz "Dead Man" – Jars of Clay "Made to Worship" – Chris Tomlin "My Savior My God" – Aaron Shust "Praise You in This Storm" – Casting Crowns Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year Between the Dreaming and the Coming True – Bebo Norman Broken & Beautiful – Mark Schultz Coming Up To Breathe – MercyMe Nothing Left to Lose – Mat Kearney See The Morning – Chris TomlinRockRock Recorded Song of the Year "Activate" – Stellar Kart "Breathe Into Me" – Red "Dangerous" – DecembeRadio
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Leaving Home is a drama in two acts by Canadian playwright David French. The work is the first presented of what has come to be known as the Mercer Plays, followed by Of the Fields, Lately, Salt-Water Moon, 1949 and Soldier's Heart. It has been credited with introducing a unique Canadian voice to the world, and with proving that "Canadian playwrights could write plays on Canadian subjects and people would flock to see them." History The play premiered at the Tarragon Theatre on May 16, 1972, directed by Bill Glassco. Credits included set by Dan Yarhi and Stephen Katz, and costumes by Vicky Manthorpe. The play featured actors Maureen Fitzgerald, Frank Moore, Mel Tuck, Sean Sullivan, Lynne Griffin, Liza Creighton and Les Carlson. First written as a television play, French offered the work to Glassco after seeing his production of David Freeman's Creeps. French describes the experience: "I asked him to read my play. He did. He called me and he sat there with the script in his lap. 'I like your script,' he grinned, 'but I don't think you've realized its full potential.'" French then grabbed his script and tore out on the street, calling Glassco every profanity imaginable. "Imagine my nerve. Thankfully, he chased me down the road and made me come back." Leaving Home was a success in 1972, with its theme of fighting for identity in a troubled home resonating with audiences. "It's very autobiographical," French confesses. "I mean, I'm Ben in the play and yes it was cathartic writing my own story. But not everything in that play is true, of course." French concedes he wrote the play because he loved his dad and that love needed some form of public expression. "I'm really all the characters in my plays, male and female but with my dad it was something serious. As an adolescent, we had a troubled relationship and that was my fault as much as his." French felt that in some ways, writing Leaving Home did his dad an injustice. "Well, it was just one picture of him. That's all. You have to put all the pictures together." Main characters Jacob Mercer, the Newfoundlander who finally brought his family to settle in Ontario. Portrayed as a flawed but loving father, he is a compendium of patriarchal values and is the only character in all of the Mercer family cycle. (Neither Mary nor Ben are in French's Soldier's Heart, which, while being most recently written, is ironically the oldest in the family's chronology.) Jacob is in his fifties but looks older. A man who is used to leading his family in a patriarchal fashion is devastated by the new way of life and the decisions of his sons to leave home. Secretly he longs for old friends and times when he was needed. Mary Mercer, at fifty, is a devoted mother and wife who has her hands full with her three men. She is the mediator of the family and the confidante of the
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Coming Up to Breathe is the fourth studio album by Christian rock band MercyMe. Released on April 25, 2006, by INO Records, the album was intended by MercyMe to be edgier than their previous albums. Coming Up to Breathe sold 58,000 copies its first week, MercyMe's biggest sales week at the time. It debuted and peaked at number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, number five on the Rock Albums chart, and number thirteen on the Billboard 200. It also appeared on the Alternative Albums chart in 2007, peaking at number thirteen. Coming Up to Breathe was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2007, signifying shipments of over 500,000 copies. Coming Up to Breathe received positive reviews from critics. It was also nominated for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album at the 49th Grammy Awards, and for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year at the 38th GMA Dove Awards. The song "Bring the Rain" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards. Three singles were released in promotion of Coming Up to Breathe. Lead single "So Long Self" peaked at number one on the Christian Songs chart, spending four weeks atop that chart. The second single from the album, "Hold Fast", peaked at number three on the Christian Songs chart. The third and final single from the album, "Bring the Rain", spent one week at number one on the Christian Songs chart. "So Long Self" and "Hold Fast" also appeared on the Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at number sixteen and number twenty-seven, respectively. Background According to lead vocalist Bart Millard, MercyMe had started as a rock band and had wanted to make a rock record. Following the success of their breakthrough single "I Can Only Imagine", a ballad, they were advised to "duplicate ['I Can Only Imagine'] on the next two records". Millard says they felt that they were at a point where "we are known more for ballads than the rock band we wanted to be". With the consent of their label, which felt there was a trend towards heavier music, MercyMe decided to make an "edgier" record. In particular the band focused on up-tempo songs; Millard noted that while the songs are still pop rock songs, the band tried to put a bit more edge into them. Additionally, the band decided to work with producer Brown Bannister, who had produced the group's Christmas record and Millard's solo album Hymned No. 1, as opposed to Pete Kipley, who had produced the band's previous three albums. Bannister's producing style was different from Kipley's; while Kipley was a hands-on producer, "involved in every part of the song", Bannister would wait until the band had "run down all [their] avenues" before giving input. The band felt Bannister was an "amazing encourager" and were satisfied with the Christmas album Bannister had produced with them; although they felt Kipley did a great job on their previous records, improving themselves as a band and as songwriters, they
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Imagine may refer to: Imagination Music Albums Imagine (Armin van Buuren album), 2008 Imagine (Eva Cassidy album), 2002 Imagine (Janice Vidal album), 2012 Imagine (John Lennon album), 1971 Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack), 1988 Imagine (Mort Shuman album), 1976 Imagine, a 1997 album by 14 Karat Soul Imagine, a 2000 album by Aaron Benward Imagine, a 1993 album by Gonzalo Rubalcaba Imagine, a 1995 album by Keiko Lee Imagine, a 2004 album by Minmi Imagine, a 1996 album by Ofra Harnoy Imagine, a 1989 album by Sébastien El Chato Imagine, a 2008 album by Vox Angeli Songs "Imagine" (song), a 1971 song by John Lennon "Imagine" (Ariana Grande song), 2018 "Imagine" (Shola Ama song), 1999 "Imagine" (Snoop Dogg song), 2006 "Imagine" (Tone Damli song), 2012 "Imagine", a song by Armin van Buuren from Imagine, 2008 "Imagine", a song by Doja Cat from Planet Her, 2021 "Imagine", a song by Salt-n-Pepa from Brand New, 1997 "Imagine", a 1969 song by Argosy "Imagine", a song by Daniël Sahuleka "Imagine", a song by Sébastien El Chato "Imagine", a song from the film Athena "Imagine", a song from the film The Bobo "Imagine", a song by Christ Crosby from the film Flipper's New Adventure "I Can Only Imagine" (MercyMe song) or "Imagine", 1999 Film and television Imagine (1972 film), a film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono Imagine (1986 film), a short film by Zbigniew Rybczyński Imagine (2012 film), a Polish film Imagine (TV series), a BBC arts show Imagine Entertainment, a production company founded by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Imagine Film Festival, a film festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands Imagine: John Lennon, a 1988 documentary film Imagine TV, a former Indian TV channel Games Imagine (video game series), a series of Nintendo DS and Wii games Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine, a MMORPG Imagine Software, a UK video game company Books and magazines Imagine (book), a book by Alan McCombes and Tommy Sheridan Imagine: How Creativity Works, a 2012 book by Jonah Lehrer Imagine (game magazine), an adventure games magazine Imagine (educational magazine), an educational periodical for 7th-12th graders Imagine Publishing, a UK-based magazine publisher Imagine!, an American book publisher Imagine, a 1970s comics magazine published by Star Reach Imagine, a journal by the Socialist Party of Canada Other uses Imagine (horse), an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse Imagine (3D modeling software), a 3D modeling and ray tracing program Imagine Communications, an Irish ISP and telephone operator Imagine Communications Corporation, a television technology company imagine (Brunei telecommunications company), a Bruneian ISP and telephone operator Imagine (Gal Gadot video), a 2020 video by Gal Gadot and other celebrities See also Ikarus Imagine, a German hang glider design Imagen, a Puerto Rican fashion magazine Imaginary (disambiguation) Imagine... A Fantasy in the Sky, a fireworks show at the Disneyland Resort in California, U.S. Imago (disambiguation) Imajin, American contemporary R&B band Imajin (album), eponymous album from the band
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István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical illusions, has been compared to works by M. C. Escher. Biography He was born in Kecskemét. He studied at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in Budapest as a pupil of István Balogh and Ernő Rubik. After graduating in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer and animated film as animator and film director. He is known as painter, printmaker, poster designer, and illustrator as well. He likes to use visual paradox, double meaning images, and illusionistic approaches while following traditional printing techniques such as woodcutting and etching. He also tries to renew the technique of anamorphosis. He is a regular participant in the major international biennials of posters and graphic art and his works have been shown in individual and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. Film director at the PannóniaFilm Studio in Budapest, Habil. professor at University of West Hungary in Sopron, co-founder of Hungarian Poster Association, member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI) and Hungarian Art Academie. He often uses ΟΥΤΙΣ, or Utisz, (pronounced: outis) (No one) as artist's pseudonym. Quotes "Utisz - It was the Homeric hero Odysseus, who fought the Cyclops, had used this name, and had put out the monster's eye. I imagine that poster is nothing else but an Odysseus' gesture: some kind of attack upon the eye." "If you want to create a poster try to explain your idea in a sentence. Then try to reduce it, leave out phrases, attributes until you just have the bare essentials. When you do not need any letter at all you are ready with the poster." "... When I have drawn these impossible objects, I did hope everybody would understand my intention, the intention of a Hungarian designer at the end of the 20th century who does not tell the truth just in order to be caught in the act." "There are things I can imagine and I can draw. There are things I can imagine but I cannot draw. But, could I draw something that I cannot imagine? That interests me greatly." Introduction by Guy D'Obonner During the last two decades – when most of the works shown here were made – the activities of the poster designer, the printmaker, the illustrator, and the film director have completed each other. Many motive, stylistic features, technical solutions appeared in all of the media and for Orosz it seemingly did not cause any problem to cross the borders of the different genres. When he was drawing a poster usually he did it with the preciseness of illustrators, when he was illustrating a book, he did it with the narrative mood of filmmakers, if he was animating films, sometimes he used the
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Jewish views on evolution includes a continuum of views about the theory of evolution, experimental evolution, the origin of life, age of the universe, evolutionary creationism, and theistic evolution. Today, many Jewish people accept the theory of evolution and do not see it as incompatible with traditional Judaism, reflecting the emphasis of prominent rabbis such as the Vilna Gaon and Maimonides on the ethical rather than factual significance of scripture. Classical rabbinic teachings Biblical chronology indicates that God completed the creation of the world close to 6,000 years ago. This age is reflected in the chronology developed in a midrash, Seder Olam, but a literalist reading of the Book of Genesis is rare in Judaism. This age is attributed to the tanna Jose ben Halafta, and covers history from the creation of the universe to the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Dr. Gerald Schroeder interprets Nachmanides description of the 6 days of creation in conjunction with Einstein's relativistic view of time applied to the expansion of space-time to say that the 6 days of creation are 15.75 Billion years from our perspective. Hasdai Crescas imagines that God is the Creator of the World and of the creatures but the order in this World is possible only in this case: mineral is for the vegetative, vegetative is for the animal, animal is for man, i.e. man can eat animal… Man is the highest level in this World. On the other hand, we can think about more archetypes for more forms and substances, about an archetype for more forms but we cannot imagine the elaboration of the creatures as Charles Darwin did because the original plane of God is for a big number of creatures but not an infinite quantity of them. Hasdai Crescas gives this metaphor to explain: The first is that form comes to be in a compound through composition and blending, as oxymel comes to be through the blending of vinegar and honey. The second is that when the proportions in the blending are changed the form changes. For example, when the proportions of the ingredients in Theriac change vis-à-vis one another, the form of Theriac changes, and it takes on a different form. And even more is this the case when the simple components of the compound change (Or Hashem). The eternity of divine knowledge cannot change because God knows everything before the Creation and after this; the status of possible can be imagined only by time-perspective for God, that is when He would like to create the World but God has always known all things from eternity. The possibility of Creation can be necessity because this is the quality of existence, so this can have “the end” because in the case of possibility, also when it can imagine and think that His divine knowledge is eternal and perfect, the existence and the knowledge of God only are perfect and higher than ours: There is no doubt that if a thing is necessary from one perspective,
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The Christmas Sessions is the first Christmas album by American Christian rock band MercyMe. The album, produced by Brown Bannister, was released on September 27, 2005. The band, who greatly enjoy Christmas, had previously recorded Christmas songs and enjoyed the process so much that they wanted to produce a full-length album. After releasing a studio album in early 2004, they decided to take time off; they realized they could record a Christmas album over that period and began work in December 2004. The band, aiming to produce a rock-oriented album, recruited Bannister, a noted rock producer, to produce it. In addition to one original song, "Joseph's Lullaby", the album consists of covers of both modern and traditional Christmas songs that the band members had listened to when growing up. Upon its release, The Christmas Sessions received positive reviews from critics. Praise was offered for the album's production qualities, as well as the change in direction for MercyMe and the band's take on the traditional songs. Minor criticism was directed at lead vocalist Bart Millard's vocals, as well as at individual songs. The album reached a peak of number three on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, number ten on the Holiday Albums chart, and number sixty-four on the Billboard 200; it has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Multiple songs from the album appeared on record charts, including "Joseph's Lullaby", which peaked at number one on the Christian Songs chart; "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Little Drummer Boy" also appeared in the top ten on the chart, peaking at numbers nine and ten, respectively, and "Silent Night" reached a peak of number six on the Adult Contemporary chart. Background and recording According to Bart Millard, the lead vocalist for MercyMe, the band enjoys the Christmas season greatly and had recorded songs for compilation albums like WOW Christmas: Green and had liked the process of taking older Christmas songs and altering them; Millard said that the band "had so much fun doing it that we found ourselves wishing we had a Christmas record of our own". After the band released their third studio album Undone in early 2004, they decided to take some time off, and realized they could record a Christmas album over that period. Although MercyMe had started as a rock band, they become associated with the adult contemporary genre after their single "I Can Only Imagine" became successful. In creating The Christmas Sessions, the band incorporated more elements from rock music and other genres; Millard described it as "the most 'rock' album we've done" and noted they did not concern themselves with the album's direction, saying "we didn’t have to worry about which direction we went. We just made the record we wanted to make". MercyMe began recording the album over Christmas 2004, and put the "finishing touches" on it over the following summer. The band brought in rock producer Brown Bannister, who had previously recorded albums for artists like Amy Grant and
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Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened. Counterfactual thinking is, as it states: "counter to the facts". These thoughts consist of the "What if?" and the "If only..." that occur when thinking of how things could have turned out differently. Counterfactual thoughts include things that – in the present – could not have happened because they are dependent on events that did not occur in the past. Overview The term counterfactual is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "contrary to fact". A counterfactual thought occurs when a person modifies a factual prior event and then assesses the consequences of that change. A person may imagine how an outcome could have turned out differently, if the antecedents that led to that event were different. For example, a person may reflect upon how a car accident could have turned out by imagining how some of the factors could have been different, for example, "If only I hadn't been speeding." These alternatives can be better or worse than the actual situation, and in turn give improved or more disastrous possible outcomes, "If only I hadn't been speeding, my car wouldn't have been wrecked" or "If I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, I would have been killed". Counterfactual thoughts have been shown to produce negative emotions; however they may also produce functional or beneficial effects. There are two types of counterfactual thoughts: downward and upward. Downward counterfactuals are thoughts about how the situation could have been worse; and people tend to have a more positive view of the actual outcome. Upward counterfactuals are thoughts about how the situation could have been better. These kinds of thoughts tend to make people feel dissatisfied and unhappy; however, upward counterfactuals are the kind of thoughts that allow people to think about how they can do better in the future. These counterfactual thoughts, or thoughts of what could have happened, can affect people's emotions, such as causing them to experience regret, guilt, relief, or satisfaction. They can also affect how they view social situations, such as who deserves blame and responsibility. History Counterfactual thinking has philosophical roots and can be traced back to early philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato who pondered the epistemological status of subjunctive suppositions and their nonexistent but feasible outcomes. In the seventeenth century, the German philosopher Leibniz argued that there could be an infinite number of alternate worlds, so long as they were not in conflict with laws of logic. The philosopher Nicholas Rescher (as well as others) has written about the interrelationship between counterfactual reasoning and modal logic. This relationship may also be exploited in literature or Victorian Studies, painting and poetry. Ruth M.J. Byrne in The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality (2005) proposed that the mental representations and cognitive processes that underlie the imagination of alternatives to reality are similar to those that underlie
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2003 Dove Award Nominees for the thirty-fourth annual ceremony of the Dove Awards. Nominees Song of the Year "Above All"; Lenny LeBlanc, Paul Baloche; Integrity's Hosanna!Music, Len Songs Publishing (ASCAP) "Back in His Arms Again"; Mark Schultz; Mark Schultz Music (BMI) "Breathe"; Marie Barnett; Mercy/Vineyard Publishing (ASCAP) "Come Unto Me"; Nicole C. Mullen; Wordspring Music/Lil'Jas Music (SESAC) "Great Light of the World"; Bebo Norman; NewSpring Pub. Inc, Appstreet Music (ASCAP) "Here I Am To Worship"; Tim Hughes; Kingsway's Thankyou Music (PRS) "Holy"; Nichole Nordeman, Mark Hammond; Ariose Music, Mark Hammond Music (ASCAP) "Ocean Floor"; Mark Stuart, Bob Herdman, Tyler Burkum, Will McGinnis, Ben Cissell; Up in the Mix Music (ASCAP) (BMI) "Spoken For"; Bart Millard, Nathan Cochran, Mike Scheuchzer, Robby Shaffer, Jim Bryson, Peter Kipley; Simpleville, Wordspring Music, Songs from the Indigo Room (ASCAP) (SESAC) "Yes, I Believe"; Joel Lindsey, Tony Wood; Paragon Music/Vacation Boy Music/New Spring Publishing (ASCAP) "Youth of the Nation"; P.O.D. (Traa, Sonny, Marcos, Wuv) Paul Sandoval, Marco Curiel, Mark Traa, Noah Bernardo; Souljah Music/Famous Music Publishing (ASCAP) Songwriter of the Year Bebo Norman Lenny LeBlanc Nichole Nordeman Paul Baloche Tim Hughes Male Vocalist of the Year Bebo Norman Mac Powell Mark Schultz Michael W. Smith Steven Curtis Chapman Female Vocalist of the Year Joy Williams Natalie Grant Nichole Nordeman Nicole C. Mullen Rebecca St. James Group of the Year Audio Adrenaline MercyMe Selah Sixpence None the Richer Third Day Artist of the Year MercyMe Michael W. Smith Steven Curtis Chapman Third Day tobyMac New Artist of the Year Big Daddy Weave Daily Planet Jeff Deyo Paul Colman Trio Souljahz The Rock 'N' Roll Worship Circus Producer of the Year Brown Bannister Charlie Peacock Monroe Jones Nathan Nockels Steve Hindalong Rap/Hip Hop/Dance Recorded Song of the Year "All Around The World"; Fault Is History; Souljahz; Joshua Washington, Je'kob Washington & Rachael Washington, Chris Rodriquez; Warner Brothers "Amazing"; Exodus; Andy Hunter; Andy Hunter, Tedd T., Ray Goudie; Sparrow "Here We Go"; The Art Of Translation; GRITS; Teron Carter, Stacy Jones, Otto Price, Ric Robbins; Gotee "Irene"; Momentum; tobyMac; Toby McKeehan, Randall Crawford, Jeff Savage; ForeFront "J-Train"; Momentum; tobyMac with Kirk Franklin; Toby McKeehan, Jeff Savage, Randall Crawford; ForeFront Modern Rock/Alternative Recorded Song of the Year "Blood Of Jesus"; Welcome to the Rock 'N' Roll Worship Circus; The Rock 'N' Roll Worship Circus; Gabriel Wilson, Blurr, Solo, Zurn, Mike Greeley, Mark Nelson, Terry Nelson; Vertical "Breathe Your Name"; Divine Discontent; Sixpence None the Richer; Matt Slocum; Reprise "Get This Party Started"; Momentum; tobyMac; Toby McKeehan, Pete Stewart, Michael-Anthony Taylor; ForeFront "Our Love Is Loud"; Can You Hear Us?; David Crowder Band; David Crowder; sixstepsrecords "Revolution"; The Eleventh Hour; Jars of Clay; Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark; Essential "Spin"; Stanley Climbfall; Lifehouse; Jason Wade, Ron Aniello; Sparrow Hard Music Recorded Song of the Year "Boom"; Satellite; P.O.D.; P.O.D. (Traa, Sonny, Marcos, Wuv) Paul Sandoval, Marcos Curiel, Mark Traa, Noah Bernardo; Atlantic "Electric"; Out of My Mind; gs megaphone; Ben Shreve; Spindust "Fireproof"; Fireproof; Pillar; Rob Beckley, Michael
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WOW Christmas: Red is the first release in the WOW Christmas series. The double CD contains 31 Christmas songs performed by top Contemporary Christian Music artists. It peaked at 45 on the Billboard 200 and in first place on Billboard's Top Contemporary Christian album chart in the year 2002. The album was certified platinum in 2006 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Track listing Disc 1 Avalon – Winter Wonderland – 2:41 Michael W. Smith – Emmanuel – 5:26 Point of Grace – O Holy Night – 5:30 Steven Curtis Chapman – Christmas Is All in the Heart – 5:16 Yolanda Adams – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – 3:35 Jaci Velasquez – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! – 2:36 CeCe Winans – Away in a Manger – 4:24 Soulful Celebration – Hallelujah! – 5:53 4Him – A Strange Way to Save the World – 4:32 Amy Grant – Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) – 5:30 Nicole C. Mullen – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – 4:17 Mark Schultz and Nichole Nordeman – Silent Night – 3:18 Kirk Franklin – The Night That Christ Was Born – 4:33 Kathy Mattea – Mary, Did You Know? – 3:14 Donnie McClurkin – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – 5:23 Rachael Lampa – Ave Maria – 4:54 Disc 2 Third Day – Do You Hear What I Hear? – 3:58 Jennifer Knapp – Sing Mary Sing – 4:05 ZOEgirl – Angels We Have Heard on High – 3:46 MercyMe – What Child Is This? – 3:49 tobyMac – This Christmas (Joy to the World) – 3:15 Sixpence None the Richer – Christmas Time Is Here – 3:03 Jars of Clay – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – 3:03 Caedmon's Call – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – 2:48 Plus One – A Prayer For Every Year – 4:21 Rebecca St. James – Sweet Little Jesus Boy – 3:35 FFH – The First Noel – 4:48 Out of Eden – O Little Town of Bethlehem – 3:34 Fred Hammond – Go Tell It on the Mountain – 3:52 Stacie Orrico – O Come, All Ye Faithful – 3:58 Audio Adrenaline – Little Drummer Boy – 3:07 References Review at Amazon.com. Retrieved 21 March 2007. 2002 Christmas albums Christmas compilation albums 2002 compilation albums WOW series albums
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"Finally Home" is a song by contemporary Christian music band MercyMe. Co-written by Bart Millard, Barry Graul, and Mike Scheuchzer, the song has lyrical themes revolving around heaven, with the music written around an acoustic guitar riff. It also contains musical influences from country and pop music, and features harmony vocals from Millard. "Finally Home" was released as the third single from MercyMe's 2007 album All That Is Within Me and peaked at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Soft AC/INSPO and Christian AC charts, No. 3 on the Hot Christian Songs chart, and No. 16 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. The song ranked at No. 9 on Billboard's 2009 year-end Hot Christian AC chart, and No. 12 on the year-end Hot Christian Songs chart. Background "Finally Home" was written after lead singer Bart Millard heard guitarists Mike Scheuchzer and Barry Graul improvising with an acoustic guitar riff. According to Millard, he "wrote the first line and just started bawling. Then we played it for our producer, and he started bawling". Millard was not sure the song would fit on the record, but Brown Bannister (the group's producer) told him "You just made a grown man cry. It's going on the record". Composition "Finally Home" is a Contemporary Christian song with influences from country and pop, and has a length of three minutes and 30 seconds. The song is set in the key of E major and has a moderate tempo of 64 beats per minute, and with a vocal range spanning from B3–A5. "Finally Home" is similar to MercyMe's previous songs "I Can Only Imagine" and "Homesick" in theme, with the lyrics revolving around heaven. The instrumentation of the song is based around an acoustic guitar riff, and features harmony vocals from lead singer Bart Millard. Reception Critical reception "Finally Home" received generally positive to mixed critical reception. Jared Johnson of Allmusic opined in his review of All That Is Within Me that "The album's crowning moment is "Finally Home," a mesmerizing acoustic journey that takes listeners to a place where they are reunited with loved ones". Russ Breimeier of The Fish commented that "With "Finally Home," we get another heaven song from the same guys responsible for "I Can Only Imagine," "Homesick," and others. The flowing acoustic pop style sets it apart from others, but seriously, can we expect a heaven medley from MercyMe in concert someday?" Chuck Taylor of Billboard commented that "Finally Home"... is a midtempo guitar-driven ode to meeting the maker. Christian AC has already offered its approval and though thematically it's genre-specific, lead singer Bart Millard's beautiful harmonies accompanying a singalong chorus and country radio's wholesome persona open the doors to acceptance there. Overall, a fine contender to further this established band's brand". Lauren Summerford of Jesus Freak Hideout was more apathetic about the song, commenting that "The acoustic guitar based "Finally Home" fills the void of the "ballad about getting to heaven" spot we've come to expect from MercyMe". Chart performance "Finally
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The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (), also published under the title The Psychology of the Imagination, is a 1940 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author propounds his concept of the imagination and discusses what the existence of imagination shows about the nature of human consciousness. Summary Sartre argues that while some believe imagining to be like an internal perception, imagination is nothing like perception. Perception is our study over time of a particular object with our senses. It is necessarily incomplete; one can only see one side of a chair at a time, for example. Thus, perception involves observation. By contrast, imagination is total. In the chair that appears in our imagination, we have all sides of the chair given to us at once. However, Sartre points out that imaginary objects cannot teach us anything. The totality of the chair that appears in our imagination comes from a synthesis of our knowledge of the chair and our intention toward it. We expect the chair to be X or Y, therefore, in our imagination, it appears to us this way. Thus, Sartre calls what goes on when we picture something imaginary, "quasi-observation". Imaginary objects are a "melange of past impressions and recent knowledge" (The Imaginary 90). In short, imaginary objects are what we intend them to be. Because imaginary objects appear to us in a way which is like perception but is not perception, we have a tendency to treat them as if they were real. That is not to say we are deluded; we know that they're imaginary. But we tend to ascribe emotions, traits, and beliefs to these irreal objects as if they were real. Throughout the book Sartre offers arguments against conceiving images as something inside a spatial consciousness. Sartre refers to this idea as the "illusion of immanence". Sartre says that what is required for the imaginary process to occur is an analogon—that is, an equivalent of perception. This can be a painting, a photograph, a sketch, or even the mental image we conjure when we think of someone or something. Through the imaginary process, the analogon loses its own sense and takes on the sense of the object it represents. Again, we are not deluded. But at some level the photograph of my father ceases being merely colors on paper and instead stands in for my absent father. I then have a tendency to ascribe the feelings I have about my father to the picture of him. Thus, an analogon can take on new qualities based on my own intention toward it. Ultimately, Sartre argues that because we can imagine, we are ontologically free. A consciousness that could not imagine, he points out, would be hopelessly mired in the "real", incapable of the perception of unrealized possibilities, and thus any real freedom of thought or choice. In order to imagine, a consciousness must be able to posit an object as irreal—nonexistent, absent, somewhere else and it does so always
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"Beautiful" is a song by contemporary Christian music band MercyMe. Written and composed by MercyMe, Dan Muckala, and Brown Bannister, the song was written for the daughters of the band's members. The song's lyrics revolve around self-worth and the love of God. "Beautiful" was released on September 17, 2010, as the second single from MercyMe's 2010 album The Generous Mr. Lovewell. "Beautiful" received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics and attained success on Christian radio, peaking at the top spot on Billboard magazine's Christian Songs, Christian AC Indicator, Christian AC Monitored, and Soft AC/Inspo charts. "Beautiful" ranked at number 7 on the 2011 year-end Christian Songs chart, as well as at number 10 on the 2011 year-end Hot Christian AC chart. Background and composition "Beautiful" was written and composed by the members of MercyMe, Dan Muckala, and Brown Bannister. "Beautiful" was written for the daughters of MercyMe's band members. Lead singer Bart Millard, in an interview with Kevin Davis of New Release Tuesday, stated that "We [MercyMe] wrote the song with our daughters in mind. The band has 15 kids among all of us... Satan targets our girls from a materialistic way, telling them how to act and how to look, what to eat and not to eat", also commenting that "I try to tell my kids all the time that they are perfect and I know my daughters need to get their confidence in themselves from me. The way they want to be treated by men needs to come from me". "Beautiful" is a ballad with a length of four minutes and twenty-one seconds. It is set in the key of G major and has a moderate tempo of 69 beats per minute, with a vocal range spanning from D4-B5. Lyrically, the song is about self-worth and the love of God, specifically aimed at young women and daughters. However, the song also has a broader theme; Millard noted in an interview that "All of us have felt unlovable at some point. At times, I feel worthless. I have an argument with a friend, all that I’ve come to like about myself is suddenly falling apart. Who can love me if I don’t even like myself? It’s hard to drag ourselves out of this way of thinking. We are taught to live according to these expectations. We think we need approval and accomplishment to validate our lives. But what does God tell us? He says, “You’re beautiful. You are made for so much more than all of this.” He loves us, even in our failings". Reception Critical response Critical reception to "Beautiful" was generally mixed to positive. Andy Argyrakis of Today's Christian Music commented on his review of The Generous Mr. Lovewell that "Of course, there's the token ballad or two, including "Beautiful" and "Won't You Be My Love," both of which are sure to further MercyMe's radio domination, while providing a soothing and tender touch to the plugged in periods". Kevin Davis of Christian Music Review opined that
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The 46th Annual GMA Dove Awards presentation ceremony was held on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at the Allen Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The ceremony recognized the accomplishments of musicians and other figures within the Christian music industry for the year 2014. The ceremony was produced by the Trinity Broadcasting Network and was hosted by musician Erica Campbell and television star Sadie Robertson. The awards show was broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network on October 18, 2015. Performers The following were some of the musical artists who performed at the 46th GMA Dove Awards: Casting Crowns Lauren Daigle Matt Maher MercyMe Danny Gokey Tedashii I Am They Big Daddy Weave Kirk Franklin Brian Courtney Wilson Crowder The Erwins Joseph Habedank Israel Houghton Presenters The following were some of the presenters who presented at the 46th GMA Dove Awards: Lincoln Brewster Jason Crabb Bone Hampton Charles Jenkins Dr. Bobby Jones Mark Lowry Chonda Pierce The Newsboys', Michael Tait and Duncan Phillips Kari Jobe Michelle Williams Michael W. Smith Nominees and winners This is a complete list of the nominees for the 46th GMA Dove Awards. The winners are in bold. General Song of the Year "Overwhelmed" – Big Daddy Weave Writers: Michael Weaver, Phil Wickham "Thrive" – Casting Crowns Writers: Mark Hall, Matthew West "Come As You Are" – Crowder Writers: Ben Glover, David Crowder, Matt Maher "Hope in Front Of Me" – Danny Gokey Writers: Bernie Herms, Brett James, Danny Gokey Platinum Songs "He Knows My Name" – Francesca Battistelli Writers: Francesca Battistelli, Mia Fieldes, Seth Mosley "How Can It Be" – Lauren Daigle Writers: Jason Ingram, Jeff Johnson, Paul Mabury "Greater" – MercyMe Writers: Barry Graul, Bart Millard, Ben Glover, David Garcia, Mike Scheuchzer, Nathan Cochran, Robby Shaffer "Multiplied" – Needtobreathe Writers: Bear Rinehart, Bo Rinehart "We Believe" – Newsboys Writers: Matthew Hooper, Richie Fike, Travis Ryan "This Is Amazing Grace" – Phil Wickham Writers: Jeremy Riddle, Josh Farro, Phil Wickham Songwriter of the Year Bart Millard Chris Tomlin Lecrae Moore Matt Maher Phil Wickham Songwriter of the Year (Non-artist) Benjamin Glover David Garcia Dianne Wilkinson Jason Ingram Seth Mosley Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year Chris Tomlin, sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records for KING & COUNTRY, Word Entertainment Hillsong United, Hillsong Church T/A/Sparrow Records Lecrae, Reach Records MercyMe, Fair Trade Services Southern Gospel Artist of the Year Booth Brothers, Spring Hill Music Group Collingsworth Family, Stowtown Records Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, StowTown Records Gaither Vocal Band, Spring House Music Group The Isaacs, Spring House Music Group Gospel Artist of the Year Erica Campbell, Entertainment One Fred Hammond, RCA Records Israel & New Breed, RCA Records Jonathan McReynolds, Light Records Tamela Mann, Tillymann Music Group Tasha Cobbs, Motown Gospel Artist of the Year for KING & COUNTRY, Fervent Records Francesca Battistelli, Fervent Records Kari Jobe, Sparrow Records Lecrae, Reach Records MercyMe, Fair Trade Services New Artist of the Year About a Mile, Word Entertainment Danny Gokey, BMG Rights Management I Am They, Provident Label Group Lauren Daigle, Centricity Music NF, Capitol CMG
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"Chuck Versus the Cougars" is the fourth episode of the second season of Chuck. It originally aired on October 20, 2008. Plot Chuck Bartowski learns more about Sarah Walker's past when they run into her old high school nemesis Heather Chandler (Nicole Richie). Sarah's teenage insecurities come to surface and she tries to avoid Heather at all costs. Chuck, on the other hand, does everything he can to hear more about Sarah's hidden life. When Heather's nerdy husband Mark Ratner (Ben Savage) turns out to be a key player in a new mission, the agents must attend Sarah's high school reunion to prevent the sale of potentially dangerous super-bomber plans – all the action ends with the ultimate cat fight. Meanwhile, Big Mike leaves town for the weekend and the Buy More's new assistant manager Lester Patel decides to implement a new sales policy. Critical response "Chuck Versus the Cougars" received generally positive reviews from critics, and Richie's performance was praised. Eric Goldman of IGN gave this episode a score of 9 out of 10, praising Richie's and Strahovski's performances, writing, "This was a highly entertaining episode, which shed some very interesting new light on Sarah, while still making sure there were plenty of questions left to answer. Kudos to Yvonne Strahovski for her portrayal of the young, braces wearing outcast Sarah. It was a funny and effective change, and while the hair and makeup people did great work making her look so different, Strahovski also gave it her all by showing a much more shy, closed off version of the girl we know. Yvonne Strahovski looks the way she does – bad hair, a bad complexion and braces wouldn't make her still not be a pretty girl underneath all of that. But the way the young Sarah was portrayed, it came off as believable that she would be a loner, simply because of how different and reserved her demeanor was... It all led up to one hell of a fight between Sarah and Heather at the reunion, which not only was done to the tune of "Smack My Bitch Up", but also eventually had the women mercilessly beating up on each other in the showers, with the water of course blasting down on them. It's amazing to think how clunky and bad the circumstances I just described could be if done by creators who didn't have the style and wit that Chuck's do. " Steve Heisler of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+, writing "... What I imagined to be a gimmicky outing was actually a pretty fun, well-rounded episode, albeit slightly lacking the control of the last three." The episode drew 6.872 million viewers. References External links Cougars 2008 American television episodes
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"The Change Inside of Me" is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe. Written by MercyMe and Pete Kipley, it was released on May 2, 2003 as the third single from the band's 2002 album Spoken For. Described as a power ballad, the song incorporates a rock sound featuring guitar and drums; it has also been described as a pop rock and adult contemporary song. The song was received positively by music critics, who praised the song's hook and sound, and peaked at number eight on the Radio & Records Christian AC chart. Background "The Change Inside of Me" was written by MercyMe and Pete Kipley; it was also produced by Kipley. Millard, who felt the song was one of his favorites off of Spoken For, said that "When you write an 'I Can Only Imagine,' you're drooling at the mouth to write something up-tempo". Millard felt that he and the band had "outdone" themselves on the song. "The Change Inside of Me" was recorded in several locations; Luminous Sound in Dallas, Texas, The Sound Kitchen in Franklin, Tennessee, Indigo Room in Franklin, Tennessee, HydeAway Sound Lab in Jeckyll Island, Georgia, The Scwoodio in Greenville, Texas, Mountain View Recorders in Glorieta, New Mexico, and Playground Recording in Wylie, Texas. It was mastered by Richard Dodd at Vital Recordings, and mixed by F. Reid Shippen at Recording Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Composition "The Change Inside of Me" is a song with a length of three minutes and twenty-four seconds. According to the sheet music published by Musicnotes.com, it is set in common time in the key of E major and has a tempo of 100 beats per minute. Bart Millard's vocal range in the song spans from the low note of C4 to the high note of E5. Musically, the song has been described as a power ballad, featuring the typical rock sound of guitars and drums. It has also been noted as being a "upbeat pop/rock" and "firmly rooted in the pop side of adult contemporary music". Lyrically, the song has been described as being a "simple praise song that reminds us that any positive change in us comes only through Jesus". Reception Critical response Marcia Bartenhagen of CCM Magazine praised the song's hook, as Russ Breimeier of The Fish praised the song's upbeat sound as being "widely accessible and pleasant to listen to". Release and chart performance "The Change Inside of Me" was released to Christian CHR radio on May 2, 2003. It debuted on the Radio & Records Christian CHR chart for the chart week of July 4, 2003, spending a total of twenty-seven weeks on the chart and peaking at number eight. Track listing Digital download "The Change Inside of Me" – 3:34 Personnel Credits adapted from the album liner notes. MercyMe Bart Millard – lead vocals, background vocals Jim Bryson – keys, recording Robby Shaffer – drums Mike Scheuchzer – guitars Nathan Cochran – bass guitar Additional performers Travis Cottrell – background vocals Will Owsley –
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"The Hurt & the Healer" is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe. Written by Bart Millard, Robby Shaffer, Jim Bryson, Mike Schuechzer, Nathan Cochran, and Barry Graul, it was released as the lead single from the band's upcoming album of the same title. The idea for the song came after the death of Millard's firefighter cousin, who died while fighting a fire, and the song's early completion resulted in the album being pushed back so that the band could make sure the rest of the album "held its own". "The Hurt & the Healer" was released to radio and as a digital download on February 28, 2012 and has peaked inside the top ten on several Christian chart formats and inside the top fifteen on the Billboard Christian CHR chart. Background The idea for "The Hurt & the Healer" came from several difficult experiences the band dealt with in 2011, particularly the death of lead singer Bart Millard's cousin Todd Krodle, which was the source of great deal of grief for the band. Krodle, a firefighter killed in the line of duty, was a friend of all the members of MercyMe and also a Christian; his death, according to the band's bassist Nathan Cochran, "was a moment of extreme pain for everybody". Cochran said that "The Hurt & the Healer" helped the band to work through their grief. Millard described the song as having come out of the whole moment of his cousin's death and said that "I've lost loved ones, and I've hurt probably as much as most people, but being so close to him, I helped play a role in getting the family that he left behind through the hard times. It gave me a chance to kind of be part of the healing process. And you'd think it's something you do all the time, but that close to home, to hurt like I lost a brother and to still kind of pick up the pieces is something that I don't think anybody really gets used to". He described the idea of the song as being "that you feel more alive when the hurt and the healer collide". According to Millard, "The Hurt & The Healer" was finished early and resulted in their album of the same title being pushed back. The band felt the response to the song was bigger than they expected and that it "raised the bar" for the rest of the album. They decided to "make sure the rest of the record [held] its own", an experience Millard described as "a good thing". Recording and composition "The Hurt & The Healer" was written by Bart Millard, Robby Shaffer, Jim Bryson, Mike Schuechzer, Nahtan Cochran, and Barry Graul. It was produced by Brown Bannister and Dan Muckala. It is a Christian rock song with a length of four minutes and fifty-two seconds. It is set in common time in the key of A major with a tempo of 66 beats per minute. Bart Millard's
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Dark Soldier D is a 1998 mecha tokusatsu film created by Buildup Co. (later renamed Buildup Entertainment) and distributed by Bandai. The film is actually made up of three short acts serving as a kind of television format. The series was unique as it didn't follow any type of manga, anime, or tokusatsu archetype. Instead, it served as an antithesis for those motifs. However, the series does pay some homage to the Super Robot genre. Furthermore, the series story is targeted more towards adults rather than children; in addition, the overall story is depicted as being "mean-spirited". Plot Kawamata is a psychotic soldier who fell in with the Russian Special Operation Forces. It was at this time that Kawamata became the guinea pig for this secret scientific research organization. The Russians wanted to ensure that they were ahead of the U.S. in the arms race, and used this organization to develop a mobile combat suit, armed to the teeth with all kinds of weapons imaginable. During his tenure on the project, Kawamata met Matsuzaki, a twisted scientist who was kicked out of Japan for unscrupulous practices. Matsuzaki became lead engineer on the combat suit project and coded Kawamata's thought impulses into the control mechanism, so only he can operate the walking arsenal. But when Communist Russia collapsed, Kawamata and Matsuzaki stole the armored battle suit and snuck it into Japan. Acts Act I Kawamata, a former special forces, who becomes a mercenary for hire. In this part of the story we explore the mind of Kawamata, a wealthy man and an avid collector of military weapons. The monster in Act I is called the Dad Monster, according to Buildup. This monster is a businessman who was infected by the parasite ooze when he got too close to the meteor. He slowly began to turn into a monster; first brutally killing his wife and daughter…then feasting on both them.. Finally, he fully developed into the Dad Monster and goes on a killing spree; shredding people and biting victims in half. Kawamata heard of the monster and was excited to finally test his newly upgraded combat suit. After a couple of minutes of mindless destruction, Kawamata comes out triumphant against the Dad Monster by ripping him to shreds with his trusty machine gun…however…he kills 40+ innocent bystanders in the process. Act II A year has passed since Kawamata single handedly vanquished the Dad Monster and killed many innocent bystanders in the process. Although he destroyed the monster, Kawamata was sentenced to death for the massacre in Shinjuku, however, the charges against him would be dropped if he cooperated with the government and used the combat suit to fight the meteor monsters, he reluctantly agrees. While in prison, he befriended a fellow inmate named Iba; it seemed that many of the prisoners feared Kawamata or hated him., but Iba didn't fear him because he loved weapons as much as Kawamata did. When a meteor crashes in the suburbs, the parasite ooze infects a
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The Generous Mr. Lovewell is the sixth studio album by Christian rock band MercyMe. Released in May 2010, the album is a concept record revolving around a fictional, allegorical character, 'Mr. Lovewell', and the overall theme of love. Produced by Brown Bannister and Dan Muckala, the album met with positive critical and commercial reception. The album sold over 88,000 copies its first week and debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Christian Albums chart. Three singles were released in promotion of the album, all of them reaching number one on Billboard's Christian Songs chart. Lead single "All of Creation" spent ten weeks at the top of the Christian Songs chart, also peaking at No. 14 on the Heatseekers Songs chart and No. 2 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. "Beautiful" and "Move" also reached number one on the Christian Songs chart, holding the top spot for one and nine weeks, respectively, with "Move" also peaking at No. 20 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. This was also the last MercyMe album to feature founding member Jim Bryson. Background, concept, and recording The idea for the character of "Mr. Lovewell" and the album came up while the band was attempting to figure out concepts for the record. According to lead singer Bart Millard "we [MercyMe] were trying to come up with the concept for our next record. For some reason, the words 'love well' got stuck in my head". Millard elaborated that "we're very good, as a nation, at loving well when a massive tragedy takes place... We all of a sudden become very unified, which is a great, great thing. But on a day-to-day basis, we pass up opportunities. We look the other way, or we try to ignore. So the idea of loving well is almost a kind of 'pay it forward' that revolves around the cross". With that general idea, MercyMe was going to name the album Love Well. However, the band decided to make a character that personifies the idea of 'loving well', and came up with the character of 'Mr. Lovewell', partly inspired by The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Because of the character and the more diverse sound the album was going to have, the band felt the original name didn't fit and changed the album name to reflect the character of 'Mr. Lovewell'. Millard has described the character of 'Mr. Lovewell' as "like Buddy the Elf meets Forrest Gump. He sees the good in everyone and knows his neighbors enough to know their needs. Mr. Lovewell may not be the next Billy Graham, but he’s changing the world each day in every little word and deed.” The concept of 'loving well' was further developed when the band made a trip to the Dominican Republic and were inspired by the resilient spirits of people living in poverty on the island. When the band started to write the songs for the
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"Here with Me" is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe. Written and composed by the band, as well as Peter Kipely, Dan Muckala, and Brad Russell, "Here with Me" is a ballad with a musical style influenced by worship, pop, and rock music; the overall sound has been compared to that of alternative rock band Coldplay. "Here with Me" lyrically discusses the omnipresence of God. Released as the lead single from MercyMe's 2004 album, Undone, "Here with Me" attained positive critical reception and peaked at No. 1 on multiple Christian radio chart formats; it also peaked inside the top 40 on several mainstream radio formats. It ranked No. 16 on the 2000s decade-end Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. The song appeared on WOW Hits 2005. Background and production "Here with Me" was written and composed by MercyMe, Dan Muckala, Brad Russell, and Peter Kipley. It was recorded at several locations: Blueberry Hill, Sound Stage, Abbey Road Studios, The Indigo Room, Maximedia, Luminous Sound, and The Schwoodio. Recording was handled by F. Reid Shippen, Mike O'Connor, and Steve Bishir; the strings on the song were arranged by Rob Mathes and recorded by Simon Rhodes at Abbey Road Studios. "Here with Me" was mixed by Shippen and produced by Kipley, while the mastering for the song was handled by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound. Composition "Here with Me" is a ballad with a length of four minutes and nine seconds. It is set in common time in the key of B major (Mixolydian mode), with a moderate tempo of eighty-four beats per minute and a vocal range spanning from B3-G5. The musical vibe of "Here with Me" has been compared to that of Coldplay and Robbie Williams. The song has influences from pop, rock, and worship. It features a musical crescendo that has been described as similar to "I Can Only Imagine". The lyrical content of the song has been described as having a devotional bent, and conveys a theme of God's omnipresence and holiness. "Here with Me" also attempts to comprehend the mystery of God's love. Reception Critical reception "Here with Me" received generally positive reviews from critics. Johnny Joftus of Allmusic commented, "...the lush 'Here With Me' might be a Robbie Williams pop gem were it not for its devotional bent." David McCreary of CCM Magazine opined on his review of Undone, "One surefire hit is 'Here With Me,' the album’s first single ... A captivating piano-driven ballad, the song vividly conveys the wonder of God’s omnipresence and holiness and features a rousing crescendo rivaling that of 'Imagine'." Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today International commented that the song was "worshipful", also opining that it "struggle[s] with comprehending the mystery and enormity of God's love." Chart performance "Here with Me" debuted at No. 40 on the Hot Christian Songs chart for the week of April 3, 2004. The song advanced to No. 10 in its sixth chart week, and to No. 5 in its eighth chart week,
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"Grace Got You" is a song by American contemporary Christian music band MercyMe from their 2017 album Lifer. The song features guest vocals from American hip hop artist John Reuben. It was released on March 2, 2018, as the second single. The song peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Christian Songs chart. It also reached at No. 1 on the Christian Airplay chart, becoming their record extending 15th chart topper. It lasted 37 weeks on the overall chart. The song is played in a B minor key, and 87 beats per minute. It was nominated for the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song and appeared on WOW Hits 2019. Background "Grace Got You" was released on March 2, 2018, as the second single for their ninth studio album Lifer. A lyric video was released on December 20, 2017. In an interview with FreeCCM, lead vocalist Bart Millard revealed the meaning behind the song,"'Grace Got You’ is just a song that makes me smile. The whole idea that once you realize that God’s grace has you… no matter what comes your way, you can live your life as if you’ve already read the last page of the book and know how the whole thing turns out. Our eternity is set! On your worst day, Christ is OK with you. He adores you. He’s pleased with you. How is that possible? No clue, but it is. That’s the most amazing news of all! When we originally made the album, we wanted to have someone rap, but we didn’t know who we were going to get. Our paths crossed with a guy who used to be on Gotee Records named John Reuben – who we had done stuff early on with when we were all new together – and we asked him if he’d come out of retirement to rap on the song. It turned out so fun, and totally matched the vibe of the song." Track listing CD release "Grace Got You" "Grace Got You (High Key with Background Vocals)" "Grace Got You (High Key without Background Vocals)" "Grace Got You (Medium Key with Background Vocals)" "Grace Got You (Medium Key without Background Vocals)" "Grace Got You (Low Key with Background Vocals)" "Grace Got You (Low Key without Background Vocals)" Personnel Credits taken from AllMusic. MercyMe Bart Millard – lead vocals Nathan Cochran – bass guitar Barry Graul – guitar Mike Scheuchzer – guitar Robby Shaffer – drums Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 2017 songs 2018 singles MercyMe songs Songs written by Bart Millard Songs written by David Garcia (musician) Songs written by Ben Glover
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John 1:21 is a verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. Content In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is: Καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτόν, Τί οὖν; Ἠλίας εἶ σύ; Καὶ λέγει, Οὐκ εἰμί. Ὁ προφήτης εἶ σύ; Καὶ ἀπεκρίθη, Οὔ. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. The New International Version translates the passage as: They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not. Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." Analysis The prophecy of Malachi (4:5, 6) states, "Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord come." This Elijah, who had been taken up into heaven, was believed to precede the coming of the Messiah. However it appears that Scribes and Pharisees overlooked the fact that there might be two comings, the first of which is alluded to in Malachi 3:1, "For I, says the Lord, will send My messenger, and he shall prepare My way before My face.". Lapide points out the article is used with prophet, 'Ὁ προφήτης' (the prophet) in their question, but that Christ did not need a prophet like Moses who relied on Aaron. Commentary from the Church Fathers Augustine: "For they knew that Elias was to preach Christ; the name of Christ not being unknown to any among the Jews; but they did not think that He our Lord was the Christ: and yet did not altogether imagine that there was no Christ about to come. In this way, while looking forward to the future, they mistook at the present." Gregory the Great: "These words gave rise to a very different question. In another place, our Lord, when asked by His disciples concerning the coming of Elias, replied, If ye will receive it, this is Elias. (Mat. 11:14) But John says, I am not Elias. How is he then a preacher of the truth, if he agrees not with what that very Truth declares?" Origen: "Some one will say that John was ignorant that he was Elias; as those say, who maintain, from this passage the doctrine of a second incorporation, as though the soul took up a new body, after leaving its old one. For the Jews, it is said, asking John by the Levites and priests, whether he is Elias, suppose the doctrine of a second body to be already certain; as though it rested upon tradition, and were part of their secret system. To which question, however, John replies, I am not Elias: not being acquainted with his own prior existence. But how is it reasonable to imagine, if John were a prophet enlightened by the Spirit, and had revealed so much concerning the Father, and the Only-Begotten, that he could be so in the dark as to himself, as not
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Imagination is the fourteenth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy and was released in February 1983 as her second LP for MCA Records. As with the first of the two, 1981's Play Me Out, it did not reach Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart. MCA ended their contract with her afterward; in her 2006 autobiography, The Woman I Am: A Memoir, Reddy wrote, "I was not surprised when I received a form letter from [MCA]'s legal department telling me that I'd been dropped from the label." History The path from the planning stages for the album to its appearance on store shelves was not a smooth one. A story on Reddy from the September 19, 1981, issue of Billboard detailed some of what she had in mind for this second MCA project: "'I'll work on my next album around the end of the year or in January or February so it'll be ready for an Easter [1982] release,'" she told the magazine, but it didn't come out until 1983. She also told them that "Joel Diamond, who produced the first MCA project, will also handle production on the next LP," but that job went to Joe Wissert. In the liner notes of Reddy's 1996 compilation CD When I Dream, Brian Giorgi explains that the changes in the music industry in 1983 that sealed the fate of this album were not just in top 40 radio programming. "Changes were also taking place within her record company. The top level management which had brought her to MCA Records was gone." Reddy concurred: "Between the time of recording and the time of release of the Imagination album there was a major shakeup in the executive offices at MCA records," and instead of the person "who would have known how to market and promote the new album to my demographic, I was now dealing with someone of much lower stature in the industry." She found out how much lower when the album arrived in stores: The day that the Imagination album was released I went to Tower Records in Westwood to see what sort of promotion MCA was doing. At the entrance to the store I ran into a young couple who had written one of the songs on the album. They were anxious to buy a copy. It took the three of us, searching independently, 15 minutes to find one. There were no store displays of any kind. It was not filed under New Releases. It was not to be found under my name in the pop female vocal section or any other category. My new album was finally located in the back of the store in a bin marked Nostalgia and filed under the letter R. It had been successfully "buried." The fact that Reddy was divorcing Jeff Wald, who had also been her manager since the late 1960s, and that they were in a custody dispute over their 10-year-old son became of greater interest to entertainment reporters. "In
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I Can Only Imagine is a 2018 American Christian biographical drama film directed by the Erwin Brothers and written by Alex Cramer, Jon Erwin, and Brent McCorkle, based on the story behind the group MercyMe's song of the same name, the best-selling Christian single of all time. The film stars J. Michael Finley as Bart Millard, the lead singer who wrote the song about his relationship with his father (Dennis Quaid). Madeline Carroll, Trace Adkins, Priscilla Shirer, and Cloris Leachman also star. I Can Only Imagine was released in the United States on March 16, 2018. It was a box office success, grossing $86 million worldwide against a production budget of $7 million, earning more than twelve times its budget. It is the fifth highest-grossing music biopic and sixth highest-grossing Christian film of all-time in the United States. Some critics praised it as inspiring and noted it as an improvement compared to other faith-based films, while others called it flat and by-the-numbers. At the 2018 Dove Awards, the film won "Inspirational Film of the Year". Plot Ten-year-old Bart Millard lives with his mother and abusive father Arthur in Texas. One day, Bart's mother drops him off at a Christian camp, where Bart meets Shannon. Upon his return from camp, Bart finds that his mother has left and movers are removing her belongings. Bart angrily confronts Arthur, who denies that his abusiveness was the reason she left. Years later, in high school, Bart and Shannon are dating. Bart plays football to please Arthur, but is injured, breaking both ankles and ending his career. The only elective with openings is music class, so he reluctantly signs up. Initially, Bart is assigned to be a sound technician, but after overhearing him singing, the director casts him in the lead role in the school production of Oklahoma!. Bart overcomes his reluctance and gives an impressive performance, but does not tell Arthur, who finds out the night of the show when he happens to see a flyer for the show in a diner. Arthur suddenly collapses in pain, and finds out he has cancer, which he hides from Bart. The following morning, Bart antagonizes Arthur, who smashes a plate over his head. At church, Shannon sees the blood and presses Bart to open up, but he responds by breaking up with her, and leaves town to seek his fortune in the city. Bart joins a band in need of a singer, and convinces Christian music producer Scott Brickell to manage the band and secure a showcase in Nashville. Bart surprises Shannon and invites her to tour with the band, and is confused when Shannon flatly refuses. In Nashville, Brickell introduces Bart to established artists Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, but is unable to convince record executives to sign the band, who do not believe the band, now performing as "MercyMe", is good enough. Devastated, Bart quits the band, but Brickell thinks that Bart needs to resolve issues in his personal life, so Bart reconciles
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"Gramma" is a short horror story by American author Stephen King. It was first published in Weirdbook magazine in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection called Skeleton Crew. Certain characters/creatures/unearthly powers featured in the works of H. P. Lovecraft also appear in this story, making it a story set in the Cthulhu Mythos. Plot summary An 11-year-old boy named George Bruckner is at his home in Castle Rock, Maine with his mother, Ruth, when the two find out that George's 13-year-old brother Buddy has broken his ankle playing baseball. George's mother must go into the city, 19 miles away, to pick up Buddy at the hospital, but someone must stay home to watch her own mother, a huge, cantankerous, ancient, bedridden woman. George reluctantly volunteers. As George sets about the kitchen after his mother leaves, he begins to think about his "Gramma" and recalls the first time she came to the house. He had been six years old, and the old woman demanded that he come to her that she could "give him a hug". George was terrified by the idea and cried endlessly. His mother eventually pacified Gramma, promising that he would hug her "in time". George waits for his mother to return. As the hours pass, strange thoughts—events he had witnessed earlier—begin to surface in his mind. He recalls overhearing his mother's siblings begging her to care for the old woman: "You're the only one who can quiet her down, Ruth." Eventually, Ruth was forced to leave San Francisco and move to Castle Rock, Maine to care for their mother. George also recalls that Gramma had been kicked out of her church, as well as dismissed from her position as a schoolteacher, for owning particular books. He finally remembers that the woman had been infertile for a long while, any pregnancies she did achieve ending in miscarriages or stillbirths and it was only after being excommunicated that she became pregnant and gave birth to a healthy child. George suddenly hears a scraping sound on sheets; he imagines Gramma's long, ragged fingernails rubbing against her bed. He enters to check on her and watches the obese, white, almost formless woman for a few moments. Quite suddenly, he recalls other memories: his Gramma uttering strange words one night, and relatives dying the next morning. George abruptly realizes that his grandmother is a witch, having gained dark powers from reading the forbidden tomes. As George makes this realization, he realizes that his Gramma has died. Though terrified, he holds a mirror before her nose, making sure. Once he is convinced, he prepares to make a phone call to the doctor, only to find that his neighbors are talking on the party line and he can't use the phone. George opts to wait for his mother to come home, and thinks of the praise he will gain for handling the situation so calmly, until he realizes that he did not cover his grandmother's face. He imagines his brother tormenting him endlessly
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The Wall () is a 1963 novel by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Considered the author's finest work, The Wall is an example of dystopian fiction. The English translation by Shaun Whiteside was published by Cleis Press in 1990. The novel's main character is a 40-something woman whose name the reader never learns. She tries to survive a cataclysmic event: while vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a transparent wall has been placed that closes her off from the outside world; all life outside the wall appears to have died. With a dog, a cow, and a cat as her sole companions, she struggles to survive and to come to terms with the situation. Facing fear and loneliness, she writes an account of her isolation without knowing whether or not anyone will ever read it. Composition The novel was composed four times over in longhand between 1960 and 1963. In a letter written to a friend in 1961, Marlen describes the difficulty with its composition: I am writing on my novel and everything is very cumbersome because I never have much time and, mainly, because I can not embarrass myself. I must continuously inquire whether what I say about animals and plants is actually correct. One can not be precise enough. I would be very happy, indeed, if I were able to write the novel only half as well as I am imagining it in my mind. She commented a year later to the same friend: I am extremely industrious. My novel is completed in its first draft. I have already completed one hundred pages of the rewrite. Altogether there will be 360 pages. Writing strains me a great deal and I suffer from headaches. But I hope that I will be finished by the beginning of May (I must allow at least four weeks for the typing)...And the household must keep on running also. All that is very difficult for me because I can only concentrate on one thing and forcing me to be versatile makes me extremely nervous. I have the feeling as if I were writing into the air. Plot Accompanied by her cousin and her cousin's husband, the 40-year-old narrator travels to the Austrian mountains. They plan on staying in a hunting lodge for the weekend, but the next morning the woman finds herself alone with her cousins' dog, Luchs. The couple, who planned on having dinner in the valley, did not return. The woman leaves to look for the couple but soon discovers why they did not come back: a seemingly endless, invisible wall separates her from the other side of the valley. In an attempt to find out what had happened, she uses binoculars to look for other people. The only other person she can see is a man who seems to be frozen still. It seems to her that a tragedy killed all living creatures on the other side of the wall. She is entirely alone, protected and trapped, in equal
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The 36th Annual GMA Dove Awards, also called the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards, were held on April 13, 2005 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2004. The show was held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee and was hosted by Steven Curtis Chapman, CeCe Winans, Rebecca St. James, Smokie Norful, Darlene Zschech and Israel Houghton. Nominations were announced on February 7, 2005 by George Huff, Israel Houghton and Natalie Grant at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Switchfoot won Artist of the Year, plus three other awards, while Building 429 was awarded New Artist of the Year. Casting Crowns and The Crabb Family each won four awards, including Group of the Year and Song of the Year for the former. Other multiple winners include: Jeremy Camp, Nicole C. Mullen, Mark Hall, and Israel & New Breed with two awards each. Performers Telecast ceremony The following performed: Presenters Telecast ceremony The following presented: MercyMe Michael W. Smith Joy Williams Jeremy Camp TobyMac Matthew West Building 429 Nicole C. Mullen Day of Fire Phillips, Craig & Dean Delilah Rick & Bubba Shane Hamman Bobby Labonte Awards General Artist of the Year Casting Crowns MercyMe Michael W. Smith Selah Switchfoot New Artist of the Year BarlowGirl Bethany Dillon Building 429 Day of Fire Matthew West Group of the Year Casting Crowns MercyMe Selah Switchfoot The Crabb Family Male Vocalist of the Year Fernando Ortega Israel Houghton Jason Crabb Jeremy Camp Mark Hall Female Vocalist of the Year Bethany Dillon Christy Nockels Joy Williams Natalie Grant Nicole C. Mullen Song of the Year "Blessed Be Your Name" - Tree63 Matt Redman, Beth Redman, songwriters "Dare You to Move" – Switchfoot Jon Foreman, songwriter "Friend of God" – Israel & New Breed Michael Gungor, Israel Houghton, songwriters "Glory Defined" – Building 429 Jason Roy, Jim Cooper, Kenny Lamb, songwriters "Healing Rain" – Michael W. Smith Michael W. Smith, Martin Smith, Matt Bronlewee, songwriters "Meant to Live" – Switchfoot Jon Foreman, Tim Foreman, songwriters "More" – Matthew West Matthew West, Jason Houser, Kenny Greenberg, songwriters "Through the Fire" – The Crabb Family Gerald Crabb, songwriter "Who Am I" – Casting Crowns Mark Hall, songwriter "You Raise Me Up" – Selah Brendan Graham, Rolf Løvland, songwriters Songwriter of the Year Mark Hall Producer of the Year Ed Cash Pop Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year "Healing Rain" – Michael W. Smith "Letters From War" – Mark Schultz "Live for Today" – Natalie Grant "More" – Matthew West "Who Am I" – Casting Crowns Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year All Things New – Steven Curtis Chapman Bethany Dillon – Bethany Dillon Happy – Matthew West Healing Rain – Michael W. Smith Undone – MercyMeRock Rock Recorded Song of the Year "Come on Back to Me" – Third Day "Cornerstone" – Day of Fire "Everything About You" – Sanctus Real "Stay" – Jeremy Camp "Without You" – Nate Sallie Rock Album of the YearDay of Fire – Day of FireSea of Faces – Kutless
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The Hurt & the Healer is the seventh studio album by American contemporary Christian music band MercyMe. Released on May 22, 2012, the album was about the season that the band is currently in at the time of composing the music. Produced by Brown Bannister and Dan Muckala, the album met with positive critical and commercial reception. The album sold over 33,000 copies its first week and debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart. This is also their first album release without keyboardist and group co-founder Jim Bryson. The first single released from the album is the song "The Hurt & the Healer". This song reached No. 1 on the Christian Songs and AC Indicator and Soft AC/Inspirational charts, No. 2 on the Hot Christian Adult Contemporary chart, and No. 11 on the Christian CHR chart. The second single "You Are I Am" reached No. 3 on the Christian Songs chart. Background Concept In the past, MercyMe and Millard have made songs "based on what people wanted to hear me say. 'Bring the Rain' is a great example. It sounds like I've got it all together, but it's where I wanted to be; not where I was. This past year, I've definitely had those moments where I found myself asking God, 'You are still in control, right?'" This was because the loss of his cousin, who was a firefighter that was killed in the line of duty. So, this album was written from this trying season in Millard's and MercyMe's life, which Millard described as "one of the most disturbing and proud moments of my life." This was because Millard is a person that is a "guy who has all the questions to the guy who is asked all the questions." The album was written from the perspective of "telling people they're beautiful in the eyes of Christ". In addition, Millard said that they are "reminding people that their identity is in Christ...not their guilt or shame, that they're not a bad person trying to be good...they're redeemed, sanctified." Millard denotes with respect to this album that "sin is powerless and can't remove us from the hand of God. I've had to go through the fact that I set up my dad in sainthood, but never addressed the years of abuse. I am not my shame. I'm not my guilt. Christ is not getting back on the cross. It's finished once and for all. For the first time, after years of being in the church, I feel like I'm seeing a part of God and myself. This is the first time I'm really living it. I am worthy. It's been a big shift for me. I'm done telling people to stop sinning and, instead, let them know who they are in Christ." So, this album is a major reversal for MercyMe to one of reassurance rather than condemnation and one of making music out of their current situation. Recorded This
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MercyMe, It's Christmas is the second Christmas album by MercyMe, released on October 9, 2015, through Fair Trade Services. The album was produced by Brown Bannister and Ben Shive. Critical reception Awarding the album four stars at CCM Magazine, Andy Argyrakis states, "there’s basically something for everyone on one of this season’s most inviting." Christopher Smith, rating the album four stars from Jesus Freak Hideout, writes, "MercyMe, It's Christmas! is a huge success and sets a high bar for the rest of the Christmas releases this year. Though you might not be ready for it, it is a spectacular addition to any Christmas music collection." Giving the album four and a half stars for New Release Today, Caitlin Lassiter says, "It's Christmas is certainly a success as far as Christmas records go and is sure to be the soundtrack to many holiday festivities in homes around the country this season." Allocating the album a nine out of ten for Cross Rhythms, Brendan O'Regan writes, "Mind you they might also be moved to dance by the pacey numbers." Joshua Andre, indicating in a four star review by 365 Days of Inspiring Media, says, "MercyMe have crafted a fine effort". Assigning the album nine stars out of ten at The Front Row Report, Reggie Edwards responds, "MercyMe have outdone themselves". Sarah Baylor, signaling in a 4.8 out of five review from The Christian Beat, replies, "MercyMe has managed to create a brilliant Christmas album that contains their own unique, spirit-filled sound." Track listing Personnel MercyMe Bart Millard – lead vocals, backing vocals, arrangements Barry Graul – guitars, backing vocals, arrangements Mike Scheuchzer – guitars, backing vocals, arrangements Nathan Cochran – bass, backing vocals, arrangements Robby Shaffer – drums, arrangements Additional Musicians Ben Shive – acoustic piano, keyboards, Hammond B3 organ, programming, arrangements, horn arrangements, string arrangements Mark Douthit – saxophones Barry Green – trombone Mike Haynes – trumpet Keith Smith – trumpet, arrangements Carol Neuen-Rabinowitz – cello Monisa Angell – viola Kristin Wilkinson – viola David Angell – violin Janet Darnall – violin David Davidson – violin Brown Bannister – arrangements Production Brown Bannister – producer, overdub recording Ben Shive – producer, overdub recording Buckley Miller – engineer Joe Pisapia – engineer Crystal Burks – assistant engineer Aaron Chafin – assistant engineer Jordan Logue – assistant engineer Shane D. Wilson – mixing Lani Crump – mix coordinator Kyle Cummings – digital editing Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York). Brody Harper – art direction, design Dana Salsedo – art direction Eric Brown – photography Chart performance References MercyMe albums Christmas albums by American artists 2015 Christmas albums Pop rock Christmas albums
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"God With Us" is a song written and performed by Christian rock band MercyMe. The song is lyrically a worship song, inspired by a question used by lead singer Bart Millard's pastor. Released as the lead single from MercyMe's 2007 album All That Is Within Me, "God With Us" peaked at No. 1 on both the Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts, and was ranked at No. 3 and No. 4 on the 2008 year-end charts, respectively. The song also ranked at No. 12 on the decade-end Hot Christian AC chart, and No. 19 on the decade-end Hot Christian Songs chart. Background "God with Us" was the first song written for MercyMe's album All That Is Within Me, as well as the song the band based the rest of the album around. The song's lyrics were inspired by the question "Why does God look our way?", which the band's lead singer Bart Millard's pastor used to ask to his congregation. Millard could not get this idea out of his head, and wanted to create a song around this idea. "God with Us" was designed for the church, as well as to be used in worship. "God with Us" was written and composed by MercyMe. It was produced by Brown Bannister, and the strings on the song were recorded by the London Session Orchestra. Composition "God With Us" is a worship song with a length of five minutes and 52 seconds. It is set in common time and in the key of B major, with a moderate tempo of 92 beats per minute, and a vocal range spanning from A3–E5. Critical reception Critical reception to "God With Us" was generally positive. Mike Parker of Today's Christian Music commented that ""God With Us", a superlative, six-minute marathon, may be the best cut on the album", also opining that "With plenty of time to sink its teeth into the song, the band delivers more emotion than on any tune since “I Can Only Imagine". Kevin McNeese of New Release Tuesday called the song a "worship-filled moment", while Jay Heilman of Christian Music Review opined that the song is "a reminder of how compassionate and loving the Lord is of us". Commercial performance "God With Us" debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart. It advanced to No. 13 in its second week, and to No. 8 in its third. In its fifth chart week, "God With Us" advanced to No. 4, a spot it held for an additional two weeks. In its ninth chart week, the song advanced to No. 1, a spot it held for three weeks before being supplanted by "East to West" by Casting Crowns. The song dropped to No. 2 in its 12th chart week and held that spot for three weeks before advancing back into No. 1 and holding at that spot for five weeks. In its 20th chart week, "God With Us" fell to No. 2, removed from the top spot by
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Night of Joy was an annual contemporary Christian music festival that took place from 1983 to 2017 at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The festival was normally hosted at the Magic Kingdom in early September. It was cancelled in 2018 and replaced with a mainstream Eat to the Beat concert series, with Christian pop rock artists MercyMe and Tauren Wells joining the lineup. Night of Joy inspired two other Christian rock festivals in the Orlando region: Cornerstone Florida, which ran in the month of May from 2003 to 2007, and Rock the Universe at Universal Studios Florida, in operation since 1998. Venues Most concerts were held at the Magic Kingdom, in front of the Cinderella Castle. Other venues included: Disney's Hollywood Studios for the 2008 and 2009 concerts ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex for the 2016 and 2017 concerts Six artists have performed at all three venues: Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, MercyMe, Newsboys, Red and tobyMac. Several other artists have performed at two of these venues. Later Years (2010-2017) 2017 Friday, September 8: TobyMac MercyMe Zach Williams Natalie Grant Danny Gokey Matt Maher Colton Dixon Rend Collective Saturday, September 9 (cancelled): Amy Grant Steven Curtis Chapman Kirk Franklin Jordan Feliz Crowder Jeremy Camp Tye Tribbett The event returned at the ESPN Wide World of Sports and was scheduled to last two nights, but the September 9 event was cancelled as a precautionary measure against Hurricane Irma. Park tickets for September 9 could either be honored on September 8 or returned for a full refund. 2016 Friday, September 9: Stars Go Dim Matthew West Francesca Battistelli Zealand Worship Crowder Chris Tomlin OBB MercyMe Casting Crowns Thruflyte Saturday, September 10: Veridia Thousand Foot Krutch Hillsong Young & Free RED For King & Country Tim Timmons Switchfoot Derek Minor Newsboys 2015 Friday, September 11: TobyMac MercyMe Jeremy Camp Colton Dixon Big Daddy Weave Francesca Battistelli Rend Collective I Am They Josh Wilson Saturday, September 12: Skillet Lecrae For King & Country Mandisa Matt Maher Jamie Grace 7eventh Time Down Veridia 2014 Friday, September 5: Matthew West Chris Tomlin Hillsong United Building 429 Mandisa For King and Country Matt Maher The Neverclaim Saturday, September 6: MercyMe Phil Perry Casting Crowns Skillet Colton Dixon Britt Nicole Israel Houghton & New Breed 1 Girl Nation We as Human Rhett Walker Band 2013 Friday, September 6: MercyMe Steven Curtis Chapman & Michael W. Smith Skillet Mandisa For King and Country Audio Adrenaline Moriah Peters We As Human City Harbor Saturday, September 7: Newsboys TobyMac Francesca Battistelli Group 1 Crew Building 429 Plumb Matthew West Jamie Grace Gospel Music Association Winner Steven Musso 2012 Friday, September 7: Casting Crowns Chris Tomlin NEEDTOBREATHE Red Francesca Battistelli Brandon Heath Royal Tailor Disciple Saturday, September 8: MercyMe Third Day Kutless Thousand Foot Krutch Lecrae Chris August Dara Maclean Yolanda Adams Gospel Music Association Winner Theresa Bailey 2011 Friday, September 9: Skillet Newsboys Jeremy Camp Disciple (band) Sidewalk Prophets Francesca Battistelli Group 1 Crew Matthew West Saturday, September 10: MercyMe
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Hold Fast is a song written and recorded Christian rock band MercyMe. It was released as the second single from their 2006 album Coming Up to Breathe. Composition "Hold Fast" is a Christian rock song with a length of four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. The song was written and composed by Bart Millard, Barry Graul, Jim Bryson, Nathan Cochran, Mike Scheuchzer, and Robby Shaffer, and was produced by Brown Bannister. The song is set in the key of B and has a heavy rock tempo of 80 beats per minute, with a vocal range spanning from F4-G5. The song has a build-up in the bridge that has been described as 'powerhouse'. The sound of the song has evoked comparisons to Coldplay. Reception Critical reception "Hold Fast" received generally positive critical reception. Steve Losey of Allmusic commented that the song "is rock with polish" and that "Nathan Cochran's bass groove not only sounds heavy but its very tone exudes sweat". He also opined that "The mid-song bridge shows the band at their pinnacle when the guitars build to Millard's intense vocals". Russ Breimier of Christianity Today commented that the song "initially sounds much like [MercyMe's] usual balladry, but then relies on heavier guitars and a powerhouse build during the bridge (a la Coldplay), as well as some clever lyrics to address the intended audience". Chart performance "Hold Fast" debuted at No. 23 on the Hot Christian Songs chart for the chart week of October 28, 2006. In its sixth chart week the song advanced to No. 6, but dropped to No. 10 the next week. In its eighth chart week "Hold Fast" dropped out of the top ten entirely, falling to No. 12. The song dropped to No. 16 in its tenth chart week, and then to No. 24 in its eleventh, but jumped to No. 3 in its twelfth chart week. The song held the spot for a further three weeks before dropping to No. 4 in its sixteenth chart week. The song spent a total of twenty-five weeks on the chart before dropping out. On the Adult Contemporary chart, "Hold Fast" debuted at No. 28 for the chart week of April 4, 2007, It achieved its peak position of No. 27 in its fifth chart week, and spent a total of eight weeks on the chart. Uses "Hold Fast" is also features of the compilation album WOW Hits 2008, and the 2009 compilation album 10. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Decade-end charts References 2006 songs 2006 singles MercyMe songs Songs written by Bart Millard pt:Hold Fast
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"Best News Ever" is the third single by contemporary Christian music band MercyMe for their ninth studio album, Lifer (2017). It impacted Christian radio on October 5, 2018. The song peaked at No. 4 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart, becoming their twenty-sixth top ten single, tying Casting Crowns as the band with the most top ten singles. The song is played in a B major key, and 94 beats per minute. Background "Best News Ever" was released as the third single from Lifer on October 5, 2018. Lead vocalist of the band, Bart Millard, shared the story behind the song in an interview with FreeCCM, "I will honestly say it’s one of my favorite messages on the record. It’s the way I grew up which was ‘be all you can be, you get what you deserve and work harder and try harder.’ And It’s like wait a minute, what if somebody (which somebody did), but what if they came and told me ‘hey the works already done the fight's already been won, you don’t have to try so hard.’ That’s what makes the Gospel not just the good news but the best news ever." On October 30, 2018, a lyric video for the track was released. Composition "Best News Ever" is originally in the key of B major, with a tempo of 94 beats per minute. Written in common time, Millard's vocal range spans from G4 to A5 during the song. Commercial performance It debuted at No. 48 on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart on the issue week of October 13, 2018. It rose to No. 30 the following week. On its tenth week, it reached the top ten, their twenty-fifth top ten. It became their sixteenth Christian Airplay number one, and third from Lifer. It debuted at No. 49 on the Hot Christian Songs chart. It rose up to No. 36 the following week. On its sixteenth week, it reached the top ten, becoming the band's twenty-sixth top ten, tying for the second most top tens in the chart's history. It peaked at No. 4. It departed from the chart after 30 weeks. Charts References 2017 songs 2018 singles MercyMe songs Songs written by David Garcia (musician) Songs written by Bart Millard Songs written by Ben Glover
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Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy. Poetry Douglas described his poetic style as "extrospective"; that is, he focused on external impressions rather than inner emotions or feelings. The result is a poetry which, according to his detractors, can be cold even callous in the midst of war's atrocities. For others, Douglas's work is powerful and unsettling because its exact descriptions eschew egotism and shift the burden of emotion from the poet to the reader. His best poetry is generally considered to rank alongside the 20th century's finest soldier-poetry. In his poem, "Desert Flowers" (1943), Douglas mentions World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg, claiming that he is only repeating what Rosenberg has already written. Early life Douglas was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Capt. Keith Sholto Douglas, MC (retired) and Marie Josephine Castellain. His mother became unwell and collapsed in 1924 of encephalitis lethargica, never to fully recover. By 1926, the chicken farm business set up by his father had failed. Douglas was sent to Edgeborough School, a preparatory school in Guildford, the same year. The family became increasingly poor, and his father had to leave home in early 1928 to seek better employment in Wales. The persistent ill-health of Marie led to the collapse of the marriage of his parents by the end of that year, and his father remarried in 1930. Douglas was deeply hurt by his father not communicating with him after 1928, and when Capt. Douglas did write at last in 1938, Keith did not agree to meet him. In one of his letters written in 1940 Douglas looked back on his childhood: "I lived alone during the most fluid and formative years of my life, and during that time I lived on my imagination, which was so powerful as to persuade me that the things I imagined would come true." Education Marie Douglas faced extreme financial distress, so much so that only the generosity of the Edgeborough headmaster Mr. James permitted Douglas to attend school in 1930–1931, his last year there. Douglas sat in 1931 for the entrance examination to Christ's Hospital, where education was free and there was monetary assistance to cover all other costs. He was accepted, and joined Christ's Hospital, near Horsham, in September 1931, studying there till 1938. It was at this school that his considerable poetic talent and artistic ability were recognised. So was his cavalier attitude to authority and property, which nearly led to expulsion in 1935 over a purloined training rifle. In surprising contrast, he excelled as a member of the school's Officers Training Corps, particularly enjoying drill, although he was philosophically opposed to militarism. University After his bruising brush with authority in 1935, Douglas settled down to a less troubled and more productive
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Kate Vaiden (1986) is the 6th novel by American author Reynolds Price. The novel focuses on the life of a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get in touch with him for four decades. Plot summary Kate Vaiden is the first person narrator of the novel. When she sets out to tell the story of her life, she is a 57-year-old single woman. Having been diagnosed with cervical cancer seems to have changed her attitude to the family she left when she was seventeen without so much as writing them a letter—ever. Accordingly, she does not even know whether her son Lee, who must now be approaching 40, is still alive or not. In the final part of the book, which is set in 1984, she meets one of the last surviving members of her family, her cousin Swift, in a local nursing home. Swift eventually informs Kate that her son is alive and well but abroad with the US Navy. Kate's story Kate is born in 1927 and grows up as an only child in Greensboro, North Carolina with her young parents Dan and Frances Vaiden. Her happy childhood is suddenly interrupted when, in 1938, for reasons she can never quite fathom, her father shoots her mother and then himself, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Caroline and Holt Porter. The Porters, whose grown-up sons no longer live at home, reside in Macon, and Kate takes some time to get used to living in a small village. As they are not farmers, Kate does not have to work for them after school or during the holidays. Over the years, Noony Patrick, the Porters' African American household help, becomes her only friend and confidante. Kate has her first sexual encounter surprisingly early in life—at the age of twelve, without having had any sex education. One summer afternoon down by the Roanoke River, Gaston Stegall, the neighbours' boy, shows her his erection, and she gives him a handjob, without really knowing what she is doing. {{quote| Gaston said "He hurts me." I said "How did you figure out it's a boy?" I stepped back a little. But he said "Oh don't. You can help me out." With all its faults, my family were not known for turning down pleas that deep from the heart. I moved back closer than I'd been before and said "Show me how." ... In maybe twenty seconds the job was over. I'd brought a bandanna and cleaned myself, though I liked the smell and imagined it for days. By then he had got his legs still again, but his eyes were closed. I knew the answer but I said "Did it help?"}} When she tells Noony, the sheer extent of Kate's ignorance becomes clear: At 13, Kate finally has sexual intercourse with Gaston. ("When Gaston said he didn't have a rubber, I swear I
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All That Is Within Me is the fifth studio album by American Christian rock band MercyMe. Produced by Brown Bannister, it was released on November 20, 2007 through INO Records. The album, intended by the band to be a worship album split between covers and original songs, was recorded following the band's tour with Audio Adrenaline in promotion of their previous studio album Coming Up to Breathe (2006). Although the band intended to write material for a new album during the tour, they had only written one song by the time they entered their recording studio, Cider Mountain Studio in Athol, Idaho. The band wrote so many songs at the studio that they decided not to include any cover songs; all of the songs on the album but one were written or co-written by the band. The album was described as being a rock and worship album, being aimed directly at a Christian audience. All That Is Within Me received mostly positive reviews from critics, some of which considered it MercyMe's best record to that point. However, some critics felt the album was too similar to the band's previous works. The album sold 84,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart and number 15 on the Billboard 200. Three singles were released to radio: "God with Us", which spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Christian Songs chart, "You Reign", which peaked at number two on the Christian Songs chart and spent four weeks atop the Billboard Christian AC Songs chart, and "Finally Home", which peaked at number three on the Christian Songs chart and number 16 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. All That Is Within Me has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), signifying shipments of over 500,000 copies. Background and recording In 2007, MercyMe went on tour with Audio Adrenaline. According to lead singer Bart Millard, the band had initially intended to record something akin to a "a full-blown Third Day-style worship album, where part of it was cover tunes, and part of it stuff we've written ourselves". Although Millard noted the band had more than enough time to write material, they had a difficult time doing so because they were "having so much fun" during the tour. By May, the deadline was nearing for the band to begin studio recording The band began having jam sessions, and Millard would look over the material later in the day to try and write lyrics to. By the time the band went to the studio, they had only one complete song and some ideas for choruses on other songs. As with Coming Up to Breathe, the band decided not to record the album in Nashville or their hometown of Dallas. They chose Cider Mountain Studio, located on a ranch in rural Idaho, and "drew inspiration and motivation from the 'beautiful' surroundings." Strings were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London by the London Sessions
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"Some Girls" is a song by British singer and songwriter Belouis Some, released in 1988 as the third and final single from his second studio album Belouis Some. It was written by Belouis Some and Carlos Alomar, and produced by Gary Langan and Guy Fletcher (associate producer). "Some Girls" reached No. 76 in the UK and remained in the charts for four weeks. A music video, filmed in Milan, was produced to promote the video. Critical reception On its release, Colin Irwin of Number One gave the song two out of five stars, and stated, "Poor ol' Belouis never did quite crack it, did he? Somehow he always seemed to be trying just that little bit too hard. This time around? Not with this slightly irritating whiney effort, methinks." Tim Nicholson of Record Mirror wrote, "I've never been able to get up much enthusiasm for Mr Some, but when I saw the title of his new single my heart started beating a little faster. Could it possibly be an inspired cover of Racey's classic Seventies hit? But then I played it. Not only is it not the song in question, but it probably doesn't even remember Racey it's so 'modern'." Music & Media wrote, "Since the excellent 'Imagination' Belouis has been struggling to come up with something of the same calibre. This time he comes closer than previously with a bittersweet number that could do much to restore his flagging reputation." John Lee of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner commented, "The man seemingly destined never to make it big is at it again with a pleasing piece of delicately-crafted airplay material. Will this be the one?" In a review of Belouis Some, Scott Benarde of The Palm Beach Post described the song as a "somber ballad". Track listing 7" single "Some Girls" - 3:52 "Imagination" - 4:00 12" single "Some Girls" (Extended Version) - 6:15 "Imagination" (Can U Dig This Mix!) - 6:30 "Some Girls" (Dub Mix) - 4:07 12" single "Some Girls" (Classical Version) - 4:43 "Imagination" (Can U Dig This Mix!) - 6:30 "Some Girls" (Extended Version) - 6:15 12" single (promo release) "Some Girls" (Remix) - 6:15 "Imagination" (Can U Dig This Mix!) - 6:30 CD single "Some Girls" (Radio Version) - 3:54 "Imagination" (Can U Dig This Mix!) - 4:50 "Some Girls" (Extended Version) - 6:19 "Some Girls" (Classical Version) - 4:43 Personnel Belouis Some - vocals on "Some Girls" Carlos Alomar - guitar on "Some Girls" Lenny Pickett - saxophone on "Some Girls" Guy Fletcher - keyboards on "Some Girls" Production Gary Langan - producer and arrangement on "Some Girls" Guy Fletcher - associate producer on "Some Girls" Bruce Forest, Frank Heller - additional production and mixing on "Some Girls" Peter Schwartz - additional keyboards on "Some Girls" Steve Thompson, Michael Barbiero - producers of "Imagination" Jamie Broomfield, Kevin O'Reordan and Phil Harding for PWL - mixing on "Imagination" Other Accident - sleeve design Kevin Cummins - photography Charts References 1987 songs 1988 singles Belouis Some
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Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as the leader of the band MercyMe. He has also released two solo albums: Hymned, No. 1, in 2005 and Hymned Again in 2008. He received a solo Grammy nomination in the category of Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album for the latter album. Band career In high school, Millard wanted to become a football player, a dream which ended when he injured both ankles at a high school football game. As a result, Millard took choir as an elective. Millard's father, Arthur Wesley Millard Jr., died in 1991, during Bart's first year of college, and his youth pastor invited him to work with the church's youth group worship band. Millard accepted and worked with the video and audio systems for the group. James (Jim) Bryson played piano for that band and later went on to play with Bart Millard and the worship band on a trip to Switzerland. This trip inspired Millard to pursue a full-time musical career. Millard and two of his friends, James Phillip Bryson and Michael John Scheuchzer, moved to Oklahoma City, and formed MercyMe. Since then, the band has recorded six independent, ten studio, two Christmas, and three compilation albums. Solo career Millard made a promise to his grandmother to record an album of hymns before she died, which he did with Hymned No. 1, and he subsequently shared the story of how he was inspired by his grandmother's faith. Millard made the second of his two hymn albums because he realized that the church he was attending did not sing hymns and he wanted his children to have hymns as a part of their lives. Millard said his dad heavily influenced him in his musical direction with respect to the hymn albums, drawing particularly on Willie Nelson and Louie Prima. Millard stated that these influences would not be appropriate for MercyMe, as MercyMe is similar to Coldplay, while these hymns are more in the vein of Frank Sinatra. Millard said that he embarked on his solo effort in order to give expression to musical styles that would not have been compatible with MercyMe. Millard said that they sang a Hank Williams song called "I Saw the Light" in his church growing up. The title of Hymned Again is a "tongue-in-cheek" reference to the first album. The first album was an effort to make songs that he did not particularly care about cooler, and the second album was created to achieve a Kansas City swing/shuffle mood in the vein of Louie Prima, Harry Connick Jr. and Jamie Cullum, which is what was achieved. According to Greer, this album was very reminiscent of She by Connick, which was done five or six times according to Millard. Millard said he accomplished this by listening to a stack of albums by these musicians. Millard said the songs on the album Hymned Again are in the tradition of the Great Revival
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