From Adam Buxton comes a subtitled Songs of Praise with a difference.
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I’m still trying to figger out what the congregation thinks it is singing (as opposed to what it actually WAS singing, one only needs to read the subtitles for that). The tune is Westminster Abbey, and the usual words to that are “Christ is made the sure foundation”, and I can’t make the words to that fit the lip-synch at all.
I think you will find the words they are singing here. In the United States, you’re probably more likely to hear these words to Westminster Abbey than Christ is made the sure foundation, for some reason that escapes me.
you might have warned me about the cheezoid MIDI-muzak accompaniment!
yes, those seem to be the words the congregation believes it is singing. Though I do note that the MIDI is not playing anything that even resembles Westminster Abbey. Or anything else, but that’s another question.
(which reads like a riff on “something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”, from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I’m not Arthur Dent either.)
anyway, thank you for your research. the discongruity between lip-synch and hymn words was bovvering me, and that’s resolved now.
I always have my speakers off when computing in the office, out of respect to my fellow labourers in the vineyard. Thus I didn’t hear it and didn’t realise that it was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Westminster Abbey.
I do hope you didn’t bother your officemates with cheezy MIDI tunez.
Though I do note that the MIDI is not playing anything that even resembles Westminster Abbey. Or anything else, but that’s another question.
Probably because the page has it set to Oriel instead, with alternate choices of Urbs beata and St. Audrey listed at the bottom.
Don’t you just love that system of interchangeable tunes and texts? That’s how you get “Amazing Grace” set to the Theme from Gilligan’s Island, or (as an Episcopal priest of my acquaintance told us he wanted sung at his funeral) the Doxology (“Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”) set to Hernando’s Hideaway. Or worse yet, “O Little Town of Bethlehem” set to House of the Rising Sun.
now that was amusing.
I’m still trying to figger out what the congregation thinks it is singing (as opposed to what it actually WAS singing, one only needs to read the subtitles for that). The tune is Westminster Abbey, and the usual words to that are “Christ is made the sure foundation”, and I can’t make the words to that fit the lip-synch at all.
but exceptionally giggle-worthy. thank you.
I think you will find the words they are singing here. In the United States, you’re probably more likely to hear these words to Westminster Abbey than Christ is made the sure foundation, for some reason that escapes me.
you might have warned me about the cheezoid MIDI-muzak accompaniment!
yes, those seem to be the words the congregation believes it is singing. Though I do note that the MIDI is not playing anything that even resembles Westminster Abbey. Or anything else, but that’s another question.
(which reads like a riff on “something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”, from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I’m not Arthur Dent either.)
anyway, thank you for your research. the discongruity between lip-synch and hymn words was bovvering me, and that’s resolved now.
I always have my speakers off when computing in the office, out of respect to my fellow labourers in the vineyard. Thus I didn’t hear it and didn’t realise that it was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Westminster Abbey.
I do hope you didn’t bother your officemates with cheezy MIDI tunez.
Though I do note that the MIDI is not playing anything that even resembles Westminster Abbey. Or anything else, but that’s another question.
Probably because the page has it set to Oriel instead, with alternate choices of Urbs beata and St. Audrey listed at the bottom.
Don’t you just love that system of interchangeable tunes and texts? That’s how you get “Amazing Grace” set to the Theme from Gilligan’s Island, or (as an Episcopal priest of my acquaintance told us he wanted sung at his funeral) the Doxology (“Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”) set to Hernando’s Hideaway. Or worse yet, “O Little Town of Bethlehem” set to House of the Rising Sun.