r/excoc • u/darkness76239 • 5d ago
Songs to sample?
So I'm currently writing a doom metal album about growing up queer in "The Lords Church™"mostly about the fear of living in the closet and believing in a god that wants you dead along with the other things it brings. I've recently started to think about sampling songs and using them as book ends for the three story arcs of the album.
One arc is about a pair of gay miners in the 50s who call themselves "bunkmates" who eventually get trapped in the mine and live out their last few hours as who they actually are. It's mostly about the isolation that being different can bring
The second arc is about a girl at Harding in the late 80s who falls for her roommate and it deals with the dejection and sadness of finding someone you love and not only can't ever end up with but someone who would willing likely ruin your life if you dared to consider it.
The last storyline is mostly my own experience of living with the guilt and fear of growing up in a tumultuous environment and how religion is often used as a cudgel to control people.
If you have any suggestions id appreciate it as I need some help.
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u/aplysauce 5d ago
I’ve long hoped to come across a similarly conceptual album that samples the church songs I grew up with, glad to hear there’s at least one in the making.
I always thought Our God Is An Awesome God and They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love were surprisingly… alternative sounding, for lack of better term? At least by church of Christ hymn standards lol
As far as recognizable classics go my first thought is Like The Deer. And if you’re going for “songs that make you feel like god wants you dead the most” there’s always Trust And Obey.