An atheist with a guilty pleasure

[awoke_in_2003]

I love this song because the guitar is amazing

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[uriel1972]

1. I do play the Nina Hagen version every now and then... nt

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Haven't heard that

But the fuzz tone in Greenbaum's version is classic

[onager]

3. Some funny stuff about that song...

(Greenbaum) was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner on TV singing a gospel song. Greenbaum later said: "I thought, 'Yeah, I could do that,' knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes."[4]

"Spirit in the Sky" contains lyrics about the afterlife, making several references to Jesus, although Greenbaum is Jewish. (In a VH1 episode about famous one-hit wonders, Alice Cooper said that he was surprised to hear someone with a Jewish-sounding last name performing a song that seemed to be about Jesus).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_in_the_Sky

The guitarist on that was Russell Dashiell, and the Wiki article has some interesting technical info on how he got that sound.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. Some of my favorite music is church music

From Gregorian chants, to the rousing old spirituals, to Bach and Fauré.

[AlbertCat]

5. "I live at 1985 Ecstasy Drive!"

[progressoid]

6. With your own, personal, Jesus?