The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol. 2

Rich Mullins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reunion
• ASIN: B0000004RW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,774 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sometimes By Step (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars there is nothing like the music of Rich Mullins, September 9, 2001

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NotATameLion (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

The other day, I was walking through a mall in London Ontario when suddenly, my wife and I passed a man playing a piano in the food court. From what I could tell, he was not a professional--he had laid his shopping bags beside him and just started playing. He was playing Rich Mullins's "Sometimes by Step." Even without words, the music that Rich Mullins created has the power to stir my soul.

"Sometimes by Step" is just one of the great songs on "The World As Best As I Remember It vol. 2." I know I've said it a lot...but I must say it again...Rich never made bad or even mediocre music. All the songs on this disc are great.

The highlights of this disc to me are: "Waiting," "What Susan Said," "Growing Young" (probably my favorite track), and Rich's rendition of "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" (Rich was great with hymns by Robert Lowery).

The thing that appeal to me most about the work of Rich Mullins is the deep insight of his lyrics. This disc is particularly strong in the lyrics department. Some examples:

"When a million voices whisper, and they tell me I should leave, into the shadows that the moon casts on these alleys and these streets. But I know that chasing shadows won't get me anywhere 'cause I've been there..." (Waiting)

"Two full grown men in a huddle of kids and they're trying to help them to believe what is too good to be real but is more real than the air they breathe. And it's Wally and the Beaver, David and Jonathan...it's the Love of Jesus puttin' on flesh and bone." (What Susan Said)

"And everybody used to tell me big boys don't cry. Well I've been around enough to know that that was the lie that held back the tears in the eyes of a thousand prodigal sons. Well we are children no more, we have sinned and grown old and our Father still waits and He watches down the road to see the crying boys come running back to His arms and be growing young." (Growing Young)

I cannot recommend this disc, and all of Rich's music enough. Get it. There is nothing like it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What "Jesus" means, June 15, 2001

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RecklessRagingFury "RecklessRagingFury" (Roaming Glome) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

If you do a search for Jesus here on Amazon, you're bound to come up with all kinds of stuff...stuff from the Jesus Seminar talking about what a great cynic sage or Jewish Rabbi Jesus was; stuff from the Wiccans--no doubt describing Jesus as yet another earth mystic; stuff from Theologians that you have to work out to be able to lift while at the same time requiring that you keep a dictionary at hand for the every third word you don't know...well scrap all that stuff. I can tell you all you need to know about Jesus by playing you "Growing Young" and handing you a Bible. This stuff is great. Nobody makes music or writes songs like Rich did. This disc is just another case in point.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredible Masterpiece by the late Rich Mullins, September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

"The World As Best I Remember It; Volume 2" is another album by Rich Mullins that leaves you breathless and in awe of Mullin's incredible writing ability. His lyrics and his music have a way of reaching into your soul and making you want to reach out of yourself towards God. Rich Mullin's knew how to write about the things that mattered, in a way that the simplest could understand. This album is a jewel!