'Songs' I'd love never to have heard

• Marty Haugen, "We Walk by Faith"
  
• Marty Haugen, "We Remember"
  
• Marty Haugen, "Eye Has Not Seen"
  
• Marty Haugen, "Gather Us In"
  
• Bob Dufford, "Be Not Afraid"
  
• Michael Joncas, "On Eagle's Wings"
  
• David Haas, "Blest Are They"
  
• David Haas, "Now We Remain"
  
• David Haas, "We Have Been Told"
  
• Dan Schutte, "City of God"
  
• Dan Schutte, "Here I Am, Lord"
  
• Robert E. Kreutz, "You Satisfy the Hungry Heart"
  
• John Foley, S.J., "One Bread, One Body"
  
• Patrick O'Brien, "Taste and See"
  
• Richard Proulx (text), "I Received the Living God"
  
• John L. Bell (text), "A Touching Place"
  
• Fred Kaan (text), "Help Us Accept Each Other"
  
• Ruth Duck (text), "Diverse in Culture, Nation, Race"

By contrast -- given the context -- a hymn (a term I use advisedly) I could stand to hear a trifle more frequently would be "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," taken from Litany of St. James, written during the 4th century.

Update 10/6/06

Readers have contributed the following lists of worst songs and favorite hymns:

Worst (in no particular order)"

• “Sing a New Church”
  
• Gregory Norbet, “Hosea”
  
• “Wisdom’s Feast”
  
• “The Supper of the Lord”
  
• Omer Westendorff, "Where Charity and Love Prevail"
  
• "See us Lord, around your altar" [read carefully!]
  
• Bernadette Farrell, “Bearers of Peace”
  
• "Surely the presence of the Lord is in this Place" (180 degrees from theology of ‘Adoro Te Devote’)

Favorite hymns (in no particular order:

• Of the Father’s Love Begotten
  
• Christ the Fair Glory of the Holy Angels
  
• O Radiant Light, O Sun Divine
  
• Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (Easter)
  
• (most traditional Advent Hymns)
  
• Holy God We Praise Thy Name
  
• All Glory, Laud, and Honor
  
• All Creatures of Our God and King
  
• Now Thank We All Our God
  
• Lift High the Cross
  
• Love Divine
  
• O Sacred Head Now Wounded
  
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  
• Holy, Holy, Holy
  
• Come Thou Almighty King
  
• Sweet Sacrament
  
• Let All Things Now Living
  
• Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty

Of related interest:

• "Liturgical Song" Parodies: by Christopher J. Garton-Zavesky (February 11, 2006)
• 'On Eagle's Wings' sweeps NAPM awards (February 8, 2006)