Sola Deo Gloria!
Never liked Bach. (Okay, that's a lie... I never liked Bach all that much... I certainly don't dislike him).
Too bloody happy, even on his best days (though not so petulantly exuberant as Mozart).
Give me the lightning, and the thunder; give me the cutting sleet and the icy rain; the black earth and the pine forests on the wind-swept crags... give me Beethoven and Mahler, Wagner and the Sturm und Drang...
Aaahhhhh......... make me feel alive.
Now that's music. :-)
I really get irritated with these so called musicians that seem to be able to tell what kind of Music Jesus would like.
WWJL-2 What would Jesus Listen 2?
Well Bach introduced syncopation into the liturgy and utilized augmented 4ths and diminished 5ths (the devil's chords) as sustained chords in the liturgy rather than as mere passing intervals-- much to the chagrin of those stilted zealous religious music critics who even then thought they knew God's peculiar music taste.
They didn't then. They don't now.