Ten On Ten - Greater Vision

In this week’s ten on ten feature is Greater Vision.  Celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2011, it is only fitting we take a look at the group’s career and highlight their ten best recordings.  In looking at the group’s major label releases, their church hymnal series and the many compilations released over the course of the last 20 years this is the final result.

Greater Vision’s top ten albums:

1. When I See The Cross (1997)
2. Quartets (2003)
3. Perfect Candidate (2000)
4. Far Beyond This Place (1999)
5. It’s Just Like Heaven (1992)
6. On A Journey (1991)
7. Live At First Baptist Atlanta (2002)
8. The King Came Down (1993)
9. The Only Way (2011)
10. Serving A Risen Savior (1994)

• Greater Vision was recording top-tier music from the start.  The group’s first four major label releases from 1991 to 1994 are all among the group’s ten best recordings.
• The 1990′s were a better decade in regards to the music released by Greater Vision than the music released in the 2000′s.
• Many regard the 2003 recording Quartets as the group’s best but When I See The Cross from 1997 is what I consider to be the pinnacle recording for Greater Vision.  At least of all the albums released to date.
• There was not a weak song on When I See The Cross.  Highlighted by “Common Garments”, “I Have A Hope”, “All The Way”, “He’d Still Been God” and “When I See The Cross”.
• Quartets definitely allowed the listener to get a taste of what the trio would sound like as a quartet.  I think it is time for a Quartets 2 album to make its way to retail.
• The group had a long dry spell in the release of a really great recording since 2003′s Quartets until the release of The Only Way here in 2011.
• The return of Chris Allman at the tenor vocal position was a large part in that return to really strong recordings.
• The forgotten gem in this top ten list is the album listed at #10; Serving A Risen Savior.  ”He Rose Again”, “God Will Provide”, “A Risen Savior”, “Who Moved” and “God Still Rolls Away Stones” all highlight a really strong recording.
• From forgotten gem to the album that should be forgotten.  Every artist has an album in their discography that doesn’t match the caliber of their other recordings.  For Greater Vision, that album is My Favorite Place from 2005.
• Greater Vision has plenty of years ahead of them to change this current top ten list with the release of additional landmark recordings.

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