The Lord of the Universe - Anand Band LP
This is one of the first albums recorded by premies in the West and the songs thereon were sung regularly when I first began going to satsang in Sydney, Australia in late 1973. While they made me cringe with embarrassment then with their conceptual simplicity and overt in-your-face up-front worship of the teenage fat boy Prem Rawat then, I rather enjoy them 30+ years later. My memory is that these songs were constantly sung in satsang in Sydney and Brisbane, the cities in which I attended satsang in the early to mid-1970's. I doubt that "King of Kings" is being played publicly at Rawat's events these days but "Spread This Knowledge" has been one of the all-time Rawatism favourites and is still being sung 40 years later by Rawat's daughter which is rather pathetic really as the Knowledge hasn't spread as anyone sitting in a hall at one of Rawat's "events" can plainly see.
The Lord of the Universe - Anand Band, 13 tracks, 57.17
02 First Time I Saw Him 4.18
03 Golden Way 4.29
04 Oh Lord, We've Been Waiting So Long 5.23
05 There's a Light In Me 5.39
06 King of Kings 4.24
08 Peace and Bliss is Satguru 2.54
09 If You Want To Go To Heaven 3.38
10 Little Tears of Happiness 2.56
11 Guru Maharaj Ji You Are My Only Light 3.50
12 We Love You Guru Maharaj Ji 2.57
13 Spread This Knowledge 7.40
The immaturity and poor judgement of the song-writers is particularly obvious in songs such as *****finish this off ************
