I'm Catholic and yeah, the music is kind of boring. From time to time we go to a prodominitly black Catholic church in South Dallas and you can really feel the difference.
Paul ... I am Roman Catholic also, and in our church we have gone full circle from organ/choir to folk back to organ/choir, but now the organ is a huge pipe organ with an unbelievable sound ... while I fully enjoyed the 'lighter' folk type music, the full choir and organ is very inspirational ... I compare the difference to classical music vs. folk or pop ...
A few years ago my wife and I were in North Carolina ... not being familiar with the area I checked for a RC church on the GPS ... it led us to what we found was a RC church in a black community ... unfortunately, we did not arrive in time for the full Mass, which we regretted, if for no reason other than the fact that while the music selections were mostly what we were familiar with, the 'delivery' certainly had a different 'vibe' ...