Well a hello to all!! I was just sitting with my mother, stuffing Christmas cards, eating a "customized" trail mix (pretzels, raisins, marshmallows, and I WOULD have put chocolate chips in there but we were all out! *glares*), listening to the "All Christmas all the time" radio station, and I was inspired to write about Christmas music.
I've decided that there's basically three types:
1: The good ol', everyone knows em, traditional Christmas carols.
2: New, more contemporary, Christmas songs. (Christmas Shoes, Someone Special, Jingle Bell Rock, etc.)
3: My arch enemy. The "Updated" Christmas Carols. Where they take songs mentioned in category 1, change the timing, often certain words, and make it "Their Own". What ever.
I personally prefer the good ol', everyone knows 'em, not messed with Christmas carols. I mean, when they start messing with "Winter Wonder Land," "Here Comes Santa Clause," "O Holy Night," and countless others to the point where you can't sing along because the timing is so different then what you were expecting, you know you've got a problem. (Trans-Siberian Orchestra is the ONE and ONLY full exception, because they *generally* don't mess with the tune; they add electric guitars and what not. It's really cool =D)
Have you heard "Straight No Chaser"? It's a men's A Capella group that apparently just got back together. My big bro introduced them to me when he was home at Thanksgiving. Whilst I was stuffing Christmas cards and eating my trail mix, I heard them on the radio singing "Twelve Days of Christmas". It is probably my favorite rendition of this song that I've ever heard!! (They are, in certain cases, an exception to the category 3 rule.) Here's a link to the video of them singing "Twelve Days of Christmas":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8
Less than two weeks til Christmas!! =D
"O, holy night, the stars are brightly shining,
it is the night of our dear Savior's birth"
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2 comments:
I like Christmas hymns the best. :D O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, Silent Night, etc.
But I heard A Rose In Bethlehem last week and that was gorgeous. I think it's contemporary, but it's about Christ, and not Santa, so I like it. :P
I like traditional carols as well. Have you heard Carrie Underwood's "Do You See What I See"? It's pretty good, she doesn't fluff it up too much. Her "First Noel" is nice too, but the vocals are... idk, it's almost like she had a cold while recording it. Maybe that's just me though.
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