Sounds like a very un-wierd album to want to hear at this festive season of the year. Do your friends prefer "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"?
Or is it that "Silent Night", "Away in a Manger", and "Hark the Harold Angel Thing"* cover it as far as Jesus is concerned, and it's time for Rudolph?
As far as I'm concerned, the best Christmas music is Christ-centered, and I enjoy "Sleigh Ride" and "Winter Wonderland" as bonus material.
*A child of my cquaintance believed this to be the correct title, and believed it referred to a particular tree ornament. OTOH, as a child I thought the part in Messiah "All We Like Sheep" referred to the choir's appreciation for woolly animals.
One of them I believe prefers hip-hop versions of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". She has laughed at me because I've admitted I'm too white for her music.
My other friend likes secular Christmas music; "Carols belong in church". I just don't get it. It's weird, I guess Christianity's always been such a normal part of my life, I'm kind of freaked out by casual Christians.
(I'm sure that passage of "Messiah" is where this album's title is from. It's a very, very good album by Andrew Peterson. Has a nice rendition of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", and a whole bunch of original songs)
My family has our own personal version of the second verse of "Angels We Have Heard on High". It begins with "Shepherd's Wife" rather than "Shepherds, why?" and is of course the result of a child mis-hearing things.
Oh, yeah, and we all really like "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", because our grandmother is the Christmas party-pooper. She doesn't like our family's decision not to "do" Santa Claus, and she's a killjoy anyway.
Sang that this afternoon. ;o)