I want to know why they only play 20 songs over and over and over and over?
I’ve always liked Jethro Tull’s Christmas Album. I also think Baroque brass music is great during Christmas.
(sarc) Sorry but don’t you mean “Holiday Music”? ... (/sarc)
The Holly and the Ivy, by the Cambridge Singers is one of my favorites.
Music arranged as background music to appeal to the sloppy sentimentalities of lounge lizards and drunks in bars, who want to pretend that Christmas means something to them.
The collators of playlists use it to keep the listening inoffensive to the atheists out there.
The liberals have censured the music through political correctness.
What you describe is actually very simple in explanation ... the music is secularized as much as possible... I listened to XM today and what I heard was just jazzy versions of well known tune...
The secularist who run the entertainment industry wants nothing to do with real Christmas music and will ‘genericize’ until is become non religious - not recognizable.
I noticed this last year too...
BTW — do you have Kim Pencil’s Christmas Album -— a Dallas area artist - great mostly solo piano - with at least one original Christmas composition. It is my favorite in my little collection.
Our local radio station plays a canned program of less than 100 songs, as you say, the worst ones!!! And plays the canned program over and over and over starting around Halloween. The popular culture intends to dilute the holy meaning of Christmas with this crassness.
I like listening to Holiday Pops on Ch.77 starting Dec. 7, 2009 through Christmas.
Bing, Frank, Nat. All others are wannabes.
Most of the songs are more than likely recorded in July so they will be ready for the Christmas season who's ready for Christmas in July ?
Also a-lot of the singers don't have Christmas spirit because they don't know Christ or believe in any thing Greater than themselves...
No Sinatra or Dean Martin or Elvis....
http://www.otisread.com/cds/christmastide.html
http://www.otisread.com/cds/christmastide2.html
Two of the best albums of Christmas ever!
Now here was a classic Christmas tune....
Loved the Christmas album “Three Ships” by Jon Anderson back in the ‘80s. It hasn’t been available for years.
Also like the Christmas album by Asleep At The Wheel.
Can’t stand “Silent Night”. It would be tolerable if people didn’t do a slow slide up the third on “heavenly peeeeee-eeeeeace”.
We are now in the last two days of the liturgical year. The Christian year begins anew on Advent Sunday, which this year falls on 29 November. Advent ("Parousia" in Greek) is a four-week period of penitence in which we contemplate both the Advent of the Lord (i.e. the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem) and His Second Advent (the Second Coming, when this world will end). This period is supposed to be one of penance and prayer, not excess and celebration; unfortunately, the secular Christmas holiday season almost exactly matches Advent on the calendar, leaving many people tired, broke, and wondering what all the fuss is about come 25 December.
Observing Advent instead of the secular "holiday season" is a great way to revive the sacred and special feeling that this time of year is supposed to bring. You can start at Catholic.com's Advent 2009 site, which has the prayers, the Gospel readings, and the traditional observances for each day listed for you. (Note: you don't have to be Catholic to observe Advent.)
As for music: if you want inspiring, beautiful music for Advent and Christmas, locate a traditional Catholic parish in your area and drop in for a visit. (You'll want the High Mass on Sunday morning.) A traditional Catholic mass is prayed musically, by singing the prayers — and what music it is! Sacred music by the greatest composers along with traditional hymns and prayers can all be heard for free just by visiting a mass. And if you're not Catholic, that's okay -- no one will proselytize you when you visit, nor will anyone expect you to genuflect, know when to sit or stand, etc. Just come on in, take a seat, and let the candles, incense, sounds, and beauty of traditional Christian seasonal observance enfold you. You won't regret it!