Like Christmas music? Are you kidding? I love it!!
Could you get back to me during Easter and we'll see what we can provide for your edification. In the meanwhile you might wish to visit the Itunes Music Store which is downloadable at: Link
Once there you might sample some of the pieces from "Hymns Triumphant." You'll find many selections which include both hymns and carols reverently performed. (the London Philharmonic).
I'm sure you'll be edified.
Thanks for asking.
--Dave
You might also wish to sample the CDs of the Kings College Choir sometime. They aren't yet available at Itunes
Ever since I started playing in bands, I don't appreciate recorded music that much. Music is more and more of a participation thing with me nowadays. I will occasionally download songs I want to learn off Kazaa, but that is about it.
I do enjoy live music. For me, half the fun of music performance is watching the skill of the musicians along with light shows, etc. I have been anticipating the DVD release of Pink Floyd's Pulse concert now for years. It is looking like early next year.
Yeah, now that I think about it, I haven't bought a cd in seven years, and most that I did buy in the years preceding this dry spell were used - but I have bought quite a few DVD concerts...
My wife loves Christmas music. I don't like it. The modern stuff is too saccharin, and the "hymn style" Christmas music moves me only through cultural heart strings, which grow thin over the years - they are just too sterile and "rote" to me to have any impact. If I hear Joy to the World, one more time, I think I will scream. Don't get me wrong, the lyrics are technically correct, but I've heard bad sermons that are technically correct. By "bad" I mean disjointed, slow, and/or hard to follow.
On the other hand, I really enjoy "Mary Did You Know."
Although I am 51, I only started appreciating musical lyrics in the last five years or so. In the past it was all about the instrumentation to me, with the human voice merely one o the instruments, which is why Genesis was my all time favorite band.
But now I really appreciate songs like "Mother" by Pink Floyd, and the Switchfoot songs we do in the prisons.
In music, what usually moves me emotionally is powerful chord progressions and arangements. But when coupled with powerful lyrics, it can be awe inspiring indeed, as I have only recently discovered.
On a side note, I also find it mind bogglingly distracting when I am in a church and we bow our heads to collectively pray, and someone starts playing chord progressions on a piano or guitar. I don't think it is immoral or a sin or anything, it is just danged distracting. My prayer stops and I watch them play until everyone else is done praying.
Yes, I too have my own fits of judgementalism regarding what I sometimes interpret as "false" piety. And I roll my eyes when I see a "fish" on a business card or company vehicle.
I think I am wrong, but wadayagonnado?