[atlantaprog] Re: Mannheim Steamroller

That was a really interesting article.  However, I can't say that Manheim 
Steamroller has ever done terribly much for me.  The music has about the same 
relationship to prog as Kenny G does to jazz.  I can hear the family 
resemblance, 
but all of the jaggedy edges and irregularites that help make prog 
interesting have been sanded silky smooth.  

As for the Christmas music, I'm probably not the best person to offer an 
opinion one way or the other because most of the Christmas records, aside from 
the 
odd single like The Kinks' "Father Christmas" or Lennon's "Happy Christmas", 
that I like are from the 40s and 50s.  Manheim Steamroller, Trans-Siberian 
Orchestra and just about anything particularly contemporary sounding on the 
radio 
earns an instant index finger to the speed dial.  I'm pretty staunchly retro 
in that respect.  Just give me Gene Autrey, Burl Ives, A Charlie Brown 
Christmas, or big band vocal music with sleigh bells and stuff.  On the other 
hand, I 
did hear some of the Medieval Babes' Christmas album the other day and found 
it somewhat captivating.    

CH

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