[atlantaprog] Re: Mannheim Steamroller

Agreed.  Is it just me, or does Christmas music start getting played earlier 
every year?  The first time I heard it this time was about Nov. 10.  That's 
just wrong...
   
  bk
  

UncleEggsy@xxxxxxx wrote:
      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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