[atlantaprog] Tull Christmas
- From: Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:08:49 -0500
The Tull Xmas Disk has been getting a lot of spins around here lately. Pretty good stuff - not for Xmas only. New versions of their previous Xmas /Solstice toons plus a few other surprises.
On Dec 18, 2005, at 10:53 PM, BK Broyla wrote:
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, a side 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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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, a side 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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