{"id":405,"date":"2009-12-05T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/12\/lets-have-a-debate-real-vs-fake-christmas-songs.html"},"modified":"2009-12-05T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T16:24:00","slug":"lets-have-a-debate-real-vs-fake-christmas-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/12\/lets-have-a-debate-real-vs-fake-christmas-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Have a Debate: "Real" vs. "Fake" Christmas Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple nights ago Dave and I were riding in the car, twirling through all of our Christmas music options — we have 2 local stations offering holiday tunes, plus the “Holly” station (XM Channel 23 — we have a 90 day free trial with the new truck) and our respective iPods have Christmas music playlists that we can pipe through our car stereo.<\/p>\n

Ashanti’s Christmas Melody<\/a><\/i> came on and Dave and I got into a discussion of why we can’t find a station that just plays the “classics”. We’re both in agreement that Christmas Shoes<\/a><\/i> is one of the saddest songs ever and we don’t care for it. I don’t feel too joyful when I hear it. Sorry if that’s just me. I know the song means well.<\/p>\n

This led to a debate about Christmas being a time for being especially kind to others…but is that really Christmas? Isn’t Christmas fundamentally a celebration of the birth of Jesus, and not of buying things?<\/p>\n

Or was Christmas originally a Pagan winter solstice festival celebrated by the Romans?<\/a><\/p>\n

So here’s the deal: What do you think of all these pop stars coming out their their own Christmas tunes? Redefining classics year after year.<\/p>\n

I’m mixed. I really enjoy when the pop stars record renditions of the classics (such as this Barenaked Ladies holiday hit here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But not all of them. <\/a><\/p>\n

There are several original holiday recordings that I like, such as Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

But again, not all of them.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave’s claim is that “the classics” include not only the traditional songs (Silent Night, O Holy Night, Away in a Manger<\/i>), but also some neo-classics, such as White Christmas, Ruldolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman<\/i>. He’ll even put the original Charlie Brown Christmas songs<\/a> in that category.<\/p>\n

I’m crying foul at that, that White Christmas<\/i> and Rudolph<\/i> were probably regarded similarly to Christmas Shoes<\/i>. A modern-day non-traditional Christmas song that hits the charts and becomes very popular.<\/p>\n

So…what’s MY favorite Christmas song? Harry Connick, Jr.’s arrangement of Silver Bells<\/a><\/span>. I particularly enjoy all his big band holiday arrangements.<\/p>\n

Dave’s favorites? I’m going to guess that his favorite holiday album is Canadian Brass’s “The Christmas Album”<\/a>. He really enjoys any of the classics on that album, performed in their full brassy glory \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas friends!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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