Tis the
season for Christmas music! I probably
shouldn’t have included an exclamation mark there because I get a little picky
when it comes to holiday tunes. I think
it is because there are so many bad ones out there. I
won’t be too hard on the radio DJ’s because I’d no doubt get fired if I was the
DJ and insisted on playing the same 7 good songs all day every day. What I’m saying is it’s not entirely their
fault. It’s synthesizers played by
Manheim Steamroller and lyrics like “Parum-pa-pum-pum” or “Doop de-do and
dickory dock” that are the problem.
Interestingly
enough, this year I’ve grown to like a few songs that I thought I could never
love. It gets even crazier because one
of these songs involves bag pipes and a children’s choir and lyrics like
“Parum-pa-pum-pum.” How did that happen? I
don’t know, but it did. Here it is: I
like Josh Groban’s “Little Drummer Boy,” and Carrie Underwood’s “Do You Hear
What I Hear.” I can’t believe those
words just came out of my keyboard. I
have heard so many bad renditions of these songs that it is still hard to
believe that someone made them good.
The rate
we’re going, next year someone will come up with a new-and-improved version of “The
Christmas Shoes” complete with a chorus of accordions and kazoos, and I’ll end
up liking it.
In
other Christmas news, we took the greatest pumpkin bread on earth to our
neighbors last night. It was great fun.
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| For some reason, Scott didn't want to make body contact for this photo... :) |
A new version of The Christmas Shoes? I would consider that a Christmas miracle. But only if it was better than the original, which wouldn't be hard to do.
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