I want to get some new Christmas music. It's so hard to good Christmas music,
though. I have a few CDs that have good songs on them, but I'm tired of versions
of "Let it Snow" and "Winter Wonderland." I'm tired of the handful of secular
Christmas music classics that have been done over and over and over on the radio
simply because they are not religious.
I want to hear the good Christmas
hymns that we grew up singing like "Oh Come, Oh Come, Immanuel" and "Silent
Night" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" I don't want them re-done with funky new
beats rythmns, though. Just give me a beautiful arrangment that captures the way
it is supposed to be sung, that we can sing along with. I want rich
instrumentation that makes you feel the glory of the season.
I don't
want to hear new Christmas songs, either. One or two on an album might be okay,
and you never know, you might invent the new classic Christmas song. But most of
my CDs are more than half full of new songs. Christmas is a nostalgic
season--give me the ones I already know. If you want to write a new song, fine,
but not on the Christmas CD.
I'm also tired of the Christian radio
stations that feel obliged to play "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Silver
Bells". I want to hear Christian Christmas music on a Christian radio station.
There is enough secularism in the world without them having to follow along.
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