Christmas Songs...love or hate any?

[JordanMaria]

(11-27-2011 07:25 PM)pastors wife Wrote:  Another sad song - this one about a dying child who wanted one last Christmas. It is based on a true story.

I think I found a song that I hate more than Christmas Shoes.

What is UP with depressing Christmas songs?? They should be illegal.

[alm517]

Hate: Them all....

I used to love Christmas, would spend weeks decorating every inch of my house, start the music on Nov 1st, but idk something happened and now I just hate all of it. I put up decorations for my children but I'm over it.

[Papa Bear]

A goofy Christmas album with some surprising gems:
http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Eugene_Sings!_Christmas
I particularly enjoyed:
Adeste Fidelis / Have another Happy Noel
A Prayer for Peace (Dana Nobis Pacem)
I Went and Told It on the Mountain

[pastor's wife]

(11-30-2011 12:53 AM)Paisley Wrote:  

(11-29-2011 11:37 PM)senda wales Wrote:  I can play a very simple version of Good King Wenceslas on the piano. In fact, it was one of the first songs I ever learned to play on the piano.

Senda, me too! I learned it when I was very young!

Me, too! Mine was in John Thompson's "Teaching Little Fingers to Play", page 16. (I have that book in my piano bench waiting for when I'll get organized enough to start teaching my kids how to play.)

[Mommy2Kids]

(11-30-2011 09:21 AM)alm517 Wrote:  Hate: Them all....

I used to love Christmas, would spend weeks decorating every inch of my house, start the music on Nov 1st, but idk something happened and now I just hate all of it. I put up decorations for my children but I'm over it.

I can understand your feelings.

[Perry]

(11-30-2011 09:27 AM)pastors wife Wrote:  

(11-30-2011 12:53 AM)Paisley Wrote:  Senda, me too! I learned it when I was very young!

Me, too! Mine was in John Thompson's "Teaching Little Fingers to Play", page 16. (I have that book in my piano bench waiting for when I'll get organized enough to start teaching my kids how to play.)

Me too! I used that exact same book when first learning to play piano as well.

(EDIT: except for the "teaching my kids how to play" part)

[pastor's wife]

@Perry, I was 8 years old in third grade when I started lessons. My book was the old one with only line drawings for pictures. Every time I passed a song, the teacher would let me color the picture in! I still remember, "Here we go. Up a row. To a birthday party." And "Dolly dear, Sandman's here; You will soon be sleeping" (the first two songs) and then both hands together: "Postman I'll be, when I grow tall. Letters I'll bring you in winter and fall." And I was SOOOO excited when I was able to play the Indian song near the end with the teacher's duet part thumping like a drum.

I've seen a newer edition of the book that has colored pictures and a few changes on the words of the songs.

[Perry]

@PW I had the "new" version, with computer-made pictures and such. It was still a memorable book, and I remember the first song and the Indian song at the back too! I was 8 or 9 when I started lessons; I know it was after my dad started dating my stepmom because her daughter was taking lessons and I wanted to as well.

[senda wales]

You haven't seen bad till you've seen Mariah Carey going all cougar with the Biebs

[JordanMaria]

(12-02-2011 03:44 PM)senda wales Wrote:  You haven't seen bad till you've seen Mariah Carey going all cougar with the Biebs

Mariah really loves that white brick wall....

That was seriously ridiculous. She looks amazing but does she REALLY have to dress skanky all the time? I'm really confused about the demographic this song is pandering to. Mariah is shakin her booty and rubbing her boobs, then we've got Justin Bieber. What? WHO are they trying to attract?