Justifcation of Christmas songs

[yendi]

Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."

Atheist or not, I know a thing of beauty when I hear it.

Comments

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

See, you have the same attitude towards Christmas songs that I do. I just like the nice music. :)

cheers,
Phil

[yendi]

*nod* I remember hearing folks (both Jewish and Christian) bitch about Barbra Streisand doing a Christmas album. Much as I'm loathe to defend her, why in the world wouldn't someone with a good voice want perform beautiful songs? I've got no problem buying beautiful musical albums, holiday or not.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I've got "Maybe this Christmas," and while I don't love it as much as I love the Kids CD I bought at the same time, there's just something about Christmas Carols that gets me even when I don't believe anything about what they're about. And that CD has the BNL/SML song on it too. :) Along with Ben Folds's song about finding santa naked, dead, and covered in Crisco in his chimney. That's sure to be a classic any day now.