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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 20, 2020 14:13:04 GMT
The Everly Brothers had a Christmas album? I'm not quite ready to get in the Christmas spirit just yet, but this gets first spin! Sheriff John Stone , any thoughts on this one? It was released in 1962 while the guys were still fairly popular. A very laid back album. The Boys Town Choir are more prominent than the Everly Brothers. If you are expecting "Wake Up Little Susie" meets "Jingle Bells", you will be disappointed. Again, very slow and non-secular. Also, a very short album, barely clocking in at 26 minutes. It was the only Christmas album released by The Everly Brothers. This a typical selection:
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Post by B.E. on Oct 21, 2020 15:53:43 GMT
My expectations are mildly tempered, but I'm cool with laidback, non-secular music. Looking forward to it.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 21, 2020 16:42:50 GMT
"Non-secular" is a new term for me! (Isn't it just "sacred"?)
I actually enjoyed that "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," by the way.
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Post by kds on Oct 21, 2020 16:45:30 GMT
Wow, I learned something new today. I honestly thought non secular meant not religious. I've been misusing this term, and have probably called Here Comes Santa Claus a non secular Christmas song.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 21, 2020 16:51:28 GMT
Secular is nonreligious; non-secular, then, would be religious. The usual dichotomy of terms is secular v. sacred.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Oct 21, 2020 16:52:04 GMT
Wow, I learned something new today. I honestly thought non secular meant not religious. I've been misusing this term, and have probably called Here Comes Santa Claus a non secular Christmas song. Agreed. I was questioning why he used Hark! The Herald Angels Sing as an example of non-secular music. Now, gentlemen, it's too early to be discussing Christmas music.
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Post by kds on Oct 21, 2020 16:58:28 GMT
Wow, I learned something new today. I honestly thought non secular meant not religious. I've been misusing this term, and have probably called Here Comes Santa Claus a non secular Christmas song. Agreed. I was questioning why he used Hark! The Herald Angels Sing as an example of non-secular music. Now, gentlemen, it's too early to be discussing Christmas music. I saw Christmas candy in my grocery store next to the Halloween candy yesterday. But, I agree.
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Post by B.E. on Oct 21, 2020 16:59:08 GMT
Wow, I learned something new today. I honestly thought non secular meant not religious. I've been misusing this term, and have probably called Here Comes Santa Claus a non secular Christmas song. ‘Secular’ was always a weird one for me. I’d always feel the need to look it up to remind myself which it referred to. I basically ended up equating ‘secular’ with ‘separate’ (as in ‘separate from’ religion). Maybe it felt weird because the world seems much less religious now than it was and therefore having a word to represent non-religious things seems less useful or necessary. I don’t know.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 21, 2020 17:03:14 GMT
I actually enjoyed that "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," by the way.
Maybe you're finally coming around. Enjoying "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" on October 21st. I'm not giving up on you yet, as you get older and more sentimental...
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Post by kds on Oct 21, 2020 17:08:48 GMT
Wow, I learned something new today. I honestly thought non secular meant not religious. I've been misusing this term, and have probably called Here Comes Santa Claus a non secular Christmas song. ‘Secular’ was always a weird one for me. I’d always feel the need to look it up to remind myself which it referred to. I basically ended up equating ‘secular’ with ‘separate’ (as in ‘separate from’ religion). Maybe it felt weird because the world seems much less religious now than it was and therefore having a word to represent non-religious things seems less useful or necessary. I don’t know. My head is spinning. I'm going back to my Halloween music.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 21, 2020 17:09:51 GMT
I actually enjoyed that "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," by the way.
Maybe you're finally coming around. Enjoying "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" on October 21st. I'm not giving up on you yet, as you get older and more sentimental... Nah, I've always preferred traditional, and usually sacred, Christmas music to secular, for the most part.
Speaking of the word secular, I just had to look up its history. Turns out it comes from the Latin saeculum, which means generation, or age. Somewhere along the line, it began being used to mean "not under religious orders": like, you're not a monk, so you're living "of this age/generation," you're in the world. Over time it broadened to mean generally not religious: secular music, etc.
Of course in medieval Europe, secular was the exception, not the rule. And in the modern West, sacred is the exception rather than the rule. There's a certain amount of irony that maybe the place the term secular is used most is Christmas!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 23, 2020 19:03:00 GMT
It is with deep regret that I announce that A Charlie Brown Christmas will not be seen on network TV this year. You will now have to view it on the Apple TV+ streaming service. There was just something about the family gathering around the TV each year to enjoy the Peanuts gang at Christmas...
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Post by kds on Oct 23, 2020 19:08:43 GMT
It is with deep regret that I announce that A Charlie Brown Christmas will not be seen on network TV this year. You will now have to view it on the Apple TV+ streaming service. There was just something about the family gathering around the TV each year to enjoy the Peanuts gang at Christmas...
Same goes for their Halloween and Thanksgiving specials. I posted something about this in the Movies & TV thread. I've actually owned these specials on DVD for quite some time now, but my wife and I were talking about how our son will never know what it was like to have to be in front of the TV when these shows aired, or else they were gone for the year. The convenience of home video and streaming is great, but there's a certain charm that's lost. And I still know a lot of people who never bought the DVDs who would still watch these specials when they aired on TV.
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Post by kds on Nov 2, 2020 13:55:38 GMT
The Comcast / Xfinity Music Choice Sounds of the Season channel didn't even wait for the jack o lantern outside to begin to rot. They started with their Christmas music yesterday. I flipped over for a second to see if they'd leave the Halloween music up through the weekend, or maybe through the Day of the Dead or Guy Fawkes Day. Nope. And the first thing I heard was one of those pointless Michael Buble songs, his note for note cover of Jingle Bells.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 2, 2020 13:57:21 GMT
Saturday morning, Target was all Christmas decorations and music. They can't even get to Halloween without hitting the Christmas stuff, much less Thanksgiving!
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