A Holiday Ain't A Holiday...
Until we break out the Boyz II Men, Christmas Intepretations CD.
No Burl Ives here, our household decorates the tree to Boyz II Men. We've had this CD for 13 years. So I was in an all out panic when we couldn't find it.
There was going to be no tree dressing until we had our Boyz.
We looked everywhere. The CD was nowhere to be found. iTunes to the rescue.
Christmas Interpretations is exactly as promised, an interpretation of holiday music. There are no holiday classics here. Boyz II Men blesses the listener with melodic songs about loneliness, love and poverty.
Yeah, I know it doesn't sound very cheerful. But trust me, it's an awesome CD.
There's their beautiful accapella cover of Silent Night, the slow-groovy collabo, Let It Snow, with Brian McKnight and the sexy, Cold December Nights.
Not to mention, Wanya, the best riffer in the business,riffs on the word "day" for two minutes (I clocked it) in Who Would Have Thought.
But what's best about the CD for me, is it's a tradition in our household. So much so, that Princess A was singing along with one of the songs. She turned to me and said, "Okay, I know we've had this thing a really long time...because even I know the words."
Yay! Happy Holidays!!
No Burl Ives here, our household decorates the tree to Boyz II Men. We've had this CD for 13 years. So I was in an all out panic when we couldn't find it.
There was going to be no tree dressing until we had our Boyz.
We looked everywhere. The CD was nowhere to be found. iTunes to the rescue.
Christmas Interpretations is exactly as promised, an interpretation of holiday music. There are no holiday classics here. Boyz II Men blesses the listener with melodic songs about loneliness, love and poverty.
Yeah, I know it doesn't sound very cheerful. But trust me, it's an awesome CD.
There's their beautiful accapella cover of Silent Night, the slow-groovy collabo, Let It Snow, with Brian McKnight and the sexy, Cold December Nights.
Not to mention, Wanya, the best riffer in the business,riffs on the word "day" for two minutes (I clocked it) in Who Would Have Thought.
But what's best about the CD for me, is it's a tradition in our household. So much so, that Princess A was singing along with one of the songs. She turned to me and said, "Okay, I know we've had this thing a really long time...because even I know the words."
Yay! Happy Holidays!!
posted by Paula at 8:43 PM
2 Comments:
It is the same in my house! I start every Christmas season off with that CD, and play it all month long. I will NEVER grow tired of it. I thought I was the only one. :-)
Hey a fellow Interpretations fan!! Sweet! It's strange that it's a holiday CD when you think of how melancholy the songs are - but it's really Boyz II Men at their height, musically. For me, it actually helps put the holidays into perspective and takes some of the commercialism out of it. Not a bad thing, at all.
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