I hate em because every year I have to play the same ones and the instrument i play (sax) never has anything that even resembles the tune

I LOVE them!

Well, you only have to play them once a year. Be a bit more festive

I love them YAY

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Dec 21 2004, 09:06 AM)

Well, you only have to play them once a year. Be a bit more festive

Sorry

They are great in moderation.

Do you hate the christmas carols because you don't get the melody or is it because you don't like them in anyway the arrangement is?

love them, you just need the right music book! my girly sings along and on thursday night I have piano backing...Great!

I just get sick of playing exactly the same ones year after year, new ones are Ok tho!

I love them Love them so, so much

carols are luverly at first...but when you are sittin outside for the fifth day on the trot busking in the freezing cold...u do begin to hate them...just slightly!but, you forget about hating them by next christmas so its okay! lol
merry christmas everyone!

Carols are one of the best parts of Xmas!! I absolutely LOVE them!!!

I love them! I've been busking at christmas every year for the past 5 years and we always play the same 15 or so tunes over and over and over and over again, yet I still don't get sick of them. And lots of people come up to us and thank us for bringing music into the city at christmas time. Carols just get me in the mood for christmas completely!

I think they're great, especially the descants and as you only get to do them at this time of year it makes them special, they don't get so over used as many hymns do.

Traditional arrangements can get annoying after playing them for years upon years, but now we get some great arrangements

Pamela Wedgwood for instance has done some great chrimble arrangements for piano and she's released 'Christmas Jazzin' about' for loads of other instruments including alto sax.

But i do particularly enjoy 'Hark the Herald Angels SIng' and 'The First Noel" (Or Nowell as spelt in my book...)

But our school band always played at the crimble carol concert and they were always the same arrangements of the same carols in the same key, with the same insturments, arranged with the same simplicity, and the same people making the same mistakes...and that WAS annoying and these carols were loathed so much more by the members of the band.

And when we have to practise them from september they do start to warp your head. But what's christmas without them eh?

I wonder how much opinion on this is divived between practising Christians and others?

Love the actual carols

HATE THE ARRANGMENT.

In two years i have yet to have the tune

i love those carols....but i can't stand them when you have sung 5 times in almost a week....this had happened....