01-06-2021, 03:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-06-2021, 03:26 AM by TheBigTBone.)
Before I was turned on to TSO, Mannheim Steamroller was my go to for Christmas music. But once I heard TSO's CEAOS I was hooked and Mannheim was no longer number one for me. As stated earlier in the thread "Sadly, it seems like Chip Davis is more interested in marketing than in composing music these days. The last few albums of new material were pretty uninspired, and most MS releases now are just repackaged compilations of their old material, aimed at making a quick and easy profit, I guess." Yes, Mannheim quit producing great stuff and pretty much threw things together which if you listen to everything after their live CD, it went down hill from there. IMHO their live disk is their best and the rest after that are just terrible, like Feliz Navidad, about as bad as they come. I Still like Mannheim's first four Christmas disks, but after that the rest of their stuff is so painful to listen to. You can wreck a good thing and with their attempts at putting out more Christmas stuff they have.