Defend the Undefendable: Mannheim Steamroller

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Admittedly, I've only heard their Christmas covers. Maybe I should check out one of their Fresh Aire series, perhaps 7, featuring "Conjuring the Number 7", "Sunday the 7th Day", "The 7 Colors of the Rainbow", "The 7 C's", "The 7 Metals of Alchemy", and "The 7 Stars of the Big Dipper"?

Is there any Mannheim song that stands out as being worse than the others? Which song features the longest electro-tom drumfill?

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Saturday, 16 December 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Halloween/Culture/Products/Music-MannheimSteamrollerHalloween.jpg

― grady (grady), Saturday, 16 December 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Chip Davis went to my high school, and he came back one day and conducted the high school band playing one of his non-Mannheim compositions. I think he did a pretty good job at that.

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Sunday, 17 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Not defensible! Horrid.

― Mark (Mark R), Sunday, 17 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of enjoying their Christmas stuff at the moment.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 17 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hannah likes it a lot too.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 17 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

They're almost so bad that they're good again, but then they miraculously manage to cross that line, too. Mannheim Steamroller: a Christmas Miracle.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I was with it until some God-awful vocals kicked in on "Good King Wenceslas". Still, they do turn your home into a shopping mall.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 17 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't know they did vocals. What are they like? Is it one voice, or is it an assault of harmonies?

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

From memory (I'm at work so I can't play it) it was just one dude singing one line as a coda during the fade out. He sounded like the sort of bloke who'd make Mannheim Steamroller music, if ya know what I mean.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

One time I listened to one of their CDs via boombox plugged into a guitar amp with the distortion on, and it sounded kind of great, like A Rammstein Christmas or something.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

It was sort of an accident. Sort of one of the best accidents ever.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Me & the people I was with had this "great" idea to start a band wherein all our music was just us singing over Mannheim Steamroller jams processed as above with lyrics about the most famous fat women celebrities and call it Cameron Mannheim Steamroller.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Drugs were involved obv.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

early Fresh Aire series (1970's) are synth prog wonderstuff, for serious amazing.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

early Fresh Aire series (1970's) are synth prog wonderstuff, for serious amazing.

Comparable to...good Tangerine Dream?

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"indefensible"

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

"FALL-ON-THE-FLOOR HILARIOUS" (when in the right mood)

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

For my sins, I saw the PBS holiday special once. Chip Davis is an exuberant sort.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

d'oh.

Doesn't "undefendable" seem like it should be a word? But yeah, not in the dictionary.
sigh.

Ned, I've committed a comparable sin. I watched the entire Moody Blues Red Rocks performance on PBS - and genuinely enjoyed the "I Know that you're out there somewhere" song.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Chip Davis gets a pass for being the mastermind behind C.W. McCall's "Convoy," so in terms of the karmic balance sheet it all cancels out.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.wongbong.com/catalog/images/FullMeltSteamRoller.jpg

― Stupid, and is severely rationed, when I am: happy for sweet pickles, and t (goo, Tuesday, 19 December 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The weird holiday special thing on PBS is worth seeking out because it's mostly pagan winter imagery with weird dwarves and shit.

― mh (mike h.), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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