Rob Halford's Winter Songs Cd. Bought it yesterday.

JWW777 · Number of posts: 205 Registration date: 2009-09-04

Rob Halford has done an execellent job with his new cd "Winter Songs." It rocks. He has done some amazing covers of traditional carols like We Three Kings, Oh Come, Oh Come Emanuel, What Child is This and Oh Holy Night. He definitely stayed with mostly sacred carols. There's really no Rudolph or Santa songs on this cd. There are a couple of what you could call "fun" ones. But he kept the album pretty sacred throughout. This is probably going to be one of my favorite Christmas albums from now on.

GODSWIZARD · Play it LOUD!! Number of posts: 17975 Age: 52 Registration date: 2007-01-06

Mine is on its way to me as I type.

Unless of course......the USPS sends it to Chief Mugambo in Zimbabwe.

My best friend bought it for me.

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There's really no Rudolph or Santa songs on this cd.

Good.

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Musclecar1975 · Number of posts: 541 Age: 39 Registration date: 2009-06-15

Cool! I look forward to hearing it when I get my copy of the cd. I have a feeling it's going to be one of my favorite Christmas cd's as well.

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Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3335 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

I hope to pick this up this afternoon!

texanvfg · Number of posts: 302 Age: 40 Registration date: 2009-07-04

Just listening to the samples on Amazon - specially the traditional carols - gave me goosebumps and made my body pucker! Would be AWESOME(!) to hear Rob belting these songs out in front of God's throne!

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Plan to snag this over the weekend.

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Musclecar1975 · Number of posts: 541 Age: 39 Registration date: 2009-06-15

texanvfg wrote:

Just listening to the samples on Amazon - specially the traditional carols - gave me goosebumps and made my body pucker! Would be AWESOME(!) to hear Rob belting these songs out in front of God's throne!

AWESOME indeed!

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metalheaded · Number of posts: 435 Age: 37 Registration date: 2007-12-01

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and made my body pucker!

What on earth? That almost sounds...wrong!

Concerning the album...WHOA!! Sounds awesome! Heard the clips on Amazon.com...I'm gonna have to get this for sure.

I listened to the clips out of order, so I heard Get Into The Spirit after several of the others, and man, that song BLISTERS. Lots of the others are heavy, too...it's definitely NOT a typical, super-mellow Christmas album, for sure. 'I Don't Care' could be a Priest song. The heavy riffing put to some of the others is killer, too, whereas the mellow ones are very appropriate. A very well-balanced disc.

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Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3335 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

This is a most un-Halford-like album. Lots of quieter songs, and even a few songs that are just 'rock' as opposed to the hard rock/heavy metal he's best known for. He penned a couple of the songs here such as I Don't Care and the astounding Light of the World, a song that espouses a love for the Savior. Rob seems to be returning to his spiritual roots alright.

Also, I have to say, hearing We Three Kings done with double bass drumming is AWESOME!!!!

I Don't Care has a Great White feel to it.

Musically, the best songs are probably Get Into The Spirit, We Three Kings, I Don't Care and Oh Holy Night.

The entire disc is pretty solid, though I could do without Christmas for Everyone. Its just kinda there. The rest is terrific.

ChosenOne · Number of posts: 447 Registration date: 2007-08-28

I'm not a fan of Judas Priest or Halford but he did surprise me by doing a cover of "Here I Am To Worship ("Light of the World on the cd). That kind of came out of far left field

Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3335 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

That's not what "Light of the World" is. It is an original song written by Rob Halford himself. I looked more at the lyrics and they are of the "could be about God or my girlfriend" kind of thing (think: Stryper's Honestly). I think of it about God and I found it a great song!!

saki · Number of posts: 246 Age: 32 Registration date: 2007-04-08

In the context of the entire album, it is obviously about God.

ChosenOne · Number of posts: 447 Registration date: 2007-08-28

Unless he changed it, the lyrics to Light of the World is the exact same as Here I Am to Worship which is written by Chris Tomlin. Heres the lyrics posted on an earlier post:

Light of the world you step down into darkness
Opened my eyes let me see
Beauty that makes this heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You

So here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that your my God
Your altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me

King of all days
Oh so highly exalted
Glourious in Heaven above
Humbly You came to the earth you created
All for loves sake became poor

So here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that your my God
Your altoghether lovely
Altoghether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me

I'll never know how much it cost to see my sin apon that cross
I'll never know how much it cost to see my sin apon that cross

ChosenOne · Number of posts: 447 Registration date: 2007-08-28

Just listend to the samples, different song. I was just going by what was posted earlier.

GODSWIZARD · Play it LOUD!! Number of posts: 17975 Age: 52 Registration date: 2007-01-06

FOJ said:

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I looked more at the lyrics and they are of the "could be about God or my girlfriend" kind of thing....

You know it is not about Rob's girlfriend.

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Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3335 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

GODSWIZARD wrote:

You know it is not about Rob's girlfriend.

I know!

Its just that the world sometimes looks at its significant others as their light of the world. I agree that I think Rob is speaking of God in this song; but like Stryper's Honestly, the door has been left open for either interpretation.

Follower of Jesus · Number of posts: 3335 Age: 36 Registration date: 2007-04-07

This is a great CD! I have been listening daily to it for almost a week now and it is terrific! Even the songs that didn't grab me at first have turned out to be quite enjoyable to me now. I highly recommend this to fans of metal and Christmas music!

**Tall Tyrion** · Number of posts: 10208 Age: 41 Registration date: 2007-01-28

GODSWIZARD wrote:

You know it is not about Rob's girlfriend.

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Temple of Blood · Number of posts: 1108 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-04-09

I want to like this because I like what he is trying to do here but the 2 songs I heard from this just sounded really bad.

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