steamroller

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His first paycheck, for $100, was for playing a gingerbread man in a local performance by the Christmas music behemoth Mannheim Steamroller.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Dec. 4 ‘Mannheim Steamroller Christmas’ Chip Davis and company put a rock spin on the holiday in this multimedia-enhanced concert.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022

But they are a temporary dam: The Casio-preset vocals are an unstoppable torrent, and these eerie, plastic songs may well make Pentatonix the Mannheim Steamroller of the 2030s, the 2050s, maybe even the 2110s.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

Yet this is the stretch in the Steamroller odyssey where it is tempting to think, This Chip Davis fellow—was he in fact a great visionary of the twentieth century?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 28, 2018

The latter is plausible, especially when you consider the Binge-Watching Steamroller Theory, an idea from Slate TV critic Willa Paskin.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2016