a Los Angeles Radio station goes 100% xmas music 2 months before. I can hear my neighbor's

[Demovictory9]

holiday music. on a hot Southern Calif day way before thanksgiving.

how early is TOO early for Christmas?

[SterlingPound]

1. and holloween candy was in my stores during the first week of sept

It really is sad to think of quality food that could have been put on that floor space


but they do know what sells don't they

[Demovictory9]

2. they do. THe minute Christmas is over, the Valentines stuff will be put out

[pstokely]

12. and school supplies were out in Late June

schools started mid-August here

[SterlingPound]

25. It shows the priorites

and it isn't in the future of America

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. In my household

we have a firm rule of know Christmas music until after Santa shows up in the Macy’s parade.

Also, no Christmas music recorded before 1971, we are officially done with Bing Crosby (one exception: his duet with David Bowie)

[Demovictory9]

9. i like some pre 71 holiday music... judy garland's clang went the trolly...is that holiday???

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. I do too, but to be honest they have been played to death

Especially Crosby.

Check out out:

Good King Wenceslas by The Roches
Silver Bells - Twisted Sister
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Annie Lennox
The Holly & the Ivy - Jon Anderson
Little Drummer Boy - Pentatonix

I have more suggestions if you are interested, but must run now.

[Sneederbunk]

15. What happened in 1971?

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. So This is Christmas came out

an arbitrary division point.

[VOX]

4. Liberal L.A., the central command-post/staging-area/nerve-center of the "War on Christmas."

This year’s strategy: destroy Christmas by over-saturation.

[Demovictory9]

7. its been established for the past few years: 2 months of Christmas basically

[VOX]

13. And Christmas is still alive? Make it three months, then!

Just goofing, of course. Born and raised in L.A., live there most of my life. Retired to Palm Springs, still within striking distance.

[rustysgurl]

5. Several of my neighbors ...

... have outdoor lights and lawn decorations up already. One already has their tree up in the front window. It's not even the middle of November!!!

[Demovictory9]

6. holy moly! a tree up already!!! let Thanksgiving pass first

[EndlessWire]

8. I confess

For the past few years, I start listening to Christmas music at the end of summer. I do this to relieve stress. It's extremely comforting to me.

The thing that bugs me is that stores take down the Christmas merchandise before Christmas has even come. If you need something that you forgot, it's gone.

I used to feel that the seasonal displays were way too early for all of them, but I have mellowed a lot. I still need a longer than normal holiday season. Since I have pretty much anything in terms of music and films, I just make sure I don't get caught!

[Demovictory9]

10. there are plenty of those Hallmark films now

[Iliyah]

11. Coast usually starts non stop xmas music after

Thanksgiving. Honestly, I was seeing Xmas stuff before Halloween.

[mwooldri]

16. Sirius XM switched their channels for Christmas as well.

Though the Christmas channels are usually available year round on the app, usually SXM gradually introduced the channels on the satellite platform in the lead up to Thanksgiving. This year, they're all there, right now.

[OnDoutside]

18. Well to be fair, I do think it's starting to look a lot like Christmas....

[SterlingPound]

26. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 7 weeks before the day

Loudon Wainwright-Suddenly It's Christmas

via @YouTube

[Dr Hobbitstein]

19. Pretty sure it's legal to burn his house down for playing X-mas music before Black Friday.

If not, I’m almost 100% sure it’s legal to kick down his door, steal his radio, and beat it with a baseball bat in his front yard.

[Demovictory9]

23. he stopped

[AllaN01Bear]

20. my local wal mart is known for putting all 3 holiday ( halloween/thanksging

/christmas stuff in jully.arrg.

[Demovictory9]

24. wow.

[Basic LA]

21. Not till after Thanksgiving!

That's why Santa is always the last float in the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade. (At least that's what we were told as kids.)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. 100% Christmas music 2 months before December 25?

Oh, dear lord. If that were a station I normally listen to, I'd switch to another one until at least December 20.

[luvs2sing]

27. Honestly, there are several Christmas albums..

that I listen to year round. We don’t decorate till a couple weeks before the 25th, but the music is on our playlists year round.

[woodsprite]

28. We just ventured to our mall, and OMG

Everybody is Christmas shopping. Ugh!!!! We just wanted a gift card and a set of cute cartilage studs for a birthday present for my son’s GF.

[RockRaven]

29. A few houses down, they've put up their Xmas lights and had them on last night...

I think they literally took down their Halloween decorations and put up Christmas ones on the same day.

[Demovictory9]

33. Efficient..i guess

[Ohiogal]

30. A local radio station has started playing Christmas music

Several weeks ago! Before Halloween!

Saw Halloween candy in Walmart in August!

[Demovictory9]

32. Its so warm and dry in Calif it is jarring to hear songs about snow

Its ok when the weather gets cool

[Blue_true]

31. That absolutely drives me nuts. I switch my vehicle radio to anything else

when the station that I was listening to does that shit.

[Hotler]

34. Anytime before DEC.24.

But it is never to early to wish repugs Happy Holidays.

[gratuitous]

35. Yeah, a Portland station has begun, too

I don't mind Christmas music, but eight solid weeks? No. Just, no. There have been about four hours of Christmas music written, and filling 24 hours of air time means you hear every song six times a day. Yeah, different artists, but fer crissakes, you can only hear the Little Drummer Boy or Frosty the Snowman so many times before you snap.

[Demovictory9]

36. I think this list covers 95% of what is played over and over

Christmas song (Chesnuts roasting on an open fire) < --- this one will be played 20 times a day
I'm dreaming of white christmas
We wish you a merry christmas
I saw mommy kissing santa clause
I wanna wish you a merry christmas / Feliz navidad
Carol of the Bells - Transiberian orch.
Mamacita donde santa clause < spanish song
LIttle drummer boy
frosty the snowman
silent night
Christmas shoes
Do you hear what I hear
Grandma got run over by a raindeer
Mary did you know
Celebrate me home
Rudolph the red nose reindeer
I'll be home for Christmas
all ye Merry Gentlemen
these are a few of my favorite things
oh come all ye faithful
Oh holy night
All I want for christmas is you
"on the first day of christmas my true gave to me... "song

[question everything]

37. Also SiriuxXM on my radio

came with the car so I have kept it. Listening only to the oldies 40s, sometimes Sinatra. So starting Nov. they, too, moved to "Holiday music" until Dec. 24. I think.

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. Bah Humbug on the whole xmas thing