I hate Christmas music!

[bif]

I get so sick of hearing it day after day, wherever you go. I think there's even a 24/7 Christmas channel that starts just after Halloween. Yikes!

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I agree. The older I get, the more it annoys me.

[CrispyQ]

2. I love it! Even the religious songs.

I'm especially fond of Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Christmas soundtrack. I listen to that throughout the year.

[Permanut]

3. A certain amount is tolerable..

I always enjoyed caroling though.

[bif]

4. I can tolerate it a couple days before Christmas

and a day or two after. But that's about it.

[woodsprite]

5. My son works at a retail store in the mall.

He said that November 1, they get to start picking their ratio of Christmas to regular music. He said they start out at around 10-15%, then move toward 75% as the holiday gets closer. It seems like some go right to 100% before Halloween.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. A Radio Station Herr In Chicago...

...went to 24/7 Christmas music at 12am November 1st.
My wife's car radio has been glued to that channel for 5 weeks.
And, TWO of the Music Choice channels on cable are 100% holiday tunes. She has those on all day, too.
Or, she's playing CDs of Xmas tunes.
She's nuts about that stuff!

[Brainstormy]

6. Me too, but

I hate Christmas movies more. especially the Hallmark variety. Retch.

[doc03]

7. I do too

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. The website I use the most for music has three of them.

One stays all year round!

I do like some of it, but I also make sure to have plenty of parody songs around as well, to take the edge off.

[rurallib]

9. I think the biggest problem is that there are so few songs

that make up the majority of playlists for stores and radio stations. Seems like it is about 15 to 20 songs and that is all.

I like christmas music but not the same shit over and over.

Right now I am listening to Bach - Cantata, BWV 147: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring on YouTube and have a classical album lined up to listen to.

[soldierant]

11. I think you are on to something.

I think fewer people would hate it so if they could be exposed to the vast variety which exists of Christmas music we have access to, from every century since musical notation was standardized (and some older, (not that we know with perfect accuracy how they in fact sounded) and from every nation around the world. Bach is definitely part of that treasure, and so is, for instance Jester Hairston. How many people know that Duke Ellington recorded several movements of the "Nutcracker Suite" in his own (and Billy Strayhorn's) inimitable style? Plus every year there are new ones. And there's room for parody too.

There's a family in my town which goes all out with its decorating every year, and they are written up in the local paper, and many people drive by. They have a strict 9:00 pm curfew so as to minimize inconvenience to their neighbors. And there is an accompanying sound tape for which they rent an FM frequency so people can listen in their cars, and it doesn't have to be blared all over the neighborhood. On that tape, among many others, there is a parody called "Decorations" (to the tune of "Good Vibrations&quot which makes fun of people who decorate the way they do.