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[msongs]

1. odd how stores dont play islamic music near ramadan (if there is such a thing as islamic music) nt

[handmade34]

4. we will start asking them to

[guillaumeb]

9. Very nice. eom

[rug]

3. I'm fond of Advent music.

[justhanginon]

5. No generally speaking. I find it annoying in the stores because they pick the crappiest

versions of everything.

My personal favorites are Pavarotti's O Holy Night and Silent Night by a Russian choral group I heard many years ago and has haunted me ever since. Mind blowingly beautiful. I keep looking on YouTtube to no avail so far.

[justhanginon]

16. She has an excellent voice. I found her on you tube. A very different interpretation.

I will definitely listen to some of her other concerts.

Sometimes I don't think I could live without the beauty of music in my life, it just stirs something in my soul.

[Mariana]

19. The ones in the stores have the tempo so s--l--o--w.

I guess it's to put the shoppers into kind of a semi-conscious state, so they'll wander around the store in a daze, putting stuff in their carts and then paying for it as if they're sleepwalking. It's miserable for the poor sods who work having to listen to that. The time just drags and drags and an eight hour shift feels like forever.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Much of it has an uplifting quality to it, music-wise. I wouldn't want to hear it too much.

I don't buy or receive Christmas gifts anymore (since my parents passed away and I don't have my own family), so I don't have to worry about shopping effects.

I used to buy gifts for all my siblings and their kids, but that switched to children-only with a single adult gift exchange. It eventually evolved to adults buying gifts for just their own kids because it got too expensive.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Yep, we bring food too. Getting together is the best part.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Nice! I have some Republicans in my family, but we don't bring up politics.

My oldest sister and her husband, both Republicans, expressed disdain for Trump several months ago. I don't even want to ask them if they ended up voting for that asshole anyway.

[Act_of_Reparation]

22. Family conversation is the best gift?

Not when the gift giver is my crazy Uncle Liberty.

[JHan]

14. I love Choral music during Christmas and Easter...

Handel's Messiah... all that jazz.

[madamesilverspurs]

15. I'm a freak.

I love Christmas music (with some exceptions, like that hideous thing about a kid's mom dying so he buys her some shoes, or grandma being mowed down by a rampaging deer). I don't have to be a Mormon to appreciate their choir's gorgeous offerings. I can relish with equal joy the same hymn played on pipe organ or classical guitar. Barenaked Ladies' rendering of "We Three Kings" thrills me as much as Pavarotti's "O Holy Night". Small a capella groups softly singing "Silent Night" bring me to tears, just like Emmy Lou Harris with "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem". Peter Yarrow's "Light One Candle" brings Hannukah to the celebration. I could go on, but I'm guessing I don't need to. To put it simply, if you don't care for Christmas music you don't want to visit my place from Thanksgiving through New Years. And sometimes in June, just because.

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[JDC]

17. I'd like to not hear any music ever

Maybe I'm getting old, but I feel like I can't go anywhere w/o getting my head caved in by the pounding of music. Try going to Nordstrom Rack Sometime. Jesus Christ, you can't even fucking think. Old navy, the grocery store, the gas pump, whatever/wherever.

You kids get off my lawn.

Maybe a little xmas music....

[Dem2theMax]

18. I hate it. So, NO.

My Mom died in June of 2012. My Dad died five months later, 11 days before Christmas. I used to love Christmas,
the decorations, the music. Now I want to go somewhere from mid-November until mid-January, so I don't have to see any holiday anything. Sadly, I don't have the money to do that, or I'd find some place that fits.

I have become Scrooge. I used to be Santa Claus.

[Dem2theMax]

33. Now THAT made me laugh.

Off I go to YouTube, to find Cajun Christmas music. Everything else is there.
That has to be there too.

OK, on YouTube - who knew? I CAN listen to Christmas music. Cajun Christmas music!
You made my day. Thank you.

[nil desperandum]

20. Christmas Music

I'm not a believer, but I've always enjoyed some Christmas music...especially stuff like this.

[Cartoonist]

32. Love Charles Brown

Met him about ten years ago. Great guy.

Too bad he lost the rights to that song. He could have used the royalties.

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. I worked retail as a teenager and a young adult.

I have heard every Christmas song I care to hear more times than I care to admit. I used to like them as a kid, but now I'm just tired of them.

[Goblinmonger]

23. The problem is that they play the shitty, cheesy stuff.

I sing in a local chamber choir. We do a Lessons & Carols concert every December. I could sit out if I wanted, but even as an atheist, there is something very awesome about choral holiday music. We are singing part of the Messiah, a really cool version of O Magnum Mysterium and a lot of others that I don't mind singing even though I have NO belief in any of that anymore.

[Act_of_Reparation]

35. Neither did the Beach Boys, interestingly enough.

Dennis Wilson was the only one who could actually surf.

[Act_of_Reparation]

37. With their early following, probably.

I could imagine people living in middle America in the early 1960s, listening to the Beach Boys and dreaming of a more exotic, carefree existence.

Still, Brian Wilson was a songwriting and production genius. I'm sure he would still have done well even if he wrote songs about the consistency of French onion soup.

[Leontius]

31. I'm fine with Christmas music

on Christmas day. Anymore than that not so much