They don't know it's Christmas time because it hasn't freakin' started yet!

[evadne_noel]

I really should have done this last week because that's when one of the radio stations I listen to started playing Christmas music full time, but I was in a state of denial and didn't want to deal with the inevitable. But since every consumer establishment around feels the need to play holiday muzak and one of my apartment complex neighbors has

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[dreamstrifer]

I am extremely happy we don't play music at the bakery. Although we had this godawful train last year that my dad kept setting off playing "Jingle Bells." I just wanted to die. Well, not really. More like wanted to throw apple horns at the thing.

My mom plays Joy to the World every Christmas morning so it's kind of... a tradition that you can't miss out on or she'll kill you. Convincing woman, that mother.

What about Hark the Herald Angels Sing? I just love sacred carols way more than contemporary. But that's the Lutheran in me peeking out, I s'pose. We sang O Holy Night at church one year, and they didn't hit the divine note right (considering my choir is composed of altos and altos who wish they were sopranos), which meant I had to carry it. Alone. Like always. *sigh*

[evadne_noel]

My father has a Santa Head that plays "Here Comes Santa Claus" when you walk by it. I swear it's a dad thing.

"Hark the Herald Angels Sing" is a good one, and I really like the Amy Grant version (probably because I grew up with it). And as long as you were carrying the "divine," it was better than most versions I have heard.

[agentmaly]

Well, see, you can get around the 'divine' problem by being a female tenor like me and starting out really low anyway. ^^;;

[conceited_jerk]

oh dear bowie i totally agree with the christmas song hate-ness

i mean it all started WEEKS ago. i could be heard growling in stores 'it's not even good damn thanksgiving yet what in gay hell are these people thinking?'

the thing is, they werent (arent)

anyways, there seem to be so many people in the world (including the large number of passers-by who heard me and gave me a 'right on brother') who hate dragging out the christmas spirit months too early, so i often wonder why the people put in charge of music at the department stores havent gotten the hint and hold off on the christmas music until maybe december

oh dear, well, that was my rant

[evadne_noel]

I have no idea why people want to hear Christmas songs mid-November. I like my Christmas spirit dragged out of the basement in December. I'd like to think that these people just like Christmas a heckuva lot more than I do and not that it's some crass, commercial trick. But I live in a special world.

[piiak]

Christmas Music: The source of all evil and the wellspring of mischievous elves. Those ones that sing "It's a Small World" just long enough to drive humanity insane. (*shiver*)

Just take a listen to Rob Zombie sing "Christmas with the Devil" and the rest of them suddenly don't seem so bad anymore...but all Christmas songs are evil, just some are not as evil as others. Kinda like chocolate, where the hollowed out Easter Bunny seems less sugary than the Cadbury Egg. But that could just be me.

[evadne_noel]

Oh, don't even mention "It's a Small World." "Favorite Things" has already been added to the Christmas playlist (I don't know why), we don't need any other Disney disasters coming onto the scene.

Okay, so no listening to Rob Zombie carols. Check.

[piiak]

My bad...seems to be Spinal Tap who sings it. Actually, that explains quite a lot, doesn't it?

[evadne_noel]

Ahahaha. Okay, for some reason I now want to hear that song.

[m_danson]

I was once subjected to the Star Wars Christmas Album (available for download) and I swear that I'd rather shoot myself in the head than listen to it twice.

There are some really warped Christmas songs out there... try to find one that has the line "There's somethin' stuch up in the chimney and I don't know what it is..." sung by a small child. It's about Santa dying and rotting in a chimney...

[evadne_noel]

A Star Wars Christmas Album sounds like a contender for the Worst Idea Ever Award. I hope and pray that you never have to listen to it again, and I never have to hear it at all.

Also, Santa dying in the chimney is really gross and should not be played around children.

[m_danson]

You can find the review and album at I-Mockery.com:

http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/starwars-xmas/default.php

[evadne_noel]

Oh God. I clicked the link and listened to the first song. Why did I do that? Why?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[elisa0984]

My high school chem/bio teacher would play Dominic the Donkey over and over again. We hated it. So we ended up writing out the song in our AP Bio test booklets as one of the few things we had learned that year. Turns out that he orders copies after each test, nice to get some pent-up distaste out.

[evadne_noel]

What the hell was wrong with your teacher? That is a horrible thing to do to students, and you have my complete sympathy.

[elisa0984]

He was a strange man. I think Dominic made him worse.

[evadne_noel]

The "Hee Haw" bits would make anyone worse.