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Spent the morning in the disaster area known as the music department. All the Christmas music (er, Holiday music, though there's precious little that isn't Christmas music in the pile) is being put out, last month's sale items are going away, but the transitional period is not pretty. Boxes everywhere, as we try to sort through what is going, what is staying, and where the heck we're going to put it all.
Does anyone remember when it became chic to release a Christmas CD? I know that last year, I noticed that we seem to have suddenly started carrying a lot of new Christmas music... I mean, like the Destiny's Child Christmas CD, and the Hilary Duff Christmas CD, and the Jethro Tull Christmas Album. It felt like overkill last year (how many Christmas carols are there, really? One hundred? Two hundred?).
Then the 2004 wave...
Ultimate Christmas Album (volumes 1-6)... Ultimate Christmas Cocktails... Utimate Nutcracker... Ultimate Soul Christmas... Ultimate Sacred Christmas...
Incredible Christmas Album... Very Best of Celtic Christmas... Now That's What I Call Christmas-The Signature Collection
Not to forget the old standbyes... the guys who put out Christmas Albums every year: Harry Connick, jr; Transiberian Orchestra; Mannheim Steamroller... or reissues of old favorites: Christmas With the Rat Pack... Frank Sinatra... Tony Bennett.
We also have the battle of the male vocalists... Christmas CDs from: Chris Isaak (ok that one actually looks sort of interesting) ...Lou Rawls... Clay Aiken... William Hung... The Blind Boys of Alabama (of course, having stuck them in the list after William Hung, they probably wish they're the Deaf Boys of Alabama now).
Jewish? Not to worry. You can buy the O.C. Soundtrack: Have A Very Merry Chrismukkah (it has one, count it, one, Jewish song on it... which, thankfully, isn't the Dreidel song, so I guess we can give them credit for trying).
And the above list? Those are only some of the 2004 offerings.
It looked like a Christmas Carol Reactor hit critical mass. Not only have all of the Shiny New Christmas CDs from Christmas Past returned for repeat hauntings, but we've got the Shiny New Christmas CDs of Christmas Present, rattling chains and giving the modern Scrooge heart failure (or indigestion). Visions of the Shiny New CDs of Christmas Yet To Come are going to keep me up at night (What's next year? Simply Dreadful: The American Idol Rejects Christmas Collection...A Folksy Christmas with Bob Dylan...Kenny G, John Tesh, and Yanni, Together For a Very Special Christmas...The Yes We Really Mean It This Time, Absolutely Definitive Ultimate Christmas Collection...?).
When I gazed at the teetering stacks of Christmas CDs, piled everywhere, all I could do was groan, "What the Dickens is going on here?"
Does anyone remember when it became chic to release a Christmas CD? I know that last year, I noticed that we seem to have suddenly started carrying a lot of new Christmas music... I mean, like the Destiny's Child Christmas CD, and the Hilary Duff Christmas CD, and the Jethro Tull Christmas Album. It felt like overkill last year (how many Christmas carols are there, really? One hundred? Two hundred?).
Then the 2004 wave...
Ultimate Christmas Album (volumes 1-6)... Ultimate Christmas Cocktails... Utimate Nutcracker... Ultimate Soul Christmas... Ultimate Sacred Christmas...
Incredible Christmas Album... Very Best of Celtic Christmas... Now That's What I Call Christmas-The Signature Collection
Not to forget the old standbyes... the guys who put out Christmas Albums every year: Harry Connick, jr; Transiberian Orchestra; Mannheim Steamroller... or reissues of old favorites: Christmas With the Rat Pack... Frank Sinatra... Tony Bennett.
We also have the battle of the male vocalists... Christmas CDs from: Chris Isaak (ok that one actually looks sort of interesting) ...Lou Rawls... Clay Aiken... William Hung... The Blind Boys of Alabama (of course, having stuck them in the list after William Hung, they probably wish they're the Deaf Boys of Alabama now).
Jewish? Not to worry. You can buy the O.C. Soundtrack: Have A Very Merry Chrismukkah (it has one, count it, one, Jewish song on it... which, thankfully, isn't the Dreidel song, so I guess we can give them credit for trying).
And the above list? Those are only some of the 2004 offerings.
It looked like a Christmas Carol Reactor hit critical mass. Not only have all of the Shiny New Christmas CDs from Christmas Past returned for repeat hauntings, but we've got the Shiny New Christmas CDs of Christmas Present, rattling chains and giving the modern Scrooge heart failure (or indigestion). Visions of the Shiny New CDs of Christmas Yet To Come are going to keep me up at night (What's next year? Simply Dreadful: The American Idol Rejects Christmas Collection...A Folksy Christmas with Bob Dylan...Kenny G, John Tesh, and Yanni, Together For a Very Special Christmas...The Yes We Really Mean It This Time, Absolutely Definitive Ultimate Christmas Collection...?).
When I gazed at the teetering stacks of Christmas CDs, piled everywhere, all I could do was groan, "What the Dickens is going on here?"