No more, please

[six_demon_bag]

I used to love "Carol of the Bells", but now that it's become one of the most overused songs in marketing history, it's climbed to the top of my "I'd Rather Listen To The Worst Pop Radio Has To Offer Than Hear This Song Again" list. At least I can still enjoy the excellent Trans-Siberian Orchestra version in "Christmas Eve Sarajevo", but for how

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[bellaxmuerta]

Ah, yeah, when a song gets repeated, no matter how awesome it is, it gets boring.
hmm I'm curious as to what other songs made it to that list :-P

[six_demon_bag]

haha there are several, but then a lot of them ARE the worst pop radio has to offer.

For instance: 3oh 3's "Don't Trust Me".

And then there are the songs that get played on EVERY channel because they're kind of alternative but they're kind of pop, too. Nothing kills a song faster than that.

And I can't forget Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama". Classic rock and I used to love it, but it's just played and sampled way too much.

haha I could go on.

[anonymous]

I guess I'm really lucky. I haven't heard much Christmas music this season, so I'm not sick of it, although the horrid version of "Christmas Wrapping" that I heard a week ago kind of made me want to find the idiots repsonsible and wrap them in clear packing tape.

Which reminds me, I turned on the radio on the way home yesterday and barely got half of the original "Christmas Wrapping." It's one of my most favoritest of favorite non-traditional Christmas tunes. Another huge favorite is Louis Armstrong's "Cool Yule." That song is SWINGIN' man!

"So dig...Santa comes on big..."

[gearhead69]

Eh - forgot to log in before commenting...again.

[six_demon_bag]

I'm not sure if I've even heard "Christmas Wrapping" before and I definitely have to check out "Cool Yule" -- can never go wrong with Louis Armstrong.

I've always liked the classics from the likes of Nat King Cole, Dolly Parton, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, etc. and even have CD collections of them. And I also loved the Chipmunks Christmas vynil I grew up with. And the Oak Ridge Boys Christmas was pretty fantastic.

But Trans-Siberian Orchestra took it to a whole other level with their first album, Christmas Eve And Other Stories back when that came out. I saw them three times and there seriously is not a better show around. They had this one guy, "Diamond" Daryl Pediford, who absolutely stole the show every time with the most amazing and powerful bluesy rock voice you'd ever heard, but he unfortunately passed a few years ago and I haven't been able to get myself to go see them again since.

[gearhead69]

My folks were pretty old-school when it came to music, and I grew up listening to a lot of big band any classical music (which didn't hurt me any in later years, even after glam metal took its place - I still had solid grounding). At Christmas it was always Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby on the record player, without fail. I remember mom asking me to record Crosby's Christmas album from record to cassette in later years so we could listen to it when the record player was giving us fits. This was before it was issued on CD.

I absolutely recall the Chipmunks stuff. We had that somewhere around the house. "Alvin? Alvin. ALVIIIIN!"

At Christmas time one year the band was playing at a well-known bar downtown and a bunch of those guys from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra came in and wanted to get up on stage and play. They were already hammered at about 10pm. They said they were going to go down the street to the strip joint first, and then they would be back to play. We never saw them again.

[polygonia]

Working retail has killed my xmas spirit.
I'm going out to take a blow torch to frosty and to roast Rudolf now and break jingle bells.

[six_demon_bag]

Haha yes, I'm not in retail now, but I was up until a few months ago and yeah, I know what you mean.

[six_demon_bag]

I'm glad you got a good laugh out of it. =)

Haha I can't talk too much because I actually have a fair amount of pop and guilty pleasures in my CD collection, including stuff like the first Rihanna album, Daniel Bedingfield (remember him?), Brandy, TLC, both Justin Timberlake albums, etc... but I still can't tolerate actually listening to a pop radio station for more than one or two songs.

[vegawriters]

I can listen to TSO's all year long, twice on Sunday, and STILL cry during it. It's that powerful for me. But the rest of it ... eh. I still regress to high school choir when I usually hear it. ;-)

[six_demon_bag]

Yeah, that entire TSO album, Christmas Eve And Other Stories is pretty damned powerful -- especially performed live -- and I even feel like I might tear up a little during their song "Old City Bar". And I love the story the album is made around.