Oh snap, I hadn't even thought about egg nog yet. Is it for sale yet? Gotta go check next time i'm at the grocery store.
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Christmas music is a blight upon the musical industry
- Thread starter Jarate
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Hell yeah. Hood Pumpkin is my favorite, but I like almost all kinds. It is on.
I wasn't a big fan of Christmas music until I had kids. Now I look forward to this time of year. And it's not like it's hard to avoid it anyway, I guess unless your job plays it nonstop.
The real blight on Christmas music is that the current standard is to cover songs that are 60 years old because you want to recreate a boomer's childhood every year. Effectively, it spits on the medium and is anti-art in its stagnation.
I love Christmas music. Getting older sucks and it transports you back. In a way it's depressing because it reminds me of how much of an event Christmas was. So much excitement with parties, presents, and vacation which that week and a half felt like an eternity.
This is why I created my own Christmas playlist on Spotify. The big thing is Now That's What I Call Christmas, which features the original versions of songs, except for It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, had to get the Andy Williams version separate. Also included are Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve and Other Stories, the Home Alone soundtrack, Enya's And Winter Came, and Brian Setzer's Boogie Woogie Christmas.
Nah not true there isa lot more to it than that. Obviously the foundation is built on that, but the fact that for many people this is the only time you actually see your family, and the music evokes memories of times with family and the excitement growing up where it comes from. Again it was born out of capitalism, but at this point it's about nostalgia for many people.
People that unironically say they hate Christmas music are either only listening to the radio or top Christmas playlists on Spotify.
Dig a little people. Expand your horizons. Saying you hate all Christmas music is like saying you hate all Rap music. There's more out there than you could ever listen to in your lifetime and there's a 0% chance you hate all of it.
Dig a little people. Expand your horizons. Saying you hate all Christmas music is like saying you hate all Rap music. There's more out there than you could ever listen to in your lifetime and there's a 0% chance you hate all of it.
Mathismas is one my favorite times of the year because it's when Johnny Mathis, the greatest singer the world has ever known, gets his time to shine!
Excepting The Nutcracker, this is almost the only Christmas music I can stand to hear anymore without feeling like torching a Xmas tree lot.
That said, I'm also a bit of sucker for a really lovely instrumentation like this one:
As a musician, I loathe Christmas music. I'm in a group that does nothing but gigs all December long, but we started rehearsing around labor day.
CHRISTMAS BELLS THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS
RING OUT FROM THE LANNNND
ASKING PEACE OF ALL THE WORLD
AND GOOD WILL TO MAN
RING OUT FROM THE LANNNND
ASKING PEACE OF ALL THE WORLD
AND GOOD WILL TO MAN
Christmas is the only holiday I enjoy and I love everything Christmas. I even subscribe to Sling so I can put on toy commercials for the kids. I absolutely love Christmas music. Once they start playing it non stop on the radio, it's all I listen to, that and giantbomb.
Working retail 100% ruined most christmas music for me.
I like the Sufjan Stevens and Low christmas albums a good bit thought, because I like getting sad as hell during the holidays.
I like the Sufjan Stevens and Low christmas albums a good bit thought, because I like getting sad as hell during the holidays.
Paul McCartney Christmas music should be a fucking crime. So good on never hearing Wonderful Christmastime for the rest of my life.
The moon is right
The spirits up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
SIMPLY
HAVING
A WONDERFUL
CHRISTMAS TIME
The spirits up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
SIMPLY
HAVING
A WONDERFUL
CHRISTMAS TIME
Out of college, almost two decades ago, I worked for a year or so at a Container Store. Christmas music started the day after Halloween. And it was on for the next two months straight. I'm not afraid to admit I kind of liked it.
There've been lots of great songs added to the holiday over the years, but I'm gonna go ahead and admit that both The Christmas Song and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas still legit cause me to tear up (like, emotional tear up, not necessarily sad). Even some of the older songs still hold up.
So you don't like any of the below?
Fairytale of New York (The Pogues & Kirsty McColl)
Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses)
Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens)
Last Christmas (Wham)
