Ok, Christmas is over. Can we PLEASE start listening to real music again?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

For example...

[Tobin S.]

1. There were a couple of local stations

that switched to an all Christmas music format at around Thanksgiving. It was such a drag to tune in to their stations thinking you'd hear something decent and it would end up being cheesy Christmas music. I would always forget that they were on that format. I'd switch to the channel expecting to rock out and here's "Little Drummer Boy."

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. I don't mind the occasional repeat of a seasonal song.

I really don't. But to hear of The 12 Days over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for a solid month is simply too much for a sane man to bear.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I just HATE "The Little Drummer Boy" in all of its treacly, heinous arrangements.

Always have. It's the worst Christmas song ever.

[Archae]

4. Even Mannheim Steamroller's version?

Takes that stupid song and makes it halfway decent.

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. Worst Xmas song?

IMHO that would be "Rudolf the red nosed reindeer".

[First Speaker]

7. I would love for Rudolph to feed my family for the winter...

...not that I have anything against him, you understand...

[Logical]

19. Wow, really? nt

[lastlib]

13. No, Rudolph has redeeming value. Drummer Boy has NONE!

YES, Drummer Boy is the WORST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER!

[Lionel Mandrake]

21. Any Xmas song sung by very young children

will be worse than you could possibly imagine. I don't mean, e.g., the Vienna Choir Boys, who are well trained. No, I have in mind an enthusiastic group of younger children, carefully selected for lack of musical aptitude. Some of them might occasionally hit a right note by accident. Rudolf will be one of their favorites, with lyrics modified to include "like a light bulb". You will be lucky if you never hear this.

[Wolf Frankula]

20. Little Drummer Brat

"This baby's been a pain, pa rum pum pum pum.
I just got him to sleep, pa rum pum pum pum.
In comes that little brat playing a drum,
I'll ram those sticks right up his rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum."

But the worst is 'Do They Know It's Christmas.'

Oh look how much we rich rock stars care. "Do they know it's Christmas?" No, the Muslims don't care it's Christmas. And the Ethiopian Christians say, "No it's NOT Christmas, and won't be for almost two weeks." There won't be snow in Africa. I hope not, do you want them to starve AND freeze.

Wolf

[BlueJazz]

5. That scream you heard every half hour was yours truly having a tantrum hearing..

..Rockin' around the Xmas tree for the 796th time..this year.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. You got it.

Like it never happened.

[MrScorpio]

9. No!

Not until you check out my Holiday mixes:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Mr_Scorpio/mrscorpios-fresh-to-2015-holiday-mix/

https://www.mixcloud.com/Mr_Scorpio/2015-mix-series-mrscorpios-classic-hottest-sounds-holiday-mix/

[jakeXT]

10. DJ locks himself inside studio and plays Wham!’s Last Christmas 24 times

A radio DJ really got into the Christmas spirit when he barricaded himself inside a studio and played Wham!’s Last Christmas 24 times.

DJ Joe Kohlhofer, from the Austrian radio station Antennae Carinthia, began his morning show with the popular festive hit and then played it on repeat.

He refused to let other staff in after he told his helpless co-host Patricia Jordan he would be doing the show on his own.

The 27-year-old DJ started his regular 8am show by announcing he felt people were not getting sufficiently into the Christmas spirit, and that as a remedy he intended to play the song non-stop throughout his two-hour show.


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Kohlhofer eventually stopped played Last Christmas when his four-year-old daughter was put on the line and asked him to stop.

“I wanted to play it all day, but because I love my daughter so much I gave in to her request,” he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/12062109/Joe-Kohlhofer-Antennae-Carinthia-plays-Whams-Last-Christmas-24-times.html

[Scuba]

11. In one hospital in which I worked, my office had a speaker just outside the door. They played ...

... Christmas music from Thanksgiving to mid-January.









They taught me to hate Christmas music with fiery passion.

[LiberalElite]

12. I like very little Christmas music

Carol of the Bells
Wonderful Christmastime
All I want for Christmas is You
Dominick the Donkey
Peanuts Christmas cartoon soundtrack
Any part of the Nutcracker

OTOH of all the rest of the overdone worn out bunch I particularly hate White Christmas, and the thing of recent years that has some guy "singing" -very slowly-"a ve-ry spe-cial Christ-mas this year....."

Also don't like all the TV commercials with the tingly jingly triangle ding ching ching...

BUT NOW IT'S OVER!

[2naSalit]

14. I get Two radio stations on my real radio

which I prefer since I don't have a lot of bandwidth out here in the hinterlands (that I could afford) and all they play, from the evening of Thanksgiving to Jan. 1 or 3 the next year is f'ing Jingle Bells, Johnny Mathis and Karen Carpenter...and sometimes some awesome classical stuff but mostly it's the schmalzty stuff.

So I listen to online stuff and my vast library and only check in for news.

[Binkie The Clown]

15. O.K., But first,... Just one more round of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

16. You know, there's a reason people don't like clowns....

[panader0]

17. "Hoof prints on her forehead,

and suspicious Claus marks on her back".!!!
Nasty Santa...

[Logical]

18. Well, if I had to listen to that I would stick with Karen Carpenter Xmas music anytime. nt

[lastlib]

22. I can listen to Karen Carpenter pretty easily.....

she is the spitting image, physically AND vocally, of a wonderful young lady I dated in high school. So when I hear Carpenters, I just imagine it's her singing. Otherwise, I would probably choke myself trying to kill that music off.