Christmas music is an absolute insult to anything with ears. Wanna fight about it?

[NightWatcher]

1. There's only a dozen songs, but they'll let anyone ( I mean anyone) record an album of them making the songs shitty in their own personal shitty way.

2. It's played non stop from the end of November for an entire month. If they didn't suck, they could be played other times of the year. I can listen to Pink Floyd anytime of the year... because they don't suck.

3.It's nearly as redundant and brainwashing as religious music. The phrase "jingle bells" occurs 964 times in the normal version of the song.


And another thing. I don't trust the musical opinions of people who like Christmas music. Never has anyone said, "after we listen to that bootleg Lou Reed where he nearly cries during Sweet Jane before he transfers into a slower version of Heroin, let's listen to this copy I found of Chipmunks Christmas or The Christmas Shoes."

[Coventina]

1. I'm listening to "O Come, O come Emmanuel" right now.

[4139]

10. In English and Hebrew ...

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[Coventina]

11. Very cool! The version I was listening to was instrumental.

Now I'm listening to "Personet Hodie", sung in Latin, of course!

[lynintenn]

33. Beautiful

[trueblue2007]

44. i used to play BRING A TORCH.... on the piano when i was in my teens

[Newest Reality]

2. OK, you're on...

I have launched a salvo of radioactive missal toes! It's a whole tonnenbaums! Prepare to have your halls decked. Slay bells are gonna' ring.

[hlthe2b]

3. I tune it out except on Christmas Eve at home...

and if someone wants to hear some--Christmas morning. I'm very selective though. There is soooo much bad music and so many awful renditions out there.

Of course, I can listen to Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts soundtrack any time.

[Disaffected]

20. Speaking of awful renditions,

I still remember Stevie Wonder's hip-hopped up version of Silent Night. It didn't last long and no wonder, it was a travesty.

Personally, I much prefer the traditional Christmas carols, played by an orchestra and sung by a choir.

[wcmagumba]

4. Speaking as a buddhist/atheist...

I do like christmas music..I listen to the classical christmas instrumentals channel on accuradio.com. I also like the Mr. Magoo version of Scrooge. Found it on this link a few days agoo...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3fyqy4

[hlthe2b]

5. Mr. Magoo was great...

[Beartracks]

6. Classic Christmas instrumentals is my favorite kind!

That's what brought me to accuradio, too.

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[jpak]

38. Mr. Magoo's Christmas carol scared the crap out of my when I was a kid

The Mid-60's Broadway interpretation was strange...

[wcmagumba]

49. You're right...

it is a little spooky...

[Beartracks]

7. Way more than a dozen Christmas songs! But...

... the ones cut by everyone and his brother with a record label do seem to be the same ones, all the time.

And my pet peeve is pop love songs that just "happen to take place at Christmas" being played on the radio like they'll get you in the Christmas spirit the same as Carol of the Bells or Ave Maria.

"Please, baby, it's Christmas, please come home...."

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[BuffaloJackalope]

8. There's all kinds of Christmas music

[stopbush]

9. Er, if you listen to classical music there are literally hundreds of

Xmas “songs,” not to mention carols, oratorios, concertos, etc.

You have an extremely limited view of what music is, let alone Xmas music.

Xmas music by Bach and Handel an insult to the ears?

[doc03]

12. There is one I can't stand Little Drummer boy

Pahrump pum pun. Can you imagine being locked in a cell with that playing for hours and hours.

[smirkymonkey]

50. I generally like Christmas music, but I really hate that song.

I don't know why it grates on my nerves so badly, but it does.

[doc03]

61. We had a Christmas play when I was in the sixth grade. We had to practice that

song day after day for weeks, that's my reason.

[smirkymonkey]

62. I think for me it's the "Ra pum pa pum" chorus.

I have hated that ever since I was a child. Not really sure why, but it has always annoyed me.

[nolabear]

65. Every year I take the LDB Challenge.

Beginning Thanksgiving. Longest to make it w/o hearing it wins. So far so good this year. Last year I was put out by hearing it in a parking lot through some obviously stone deaf lady’s car windows! 😫

[pangaia]

13. Well, Christmas period is a gold mine for some classical musicians..

even retired ones like me.
EVERYBODY needs a timpanist... church gigs, local choruses, ....

Last night. the ENTIRE freakin' MESSAIAH !!! All three parts. 2 and a half hours....

Timpani only plays in three of the choruses... and nowhere to hide...
Get my check and go home..

AMEN !!!!!!

[NightWatcher]

14. Classical performance music doesn't count (French horn player here)

I'm talking about the commercial crap piped into every grocery store to oil change place and the channels on the radio that only play it in December

[pangaia]

15. I'm with you on that one... for sure....

blechk...

[handmade34]

16. I love Christmas Music

especially done by a Jewish Man

and one of my favorites...

and an Atheist...

and...

[sdfernando]

58. Oh GOD!!!!

Please NOT kenny g! ...or michael bolton for that matter.

Would rather burn in hell!

[Major Nikon]

60. Don't forget everyone's favorite cult classic

[underpants]

17. Mmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm

Mele Kalikimaka

[catbyte]

22. That song will always be Bing's to me.

[zeusdogmom]

18. Just got home from singing in a concert of Advent and Christmas music.

It was beautiful music - vocal and instrumental. Most of the selections were pieces you would never or seldom hear on commercial radio or on the 60-90 minute repeat loop in public places. Wish you could have heard us. We are really very good. I am now officially ready to celebrate Christmas.

If you want to hear good Christmas music on the radio, you might want to check out SOME of religious stations. Seriously. There is some good programming out there. Now to be honest, not all of the religious stations do a good job of this, but some do. Spin your radio dial a bit - you might be surprised. Of course Pandora, etc. are good sources.

[msongs]

19. safeway said I should fall on my knees to the savior, Home depot said the lord is come

all I wanted wanted at safeway was a box of noodles and some nails at HD but I got their religion instead lol

[catbyte]

21. Sorry, but I get a big ol' lump in my throat every time I hear Judy Garland sing, "Have Yourself A

Merry Little Christmas." It's quite melancholy and has gotten even more poignant over the years as I've lost loved ones. And I love listening to old Tudor-age and Baroque Christmas music. You can keep the "Santa Baby" type dreck, thank you very much.

Edited to add:

[smirkymonkey]

54. I love that song and that film!

Thank you for posting!

[BuffaloJackalope]

23. .

[jpak]

24. I saw REM perform a killer version of Little Drummer Boy at Tyrone's OC in Athens GA Dec. 1981

So you lose...

[IcyPeas]

25. Dandy Warhols did a great version too:

[nocoincidences]

26. I have nothing good to say about Christmas music.

It is almost as boring as tradition Christian hymns, which include only a few notes of the scale available to them.

But I also don't celebrate Christmas.

Hate the whole charade, music, rituals, decorations. Blech.

[Fiendish Thingy]

27. Clearly you haven't listened to enough Christmas music

Or your musical tastes are too narrow.

If your experience is limited to grocery store Muzak, you're missing out.

[IADEMO2004]

28. Unlike country music Christmas music is only around a few weeks a year.

[Pachamama]

29. Oh no Nightwatcher - this challenge is on!

Any song sung by Nat King Cole or Johnny Mathis (including Christmas songs) are wonderful!!!



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[NightWatcher]

31. But on repeat for 31 days straight with the exclusion of every other type of music?

And coming from every radio station in every building you go?

[Pachamama]

32. Everything in moderation....

You got a point there...

[lynintenn]

30. Joan Baez singing Carol Of the Birds

gives me a lump in my throat. I love classical Christmas music also. O Come O come, Emmanuel was written in the 14th century and is believed to be the oldest Christmas song.

[Dr Vegas]

34. I think You Mean Christmas Radio Stations

that play the same 12-15 songs every year. I make mix cds for Friends and Family and contain unusual or not often heard Christmas Music. I often include songs about the Winter season and traditional songs sung in different languages.

You mention Lou Reed, how about this song?

[Dr Vegas]

36. The Weeklings - Revolution Wonderland

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. I apparently lead a very charmed life.

Haven't yet heard any Christmas music, but then I don't get out much and I don't listen to very much radio. Nor do I have a TV.

However, this may offer an lovely alternative.

[3catwoman3]

37. I distinguish between Christmas carols and...

...Christmas songs. I’m not a Christian, but I love classic Christmas carols, particularly a stirring instrumental rendition of Adeste Fidelis/ O Come All Ye Faithful, O Holy Night, The First Noel, or Joy To The World. Also, medleys of carols.

I have a Christmas CD by Placido Domingo that I could listen to year round. A mix of carols and songs - no hokey songs.

I do like Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride. And Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas/Sarajevo - when the piece gets to the end where the violin is shrieking (in a good way), I feel as if I am one of the violin strings that is being bowed so enthusiastically. Carol of the Bells is fun to play on hand bells.

Christmas “songs” - not so much for the vast majority of them. Gotta love Bing’s White Christmas, especially the part where he whistles.

[LakeArenal]

39. Not gonna fight but I love a lot of it

https://m.

Merry Christmas!🎄

[smirkymonkey]

55. I generally like more traditional Christmas music, but I really love this version of "Carol of the

Bells". It is very moving. Thanks for posting!

[llmart]

40. OK. Is it now time to resurrect last year's epic thread about...

"Baby It's Cold Outside"?

It turned into an argument about how creepy/rapey the words were. It went on forever.

I am not religious but O Holy Night can bring me to tears.

[pansypoo53219]

41. o, holy night is ok, but most is dreck. tho, i do have a nice medieval christmas music CD.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

42. Lots of Christmas electric violin music by,,,

Lindsey Stirling is my cup of tea. Also, anything by Pentatonix, anytime, but especially the Christmas songs.

[lindysalsagal]

43. Sentimental but you're better off if you ignore the words....

the total lack of meaning is actually sad. But you heard it all over the years, so, it sounds right a few days a year....

[Bayard]

45. I have put together a compilation of great xmas music

Just broke it out again today. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, James Taylor, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Loggins, Heart, Sting, U2, on and on. A lot of it is original material. I think its about 5 hours worth altogether.

Great stuff.

Regular old xmas music....not so much.

A favorite:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. A lot of commercial Christmas music is truly horrible,

and some arrangements of it are especially loathsome. But there's some absolutely glorious classical Christmas music and I never get tired of that.

[jmowreader]

47. There is this one from The Kinks

And just so you get in the proper Christmas spirit (you know, extreme depression), I present to you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=cQaJn11t94M&feature=emb_logo

So you won't hate me forever...

[Cicada]

48. There are a few exceptions. Like Merry Christmas Baby by Charles Brown

[I_UndergroundPanther]

51. I wish there was a limit

Per day that malls and stores and
public spaces and tv could play Xmas music per times of day. Id
want malls and other stores required to start with Xmas shit after Thanksgiving.
Better yet December 10th. Halloween is my favorite holiday should not be mixed with xmas at all.

[Deb]

52. Handel's Messiah, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker?

[janterry]

53. It was Christmas Eve, Babe - In the drunktank

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[smirkymonkey]

56. C'mon! Not even Ella Fitzgerald Christmas Tunes?

These are fantastic!

Don't be so Grinchy!

[mopinko]

57. xmas blues are the best blues.

[mnhtnbb]

59. I went to an abbreviated performance of Handel's Messiah

by the North Carolina Symphony and the North Carolina Master Chorale last Friday noon. They were doing the full Messiah in evening performances.

I was literally in tears marveling at the complexity and beauty of the music.

There is all kinds of Christmas music.


One of my all time favorites, from the time I was a kid.

Mahalia Jackson singing O Holy Night.

And the Duke Pearson version of the Little Drummer Boy is the best I've ever heard.

[DiverDave]

63. The kinks

Father Christmas. Boom

[nolabear]

64. Au contraire! Every year I look for new songs. My collection is fantastic!

(Written and performed by the great Bill Mumy and Sarah Taylor. THAT Bill Mumy!)

My people...😃

Possibly the best modern Christmas song.

What’s not to love?

[gratuitous]

66. No (major) argument from me

There are enough Christmas songs to fill about 4 to 6 hours. Two (as in, "not one, but . . ." ) radio stations in my area have gone full Christmas music for a month and a half and a month respectively. That means you'll hear the same song four to six times a day if you're insane enough to listen all day long.

That said, there are some perfectly good Christmas songs, and I really like "O Holy Night," especially when the vocalist is good. The assaultive "Carol of the Bells" can, however, go straight to Hell.