Anyone listening to Christmas music yet?

[Archae]

I have on my Pandora channel of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, lots of other great musicians too.

[Ocelot II]

1. Oh, God, no!!

[elleng]

2. No thanks, just

https://weta.org/player

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2

[Vadem]

4. My favorite! n/t

[elleng]

6. One of mine too, so put it as one of my choices for radio station's special week;

every year Thanksgiving week, listeners select faves and they play 100, with everyone's #1 choice Thanksgiving night, usually either Beethoven's 9th or Dvorak's New World.

[amerikat]

3. Not by choice. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Not yet. I figure Saturday at the latest.

[wcmagumba]

7. No, but I have watched the movie "Elf"....

[happybird]

8. Nope.

Gearing up for Whamageddon. I won last year and intend to retain my title.
https://www.whamageddon.com

[vanlassie]

9. GOOD GOD NO.

[onecaliberal]

10. Nope. I did go to the local university for a Wind Orchesta Concert

Tonight. It was lovely. We enjoyed it a great deal.

[TlalocW]

11. Yep!

Looks like I'm giving Thanksgiving a pass this year. Two radio stations in my city switch to Xmas music sometime in November. One of them turns it into a contest where you can bet what day and time they'll make the change.

The last few years though I've been just BSing with friends about if I had the money lying around, I would buy a radio station license and only use it at Christmas time. Then I would gather as many Christmas songs as I could - religious (though I'm an atheist), secular, modern, comedic (you never hear "I'm a Christmas Tree" by Wild Man Fischer and Doctor Demento), some foreign ones, etc. Then I would dump them into a database and write a program to "randomize" them with the extra conditions of not playing the same song by the same artist more than once a day and not playing the same song but by different artists within six hours of each other to create my station's play list. It seems like every season, both channels pick the same song to play to death - last year was all the different covers of, "Santa Baby."

I would also have a list of forbidden songs that I would not allow to be played or maybe played once in the middle of the night - these would include Christmas Shoes, Baby It's Cold Outside, anything by Pentatonix (Leonard Cohen's, "Hallelujah," is NOT an Xmas song), anything by Michael Buble. It would be glorious.

TlalocW

[Freddie]

21. I like your idea

Before I retired my office radio played a station that switched to holiday music in early November (ugh) and while I like a lot of it, this station played what seemed like the same 20 songs in endless rotation. And they never added any new ones over the years. (and no one should sing John Lennon’s Xmas song but the man himself, please!)
One of the Sirius channels plays holiday music from my childhood (60’s) which I find enjoyable but it’s still a bit too soon for me.

[TlalocW]

27. I figure why fight it?

As a kid we had a large multi-record album set of Christmas songs done by famous singers, and I would listen to that starting before Thanksgiving, but I can understand not jumping the gun. Oh, I was driving somewhere today and had the Xmas station on, and this "conversation" between the DJ and me happened.
DJ: You're listening to 102.1. Kansas City's Christmas Music Station. Next up is NSYNC!
Me: ... You say that like it's a good thing...

I listened to it. It was dreck. Essentially, how many Christmas words and how many Christmas traditions can we cram into a song that still somewhat rhymes.

TlalocW

[msongs]

12. that propaganda is already on the radio and in some stores nt

[peacefreak2.0]

13. There are rules!

No Christmas music before Alice’s Restaurant. 😄🦃🗑👨‍⚖️

[Tomconroy]

14. Yes. Sirius radio switched the 40s Junction station to classic

Christmas for the season. I don't know if they moved my big band music to another station or what.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Not if I can help it...

[orleans]

16. no. and listening to it sounds less appealing to me this year than it has before. meh. nt

[dchill]

17. Not by choice.

[madamesilverspurs]

18. Yes, indeed.

Have a bunch of old vinyl Christmas albums and a few tapes that I'm keeping in case I ever get another system that plays cassettes. And the car radio is set to a station that plays nothing but Christmas music until after the holiday.

But then, I'm one of those known to play Christmas music whenever I need some cheering up. My neighbors would tell you that hearing "Deck the Halls" in July is not surprising.

Cheers, y'all!


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[Sherman A1]

19. No

Had that stuck in my ears during 4 plus decades of working Retail. I absolutely loathe the holidays.

[DFW]

20. Not voluntarily

I can't control the junk coming over the radio or in airports or train stations.

[Best_man23]

22. I'm listening to this today

I still remember that K-mart smell. Popcorn, the off-gassing of fresh polyester, and a hint of lawn fertilizer.

[wnylib]

23. Not by choice. One store in my

area has been playing it for two weeks already.

[doc03]

24. My favorite radio station goes to all Christmas after Halloween until New Years Day. I

listen to something else for 2 months. The only time I hear it is if I go shopping. There are some songs I
like but others I just despise, Like Little Drummer Boy and Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

[Wolf Frankula]

25. Not Deliberately.

But there are stores that having been playing it since the first.

Wolf

[Fla Dem]

26. No, No, No!!!! Not until at least DEC 1st.

My S-I-L Starts playing them the 1st thing the morning after Thanksgiving and they don't stop until after New Years. I'd go insane.
Well more insane than I am already anyway.

[Totally Tunsie]

28. No, but my gifts are wrapped!

"The Kids" are in town from South Carolina for Thanksgiving, and their gifts are wrapped and ready to travel home with them. Sure beats DeJoyless' holiday mailing price hikes and package slowdowns!

[TomSlick]

29. I play in a community concert band.

We've been preparing for the Christmas concert for weeks.