Taking Soupo to school, I flipped on the radio.
Chrismas songs. Gah!
Radio around here being what it is, I had my choice of Madonna, talk radio (not even the good kind) or Christmas songs (All Christmas! All the time!).
Luckily it was a short drive.
-Rue. (who chatted with his son on the way to school)
Soupo DeDay?
Dangit, between you and Scylla I’m wearing out my office carpet doing the chicken.
Can’t you find a spare tape somewhere?
89.7 FM.
You’re welcome.
I was in WalMart the other evening in search of non-seasonal merchandise, and my ears were assaulted by early holiday cheer spilling out of every speaker. Spare me!!!
Rue - do you have a cassette deck in your car? I can make a tape of me singing for you, accompanied by guitar or accordion. I could even pretend to be a radio announcer so it would be like a radio experience!! You have but to ask. Oh yeah, and you’d have to send me a tape recorder because I don’t have one. Well, except for the big reel-to-reel model but I doubt that you have a reel-to-reel player in your car. No need to thank me - that’s what friends are for!!!
I heard one of the administrators playing a Christmas CD on her computer earlier today and just about freaked. I told her that if she insisted on listening to Christmas music out of season, she would have to promise to listen to one of my Christmas CD’s out of my collection IN IT’S ENTIRETY. Of course I didn’t tell here what CD I would be bringing in. She agreed anyway.
(Little does she know that I’ll be torturing her with “The Jingle Cats: A very Meowy Christmas”. Muhahahahaha!)
I too was at a Wal-Mart (one-stop evil!) last night and heard the melodious sounds of crass commercialism.
But now that I’ve read this thread, I find myself playing cablemusic.com’s Christmas Rock internet radio program. Current track: “Oi to the World” by No Doubt.
As I sit and post this, I have the cable channel guide on. They are playing “Winter Wonderland” by Amy Grant (I believe).
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!
Wait until next Monday, and I’ll listen to all the Christmas stuff you want. But not this Monday. Please, not this Monday!
On Saturday night…
That would be NOVEMBER 17th!!!
…I drove past a house that was fully decorated for Christmas, and all lit up.
I’ve been seeing commercials for Christmas CDs for 3 weeks already.
Gah.
What about last year’s most requested Christmas song? The Porky Pig version of “Blue Christmas”. Well, it was the most requested at a Dayton-area radio station. 
Seems pretty popular on the local oldies station, too.
Waitaminute, I had that backwards. Oldies-100 had Porky as the #1 request. The Dayton station had “I am Santa Claus” to the tune of Iron Butterfly’s “Iron Man”.
Argh! I knew I should have checked that, never been into metal. Of course, I meant Black Sabbath.
I left the movie theater after seeing “Heist”, only to find “White Christmas” pouring out of the lobby speakers. Please, please wait until after Thanksgiving. Yarg.
[sub]Isn’t it “Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum”?[/sub]
It must be a Clear Channel World Domination plot.
Out here in San Diego they’ve switched Oldies 94.1 to Christmas 94.1 - and they let us know that for oldies, we ought to switch to the new Oldies 95.7 - which used to be an 80’s station.
Same DJ’s, different music. At first I was horrified. But then Johnny Mathis came on. And I couldn’t help myself.
I am curious, however, to know what they’re going to do with the station after the holidays.
You think that’s bad? I spent Saturday driving around with my friend who insisted on playing a tape, not just of Christmas music, but of Christmas music parodies! When “Grandma Got Run-over by a Reindeer” came on, I threw myself from the vehicle.
Luckily for me, we were at a stoplight at the time.
Dissing the Little Drummer Boy makes the baby Jesus cry.
I counted three stations doing the Christmas gig already. Two actually used the line “All Christmas All The Time”.
The “Ra Pum A Pum Pum!” was me banging my head on the stearing wheel.
“Little Drummer Boy”? Huh. I never made the connection. And the Baby Jesus can’t cry for 36 more days.
-Rue.