Here it is, three days before Thanksgiving, and already several local radio stations are playing Christmas music. Too soon, dammit! Too soon! Can’t they at least wait until after the turkey leftovers are being wrapped in plastic?
Every year, it seems, the Christmas season starts a little sooner. Feh. I hates it, I do.
This is at least the third thread like this in the last couple of weeks. It’s not starting any sooner. It’s been the same for decades.
A station in Kansas City started their all-Christmas format on November 1st this year. They clearly didn’t want someone else to beat them to it. A dubious honor, I’d say.
They’ve had Christmas decorations, fruit mince pies etc in the shops here since September. They’ve ‘only’ been playing carols for about a week or two but already I’m sick of them. Roll on 26 December.
Lillith Fair and I went to a knitting group/class tonight, and the radio was on to the All-Christmas music station. The shop owner commented on the format, and ** Lillith** wondered how Delilah was going to handle her love songs show with just Christmas tunes when it became apparent that the other three women in the room with us all liked the early Christmas music format. So we kept our mouths shut until we left. And then griped about it in the car. ** Lillith** has to perform more Christmas music than she cares to during a season, and I work in retail where between the mall’s piped in music and my boss’s collection of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby sing Christmas, I go quietly mad by Dec. 15th. Just let us have through Thanksgiving, please! A full month is long enough!
I heard my first Christmas song over the mall radio today. Then again, I haven’t been into the mall in weeks, so maybe it’s been going on for a while already. They’re not on the ALL-XMAS-ALL-THE-TIME phase yet, though.
The radio stations haven’t started yet either, which is good. I’m not ready to hear Santa songs until I’ve seen some snow.
Wow, more threads complaining about the early start of the Christmas shopping season appearing as they do every year ALREADY?!?!?
Over here we’ve seen cards, decorations, wrappings etc in the shops since September, barely the end of summer and well before the brats went back to school after their summer break. Our city’s lights and decorations have been up since the end of October and the lights were officially switched on by some z-list has-been in the early part of November.
I got my first card through the post early in November too. From a friend who lives about 50 miles away. She’s way too organised.
I’ve got that beat. My neighbor put his tree up last weekend and unashamedly keeps his blinds up so people can see it.
You think that’s bad, I heard Christmas music as early as late last year!!!
What?
What stations are playing Christmas music already?
Because I want to listen to it… :o .
E.
The local Disney theme parks in Tokyo begin Christmas in the first week of November. How’s that for a country which doesn’t observe it? 
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Our local lite rock station switched to Christmas music on Halloween weekend! October 28th or thereabouts! Way, way too freakin’ early!
If you live in the USA and subscibe to digital cable, you likely have a few dozen Music Choice channels – the programming does not feature videos, but is basically radio on TV. The “Sounds of the Seasons” station has been playing Christmas music since at least early this month, as I discovered one evening when I was bored and started flipping through the lineup just to see if I could find a decent song.
I first heard Christmas music in 1985. Believe it or not, it has been going on this long…
People keep saying this, but I just don’t think so. Yes, you’ve always had inklings of Christmas starting just after Halloween, but it slowly ramped up before it exploded in earnest after Thanksgiving. That’s why Black Friday became the huge deal that it is; it was officially the first day of the Christmas shopping season.
I was in the mall this past Saturday, and Christmas was clearly in full swing. Christmas decorations, Christmas music, Santa Claus in his grotto, the whole enchilada. The only indication in the whole place that Thanksgiving was coming was (naturally) at Williams-Sonoma; otherwise, it was indistinguishable from the Saturday before Christmas.
Christmas isn’t showing up any earlier than it ever did, but it is hitting full steam a lot earlier.