# Do you complain about Chrismas music everwhere? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982 "2005-12-03T00:47:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angels\_Flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@Angels\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angels_Flight)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/1 "2005-12-03T00:47:16Z")
I’m always glad to hear it. Less after a while, especially when a certain store just has one tape from one singer. But in general I love them right through to New Years. I heard in the car a magnificent orchestration today of the little drummer boy done with timpany and oboe, as powerful as a Wagner opera, and I had to pull over just so I could give it my full attention. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/2 "2005-12-03T00:51:11Z")
I enjoy Christmas music, to a point. When it’s one song every now and then on the radio during December, or in the mall while I’m doing my Christmas shopping, I’m ok with it. Working in a mall over the Christmas season a couple of years ago, though, I wanted to pour acid in my ears rather than hear “Feliz Navidad” one more freakin time. With such a vast selection of Christmas music available, _why_ do the malls play the same dozen songs a billion times? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/3 "2005-12-03T01:03:38Z")
I’ve hated Christmas music for years; I complain vociferously at every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/4 "2005-12-03T01:04:02Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > With such a vast selection of Christmas music available, _why_ do the malls play the same dozen songs a billion times? It’s no better when it’s the same dozen songs by 200 artists apiece (I’m looking at you, two local radio stations that have messed up my car’s preset progressions by starting before Thanksgiving…). I do get amused by various anti-christmas songs. Like Blink 182 “I Won’t Be Home For Christmas” or South Park’s “Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo”. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/5 "2005-12-03T03:09:36Z")
I never complain I love it. The only Christmas song I really don’t like is the Little Drummer Boy. I think I love every other Christmas song I ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/6 "2005-12-03T03:18:39Z")
I only complain about certain ones. The rest I could listen to all year. My shit list: The Christmas Shoes - glurge out the dying mother’s wazoo Any version of _Santa Baby_ that isn’t Eartha Kitt Any Christmas song by Wham! or originally by Wham! Kenny G ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/7 "2005-12-03T03:30:35Z")
I worked at Sears a long time ago, for about a year. From Thanksgiving until Christmas, they played the same five songs on a loop. I started making up new lyrics for them- made it just a little more tolerable. _Jack Frost roasting on an open fire Chipmunks nibbling on your toes Yuletide carolers being hung from a wire And Volkswagens running over Eskimoes Everybody knows That napalm and a flamethrower Will help to cook the turkey right Although it’s been said Many times, many ways Merry Christmas Screw You._ ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/8 "2005-12-03T03:36:34Z")
I am known at my work place as something of an [del]audiophile[/del] music crank. [I loathe workplace enforced Christmas music with all my heart and soul.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=292422) ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/9 "2005-12-03T03:46:05Z")
LOL. Jayjay would swear that this thread is for me. I do like Christmas music, but only at certain times, like when the holiday is actually happening. At other times, it annoys the living heck out of me. On the other hand, Jayjay could listen to it all year round, despite the very few Christmas songs that he “claims” to not like. Our favorite car radio station went to all Christmas music the week before Thanksgiving. He was in ecstasy. I was definitely NOT. tank heavens we bought an mp3 player and thumb drives for our car trips. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/10 "2005-12-03T05:33:18Z")
> [@Angels'Flight](#): > > I’m always glad to hear it. Less after a while, especially when a certain store just has one tape from one singer. > But in general I love them right through to New Years. > I heard in the car a magnificent orchestration today of the little drummer boy done with timpany and oboe, as powerful as a Wagner opera, and I had to pull over just so I could give it my full attention. I too enjoy it. Yes, I get a little tired of the same ones being played over and over, but I love them. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/11 "2005-12-03T05:59:36Z")
I like it. However, there’s only one version of _Little Drummer Boy_ that I can stand. (EmmyLou Harris) I actually crumpled on the ground in laughter when I saw a van from the **Rupp Pump Co.** I never could fathom what _Do You Hear What I Hear_ was supposed to mean. A friend of mine, working second shift at Arby’s, had a running tally of how many times the cycle of music (marked by _Frosty The Snowman_) came around during a shift. I once asked a store clerk how she felt about the Seven Dwarves light set playing the same carols all day long. She grabbed my collar desperately, Then her eyes settled down, and she said, “only another 12 days. Only another 12 days.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/12 "2005-12-03T06:09:28Z")
Yeah, I do. My whole family does. None of us are Christian, and some of us enjoy being heathens. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/13 "2005-12-03T06:27:22Z")
Hate it. Totally and completely. I have another 24 days of having to listen to the tripe play in the locker room of my health club. I actually avoid going into certain public spaces this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/14 "2005-12-03T07:09:32Z")
> [@whistlepig](#): > > I actually avoid going into certain public spaces this time of year. I remember with fondness from some thirty-odd years ago in a December issue of _Playboy_, a cartoon where a man is smiling in anticipation as he enters a bar with a sign in the window: No Christmas music inside. DD ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/15 "2005-12-03T13:51:11Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I never could fathom what _Do You Hear What I Hear_ was supposed to mean. Around my house that one has an exta verse, created by me: Said the cat to the people everywhere Do you see what I have? Underneath my tail, everyone Do you see what I have? It’s pink, it’s pink And it doesn’t stink 'Cause I wash it with my-y tongue 'Cause I wash it with my-y tongue. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/16 "2005-12-03T16:11:52Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Around my house that one has an exta verse, created by me: > > Said the cat to the people everywhere > Do you see what I have? > Underneath my tail, everyone > Do you see what I have? > It’s pink, it’s pink > And it doesn’t stink > 'Cause I wash it with my-y tongue > 'Cause I wash it with my-y tongue. _That_ is funny because it’s true… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/17 "2005-12-03T18:52:07Z")
The town where I live used to (about five years ago) pipe Christmas music over the P.A. system _all over town_, for the _whole month of December_. I wrote the local paper and called the mayor’s office to complain: not, as you may assume, on religious grounds.\* My complaint was on grounds of taste: this was awful, _awful_ Christmas music: I’m talking Burl Ives and Osmonds awful. Now, I happen to like show tunes, and Weimar-era cabaret music, and Baroque composers, and '80s dance tunes. But I wouldn’t dream of subjecting an entire town to them for a month, or even a week. P.S. I seem not to have been the only one complaining, and my town is now blessedly silent. - Though I may have had a case . . . Why should non-Christians be subjected to Christian music for a whole month? Why should _Christians_, for that matter? I’m sure even the Pope likes a nice, quiet walk once and again. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/18 "2005-12-03T19:39:36Z")
Despise it. I generally hate the day after Thanksgiving until the day after Christmas, because I despise having other peoples’ holidays shoved down my throat. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/19 "2005-12-03T19:44:37Z")
Heh, sometimes I cannot tell you how much I love working in a library. No Christmas music, no Lite FM, no nothin’! And let me tell you, I used to work retail so I _know_. I don’t mind Christmas music in general (I mean, in its proper place in December) but as a happy agnostic I really resent the fact that they only play the secular carols out in public anymore - Silver Bells, Let It Snow, etc. I love the old religious carols! I love the _old_ religious carols - I want more Personent Hodie, more Masters In This Hall, more Coventry Carol. Instead I get more We’re Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime, ugh. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982/20 "2005-12-03T19:55:33Z")
I love Christmas music. Guess it might be slightly odd, since I’m an atheist, but Xmas music is just good stuff for me. And I’ll probably be slaughtered for this, but I love both Manheim Steamroller and the TSO. (Most TSO fans I’ve met scoff at Mannheim Steamroller). Christmas itself though? I could do without it. Used to love it, now I border on disliking it with a passion. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-complain-about-chrismas-music-everwhere/333982.md?page=2)