Let’s define Christmas time as between American Thanksgiving and New Years Day.
Do you listen to Christmas music outside of that general time frame? I do not and it’s caused quite a blowup on Twitter tonight. My favorite bar will skip any Christmas music played on the jukebox outside of that time frame.
The only exception I make is for part of Handel’s Messiah since part of it is appropriate for Easter.
No. Or voluntarily during Christmas season.
What Procrustus said.
Considering Christmas time is now about a third of the year, it’s hard to avoid. I don’t seek it out.
95% of Christmas music is shit. Why spread around the shit more than it already is?
My best friend in junior high and high school had a dorky older brother. A year or two older. One year, he got into a total Christmas kick in July. Christmas tree, fake presents underneath and Christmas music every day, all day. What an asshole.
I have almost 30,000 tracks on my computer, all of which I play randomly. Of these, 529 are “holiday” songs. They get played like all the others.
Ditto.
Even though I don’t particularly care for Xmas music, it tends to be an ear worm that doesn’t evacuate my brain until sometime in February.
That’s why I hate it!
So no.
Yes, I play it all year long. Except, what I listen to out of season tends to be Classical works, folk songs or instrumental. The typical Christmas music I start listening to in late October, when the new albums come out.
Yes.
We play Christmas music through at least half of January. We create our own season boundaries, we don’t let “big holiday”* set the terms for what we enjoy.
We don’t think the season is defined by what the stores put in the “seasonal” aisles. Why should the season end just because you can buy Valentine’s candy?
And The Nutcracker isn’t Christmas music.
Oh yes we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute!
*Christmas is run by a big eastern syndicate, you know.
No. I believe in confining it to its proper season.
This article does a good job of explaining why seasons are a good thing.
I don’t listen to my Christmas MP3s outside of the season, but there’s a lot of Christmas music I enjoy playing on the piano; I’ll break out that sheet music once or twice during the spring/summer/fall.
Never. And when the Ms starts in on that at any other time of year, I give her a firm “Just stop it!”
This
Only the Carols For A Cure CDS, the BEST holiday music going.
(bolding mine)
You meant June, didn’t you? 
Another vote for Procrustus.
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No, and I don’t want to hear it in November or December either! Its like Christmas takes over and theres no way to opt out.:mad:
Heck yes. When it gets to 115°F and I have to go for a long drive I pop in a Christmas album and sing along hoping that my stupid brain will convince my body that it’s cooler than it actually is.
I started doing this on motorcycle rides across the desert and expanded it into 4 wheel vehicles.