I have a couple songs that involve Christmas like Pretenders’ 2000 Miles that get played year-round but no actual carols or anything.
I used to work with a guy who played full on “Trans-Siberian Orchestra in July” Christmas music year round.
Several years ago we spent the two weeks prior to Christmas in Barcelona. It was fabulous. No carols anywhere, barely even any decorations.
I heartily recommend a European trip at Yuletide. Stay away from places like England and southwest Germany (Black Forest area) where most American Xmas crap originated.
This. In general, I don’t like the usual Christmas songs at all, but I have a playlist with non-traditional Christmas themed songs I like to listen to at Christmas time, but whenever I hear one of these songs, on the original album perhaps, I can enjoy them around the whole year. “2000 miles” is on the list, just like my favorite Christmas song (and maybe my favorite song at all), the Pogues’ “Fairytale Of New York”. But they’re all no traditional Christmas carols, but songs like the Kinks’ “Father Christmas” and such.
Yes, but only a small number (< 10) of short classical and traditional pieces which are not just Xmas favorites, but are among my all-time favorites.
Our family digs the holiday season, my kids especially (8 & 10). I know they won’t be this geeked for this kind of stuff forever, and they won’t be little forever, so we lean into it. We start with the holiday music on November 1 as we’re putting away the Halloween decorations.
Don’t judge.
It’s the other way round. It’s an Easter oratorio, but part of it is appropriate for Christmas.
I second that. I hate commercial Christmas music with a passion, but there are exceptionally beautiful classical and traditional pieces. That includes 20th century classical carols such as The Shepherd’s Carol, All Bells in Paradise, Bethlehem Down.
The only genre of music that I loathe is modern, commercial Christmas music. It is like children’s nursery songs with inferior lyrical content.
I’m more selective during off season. Celtic Women are always on my current playlist and that includes their wonderful Christmas album. I’m not allowing a calendar to cheat me out of these incredible female harmonies.
A Christmas Celebration https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000I2ISF4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_nG-wDbR3BHWAH
Emmylou Harris Light of the Stable is also on my playlist year around.
Light Of The Stable (Expanded & Remastered) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000641Z3Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_8J-wDbVBNNWJP
This isn’t cutesy kids Christmas music.
My full on Christmas music cranks up just before Thanksgiving.
Hell no.
I have several on my Spotify play list at work.
Fairytale of New York
O Holy Night (Andrea Bocelli version)
Baby it’s Cold Outside
All I Want for Christmas is You
A good song is a good song, imo.
Very rarely. I have a couple holiday tunes in rotation. This music should be confined to the week around the holiday, if played at all.
I don’t listen to it out of season, but I will sing Christmas hymns from time to time throughout the year.
I’ll listen to a few classical pieces and traditional carols, up to(down to?) and including, Bing Crosby’s Adeste Fidelis.
That said, I sometimes find myself humming/whistling/singing more commercial Christmas tunes at any time.
If modified lyrics count I sang “Runnin’ around, the squir-rel tree, she’s a crazy litt-le dog” just yesterday 
I will start listening to Christmas music on purpose while getting ready for Thanksgiving. I like mostly traditional and older Christmas songs that I know all the words to. That’s really the important part-- I need to know the words. I will sing Holiday Songs while shopping, cooking, preparing and thinking about The Holidays. I absolutely LOVE the season. I love the cooking and the eating, the giving and the getting, the drinking and carousing. I love peace and goodwill toward all men and I especially LOVE singing. Like I tell my husband all the time, I don’t sing good but I sure sing loud. I say this as a person who isn’t religious in the slightest.
I do. Christmas is my favorite time of the year and summer is my least favorite. The heat of summer makes me feel stressed so I listen to Christmas music in the summer to unwind and remind myself that cooler weather is coming.