I’ve just remembered this, erm, “gem”:
And this parody:
But for sheer plumptious gooiness:
A local station was playing “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…” on Friday night, and I lunged for the Scan button. Too soon, dammit!
right. The biggest issue is they start playing these songs 2+ months before actual Christmas. If they only started playing Christmas music like 2 weeks before, I would have a much higher tolerance for it. To try to prevent burnout, I actively turn off any christmas song I hear until then. It allows me to enjoy the music for 2 weeks, and then be done with it for another year.
I used to work in radio, which meant I had to play the damn Christmas songs on my boss’s schedule, for hours at a stretch, and it wasn’t like we had hundreds of songs to choose from. As a result, I now happily embrace Christmas music all day on December 24th and until 6:00 p.m. December 25th. Any other time, I’d rather listen to AM talk radio.
What is odd is that most top ten Christmas song playlist have nothing religious. Mostly secular, with maybe 1/2 to 1/3 being winter songs, nothing to do with Christmas- Jingle Bells,Walking in a winter Wonderland., Frosty the Snowman, Let it Snow, Baby its Cold Outside plus more- and then one which is not religious, not Christmas, and not even specifically winter- “A few of my Favorite Things”. 
So Secular Christmas and general Winter songs predominate.
In fact, this list has not one religious carol-
Oh and Baby it’s Cold Outside is not evil, nor is "All I want for Christmas is you" (altho that one is often overplayed, which means it can be annoying)
Why do you find that odd? The Christmas shopping season getting earlier is what is driving the Christmas music getting played earlier.
The atheists who hate on anything Christmas, not knowing they won the war some decades ago.
I have always loved some of Harry Bellafonte’s renditions of Christmas songs. Maybe it’s the nostalgia aspect. I was told that my grandmother (who died before I was born) loved his music.
Sometimes I can enjoy a good Silent Night sung in German.
In years past I enjoyed Maggie Sansone’s Ancient Noels CD.
I try to avoid most of the Christmas season though. It’s a survival time of year for me. Not much joy at all.
So I generally don’t listen to Christmas music.
Silent Night- German or english or just the music is my one fave “religious” Christmas carol (as a kid I loved Little Drummer Boy, but no more of that glurge. I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas I like maybe once a season).
My Fave is Claymation Christmas and Mannheim Steamroller.
Some of the old traditional carols still get me sentimental (at Christmas, not earlier).
But I have a deep loathing for tearjerkers like Scarlet Ribbons and The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
This song has been criticized, dissed, condemned, and figuratively shat on more times than I can remember. The problem is, I strongly associate it with being a young pup and hearing it on the radio a lot as Christmas approached, looking forward to vacation from school and the excitement of Christmas morning, and enthusiastically spraying “artificial snow” on stencils to create Christmas scenes on our doors and windows while “Little Drummer Boy” played in the background. Meh, I think you’re just a Grinch! 
Ya got a problem wit dogs, pal?
Here, lemme entertain ya …
No problem with dogs here, though if somebody really wants to get creative, they could record cat meows, for a change. Imagine it:
Mao, mao, mao,
Mao, mao, mao,
Mao, mao, mao, wa! Maouuuu!
I like Christmas music, but I see no need for it to be played in supermarkets and malls after Hallowe’en. At least, wait until December.
I love many Christmas songs but there are two that I would be happy if they dropped off the face of the Earth:
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Silent Night. The melody is trivial and rather sad.
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Baby It’s Cold Outside. Again, the melody is unimpressive, and the dialog between the woman and the man talks about a dated social dynamic.
So much from me.
Christmas music with cats? It’s been done:
Ha! Perfect!
I did also click on “Bohemian Catsody,” which was recommended. Lots of fun, and as a former cat owner (I once owned—er, was employed by—seven of them), I recognize a lot.
With a tip of the hat to our friend @wolfpup , cats rule and dogs … are fine companions.
This seems like a good time to remind everyone of the rules of Wham!ageddon.
My ex-wife and I used to sing this to each other, at Christmastime. She had a beautiful voice, which she was always reluctant to use. But she would sing in private, with me, and we had a lot of fun with this song. We danced around the kitchen while singing it.
Any ladies want to duet?
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’
I detest that song. It can be sung beautifully (k.d. lang, for one) but it’s use as a Christmas song (read the lyrics, people!) has totally soured me on it.
Currently the best thing about managing my retail store is that I get to decide when the Christmas music starts! That won’t be until the week before Christmas, probably, and I curate the list, ha!
I don’t think i’ve ever heard that song in any Christmas type scenario.
I had no idea that Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah has being used as a Christmas song.
Also I don’t like to hear the Twelve Days of Christmas.
It seems like it is the holiday equivalent of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.