Hatin' on Christmas music!

LSLGuy · November 12, 2024, 12:37pm

Here you go …

Ellecram · November 12, 2024, 12:46pm

@LSLGuy
That was actually fumy! Five golden tuques lol!

LSLGuy · November 12, 2024, 12:52pm

That song was the only Christmas song my late wife and I ever played at Christmas time. But play it we did joyously.

6 packs of Tuborg. Which is (or was) beer. Plus 12 rounds of 1 beer!!

PatrickLondon · November 12, 2024, 2:14pm

XOldiesJock · November 12, 2024, 2:25pm

Like Kent_Clark, I used to work in radio, but by the time the 24/7 Christmas thing took hold, I was only doing a weekend gig, 10-3 on Saturdays, which I did for 16 years. The station was owned by CBS, very corporate-controlled, and the playlist was very short. A song I played at 10am would come around again at 2pm. I mostly enjoyed playing the holiday tunes, the religious and secular alike, though if I’d had to play them every day I would have enjoyed them less.

The only song I objected to playing was Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” a version sung by Pentatonix. I sent my boss an email about it and said “Have you ever listened to the words of that song??? It’s entirely inappropriate, even offensive to play that as a Christmas song!” He replied that he understood my objection, but it was “the number-one song in the country, so what are we supposed to do?” COVID eventually put an end to my weekend radio career, so I never had to play it again.

SailorHG · November 12, 2024, 2:46pm

This is definitely the BEST Christmas song EVER! And not just because it mentions reindeer shit in the lyrics; it’s truly epic on many levels. (It’s about the only Christmas song I willingly listen to!)

BippityBoppityBoo · November 12, 2024, 8:24pm

Here we go!

CorpusNeptune · November 12, 2024, 8:42pm

Listen, I love Christmas music, and right after Halloween we started putting on the music. But there is one song I definitely don’t like, that I thankfully haven’t heard yet… Snoopy’s Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen. It’s a fine enough tune, but the lyrics are just very annoyingly structured and written. Instant pass.

SuntanLotion · November 12, 2024, 8:48pm

Christmas music is depressing.
It reminds me of cold winters.
The worst? The one on Charlie Browns Christmas where they’re all ice skating.
I have no radio, I only have to hear this occasionally in public.

DrDeth · November 12, 2024, 11:11pm

Christmas Shoes.

I loved that song as a kid. Now I want to hear it no more than once.

I dont detest it, but it is even less a Christmas song that “A few of my Favorite Things”.

It has to be sung in fun.

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United States Navy Band

Caractacus_Pott · November 12, 2024, 11:57pm

It’s “six packs of two four,” two four being Canadian slang for a 24 can case of beer. It makes more sense when you see the animated version of the song.

Elendil_s_Heir · November 13, 2024, 4:14am

Some Dopers agree; others disagree: In defense of "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Not sure what we’re meant to listen to at that link.

DrDeth · November 13, 2024, 4:33am

I tried to link to the vid, but it came up “video unavailable”- which it isnt, So just search on YT.

LSLGuy · November 13, 2024, 12:10pm

Thank you. It never quite sounded like “Tuborg” to me but I had no idea what else it could be. Makes more sense now.

And since I cited that song in ref to @Ellecram’s comments about 99 bottles of beer, your way makes the song many times more appropriate. Win!

LSLGuy · November 13, 2024, 12:10pm

Ellecram · November 13, 2024, 12:18pm

Well that cleared up some confusion I had with that!

Thanks!

Dung_Beetle · November 13, 2024, 3:29pm

When I commit suicide, this will be playing.

Slithy_Tove · November 13, 2024, 3:55pm

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Lancia · November 13, 2024, 4:24pm

This is the worst Christmas song, bar none. Even the dogs barking Jingle Bells is better than this drivel.

Warning: not for sensitive ears, polite company, or any situation where a level of good taste, etiquette, and decorum is needed. IOW, NSFW:

Summary

We’re simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Puke.

LSLGuy · November 13, 2024, 5:22pm

Dear Og man! Next time double-spoiler that. My eyes! My eyes!

But yes, you’re 100% right that song should be ~~banned~~ uninvented and the author run through a meat grinder. Pour encourageur les autres.

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