# I'm starting to hate Christmas songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735 "2002-12-05T17:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/1 "2002-12-05T17:47:49Z")
The radio at work is usually tuned to either the local easy listening station or the oldies station. Neither of them are stations that I would choose to listen to. Currently, it’s on the easy listening station. Guess what they’re doing for the holidays? They’re playing Christmas music. All day, every day. 24/7 _ad nauseum._ They started the day after Tanksgiving, and they’ve threatened to keep it up until after Christmas. Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas. I even take the time to remember Christ’s birth. But don’t you think that this is taking things too far? What makes it really bad is the fact that they only seem to have a few Christmas songs in their inventory. You’ll hear the same song about four times during the course of an 8-hour work day. This station doesn’t have a very large music selection to begin with. My coworkers and I suspect that their entire music archive consists of the following five CD’s: [ul][li]The Beatles’ Greates Hits[/li][li]Elvis’ Greatest Hits[/li][li]Easy Listening Favorites, volumes 1 & 2 (probably purchased from a tv commercial)[/li][li]said Christmas music disk[/ul][/li] If I hear “Feliz Navidad” or that damn Beach Boys song one more time, I may go postal on the office radio. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/2 "2002-12-05T18:17:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > \*\*If I hear “Feliz Navidad” or that damn Beach Boys song one more time, I may go postal on the office radio. \*\* “The Night Diceman Went Crazy” ---
**Author:** ![Adridne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@Adridne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adridne)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/3 "2002-12-05T18:27:18Z")
You used to like Christmas songs? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/4 "2002-12-05T19:41:29Z")
Do you have the option of bringing in your own radio, tape/ CD/ MP3/etc. player with headphones? If you work in a retail store (instead of an office) you’re probably S.O.L. I feel for you if this is the case. When I worked in an office supply store they had a 5-disc CD changer and kept the SAME DAMN FIVE CDs in it for MONTHS! During one eight-hour shift the entire set would play all the way through twice. I can’t say in mere words alone how sick I became of listening to Ace of Base, Garth Brooks (neither of whom I like anyway), and a couple others which seemed to be permanantly affixed to the CD tray. Occasionally, _very_ occasionally, someone would switch out one of the CDs and we’d get stuck listening to it for several weeks at the very least, if not months. How glad I was the day the player finally broke and they put a radio in. Only problem then was that the radio station they put it on (one of those “adult hits” stations) had a very limited playlist, as most of them seem to have anymore. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/5 "2002-12-05T20:10:09Z")
I’ve always hated Christmas carols, so there! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/6 "2002-12-05T20:27:44Z")
The town where I lived used to play Xmas songs over the p.a. system during the _whole month of December_. You couldn’t walk down any street without being subjected to _Holly, Jolly Christmas_ or _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_. I wrote to the mayor and explained to him that, a) Not everyone in town is a Christian, and that even many Christians do not feel the need to have religious music forced-fed them for a whole month every time they went outdoors. b) Whoever chose the tapes had _lousy_ taste in music. The Pope himself couldn’t listen to Andy Williams’ _Little Drummer Boy_ more than twice before snapping. P.S. They no longer play the music. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/7 "2002-12-05T21:41:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*The town where I lived used to play Xmas songs over the p.a. system during the _whole month of December_. You couldn’t walk down any street without being subjected to _Holly, Jolly Christmas_ or _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_. I wrote to the mayor and explained to him that, > > a) Not everyone in town is a Christian, and that even many Christians do not feel the need to have religious music forced-fed them for a whole month every time they went outdoors. > > b) Whoever chose the tapes had _lousy_ taste in music. The Pope himself couldn’t listen to Andy Williams’ _Little Drummer Boy_ more than twice before snapping. > > P.S. They no longer play the music. \*\* Umm… since when is “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” or “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” a Christian song? Does either song even MENTION Jesus? Besides, I’m pretty certain composer Johnny Marks was Jewish! Come to think of it, MOST of the best Christmas songs were written by Jews! ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/8 "2002-12-06T00:13:05Z")
Portable radios, CD players, and the like are not allowed at work ☹ Most of us employees, if given our druthers, would set it to a rock station, but the boss doesn’t like that kind of music. Once, the boss’ son set the radio to Young Country. It was a nice change, but before long we found ourselves back to Oldies and songs by guys who’ve been dead since before half of us were born :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/9 "2002-12-06T00:28:39Z")
My heart bleeds for you, Diceman. I have so far managed to entirely avoid hearing any carols whatsoever this year, and if it’s even remotely possible I intend to keep it that way. I know the Xmas Juggernaut will get me; it always does, and I end up having to hit myself on the noggin with a hammer to get “Jingle Bell Rock” out of my head. But I’m not going down easy. I listen only to public radio, I watch very little TV, and at work I listen to angry punk rock on headphones. I must confess to liking the big, lighted snowflake decorations the city has put up on Poplar Avenue though; they’re beautiful in the rain/snow. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/10 "2002-12-06T00:36:49Z")
I would not have a problem with Giftmas musci except they never play anything good, like maybe, Run DMC_Christmas in Hollis_or The Waitresses’ _Christmas Wrapping_. Even the Band Aid song_Do they Know It’s Christmas._ ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/11 "2002-12-06T04:48:53Z")
They’re doing it here, too, Diceman. ☹ For you Dopers in the OKC area, the offending station is 96.9 KMMZ (Memories). It’s an easy-oldies station that switched to all Christmas in mid-November. Waaaaay too early…and they got about 50 songs in rotation. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/12 "2002-12-06T04:50:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*Umm… since when is “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” or “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” a Christian song? Does either song even MENTION Jesus? > \*\* Yes, because of “CHRISTmas”. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/13 "2002-12-06T17:29:10Z")
I hate to even admit the fact that I used to be one of those DJs you’d hear playing Christmas carols and sounding happy about it. Finally I got up to Program Director and banned all Christmas music until December 15th. 10 days is enough for anyone! Our listeners thanked me - I received many calls and even two letters to the editor of the local newspaper thanking our station for not playing all that Christmas music - and when you’re the one behind the microphone playing it, you get burned out REAL quick on it. Now that I’m out of Radio the only Christmas music allowed in my house is Mannheim Steamroller. And I swear to high heaven that if I hear “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” ONE more time… If that song is played…LOOK out!!! Happy Holidays everyone 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/14 "2002-12-06T21:03:33Z")
That’s how I felt when they kept playing “Proud to Be an American.” ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Fisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Ms.Fisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Fisk)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-hate-christmas-songs/140735/15 "2002-12-06T21:17:34Z")
I don’t have to listen to a radio full of all Christmas Carols everyday, but once I hear one, I cannot get it out of my head. So I hear carols when there is no radio around. And I think Christmas songs without words might even be worse to get stuck in one’s head. I have gone a whole day with “Carol of the Bells” on my mind, singing “da da da da. da da da da.”