Interesting that the Google ads are now all about criminal records. The ironing is deciduous. 
Thsi is why I shop as little as possible in December. I love Christmas carols–but only the ones I like, which are not being played on these horrible radio stations, and only when I choose. I hate all of those carols; they’re awful. I reserve especial hatred for Feliz Navidad, which has got to be one of the most inanely chirpy repetitive carols ever. There are lots of beautiful Spanish carols, but nooooo, we have to listen to the very worst one in existence. Bleargh.
Oh, and the radio station I listen to in the car goes Christmas for a month every year, which means I can’t listen to it at all and have to depend on the oldies station or my CDs. Grrrr.
Thank you! Thank you too many. 
I love Christmas Carols, and hate Christmas Songs. This list is a perfect example; I will gladly listen to anything in the first section (“Well-known carols”) and wouldn’t care if anything from the second section (“Popular Christmas songs that are not considered carols”) dropped off the face of the Earth.
See, I feel kind of the opposite. I loathe most Christmas carols (too many years of singing them in church and concerts and whatnot) but like some of the non-carol songs very much. I would be very sad indeed if “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” disappeared from Meet Me in St Louis. And I have a soft spot in my head, I mean heart, for “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” because it was my grandmother’s favorite Christmas song and she’s dead now.
But I still don’t need to hear them thousands of times in a month.
What I want to know is with greenhouses and all, why can’t they plant tasty thyme all year around? Is it only used for holiday recipies? I get so sick of hearing over and over how this is the most wonderful thyme of the year. For my taste, Bud, no one gives a flying fuck.
Grandma got Run over… doesnt bother me half as much as George Michaels “Last Christmas”!!
I swear they play that once a freakin hour! He must make some serious bank every Christmas season!
Thanks, Dob. That’s now replaced Winter Wonderland as atrocious earworm of the day.
I really can’t stand Xmas music. It’s like babies wailing on a plane or raccoons fighting or a cell phone in lecture. Sets my teeth on edge.
Rhetorical question: is there any Christmas song more annoying to listen to than some guy whining about Christmas music?
Well, I feel exactly as Plynck does. Clearly, the answer to this problem is to quit playing Christmas music in public and let everyone play whatever they want to in the privacy of their homes.
Really, we should do a poll or something. I bet it would turn out that over half the population does not want loud Christmas music to start playing everywhere on Thankgiving.
Swell rant. So we won’t see you again for 12 months, then?
You got to wait until Thanksgiving?
Lucky bi–, errr, duck.
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Maybe not, but at least we can easily avoid the latter merely by not opening the thread about it. Alas, the ubiquitous 24/7 Christmas music is a lot harder to avoid.
It is like getting stuck for 2 months in a muzak system. No escape . Then the horrible xmas movies to top it off.
I’ll ditto that for Jingle Fuckin’Bell Rock, Holly Fuckin’Jolly Christmas and Rockin’ Around The Fuckin’Christmas Tree. Whoever wrote and/or recorded those dripping pieces of pustulance should be taken out back and hurt severely, several times a day.
As a fellow Houstonian, I’ll chime in that one of the radio stations on my presets (99.1 or 93.7, can’t remember which) is now on an “All Christmas Music, All The Time” format until the end of the year. They’re dead to me. :mad:
Since Mr. Pundit gave me my iPod for Christmas last year, I don’t listen to the radio much at all. That way I am spared having to listen to Christmas carols ad nauseum.
(sniff, sniff) I love my iPod.
The one good thing I can say for the all-Christmas/all-the-time radio play is that once in a while as I flick through my car’s presets, I’ll happen upon something like Bing Crosby singing “Do You Know What I Know” in that gorgeous voice, sung with simple artistry, and enjoy it.
Then flick to the next channel before some screechy overproduced never-been/has-been starts bleating some treacly schlock.
Sometimes in the store Muzak we get really gorgeous carols like George Winston’s “Carol of the Bells” (I’m listening to it right now at home).
And sometimes we get Alvin and the Chipmunks and I want to tear someone’s head off. Tis the season.
It’s Sunny - 99.1. I need to reset my button for a month…
The one I never can hear enough is Christmas with the Family.