I found out on on November 10 that WMYX in Milwaukee has already switched it’s format over to 24 hours of Chrismas music.
NOVEMBER 10th!?!?! :eek::mad::rolleyes::eek:
This is an otherwise popular station that plays a mix of contemorary & top 40 music.
Have people gone mad? On October 28th some neighbors of ours already had Xmas decorations out all over their yard.
I’m 46. I’ve never, ever observed the birth of a Jewish carpenter who died over 2000 years ago. I also do not celebrate any of the ancient winter festivals that eventually were incorporated into Christmas. So I’ll admit I don’t understand the fucking madness that overtakes some of you with this nonsense.
I like the 4th of July. It means something to me. But I don’t put out decorations for it in late May!
November 1-24 is just a bit early, even for me. Our local station starts 24-hour Christmas programming the day after Thanksgiving, which is more than fine by me. I like Christmas music. But November 1? November 10? Way too early, and if our stations did it and I played them in supervenusfreak’s earshot, he’d be packing a shotgun solely to shoot out radios…
The only reason that it may be getting worse is that you now have a lower tolerance. I am over 40 years old and it has been pretty much the same for as long as I can remember which includes people saying that it gets worse every year.
As I said in another thread a week ago when someone else complained about the same thing:
In the mid-70’s my friends and I would play “who can spot the first xmas commercial.” At that time in would happen in late August and it remains so today.
I have a collection of Charlie Brown cartoons from the 1950’s. In one that was published in late October, Charlie went to buy a Halloween costume and couldn’t find one because they were putting up all of the xmas stuff.
Although I am a huge huge fan of Christmas, I gotta agree with you. Yep, even though I watched the Grinch last night, I still say too early.
So far, no Christmas songs on the local station. (Although I did look up Riu Riu Chiu on You Tube just to hear it again for the first time since I was a youth.)
On the bright side, Wal-Mart has declared that they will be saying “Merry Christmas” this year instead of “Happy Holidays”. Pandering: it’s not just for politicians anymore.
I have mixed feelings about whether or not I miss the “Christmas Spirit” - it doesn’t really happen as much where I live because it’s still hitting 90 degrees here and by Xmas the highs might get down to the mid-70s or so, but the weather seems to have a huge effect on the season. Not as many decorations, not much hot cocoa or Xmas sweaters, no chance of a white or even frosty Xmas.
On the one hand I’m an atheist who generally despises xmas music and holidays-for-profit, but on the other hand I seem to recall seasons being kind of fun .
What bothers me is not how early it starts. What bothers me is that most stores and radio stations play all secular “Christmas” music. Nothing that refers to the birth of Christ, or has “holy” anywhere in the lyrics; nothing that might be sung in church. There are some truly beautiful Christmas songs, like “Angels We Have Heard On High”, but the ultra-PC brigade forbids them.
So that leaves us with Santa, Santa, Santa, and songs about winter and sledding and so forth. And those are the songs that get under my nerves if I hear them too much: the cloying, cutesy, not terribly melodic ones. And this embargo also applies to Adam Sandler’s Chanukah song, which, I’m sorry, I know a lot of people here don’t like him, but I think it’s hilarious, all three versions. It’s like when I tried to put together a Beatles mix tape for a guy who said, “Okay, but no love songs.”
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