# You gotta be shitting me! \[Christmas music\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137 "2006-11-12T19:32:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/1 "2006-11-12T19:32:28Z")
I found out on on November 10 that [WMYX](http://www.99wmyx.com/) 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! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/2 "2006-11-12T19:36:45Z")
This gets worse ever year, and I get madder about it every year. How much time do people really need to shop for Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/3 "2006-11-12T19:50:11Z")
I edited the title to be a bit more descriptive. Ho ho ho. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/4 "2006-11-12T19:51:41Z")
Some station in KC started playing Christmas music on November 1st. And I work with people who play said station. So I’ve begun drinking earlier than usual this year. Happy fucking whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/5 "2006-11-12T19:56:37Z")
WLIT 93.9 in Chicago started their Christmas music on Nov. 2. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/6 "2006-11-12T19:59:55Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] I edited the title to be a bit more descriptive. Ho ho ho. [/QUOTE] hey, who you callin’ a ho? thanks for the title update -too late for me, but maybe some folkswill learn. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/7 "2006-11-12T20:01:34Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/8 "2006-11-12T20:04:59Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] This gets worse ever year, and I get madder about it every year. How much time do people really need to shop for Christmas? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/9 "2006-11-12T20:10:46Z")
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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIYIhUsamj0) on You Tube just to hear it again for the first time since I was a youth.) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/10 "2006-11-12T20:12:39Z")
It doesn’t matter when they start their Xmas jingly stuff. It’s always too early. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/11 "2006-11-12T20:16:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/12 "2006-11-12T20:20:21Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] 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. [/QUOTE] That’ll show those secular humanists with their war on Christmas and all that is good and holy and American! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/13 "2006-11-12T20:21:06Z")
And once again, Bill O’Reilly has made America safe for Christianity. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/14 "2006-11-12T20:34:55Z")
[QUOTE=GLWasteful] That’ll show those secular humanists with their war on Christmas and all that is good and holy and American! [/QUOTE] Science be praised! No, wait… ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/15 "2006-11-12T20:46:49Z")
FWIW my (big box bookstore) workplace doesn’t crank it up until November 24th. That still means I get at least 200 hours of relentless Yuletide joy. \*twitch ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/16 "2006-11-12T21:31:01Z")
The Lite\* here in Chicago has only recently switched to playing Xmas music this early. They used to start it on Thanksgiving. \ I’m sick of it already and the Season hasn’t even started yet. \*I don’t listen to the Lite, but switching radio stations still exposes me to it. bah humbug, early. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/17 "2006-11-12T21:46:57Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] And once again, Bill O’Reilly has made America safe for Christianity. [/QUOTE] iAll praise Guillermo! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/18 "2006-11-12T22:00:28Z")
I don’t hear Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. Then I break out the Manheim Steamroller. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/19 "2006-11-12T22:24:22Z")
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 😕. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137/20 "2006-11-12T22:28:05Z")
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.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-be-shitting-me-christmas-music/380137.md?page=2)