it’s so bad, they even play that infernal “dreaming of a white christmas” song when there’s snow cover.
who the hell cares if rudolph has a red shiney nose??
where i used to live, even the one radio station that played the Beach Boy’s surfin’ usa over and over and over again almost non-stop 24/7/365, would switch over to this sugary crap in december…argh…
Hey, Kambuckta, I hear ya. Here in Phoenix, it doesn’t snow this time of year any more than it does in Melbourne. So people put fake plastic icicles on their houses, and put Santa hats on the cactus (actually, that is kinda cute), and sing all the stupid songs about the greatness of sleigh rides and general Christmas Whiteness.
We all must pretend that we are in Victorian England during the month of December, whether we are in Phoenix or Cyprus or Melbourne. Eeeeesh.
My mother works in a department store, and I recall two years in a row when those ornaments that sounded like a bird on amphetamines were popular. TWEEE------EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeet…TWEEEE------EEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeet…endlessly. Some of the employees tried to yank the batteries, but some manager in a faraway office kept fixing the damned things.
All Hail January!!! 
Strangely enough, I’ve had slightly less problems with the christmas music blitz this year owing to two things:
1.) AFA “xmas jingles” for commercials, Marshall Field’s here in Chi-town has this series with some fucking incredible jazz-scat singers, and the music, while xmas-inspired, is original.
If I caught it correctly, the lyrics in one of the commercials were:
“your wife says you’ve been naughty - you say you’ve been nice - unless you clean your act up, I’ll be shopping for her twiiiiiice”
2.) Though godamned Target commercials keeping pounding the airwaves w/ Stevie Wonder singing “Chestnuts Roasting” I happen to a fantastic filk of that song. My favorite lines:
“You’ll find Carol, getting fucked by the Choir, and folks dressed up like Rush Street Hos . . .” and
“Though it’s been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas,
fuck you”
So at least I have some way to deflect the worst of it . . .
Well, I don’t work there anymore, but…what kind of drugs?
take that, retail hours! I get the whole week of Christmas off this year! And I pick my own music to listen to!
I like the Marshall Fields commercials, too.
I love those! My husband griped that he had one of those stuck in his head all day, but at least it wasn’t an annoying song as well. They also have a few versions of the commercial so it’s not the same freakin’ thing over and over.
I lied–I don’t actually have any interesting drugs. But I’m sure I would have if I had to work around relentless cheerful, wooden elves!
I’m pretty sick of all the traditional stuff, but I can’t get enough of my Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas CD. Also on my holiday list is Merry Christmas From the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Christmas Caravan and my Louis Armstrong Christmas tape, with such classics as “Christmastime in Harlem” and “Zat You, Santa Claus?”
I agree with Heloise, who said that she likes
But I to have endured the horror that is working retail over Christmas.
Imagine, if you will, this oh-so-innocent song being sung ON A LOOP, by none other than The Chipmunks.
And to think that I actually had fond memories of them from Childhood.
How about that fruity WHAM song. Imagine this with a really homo voice:
"Last Christmas I gave you my heart
the very next day you gave it away…" Blah blah blah
This is without a doubt the most gay and anoying song in the world.
Welcome to the SDMB! You’re gonna fit in here juuuuuust fine.
Remember that scene with the pigs in Hannibal?
Just curious.
Absolutely! We played that album while having Thanksgiving dinner this year. I hope it becomes one of our traditions.
Well, welcome ohlssonvox. Pleased to see ya gracing our board here Sunshine…
…oh, and by the way, annoying has TWO ‘n’s’.
BTW, kambuckta, there’ve been partridges in th’ Southern Hemisphere for at least ten years, according to the article in the link.
Slowly, and surely, th’ bastards are turning our world into a carol …
(Wolfie carefully types, ‘cause her keyboard has a fault with th’ “n” key, and would hate to spell “annoying” wrong … )
That’s why I don’t like “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. Well, one of the reasons: the other is that stuff about “the clanging chimes of doom” and “thank god it’s them instead of you” :eek:. But then they go on to say, “And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas…” Jeez! There’s NEVER snow in Africa, at least not in Ethiopia, where the proceeds of the song were supposedly going! And the lack of snow was not a problem, relatively speaking. When I hear that, I holler (circumstances permitting), “Yeah, and there won’t be snow in Sydney or Melbourne either; what of it?” That whole song is very poorly written.
Nah, the most gay and annoying song is The Little Leather Boy
Cum, they told me, pa cum pa cum cum
A nipple ring to see, pa cum pa cum cum
Our leather caps we bring, pa cum pa cum cum
To offer a cock ring, pa cum pa cum cum
Rum a cum cum, cum pa cum cum
So to bugger him, pa cum pa cum cum
When we cum
See, it’s the dry, subtle witticisms that keep me coming back to the Pit, again and again.
[sub]I wonder if I could get my homeowners’ insurance to cover routine keyboard cleanings…[/sub]
Amen.
I was shopping in an outlet store and I heard that song; and all I could think was; “I hope they don’t know it’s Christmas, who needs to be indoctrinated into that whole piggy consumer culture anyway, and who are we to impose our beliefs on them and how Imperialistic is it that we pity people who don’t share our Judeo-Christian traditions?”
Why don’t we just feed the hungry without trying to convert them? How is that for a concept? Bloody hell!
Amen right back at you, kung fu lola!
Really… I like only the Christmas music.
My Least Favorite, from last year’s version of this thread.