I was shopping with my girlfriend a week ago, trying to avoid the Christmas rush and the awful music as much as is possible at this time of year, when we heard …wait for it…
Rolf Harris’ Christmas Carols…shudder
“Six white boomers, snow white boomers
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun
Six white boomers, snow white boomers
… On his Aus-tra-lian run”
Make it stop…make it stop!
I fucking LOVE that song. I hope it isn’t another casualty of Sept 11, 2001, though (you know, some people might take the words “Ground Zero” the wrong way).
That damned"chestnuts roasting" song was written by Mel Torme, which underscores the propriety of Mad Magazine’s dubbing the man" Mel Torment". Weather so bad that just walking outside could kill you within minutes–what a horrid subject for a song!!
And a hearty “FUCK YOU!!!” to whoever wrote “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”, too!!
The only good thing that I like about religion is the music (e.g. gospel, x-mas) :-/
I like most Christmas music. But. I don’t like hearing it constantly, over and over and over, before December 24th. I think I inherited my loathing of Christmas music before Christmas Eve from my grandfather.
My grandfather was a DJ for Armed Forces Radio during WW2, and a local DJ for a number of years before going on to television. When he was local, he refused to play Christmas songs before the 24th. Refused. Because he knew that folks got burnt out on them, even back then.
Go Grandpa!
…I will admit to a particular fondness for the Bing Crosby/David Bowie version of "Little Drummer Boy, though…their voices work well together, I think…
If I thought I could get away with it, I’d sneak up to New York and blast that song through every speaker available in the financial district. If I thought I could get away with it.
Yes!!!
The best band ever!
Ok, it isn’t any 3 meter elf or singing trees, but I work in a resturant. Now, as much as this crap annoys the hell out of me (almost as much as our new poster ohlssonvox annoys me) in retail outlets, I can understand the captiolist initiative. Play the music, it gets people thinking about Christmas, they realise they need to buy presents, they buy whatever is in sight. I don’t agree with it, but I GET it.
My boss, the owner and chef of said restuant chose to start playing Christmas music on Dec. 1st. This is fucking ridiculous for a variety of reasons. A.) He’s Jewish. B.) Playing Christmas music isn’t going to make people EAT more. Nor is it going to make people come into the restuant repeatedly. What’s someone going to think: “Where should I eat lunch? Oh, I KNOW. That restuant that’s playing Christmas music. I’m REALLY in the mood to hear Celine Dion sing Felis Navidad.” C.) We waitstaff have complained about it loudly and often since he started this.
The first day I changed the radio station whenever he had it tuned to Christmas music, thinking he was just doing it as a joke to piss us off. Nope. He got really mad. I’m trying to figure out a way to call the Rabbi of the synagoge that the owner’s brother attends to get him to come in and complain about the goyish music, but I haven’t figured out a tactful way of doing this yet. As it is, I just turn the volume down whenever the owner isn’t looking.
SwimmingRiddles, would it be possible to get some of the customers to complain? If I went into a restaurant that was playing Commercialmas music all the time, I would quickly leave. I get enough of that crap everywhere else, thank ya very muchly. Maybe if the diners started jabbing forks in the speakers you boss might get the idea.
Here’s a cure-all for those Christmas music blahs…
Brent Lewis’ Jingle Bells.
Eight holiday favorites played on just dums and percussion!
I bought it yesterday @ Amoeba for $4.95. The best money I ever spent on Christmas music.
(Also bought Esquivel’s “Merry Xmas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad” and Arthur Lyman’s “With A Christmas Vibe.” I like my Christmas music a little out there.)