Dept. Of You’re Just Going To Have To Find Some Way To Deal With This: Christmas Music (And Christmas Everything) Is Already Everywhere
As you have probably noticed, Christmas is now like baseball season: It takes up nine months out of the year. Well, almost, anyway. WOGL 98.1 FM has rolled out its holiday music station already, and we’d be pissy about it, were it not for just one important point: Christmas music fucking rules. It’s a scientific fact, and strangely, Jesus doesn’t have a goddamned thing to do with it: It’s the bells.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Elvis and Hanson Christmas songs are a weak point for me.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:13 am
It’s one of the most comforting annual experiences for me.
You’re up early.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Christmas music fucking sucks (and yes, I am just bitter because I’m stuck with Dreidle Dreidle Dreidle and that damn Adam Sandler song and not anything good, although “Ocho Kandelikas” by the Hip Hop Hoodios isn’t too bad). And it should not be played before Thanksgiving, no matter what the circumstances.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
If you don’t know Charles Brown’s album, “Merry Christmas, Baby” then you are a feckless heathen and there’ll be no Cranberry Sauce for you at my dinner table.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Working retail all through college killed Christmas music for me. Hearing the same songs in the same order at least twice during each 8-hour shift was enough to drive a person mad.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
@friendlynerd I concur. Extended mall hours at Christmastime also gives one an opportunity to reflect on the kitsch of Christmas songs thus rendering all nostalgia cheap and bruised.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
If you are nerdy enough to have an HD radio, 98.1’s HD2 (“I Love the 70’s”) has been spinning x-mas tunes since like the middle of October.