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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: SourdoughStomper on December 19, 2017, 11:34:33 AM
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While I can get worn out from too much Christmas music, I think I found out why. It was because we only own a handful of Christmas CDs and it gets repetitious listening to the exact same pieces sung by the exact same artists over and over again. But if I listen to it from the radio, I get a wider variety and I don't get as worn out.
I do love me some Christmas music, though, especially the religious ones. :holiday:
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Not my first choice for background music even within the week of Christmas, but it's nice to drive to or to pass the time at work.
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I love it Christmas Eve and Christmas at home with family and friends. But I get pretty annoyed at it in stores or on the radio.
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I love Christmas music this time of year.
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It starts November 1st and it does not stop until the holiday season ends. :heart: There are some pieces of holiday music that I actually keep in rotation on my playlists year round.
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I love Christmas Music and all sorts! Some days I really like Gregorian chants, some times I like Kylie Minogue. :D
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It's a no from me!
I never did used to mind it, but I worked for almost 15 years in retail, the same Christmas songs for 8 hours a day from the beginning of November until Christmas Eve put me off.
You do grow "deaf"/learn to tune out to music after a while.
Love pkw xxx
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Some Christmas music I really like, while others are just irritating.
Typically for me, the most irritating Christmas songs are the non-Christian ones. It may come off as strange because I'm nonreligious. However, I don't really think it's because they're religious persay, and it's just a general statement anyway. The newer religious ones like "Mary Did You Know?" are not really to my liking, either. While there are plenty of secular ones like "I'll Be Home For Christmas" that I find to be pleasant.
I like the old Christian Christmas carols because they oftentimes have melodies and harmony (like they're modal instead of tonal) that go waayyyy back and I am a fan of Early Music. Take O Come, O Come Emmanuel - my top favorite Christmas song - the music that it was applied to is came from the middle ages. Even ones that are slightly more recent in melody/harmony have such gorgeous melodies. They are so different from anything modern.
I'm weird, I know. Even weirder as a worker in retail for a four year time period, I actually appreciated when Christmas time came around and they were forced to change the music to something different for a month or so. While quite a few Christmas songs are irritating to me (and some of the versions they chose were pretty atrocious, too), it sure beats the rest of the year where pretty much everything they play is irritating to me.
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I haaaaaaaaaate it!
This is not a fun time of year for me *points to avi*
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Love it! Only this time of year though :)
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The same thirty songs remixed by three thousand different artists? No thank you.
The few (I can count them on one hand) Christmas songs I like stay on my playlist all year long:
Last Christmas (Wham!)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (John Lennon)
All Alone On Christmas (Darlene Love)
And a song that's not really a Christmas song but gets played at this time of year specifically because it mentions Christmas Eve & New Year's in the lyrics:
Same Old Lang Syne (Dan Fogelberg)
Likewise with the Peanuts theme (Linus and Lucy by the Vince Guaraldi Trio) which gets played due to the popularity of the Christmas special, though it should be noted this song was never exclusive to the Christmas special.
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Been hearing it since November 1. ENOUGH ALREADY
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It starts November 1st and it does not stop until the holiday season ends. :heart: There are some pieces of holiday music that I actually keep in rotation on my playlists year round.
Yes! Same for me!
Like as soon as Halloween is over it's nothing but Christmas music until December 26th. :lol:
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I dislike it when the music starts before December 1. And I won’t actively seek out Christmas songs myself. But if one comes on, I’m happy to listen. Great for boosting the spirit. So long as it’s not too loud or one of those breathy covers. Really starting to get tired of all theses guys who can’t sing.
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I read recently that research has showed that forcing people to listen to the same christmassongs over and over is equal to torture. So it doesn't just feel like torture, it is for us poor retailworkers :P.
I am however lucky enough to be able to choose the christmas songs I want to listen to so we're not doomed to have a list of the same ten songs in a loop.. So I am forced to play christmas songs but has every playlist on Spotify available and has tried to teach customers and coworkers some different types of it.
I am therefor not tired of it yet :). I love that I get to hear my favorite singers sing of christmas at work as well as at home. Not in a bit religious, (christmas is still called julafton (from yule) in Sweden) but I love Tarjas take on O come o come Emmanuel. Don't have to be religious to appreciate good music.
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I've never liked Christmas music, or any holiday music, or any holiday themeing. Call me crabby lol.
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I'm kind of up-and-down on Christmas music; it's not something I'd actively seek to listen to but if it's on the radio at work, I don't mind it too much. Traditional carols are nice though, the melodies are really relaxing - but of course, just my luck, they never turn up on the radio!!!
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I prefer not to hear it until Dec 1. I make an exception for Tran Siberian Orchestra. I will happily blast even their Christmas CDs in the middle of July. I love their music.
Other than that, there are a few songs that have versions I'll turn off if they come on. There are only so many variations of Baby It's Cold Outside and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus that I can listen to before my ears shut down. That said, Christmas Shoes, Where Are You Christmas and That's Christmas To Me require the volume to be turned up.
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Please no. No no no no no no no noooooooooooooooooo....
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Oh yes, I understand working in retail and hating Christmas music. I love Christmas music, but only traditional songs like O Holy Night, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, etc. The ones they play on the radio though ... no thanks!
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I love it! All December long.
I also wear my Santa hat all month long.
:xmas:
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I love Christmas but do get tired of Christmas/holiday music playing constantly from Nov 1st-Jan 1st. I liked it much better when the Christmas Season started after Thanksgiving.
I never get tired of:
THe Chipmunk song (Christmas Don't be Late)
Last Christmas by Taylor Swift
Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy.
I can only hear Baby It's Cold Outside" so many times.
Ponyfan
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Definitely over it. Happens pretty easily when it's all they play at work. It's mostly just the Christmas music with singing that seems to get on my nerves, instrumental stuff on the other hand is fine.
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Hate. Pure unadulterated hate. Christmas music can go die in a fire, thanks. :pout:
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I like some of it. :biggrin:
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I like listening to it after Thanksgiving but not all the time because some songs I get super sick of (Jingle Bell Rock). Others I won't even allow to play for more than the few seconds it takes me to discern what song is playing. I can't abide a moment of like And So This is Christmas and Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. GUH.
The religious ones never get old to me. The hymns are beautiful.
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I love it when I can choose when I feel like listen to it.
I prefer songs by Bing Crosby or other Classics it gets me in the right mood. :)
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I definitely do not like Christmas music. I was working a Christmas in a commercial and I ended up tired of listening to carols from 3 in the afternoon to 9 in the evening. Then on December 24 (Christmas Eve) my grandmother sings all of them (it's not very good of the head, but of the carols she remembers, yes) :blink:
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I love Christmas music, but only because I can choose if and when to listen to it. I don't blame you poor retail workers for hating it after weeks of hearing nothing else. I've got a Christmas playlist on my iPod that stays there all year, but I only listen to it in November and December.
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I think if it's forced on me, I get annoyed with it. I remember the nine days I lasted working in the toy shop with Hakuna Matata on loop O.O. Seriously.
I've heard a few carol singers lately which have been nice, just atmospheric. We also have a particular christmas CD we play here when decorating the tree, it's a tradition. Otherwise I tend to find myself singing Christmas songs, but we don't play them obsessively. Choice is important :D.
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My choice of Christmas songs, is a bit on the wacky side.
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I love Christmas songs, but only from Dec 1-25th. My favourites are:
Boney M - Mary's boy child
The Pogues - Christmas in NY
TRG - Snoopy's Christmas
Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas
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I love love LOVE :lovey: it, as long as its the right time of year. I know some people who are into the whole Christmas in July thing and even though I love the music I DON'T wanna hear it till Thanksgiving at the earliest.
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I can totally relate to the whole 'retail workers trapped in holiday music prison' thing. That happens to my bf each year and he despises holiday music with a fiery passion. As for me (a big holiday music lover) some of my favorites include:
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Jingle Bell Rock
Little Saint Nick
Santa Tell Me
Mary Did You Know?
I also love a lot of traditional Christmas songs.My favorite is O Holy Night, followed closely by It Came Upon A Midnight Clear and O Come All Ye Faithful.
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I really like it here and there.
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I was expecting to develop a dislike of holiday music thanks to working retail but thankfully it wasn't strictly holiday music until the last 2 days I was working and they actually had a good variety and played a few gems here and there. I'm actually liking Sia's new Christmas songs and I'm beginning to think Songbird Seranade just can't do wrong musically.
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Can’t stand Christmas. And I can’t stand its music. Too much phoniness and feigned happiness for my liking.
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I don't mind Christmas music in general, but the one song I cannot stand is "The Little Drummer Boy".
Think about it: you're 9 months pregnant, just got through a long desert journey on the back of a donkey, you go into labor and of COURSE there's no rooms anywhere so you have to have this immensely important kid in a stable of all places -- one already occupied by several animals already and none of them are housebroken, you finally get things sorted and the kid to sleep and HERE COMES LITTLE JOHNNY WITH A DRUM!
You'd have to be a saint not to send that kid into orbit.
I'm of course okay with songs about flying reindeer with light-up noses, talking snowmen, and 3 old astrologers carrying myrrh all over the place, but for some reason THIS is where I draw the line.
Also, the stores around here have been playing "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" by McCartney on endless loops.
The stores around here are like The Salt and Pepper Diner all over again: https://youtu.be/fzIFa-7WIN4
(EDIT: this contains a few swears at the end of the comedy routine)
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In general, I love Christmas music and I want to start listening to it as soon as Thanksgiving is over. However, there are certain Christmas songs and certain versions of Christmas songs that drive me absolutely crazy, while there are some that I cannot get tired of.
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There are some songs I don't mind hearing throughout the year, and I love the "traditional" tunes. I used to love playing Christmas music in November, but now I don't actively seek out Christmas music early. In the car, I opted for Christmas radio stations around Dec 20+ this year.
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I really only like it in december. but it makes me happy then.
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It's a big no from me. The music starts playing as soon as Halloween is over in a lot of the shops, and they don't change it until new year usually around here. And it's the same songs over and over and over.... I used to work in retail sooooo ... yeah you can see where this is heading - I'll stop now ;) :yikes:
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BTW this made me laugh so much!! sorries!! never thought about it til you just mentioned it :P :snicker:
..... the one song I cannot stand is "The Little Drummer Boy".
Think about it: you're 9 months pregnant, just got through a long desert journey on the back of a donkey, you go into labor and of COURSE there's no rooms anywhere so you have to have this immensely important kid in a stable of all places -- one already occupied by several animals already and none of them are housebroken, you finally get things sorted and the kid to sleep and HERE COMES LITTLE JOHNNY WITH A DRUM!
You'd have to be a saint not to send that kid into orbit.