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Christmas music

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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What are your thoughts? Love it? Can't stand it? Annoyed when you start hearing it in November?

It's kind of my guilty pleasure. I think because I associate those old carols with so many happy family Christmas celebrations in my childhood and youth, times that can never be recreated because of loss and separation, I can go right back there through memories those songs trigger.

O Holy Night is my favourite, which is ironic in a way given the lack of a single religious bone in my body. Something about that song is just epic, the ridiculous key change at the end maybe, I don't know, it just hits me right in that good-will-to-all-men spot.

[–] AndyKing1967 (39236) 5 years ago

No, just don't.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

😂

🎄🎶👍

[–] AndyKing1967 (39236) 5 years ago

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhh!

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

I fucking HATE christmas music!

Same banal crap played a million times a year, every year, everywhere in public. I can only listen to the same damn crappy songs a few times before they begin to get really annoying, so after hearing "All I Want For Xmas" 200 billion times I could kill.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

You’re not alone Otter I think most people I know feel the same. I’m a lot to handle at Christmas.

You’re dead right Mariah on repeat will test the patience of even the most festive.

[–] movieace11 (1349) 5 years ago

It's probably nostalgia. I love christmas music, not in November though.
O Holy Night makes me tear up almost every time.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

Luciano Pavarotti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ZEpfbWUrk

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

beautiful

[–] andreaahr (2337) 5 years ago

O Holy Night makes me cry too; it is a very emotional song especially when it is sung by Johnny Mathis...

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21602) 5 years ago

I love Christmas music and I usually go get a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving and that’s when the music starts.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I like Christmas music.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

a week before christmas. from Bing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ffSRCLqTU

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Well Bing was the king of Christmas.

I didn't even know he did that song though, I grew up with the Kenny Rogers version. That's my parents for you.

[–] chilone (18066) 5 years ago

Can't stand it. Jingle Bell Rock makes waterboarding seem humane!

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

Pray you never hear Brenda Lee sing Jingle Bell Rock.

And how many kids have wondered who Round John Virgin is?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

haha Round John Virgin, I love it.

Jingle Bell Rock is a rockabilly classic! I would have thought it would be one of the more popular Xmas tunes.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

Nice to meet someone who knows what Rockabilly is/was—the precursor to the marriage of Countey and Rock, as outlined in the movie Rhinestone, with Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone, the 2 best chests of their era in Hollywood. If they’d stripped to the waist, the movie would have BOFFO’D! Brenda Lee, “little Miss Dynamite,” was 1 my teen fantasies.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oh yes, it’s one of my favourite genres. Wanda Jackson, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, even early Elvis. I love it all.

[–] andreaahr (2337) 5 years ago

You should listen to the song Someday at Christmas by Stevie Wonder. I absolutely love that song; it is so good!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I haven't heard that one, but I do love Stevie. I'll check it out. Thanks!

[–] andreaahr (2337) 5 years ago

You can hear it on YouTube.