creekland Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 What are your thoughts on Christmas music (religious or secular)? I'll admit I really love most of it as long as it's between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Sure there are a handful of songs I don't care for, but most I like including religious, secular, humorous, etc. Are there others of us out there? I'm curious because this morning NBC had a "would your rather" comparing listening to Christmas music and listening to political ads. There's no comparison for me. One I enjoy, the other I detest. I wouldn't even pair them. At least when I saw the results 91% chose Christmas music, so I'm in the majority there, but it made me curious as to how many like Christmas music - or at least most of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I absolutely love it! Can't believe someone compared it with political ads? There's just no comparison. I like most Christmas music, religious or not, but I have to admit the religious one puts special extra warmth in my heart. The beautiful story of the Savior's birth, sang beautifully? Makes me happy :). I listen to it through January, and sometimes it lingers to February. And sometimes I hum it other times of the year. I married the Grinch, so he just rolls his eyes ;) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF612 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I enjoy it between Thanksgiving day and Christmas. There are songs I don't like but I enjoy a great many of them. I can't binge on Christmas music, I enjoy it for certain things like decorating, looking at lights, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I like most Christmas music but when it starts on Thanksgiving Day, I am sick of it by Christmas Eve. I don't start playing any of our Christmas music till about Dec 15 and I avoid radio stations that play it nonstop starting the day after TDay. I despise novelty Christmas songs, like "Grandma got run over...". I like religious Christian music the best, but also like secular songs too, but not the goofy ones. (But I don't like that for most people, the Christmas season ends on December 26, or even the night of December 25. The 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day, they don't end on it!) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I love Christmas music in December. The rest of the year—not so much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 (edited) I prefer religious (classical/old) christmas music. I'll listen to the Messiah all year long. (it was written for easter. when reading isaiah, I now will 'hear' the music.) one of my favorites is o come o come emmanual (est. from the 12th century.) I also enjoy 'traditional' non-religious. generally I don't care for totally secular, i.e. santa claus or frosty. Edited December 2, 2015 by gardenmom5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Love all of it, except for "Siiiiiimply haaaaving a wonderful Christmas time," because once it's in my head it NEVER LEAVES. Gaaaah! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I like it all, except the annoying ones of course :laugh: I was more apt to complain about it when I had three jobs, all of which blasted the same 15 songs all day from Nov-Jan. With some distance, I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Love all of it, except for "Siiiiiimply haaaaving a wonderful Christmas time," because once it's in my head it NEVER LEAVES. Gaaaah! And now it's stuck in mine! No thanks! I like Christmas music at the Christmas season with a few exceptions, like the above and anything by Mariah Carey, or Gloria Estefan (who sings it "Chrissss-MUSS" and makes my ears bleed). Oh and that Elvis Presley Blue Christmas song (seriously what is up with the howling ladies in the background?). Actually the list is long; I'm picky and I carefully tune my Pandora station for maximum enjoyment. :D 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I love Christmas music, especially classical music and traditional carols like Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels. Nutcracker! Can't get too much of it! But I can wear out on it too. I don't listen to many regular radio stations because I don't care for many of the holiday songs they play. But even the completely offensive or silly ones (Adam Sandler, anyone?) have their place, in my place! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I like most Christmas music but when it starts on Thanksgiving Day, I am sick of it by Christmas Eve. I don't start playing any of our Christmas music till about Dec 15 and I avoid radio stations that play it nonstop starting the day after TDay. I despise novelty Christmas songs, like "Grandma got run over...". I like religious Christian music the best, but also like secular songs too, but not the goofy ones. (But I don't like that for most people, the Christmas season ends on December 26, or even the night of December 25. The 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day, they don't end on it!) Yeah, this! With Christmas music starting so early (like even before Thanksgiving), I start to associate it with the commercialization and pressure to be jolly. It seriously gives me the grumps. We celebrate Advent so I do love the Advent hymns. (Does anyone know of an Advent station on any of the music apps?) I do play Christmas music in the house during the religious calendar Christmas season - Christmas Eve up to the Epiphany. People think I'm weird. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I LOVE the old Christmas hymns, a select few newer songs, like Winter Snow and a few secular oldies. Unfortunately my 24/7 Christian Christmas radio station peppers their line-up with completely tone-deaf renditions of nice songs. I've almost stopped listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I like a lot of Christmas music, including secular stuff, but there is lot of bad pop stuff too which gets played in malls. Probably my favorite are a lot of the old Celtic types of carols. But - the long season created by shopping is overkill. I'm glad we separate Advent and Christmas music at church, and I try to do it at home so I don't get tired of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Christmas Shoes is the worst Christmas song ever, or at least a contender. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clementine Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I start listening to Christmas music the Friday after Thanksgiving. I have several Pandora stations that are my favorites & I know the stations in the car that play Christmas music exclusively during the holiday season. I love it!!! But, by January I'm ready to be done with it. :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyS Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 (edited) Christmas music is a huge deal in our house. We have, roughly, 80 Christmas CDs. Mostly, I guess we like "old" Christmas music. We listen to a lot of religious music, but also secular. What I don't like, for the most part, is modern Christmas music. There are some exceptions (Rat Pack era singers and standards), and I don't mind an occasional foray into kid/humorous Christmas music, but it wears thin quickly. Edited December 3, 2015 by TammyS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Christmas Shoes is the worst Christmas song ever, or at least a contender. That is the only Christmas song that actually makes me turn off the radio. I absolutely hate it. Maybe not just the worst Christmas song ever, but the worst song ever. Ick. I never get tired of Christmas music. I'll start listening to it in October, and grudgingly put it away mid-January. I do have a very large collection of Christmas CDs, though, so I have plenty of variety. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking Squirrels Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I enjoy Christmas music during the Christmas season. For me I consider that from the day after Thanksgiving through December. Besides not wanting Christmas stuff to start up before Thanksgiving, I will also get tired of it before Christmas if it starts up that early. I admit my guilty pleasure is Nsync's holiday album :o I don't mind a few of the religious songs here and there, but we mostly listen to traditional and secular. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I love Christmas music. But only between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And generally by Christmas I am sick of it! But, ready once again the next Thanksgiving! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I love it. All of it. I learned to play several tunes on the violin too and I love that. This Sunday my younger kid is in a Christmas show with a choir and orchestra. I can't wait! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 We love it here. It gets played occasionally all year long because it calms my disabled dd (Nat King Cole's and Diana Krall's Christmas albums are on my iPhone for her--and Josh Groban's Believe is the most calming song of all for her). We play it somewhat regularly on the home stereo starting in November, then we're almost exclusively Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We like jazzy instrumentals (3 GRP Christmas collections get played the most). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 I like it in small doses. Never before December 1, and more like a couple of weeks before Christmas. And I'm picky. I like a variety, but within that variety, I'm picky, if that makes sense. I can like one singer and detest a similar sounding one. Last year, it was a lot of Piano Guys and Michael W. Smith and some Celtic stuff. (Then again, that's always how my playlist goes.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted December 3, 2015 Author Share Posted December 3, 2015 Christmas Shoes is the worst Christmas song ever, or at least a contender. :iagree: I almost put this in my original post, but thought I'd best not in case most people liked it. I've never, ever liked it for Christmas or as a song in general. I will turn off the radio if it's on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 One year my kid was hooked on I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas and sang it constantly. LOL 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 I absolutely adore xmas *carols*, especially the more traditional ones that I grew up with. I do not enjoy xmas *songs* as much (although I'm not on Team Poke-a-fork-in-my-eye-if-I-accidentally-hear-White-Christmas either). We go to a carol service every year so that I can enjoy the Jesus-related music without having to hear the Santa / romance / shopping/ etc-related music :) We're not religious, but sitting through some churchy stuff is a small price to pay for lovely carols in a beautiful setting, and we haven't made the church roof fall in yet ;) I don't really understand the degree to which some people seem to hate xmas music. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plink Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Love Christmas music except (and this is probably horribly politically incorrect to admit) Feliz Navidad. It is just So Repetitive! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lllll Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 (edited) nm Edited December 14, 2015 by ^ 022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 My grandmother, who was not a particularly outgoing person (nor creative...not to be mean), insisted that after we had our family Christmas dinner we sing Christmas songs. A bit goofy I suppose, but I really loved that and miss it. As we got older sometimes cousins would bring boyfriends. It was always kind of comical how they responded to that tradition. One year my youngest cousin brought her boyfriend (they are now married) and he got really into it, but he has the worst voice ever. It was so comical. I'll never forget it. He REALLY tried though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 My favorite Christmas music is Handel's Messiah. I sing along, varying the part based on my personal vocal range. It is fun and, very likely, annoying to others. I love Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming and Of the Father's Love Begotten. However, I just got the kids (DD8 and DS4) two Christmas music CDs, in the interest of cultural literacy, Christmas Motown (it starts with the Temptations) and Classic Christmas (Elvis etc.). You know what they like best and have been singing, badly, for TWO DAYS!? I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. I had to explain the joke, and they still haven't stopped. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 (edited) Can you believe I am now listening to "Feliz Navidad" for the first time in my life? I don't know whether we don't have it here, or whether it's just me living under a stone. (Finding it kind of bland and underwhelming to be honest. Possibly because there is no easy way to add a soaring descant over the top while the cathedral organ does a magnificent crescendo? LOL) Edited December 3, 2015 by IsabelC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Can you believe I am now listening to "Feliz Navidad" for the first time in my life? I don't know whether we don't have it here, or whether it's just me living under a stone. (Finding it kind of bland and underwhelming to be honest.) Yeah I'm not crazy about that one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 I love Christmas music year round. There really isn't any other music we restrict to only 5 weeks out of the year. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Love Christmas music except (and this is probably horribly politically incorrect to admit) Feliz Navidad. It is just So Repetitive! You've never heard my brother sing it ... One Christmas eve a few years back, later in the evening, my brother picked up his guitar and started casually playing a few Christmas tunes. He started Feliz Navidad as a joke. Next thing, my whole family joined in and started singing (and we are not a sing together kind of family.) My dad started singing adding his fake German accent to the song (in his poor attempt to sing with a Spanish accent.) It was probably one of the funniest memories of my dad. My brother played until his fingers bled. It started a tradition of Christmas eve singing and goofing around (and we were all adults when this started.) My brother usually tries to learn a new song for Christmas - not necessarily a Christmas song, but something that struck him as interesting. (And yes, it is repetitive. But so are Taize chants and I love them as well.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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