MGibster
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Did reindeer trample your heart or something?
Whamageddon (Last) Christmas
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MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
I love the cover by Cascada.
billd91
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I don't think I would consider this a particularly conventional Christmas song - and that's in its favor. It's a fairly traditional pop love song with a Christmas theme as a wrapper.
I grew up the son of a church organist - and I DETEST most traditional Christmas music because of overexposure (and most of it is really stilted, mawkish, and terrible). But there are variations on Christmas themes I can enjoy - usually on the pop/rock side of things because they take a different approach from most traditional Christmas music and carols.
I don't much like "Last Christmas" because I'm not particularly a fan of Wham or even George Michael's body of work. But not because it's a Christmas themed song.
Clint_L
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I just think they're mostly uninspired and uninteresting, if not downright annoying. "Jolly" is not a very compelling emotion for a song, IMO, and the religious ones aren't really for me. Most are just not good songs, and get played because they're part of the whole X-mas marketing racket.
There are Christmas songs that I like, but they are mostly darker, like Holly Golightly's "Christmas Solo," and Tom Waits' "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis."
It is only a Christmas song in the same way Die Hard is a Christmas movie: it takes place on/near Christmas, but it's not about Christmas.
Meech17
WotC President Runner-Up.
For a long, long time I loathed Xmas music. Between having to do the frigid holiday parades in marching band, to all the food service/retail exposure to it, I couldn't stand it.
Part of my gripe is the fact that it feels like there's only 15 Christmas songs, and then just about a hundred covers of each of em. At Taco Bell I used to be able to tell the time based off of the music because it was so short of a loop.
I've been detached from that world long enough now that I can finally enjoy it again, though.
Ulorian - Agent of Chaos
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I've always been a fan of 'traditional' Christmas music. I share a Spotify account with one of my daughters. Her account is filled with Frosty, Rudolph, the Biebs, Mariah Carey, etc. Mine is loaded with offerings from the King's College choir, Westminster Abbey choir, the Mormon Tabernacle choir, etc.
payn
Glory to Marik
I tune into the Current 89.3 (can stream) a local public alternative station xmas eve and xmas. They do a great alternative xmas song list so I can avoid the 15 standards and dozens of covers over and over and over.
I usually get whammed getting groceries or picking up stuff for gifts for my family. Though it usually takes a week or two into December to happen. So far, still alive.
I usually get whammed getting groceries or picking up stuff for gifts for my family. Though it usually takes a week or two into December to happen. So far, still alive.
Gradine
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I think if you've ever worked in an environment where Christmas music plays on loop for your entire shift, every shift, every week for well over a month, you're allowed to not like Christmas music anymore. Spoken from experience
No amount of customer service hell will ever take away my love of Carol of the Bells, though. Especially the rock cover.
No amount of customer service hell will ever take away my love of Carol of the Bells, though. Especially the rock cover.
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