I’d Like to Ban…

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

…the song “Jingle Bell Rock”. Seems like no matter when I go, all the grocery, hardware, drug stores etc are playing it. Enough already!

 

Ok, my seasonal rant is over. Now back to your regular programming. 

[LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L]

My wife and I agree on this: The Rogers and Hammerstein tune "My Favorite Things" needs to quit being played as a Christmas song.  It is not.

[Dantankerous]

21 minutes ago, LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L said:

My wife and I agree on this: The Rogers and Hammerstein tune "My Favorite Things" needs to quit being played as a Christmas song.  It is not.

 

 Companies and merchandisers have figured "My Favorite Things" easily works for the materialism that Christmas has sadly become and works perfectly for selling crap.

 

 

[Dantankerous]

7 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

…the song “Jingle Bell Rock”. Seems like no matter when I go, all the grocery, hardware, drug stores etc are playing it. Enough already!

 

Ok, my seasonal rant is over. Now back to your regular programming. 

 

 Agree. About 10 or 12 years ago a local radio station that plays nothing but Christmas music from Thanksgiving to Christmas actually changed their programming to include lots of most excellent Christmas music I had never heard on the radio before. That was a very enjoyable Christmas radio/music season for once. Sadly I have not ever heard it again. I'm sure someone complained  And they went back to their old programming of the same 7 overplayed, overused songs for Christmas.

 

 If I want Christmas music I'll put in a CD other than that it's talk radio or silence and silence is rapidly becoming my most favorite sound ever.

[Rye Miles #13621]

The one I hate the most is ,  "This Christmas I gave you my heart..... etc etc!!!" I can't turn it off fast enough!

[Dantankerous]

1 minute ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The one I hate the most is ,  "This Christmas I gave you my heart..... etc etc!!!" I can't turn it off fast enough!

 

Lol! Hahahahahahahahahaha! Agree 1000%!

[Widder, SASS #59054]

The ones I dislike (hate):

 

Grandma got run over by a Reindeer

I'll have Blue Christmas without you

 

..........Widder

 

 

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

1 hour ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

The ones I dislike (hate):

 

Grandma got run over by a Reindeer

I'll have Blue Christmas without you

 

..........Widder

 

 

I agree with you on that Ray Stevens classic.  Way overplayed.

 

Disagree about Blue Christmas.  I guess it depends on what version you hear.

 

 

 

[bgavin]

I don't want to ban anything.

It is a small jump from wanting to fervently ban X,  to wanting to fervently ban my guns.

Don't like the tune?  Turn off the radio.
Don't like the TV evangelist with the elephant ears?  Change the channel.

Don't like my guns?  Mind your own business.

Conspicuous Consumption season will be done in three more days, then we will be on to the Romantic Consumption season that culminates on 2/14.
The music will change, but the marketing will remain the same.
 

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

While we're at it, can we cut back on the radio playing the pretentious, over done and over the top Trans Siberian Orchestra Christmas music hourly, too?

[Subdeacon Joe]

11 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

…the song “Jingle Bell Rock”. Seems like no matter when I go, all the grocery, hardware, drug stores etc are playing it. Enough already!

 

Ok, my seasonal rant is over. Now back to your regular programming. 

 

When I was still participating in Square Dancing Jingle Bell Rock was one of my favorite round dances between tips.  

[Buffalo Creek Law Dog]

I use Google Home for our Christmas music.  I just say, hey Google, play Perry Como's Christmas album or Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra etc.  If there is a particular song that I don't like, I just say, hey Google, next.

[Singin' Sue 71615]

11 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

…the song “Jingle Bell Rock”. Seems like no matter when I go, all the grocery, hardware, drug stores etc are playing it. Enough already!

 

Ok, my seasonal rant is over. Now back to your regular programming. 

But...right now is when it should be played!!! Only 3 days left!!!

[Singin' Sue 71615]

3 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

 

 Agree. About 10 or 12 years ago a local radio station that plays nothing but Christmas music from Thanksgiving to Christmas actually changed their programming to include lots of most excellent Christmas music I had never heard on the radio before. That was a very enjoyable Christmas radio/music season for once. Sadly I have not ever heard it again. I'm sure someone complained  And they went back to their old programming of the same 7 overplayed, overused songs for Christmas.

 

 If I want Christmas music I'll put in a CD other than that it's talk radio or silence and silence is rapidly becoming my most favorite sound ever.

The Sing Off Christmas is excellent!

[Doc Shapiro]

5 hours ago, LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L said:

My wife and I agree on this: The Rogers and Hammerstein tune "My Favorite Things" needs to quit being played as a Christmas song.  It is not.

 

I quite like the Coltrane version of this tune.

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

[DeaconKC]

4 hours ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said:

I agree with you on that Ray Stevens classic.  Way overplayed.

 

Disagree about Blue Christmas.  I guess it depends on what version you hear.

 

 

 

Thank you!

[Pat Riot]

There is only one Christmas song that I truly dislike. I do not know the name of it and don’t want to know the name of it. I started to search for it so I could post it but I don’t even want to find it so it will get stuck in my head. 
It’s an instrumental song that came out on the early 70’s. It reminds me of fake Christmas in a city with silver trees and white ornaments and that gawd awful messed up sugar candy that grates your teeth and has no flavor and fake Santa Clauses dressed in gold suits and…

 

I’m ranting, aren’t I? Never mind…

 

I just hate that freakin song…

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Dominick the Donkey

[Subdeacon Joe]

Not much of one for banning things.  The things I think should be banned - human trafficking, child pornography, slavery (those last two are really subsets of trafficking)- are already illegal.  

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Well, this tongue in cheek thread has taken a nasty turn. 

[DocWard]

3 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Well, this tongue in cheek thread has taken a nasty turn. 

 

Well, there's always someone who takes things a little too seriously. But I get what you and others are saying. I truly enjoy most Christmas music, but I lean toward the traditional and standards (with the notable exceptions of Gary Hoey). I could use a lot less of the modern stuff.

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Well, this tongue in cheek thread has taken a nasty turn. 

 

 

This crowd is like that.  Start a thread as a farce and it turns serious.  Start a serious thread and it turns whimsical.

 

Tough crowd to read sometimes.

[Subdeacon Joe]

19 minutes ago, DocWard said:

. I truly enjoy most Christmas music, but I lean toward the traditional and standards (with the notable exceptions of Gary Hoey). I could use a lot less of the modern stuff.

 

My wife had on an Amazon stream of Christmas Music.  Mostly crooners to modern.  We clicked past most of the Motown, Hip-hop and such.

 

(As I was typing this the YouTube fireplace with soothing Christmas Guitar video had 12 Days of Christmas going.  Without any coordinating we both at the exact same time, in the exact same tone of voice, and the same hand gestures said "Whack!" as if we were hitting a record player that was stuck.  We laughed until we hurt.)

[Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494]

  

 

Traditionals are fine, but if I NEVER again hear "Little Drummer Boy" I'll have an enjoyable balance of my life.......

[Dirty Dan Dawkins]

On 12/23/2021 at 8:04 AM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The one I hate the most is ,  "This Christmas I gave you my heart..... etc etc!!!" I can't turn it off fast enough!

Its perfect for a parody version, something like,

Last Christmas I had to fart. The very next day the smell went away.

This year, I've bought plenty of beans and promise you'll smell something special.