Landmines everywhere

[IceFyre13th]

https://www.whamageddon.com/


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwNV7TAWN3M[/ame]

[soundman98]

i'm already out. i had to go shopping last weekend. i swear, someone at home depot turned up 'i saw mommy kissing santa claus'...

if i had to work retail around this time, the phrase would be "going retail" instead of "going postal"

[Will BRZ]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i'm already out. i had to go shopping last weekend. i swear, someone at home depot turned up 'i saw mommy kissing santa claus'...

Dude we have all those on at work. Like all day since thanksgiving day. It’s...not THAT bad lol I weirdly got used to them and kinda grew to liking them lol “I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus” is my shit though

[soundman98]

i can't stand christmas music. it's just so, artificially cheerful. it's not cheerfulness that bothers me, it's the artificial part...

[Tcoat]

I laugh every time a radio station plays Hallelujah in their Christmas rotation (and they all do it). Have their music directors ever actually listened to it? How is it even remotely Christmas music? Did they look at the title and "AHHH that is festive"? Did they confuse it with the Hallelujah chorus which is at least semi relevant?

I'd heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well, it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to the kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4[/ame]

[extrashaky]

Xmas music is mostly just garbage. If it weren't, it would be played year round. You'd be at a barbecue in July and think, man, I'd really like to hear Jingle Bells right now. Nobody ever thinks that.

If you doubt it, try this: At your next summer gathering, start playing Xmas music and see how quickly people ask you to turn that shit off.

I listen to XM all day while I'm working and driving. They must have a dozen stations playing all Christmas crap. I wouldn't care, except they run promos for these crap channels in every fucking commercial break on every other channel. They actually started running spots for Xmas music on the goddamned Hallmark channel in October.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Xmas music is mostly just garbage. If it weren't, it would be played year round. You'd be at a barbecue in July and think, man, I'd really like to hear Jingle Bells right now. Nobody ever thinks that.

If you doubt it, try this: At your next summer gathering, start playing Xmas music and see how quickly people ask you to turn that shit off.

I listen to XM all day while I'm working and driving. They must have a dozen stations playing all Christmas crap. I wouldn't care, except they run promos for these crap channels in every fucking commercial break on every other channel. They actually started running spots for Xmas music on the goddamned Hallmark channel in October.

I could live with it for a month or so if it weren't for the fact it is the same 20 songs over and over again. Sure some of the songs are done by different people but it still gets old fast. I have an annual Christmas season ritual of counting how many times I hear Santa Baby over the period. So far I am up to 66 times in a month. Even my vary favourite songs would be wearing thin if I heard them 3 times a day. Every day. No matter where I went.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I could live with it for a month or so if it weren't for the fact it is the same 20 songs over and over again. Sure some of the songs are done by different people but it still gets old fast. I have an annual Christmas season ritual of counting how many times I hear Santa Baby over the period. So far I am up to 66 times in a month. Even my vary favourite songs would be wearing thin if I heard them 3 times a day. Every day. No matter where I went.

I don't listen to the radio much so I have heard zero Christmas songs.

I can go for Santa Baby right now.

[RToyo86]

More a fan of this.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8hdZVoLHrk[/ame]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I don't listen to the radio much so I have heard zero Christmas songs.

I can go for Santa Baby right now.

HR manager has it on at work and my wife has it on in her car and all the stores keep playing it and IJUSTCANTAVOIDIT.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

HR manager has it on at work and my wife has it on in her car and all the stores keep playing it and IJUSTCANTAVOIDIT.

HR manager? At my old work someone non Christian would file a lawsuit for hostile work environment and win. Not a chance you would hear Christmas music.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I listen to XM all day while I'm working and driving. They must have a dozen stations playing all Christmas crap. I wouldn't care, except they run promos for these crap channels in every fucking commercial break on every other channel. They actually started running spots for Xmas music on the goddamned Hallmark channel in October.

this is why i no longer have xm. i had it for 4 years, back when xm was a separate company from sirius, and then 2 years just after the merger. xm had commercial free music, the merger started shifting towards adding commercials, and more irritating dj's.

it's really just paying for an FM alternative anymore. but FM is free...

[86MLR]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I laugh every time a radio station plays Hallelujah in their Christmas rotation (and they all do it). Have their music directors ever actually listened to it? How is it even remotely Christmas music? Did they look at the title and "AHHH that is festive"? Did they confuse it with the Hallelujah chorus which is at least semi relevant?

I'd heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well, it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to the kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

My favorite is the original by Leonard Cohen

Actually I'm a big fan of all of Leonard Cohen' works

As for Xmas, it's a joke, the most environmentally wasteful and money focused commercial venture there is.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

HR manager? At my old work someone non Christian would file a lawsuit for hostile work environment and win. Not a chance you would hear Christmas music.

Not an issue at my small Canadian town workplace.