How early is too early?

[Not The Original Kermit]

Heard about this on the radio and read a couple articles.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/02/too-early-for-christmas-music_n_2066806.html

So when is it too early for christmas music?
For me, I get severe christmas music burn out every year so I'd be happy if I never heard different rock renditions of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"

 

[_MementoMori_]

Call me a Scrooge, but I don't like Christmas music at all. Not even a little. Thank God I don't work in retail anymore so that I have to be subjected to it against my will.

 

[mikelz777]

Anytime after Thanksgiving. Any time before is too soon.

 

[Toothpick]

Call me a Scrooge, but I don't like Christmas music at all. Not even a little. Thank God I don't work in retail anymore so that I have to be subjected to it against my will.

GGGGGRRRRRRRRAAAHHAHHAAAAAGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats how i felt working in retail for the past 13 years during christmas. it would start on black friday and not end until the day after christmas. i was tortured with it for 8-12 hours a day 5 days a week. we used a satellite radio service and it felt like they only had 7 different songs, but they were sung by 10 different artists. so imagine hearing the same song at least 8 times a day song by a different artist each time.

needless to say I AM A SCROOGE BIG TIME.

 

[SalvadorMontenegro]

When I was younger, I worked at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. They started playing Christmas music around now and continued to play it until after Christmas. They played the same record over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. That was awful.

Christmas music, for the most part, is incredibly depressing, I think. Beautiful, at times, but depressing. Listen to O' Holy Night. Tell me that this is not an incredibly depressing sounding song.

Some of the more upbeat stuff, is all right - Jingle Bells, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Rudolph... I am, shamelessly, a huge fan of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." But Silent Night, O' Holy Night, that "though it's been said many times, many ways" song, anything BING CROSBY makes me want to make my egg nog 75% alcohol and 25%... nog.

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas" sounds, to me, more like an ultimatum than a gentle suggestion.

 

[Toothpick]

make my egg nog 75% alcohol and 25%... nog.

i think this is the official recipe actually.

 

[galopede]

Many years ago I worked in a large furniture store and they put on the Christmas tape. It was a loop tape, never ending. After a few weeks we were singing the next tune before it started! The manager wouldn't change it so one night, after the store had closed, I went at the tape with a large magnet from a damaged speaker.

We had a new tape of different tunes the very next afternoon! Still bloody Christmas tunes but at least they were in a different order...

Gareth

 

[Leatherneck]

Before Thanksgiving, I'd say. Really, anything before Dec. 1st. There is a local radio station her that should be starting up any time now. 24/7 Christmas music. I seriously boycott the station during the entire Christmas season.

 

[bigxnyc]

I don't think Christmas music shoud be played until Black Friday.

For the past five years or so I keep thinking to myself, 'this will be the year that I don't hear Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. So far, each year I have been disappointed. I made it December 23rd one year.

Maybe, fingers crossed, 2012 will be the year. Maybe.


Also, in Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, what kind of pie is Brenda Lee having? My brother pointed this out to me. It is supposed to be pumpkin pie. At best she says "pukin pie" but it really sounds like she is say she is saying f***king pie.

 

[Deltaboy]

Black Friday after Thankgiving but NEVER any SOONER!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!

 

[SalvadorMontenegro]

i think this is the official recipe actually.

Egg nog is getting drunk under the guise of celebrating the holiday spirit.

"What do you mean I've had enough?!?! You can never have too much holiday cheer!"

 

[Kentos]

It's black THURSDAY now didn't y'all hear? I think last year the stores opened at Midnight, but I bet my bottom dollar they open even earlier this year.

But to the OP' question, I love Christmas music. Without it I would never know it's that time of year here in Hawaii. So the music is like the Autumn leaves turning color for you guys. I would say after Thanksgiving too.

 

[Duckster]

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Also, in Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, what kind of pie is Brenda Lee having? My brother pointed this out to me. It is supposed to be pumpkin pie. At best she says "pukin pie" but it really sounds like she is say she is saying f***king pie.

Haha, I've noticed this too. Glad I'm not the only one.

 

[oc_in_fw]

Too early? 20DEC, IMO.

 

[Doc4]

Anytime after Thanksgiving. Any time before is too soon.

That doesn't work in Canada, where Thanksgiving is in mid-October.



Any time before 1st December, IMHO, is too early. To me, most Xmas 'music' played in shopping malls is schmalzy pap not worth listening to at all, so the less we get of that the better.

 

[framos242]

Anytime after Thanksgiving. Any time before is too soon.

Completely agree...

 

[dpmtherrien]

Include me with those who think anytime before Dec. 1st.

 

[Kilroy08]

Around here, all the crap for the Hallmark holiday formerly known as Christmas is in stores as soon as the week before Halloween.

Granted, I do pick gifts up throughout the year; however, ornaments and decorations and other accoutrements should not be displayed until after December first.

The only holiday music I really care for is Mannheim Steamroller or Trans-Siberian Orchestra. That, and..... um.... well... then there's the home made egg nog. Then the Les Paul comes out and I try shredding the Carol of the Bells like I'm rockin' with Dokken. I haven't played in ten years.

I think this year's nog will be sponsored by Canadian Club. Maybe I'll get fancy and put Seagram's in instead.

 

[Rudy Vey]

24th Dec - 26th Dec!!!!!!!

 

[DaveNJ74]

I remember it used to be right after Thanksgiving.. now? I saw Christmas decorations for sale in a local Kohls in late September and i another store Christmas music playing over their sound system.