I hate TV Christmas Music!

[SamFamAustin]

Nothing to do with the Abacos, but this time of year we get all these Christmas jingles on the TV advertisements and I almost want to go postal. I hate that canned music!

I walked into a mall - a good place to lose a big part of your soul - and Christmas music was "tinkling" everywhere. I don't need tinkles! I hate this modern idea of Christmas music. Bang on some drums like the Junkanoo or break out some horns and some singers ... that computerized music has to be banished from the planet.

Serious, that is not music, what the media is pushing these days. It's almost Pavlovian, where if I hear another "I wish you a Merry Christmas" on some TV ad I want to blow beets in their general direction. It is that bad. Sorry I've maxxed out here folks!

[Patti Puzo]

Originally Posted by SamFamAustin

Nothing to do with the Abacos, but this time of year we get all these Christmas jingles on the TV advertisements and I almost want to go postal. I hate that canned music!

I walked into a mall - a good place to lose a big part of your soul - and Christmas music was "tinkling" everywhere. I don't need tinkles! I hate this modern idea of Christmas music. Bang on some drums like the Junkanoo or break out some horns and some singers ... that computerized music has to be banished from the planet.

Serious, that is not music, what the media is pushing these days. It's almost Pavlovian, where if I hear another "I wish you a Merry Christmas" on some TV ad I want to blow beets in their general direction. It is that bad. Sorry I've maxxed out here folks!

I know! Hearing Wilson-Phillips 'Hey Santa' makes me want to blow beets... (whatever beet blowing is)
Sammie, Sammie, Sammie....

[AbacoPeach]

We have a radio station here that starts playing Christmas music and, ONLY Christmas music, from Thanksgiving day until the day after Christmas! At least I can choose not to tune into that station.

[BahamaAngie]

We have a tv station that plays great Christmas music....by the original singers....I enjoy it. I put it on as background music. Don't you have anything like that?

[gazeboman]

Sammie is right. Pavlovian! Stores play the prescribed music. They expect you to spend money according to the music. There is a study on exactly which blend of music makes people spend more. http://www.walmartemptytheirwalletscompletly.com

Human/corporate nature? The true spirit of christmas is a wonderful thing. The commercialization of it degrades the christmas experience for some. After viewing "people of wal-mart" I go there now with a new attitude. It is entertainment! As you shop, make it an entertaining/learning experience. Watch and experience the people! Some show the christmas spirit-they offer you to go ahead of them in check-out line when you only have one item, they stop & allow you to go ahead in traffic when you can't see a break in cars to go, just yesterday a lady overheard me asking where to find something in the store(a shopper, not store employee) she led me all the way over to the other end of the store to show me where it was! Then there is the other (ugly) side. The rude check-out person, the lady with a full cart that rushes & shoves you aside to get in line ahead of you, the guy that pulls out in front of you-you have to break to avoid hitting him-then he flips you off!

So the challenge for all of my forum friends is keep track next time you have to shop. Keep track of the good spirited people and the bad ones. In the spirit of christmas I hope, that for you ,the good outnumbers the bad in a big way! Merry CHRISTmas--Ron/Gazeboman

[SamFamAustin]

Originally Posted by Patti Puzo

I know! Hearing Wilson-Phillips 'Hey Santa' makes me want to blow beets... (whatever beet blowing is)
Sammie, Sammie, Sammie....

Oops my bad!

Anyway, I love real music instead of the canned Muzak stuff - I think a lot of us do. I don't care if its Peruvian flutes, a 4-piece horn band, dueling tubas, or high school singers with a Karaoke machine.

OK, maybe lose the Karaoke but you get the picture...

Gosh I remember me and my tuba, and we used to walk all over our little town serenading everyone's front door, loads of fun. Most of the time the folks would come outside and sing along. Had to keep the mouthpiece in my pocket when not playing, so my lips wouldn't freeze to the metal (let's not envision that one, Patti!). But people loved all that caroling, goofy as it was.

'Good King Wenseslas' was actually a complicated song as I recall, although fortunately we had cheat-sheet music like for a marching band, quite beautiful if we hit all the right notes. I don't mind the old standbys as long as they're played with some cheer and some genuine feeling.

And the hot rum toddy after all that playing always lead to some legendary parties, LOL.

[DaGoose]

I was at Trader Joe's the other day and they had a karaoke machine for employees and shoppers to sing Christmas songs. It was hilarious and pretty awful!

When we were kids we had a Gene Autrey Christmas album. We'd pull that thing out in June and play it for hours! Must have drove my folks NUTS!

Tina

[Patty&Rudi]

OOps - I LOVE the music! Any kind, anywhere!

When I was young I sang in a bazillion choirs and choruses and glee clubs and things, and it is rare to hear the songs we'd sing at Christmas. And I miss it - I can sing the second alto line to almost anything.

And one day I turned on the TV and Sirius had a few channels of music, and I found some of my old favourites!

When I had my daughters I didn't know any good lullaby songs, so I sang White Christmas and Chestnuts. And I love those songs still, and so do they!

[BahamaAngie]

Me too Patty, must be a Jersey thing!