These triggered snowflakes are writing from their blackened hearts on this one. Childhood disappointments over Christmas and birthdays are a major source of unresolved envy, anger, hate, and compensating vanity, in others words: Democrats.
Posted on 12/13/2019 10:52:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“I listen to my Carpenters’ and Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums year around”.
Mannheim Steamroller is the best.
These triggered snowflakes are writing from their blackened hearts on this one. Childhood disappointments over Christmas and birthdays are a major source of unresolved envy, anger, hate, and compensating vanity, in others words: Democrats.
Which indicates that many researchers are idiots with an agenda
Thank God It’s Not Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEBRzrYKifU
“Thank God It’s Not Christmas”
What do I hear, what do I hear?
Chit-chat, and clinking glass
Cheap talk, a lady’s laugh
After hour
What do I see, what do I see?
Some sunken hideaway
Where people go to play
After hour
There I’ll spend the night
Meeting fancy thins
At bistros and old haunts
Trying very hard to sin
Then it is day end in a way
The pattern’s much the same
In-spots, a matinee
Every day
Blend with the crowd, blend with the loud
Hypnotic ebb and flow
Until the day goes slowly
Into night
See the same old crowd
At bistros and old haunts
‘Til the lights grow dim,
The not-so-subtle hint to be gone
[Chorus:]
Thank God it’s not Christmas
When there is only you
And nothing else to do
Thank God it’s not Christmas
Where there’s just you to do
The rest is closed to public view
Caroling kids, caroling kids
A trifle premature, in tones so rich and pure and crystaline
Call for the day, the popular day
It’s fast approaching now
But will the mood allow
One dissent
If this were the Seine
We’d be very suave
But it’s just the rain
Washing down the boulevard
[Chorus]
Popular days, the popular ways
Are for the chosen few
Not meant for me and you
Obviously
Popular nights, poplar rites
Great things to say and do
Aren’t said or done by you
Obviously
If this were Seine
We’d be very suave
But it’s just the rain
Washing down the boulevard
Thank you for this.
KDFC San Francisco used to have a wonderful online classical Christmas music station for the month of December, when it was still a family-owned station (I think the family was actually Mormon). I looked forward to listening to it every year. Then the station got bought out by National Public Radio, and that was the end of that.
Mariah Carey in a short skirt Santa suit is kinda hot - but I can easily do without “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.
“Holy, Jolly Christmas” makes me stabby.
Hey, I just checked KDFC to see, and they now have something called the “Holiday Spirit Channel.” I will check it out—wonder whether it is Christian or New Age.
(I left the Episcopal Church a long time ago, but made the mistake of checking out the “Festival of 7 Lessons and Carols” service a couple of years ago at the church my family went to (this service originally was a Christmas service at Kings College, Cambridge). It was entirely New Age, not Christian. People processing around with purple and black banners, singing weird winter solstice music. I actually had to leave, the demonic vibes were so strong in the church.)
How about, when you are stopped at a red light, that a guy pulls up next to you playing rap music so loud that it makes the loose change in your car rattle around? Any studies on the affect that has on mental health?
The secular stuff gets tiresome. While those songs sometimes promote family in a nice way, they often focus on commercialism and getting things. They are nice if interspersed with carols. Apart from Feliz Navidad, which just says Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, I’ll mostly stick to the ones in the hymnal, even though as a small child I thought that Hark the Herald Angels Sing was about an angel named Harold who sang.
Santa Baby is the most obnoxious thing ever recorded. It makes my skin crawl.
Sick of holiday music? Then don’t start listening to it as soon as Halloween is over.
Same here-took a 2nd job to pay the bills and next semester’s tuition as a single mom-then again 20+years later after my divorce-both times in a furniture store and starting in November-Christmas music still gives me Black Friday flashbacks-incredibly rude customers with their screeching kids with candy in their sticky hands, etc-I’m so happy that the classic rock station I listen to makes a point of never playing Christmas music-I jam to Pink Floyd and AC/DC, etc on the way to and at work instead...
And I don’t watch the Nutrasweet-infused Holiday movies on Hallmark or Lifetime, either-they gag me and spoil my appetite-bah humbug...
For a little winter giggle.
They start in September. That insipid Mariah Carey song. Who wouldn’t be tired of it by now? It’s not the music as much as the marketing of Christmas. There is no more Thanksgiving, it has become “Black Friday”. Christmas is nothing more than gifts to so many.
“rap music so loud”
I live and work in a remote rural area-no one plays rap music in 4x4 pickups and SUVs-loud rock or C&W, hell yeah-but no rap crap like in cities...
Just a poorly disguised way of trashing Christianity. Let’s have some more of that “constant inundation of cheerful” and let’s let those “researchers” find some meaningful purpose in life.
BUMP!
My sister and I went to our favorite tearoom in mid-November. It was already all tarted up for Christmas. They were playing a continuous loop of Christmas instrumentals and after hearing “Fum Fum Fum” for the third time in an hour we beat feet.
I’m not hearing it at all! I guess I haven’t been to the Mall for a while. I don’t hear it at the grocery store.
I don’t hear it on terrestrial FM Radio unless it’s a parody, with lyrics changed in order to sound silly and sell products.
I don’t use Bluetooth (too much fiddling!!) so, I can’t get AM terrestrial radio easily as I used to.
Well. I used to hear Christmas Carols a lot. So I have my own memories to play back when I want to.
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