It's beginning to look a lot like Easter

[evadne_noel]

I’m afraid there may not be a Christmas music rant this year. I just can’t get into the Christmas mood, joyful, irritated, or otherwise. It’s in the mid-60s, the Beatles are on the radio singing “Here Comes the Sun,” and if I had teleported here through time and space to save the cheerleader and/or my unbearably adorable red-headed girlfriend, you would be hard pressed to convince me it was not April.

Even what little Christmas music I’ve heard this year hasn’t annoyed me. I’ve not had one moment of “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time” rage, nor one unwanted loop of “Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum” trapped in my brain. Probably because I haven’t heard either Paul McCartney or “Little Drummer Boy.” Therein lies the problem.

It’s like some sort of inverted Christmas special: “Oh, no, kids! Christmas music hasn’t been bothering Eva this year! Looks like we’ll have to cancel the Christmas music rant!” And then the kids save the day by teaching me the true meaning of nerve-grating Christmas music with their endearing shenanigans and Wings records, and I get all worked up at the last moment and the day is saved.

Here's hoping for the crazy antics of snot-nosed kids to save my usual Christmas music rage.

Comments

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

It's that way here too (Ottawa, Canada). Except for the record number of S.A.D. cases due to having no sun for months, it is spring. My flower pots have started sprouting hopefully. I expect to see tulips any day now.

Meanwhile, on the west coast (who's weather we are stealing), Vancouver is getting 50+ cm of snow in one day.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Aw, I love tulips. I hope our normal seasonal weather doesn't show up suddenly and kill them off.

I love how the East's bad weather is taking a vacation in the West. Like weather has become a horizontal snowbird or something.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

If I can find it and then get it online for you, there's always Celine Dion singing with the Chipmunks, en francais, "Petit Papa Noel." That song is worth a rant or two...

You know what I really want, though? Deep down in my heart of hearts, I really want William Hung to release a Christmas album. B/c nothing would be more fun to make fun of than that.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Celine Dion singing with the Chipmunks, en francais, "Petit Papa Noel."

That song is worth a nuclear strike.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is. Amazing what I was able to find searching "christmas" randomly on Napster all those years ago...

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

A nuclear strike from space.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Must...control...trainwreck...syndrome. Argh!

Okay, if you can find that song, I would like to hear it. It must be terrible.

I don't think I could stand an entire William Hung album. Maybe a single. That's all I could ever need.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

Okay. It's on my computer at home, but you can hear the "fun" banter that preceeds the song (which I'd never heard before, and cringe now having heard it) here: http://www.amazon.com/Very-Merry-Chipmunk-Alvin-Chipmunks/dp/B000002A79/sr=8-6/qid=1166474988/ref=pd_bbs_sr_6/103-7297307-7511840?ie=UTF8&s=music

You have to scroll down to get to the little clips they have up. It's track 7.

What scares me more is that the song below it is "Santa's Gonna Come in a Pick-up Truck."

Dear god. I might just shoot myself.

[originalgeek.livejournal.com]

"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" is enough to make me contemplate knives.

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

And if only...if ONLY...the radio station would play it once within my hearing, I'd have a rant. But, alas, my radio station has been very good this year.

[bergann.livejournal.com]

Because the Chipmunks can make anyone start Christmas music rants, here's two:

Hula Hoop, or whatever the real title of this song is (http://download.yousendit.com/2A7457A03D5BB71C)
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth (http://download.yousendit.com/0FFAC8F91C5502E5) (which in truth got punched out for making the previous song)

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

...Okay, this may help.

[bergann.livejournal.com]

Won't be Christmas without the rant on horrible Christmas music from the all-great and glorious you, would it? :P Also, all Chipmunks song can create the reaction my icon has with me XD And yet, I KEEP LISTENING. Because obviously I am suicidal.

[federal-duck.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah and oddly, I haven't heard any Christmas music either, so I'm not quite as annoyed. But then, I work at Pizza Hut, so the only music I'm around is that shitty accordian-ridden crap that the Mexicans like to play on the friggin jukebox. WRATH. I'd rather hear the Christmas shite.

[irishmastermind.livejournal.com]

It seems like "Little Drummer Boy" is playing every time I walk into Starbucks these days. Which is frequently. :p

Aaaaaaaand thanks. "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" is now wedged irremovably into my brain. Woe.

But yeah, I'm not feeling the Christmas spirit this year. I'm only half-done, if that, with my shopping. Guess I gotta turn up Handel's "Messiah" before my heart shrinks three sizes.

"Come on, everybody! Let's make Ms. Noel angry again so we can have a real rant!"

[researchotaku.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm totally in the Christmas spirit, despite the "warm" weather (everyone, it's still 40-50 outside, that's still cold). I'm one of those that loves Christmas no matter what.

But, like irishmastermind, I have been stalked by the "Little Drummer Boy", which is among my least favorite Christmas carols. It's been made worse by the fact that my co-worker loves that song and not only loves it, but gets really emotional about it. She cries everytime she watches the movie Little Drummer Boy. (She's a recent Catholic convert so that just makes it ten times worse).

However, I found a way to avoid most of the songs I hate while still hearing the ones I love: I've been listening to my local Christian rock station. But even that has its pitfalls: They play "O Holy Night" CON-STANT-LY over and over and over again. It plays at least once an hour every day. And yet I still don't know the words! In English or French! And they haven't played the South Park version which makes me sad.

[firiel44.livejournal.com]

One of these days, retail employees will gang up and find every person who has enabled "Wonderful Christmastime" to be produced and murder them all slowly and painfully and laugh the entire time!

*ahem* All better now, thanks. My store didn't even play music, but I think it was the only one in the mall. And even though I'm out of there, the bloody thing still haunts me everywhere I go. It's like you have to run this gauntlet of psychological torture if you want to buy anything between mid-November and New Year's. Obnoxious repetition aside, "Little Drummer Boy" pisses me off because people do all this frilly stuff with it, which misses the point of the song entirely. And too many versions of "O Come Emmanuel" cut out the really great middle verses. However, the Barlow Girl (I think it was) version of "O Holy Night" did make me all sniffly the other day.

[saintdavid.livejournal.com]

There is a completely awful techno dirge-like version of 'O Little Town Of Bethlehem' played thrice daily in the supermarket where I work that makes me want to lightsaber the PA system. They also have what sounds like a choir of tone deaf children with gravel in their mouths singing 'Away In A Manger', and a hideous multi-lingual pop song that sounds like it's being sung by Billy Joel.

They do play a very nice classical, VOICELESS medley of the prettier carols late at night though.

[priscillapuck.livejournal.com]

Um...scuze me... I was there with you on December 9th when you did have a strong adverse reaction to "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." I wouldn't categorize your reaction by hurricane numbers, but I do believe there was a tropical depression brewing, at least.

(Thankfully, up through today, I can still count on one hand the number of times this year I've heard Paul McC's miserable excuse for a holiday song. Egads! Oi've gone and jinxed meself!)

[evadne-noel.livejournal.com]

Pft, that was because it was Rudolph. I hate Rudolph at all times of the year, in all climates, and in all forms. P.S., was that non-depressing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" whose singer we couldn't figure out Judy Garland?

Well, I hope the rest of your holiday was ex-Beatle free.

I envy you and your easter spirit...

[barlowgirl61087.livejournal.com]

I worked 4 overnights last week, and the store is dead all night long, which means that I can hear the music playing all night long. In 8 hours i think i'd hear 6-8 different versions of Little Drummer Boy, at least 5 versions of rudolph the red nosed reindeer, and the same number of Frosty covers. Not to mention the pletora of other terrible pop christmas songs.

I loath christmas music this year, and usually it doesn't get to me untill the week between christmas and new years.

[mnwugn86.livejournal.com]

I can't get in the Christmas mood because down here in Southern Alabama, it's 75 degrees and sunny!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! It's freakin' Christmas! Not May!

So...what would happen if I broke Rudy's legs...?

[musicalqueen101.livejournal.com]

I swear all, ALL the radio is playing this time of year is 98 degress' O Holy Night and various versions of Run, Run Rudolph. They just play one and then play the other and cycle them over and over so that EVERY time I turn on the radio those two songs are playing!!!

I have actually *GASP* not heard SHAWCT this season, believe it or not.

[alory-shannon.livejournal.com]

I usually get fed up with Christmas music, too, but this year, I've probably heard a grand total of maybe three hours of it. Maybe. And almost all of it's been good-quality stuff like Bing Crosby and the like.

Avoidance is the obvious key to evading the Christmas Music rage.

[cookie-wolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah I saw a place three weeks that was full out decorated with Christmas things, while there were some Halloween decorations in the next aisle over. I hate this time of the year. One of the reasons why I don't watch TV.

Oh and I had a dream about you posting. Kind of creepy since I don't always like my dreams coming true, especially since I've had some really weird ones lately.