Just make it stop!
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I despise the buildup to christmas, the existence of christmas music (and also adverts) makes me glad I don't have tv or radio here.
The only christmas tunes I've heard this year have been at the uni bar, and they always get cut off by the jukebox, so I'm safe..
The only christmas tunes I've heard this year have been at the uni bar, and they always get cut off by the jukebox, so I'm safe..
Yes. I fuckin hate Christmas now. I never really loved it, but I didn't mind it. Now I want it to be over... NOW!
Working retail during a night-shift (when it's quiet and you're bored), is killer during this season. Here is a rough count from last night, note that these weren't all technically the same song, they had different versions, but they still all sucked:
We Wish You a merry Christmas: 10-20 times.
Rudolf the Red nosed Reindeer: 20-25 times.
Frosty the Snowman: 5-10 times.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town: 30-40 times.
Little Drummer Boy (AKA "FUCK THIS SONG!"): 70-80 DAMN TIMES! EAR RAPE!
12 Days of Christmas: 10-20 times.
Sleigh Ride: 25-40 times.
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas: 40-50 times.
While I kind of liked Christmas before, I still hated the shitty music that came with it. Now that I'm forced to listen to it, I want to go homicidal. I'm so jealous of Tim Hortons and McDonalds, they get to play real music.
Working retail during a night-shift (when it's quiet and you're bored), is killer during this season. Here is a rough count from last night, note that these weren't all technically the same song, they had different versions, but they still all sucked:
We Wish You a merry Christmas: 10-20 times.
Rudolf the Red nosed Reindeer: 20-25 times.
Frosty the Snowman: 5-10 times.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town: 30-40 times.
Little Drummer Boy (AKA "FUCK THIS SONG!"): 70-80 DAMN TIMES! EAR RAPE!
12 Days of Christmas: 10-20 times.
Sleigh Ride: 25-40 times.
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas: 40-50 times.
While I kind of liked Christmas before, I still hated the shitty music that came with it. Now that I'm forced to listen to it, I want to go homicidal. I'm so jealous of Tim Hortons and McDonalds, they get to play real music.
Yeah, I did quite a few years of retail and November and December were mindnumbingly painful, especially as the licencing usually means your company only pays for about a dozen xmas songs to go on loop for 2 months.
Someone needs to try a 'whatmas?' sales campaign, where they just have a sale as normal but don't mention Christmas at all, and have normal music on, and see if it affects sales at all, people might even flock in to get away from the sound of the choirs in every other damn store in that mall.
Only trouble being, having a 'no christmas' theme will have you on the front page of the newspapers now with a 'Muslims ban xmas in stores across our Britain', despite it being all about just wanting to sell some stuff without following the usual balls of a Xmas sale.
EDIT: I ought to say, I've got nothing against Xmas, it's a lovely time of year, but it's also at the end of December, it's not in October, so piss off with the boxes of candy and decorations displays two months early, and packs of mince pies with a best before date of mid november.
Someone needs to try a 'whatmas?' sales campaign, where they just have a sale as normal but don't mention Christmas at all, and have normal music on, and see if it affects sales at all, people might even flock in to get away from the sound of the choirs in every other damn store in that mall.
Only trouble being, having a 'no christmas' theme will have you on the front page of the newspapers now with a 'Muslims ban xmas in stores across our Britain', despite it being all about just wanting to sell some stuff without following the usual balls of a Xmas sale.
EDIT: I ought to say, I've got nothing against Xmas, it's a lovely time of year, but it's also at the end of December, it's not in October, so piss off with the boxes of candy and decorations displays two months early, and packs of mince pies with a best before date of mid november.
Well it isn't Christmas music, but the first job I was ever employed at was a small greek restaurant that liked Frank Sinatra, A LOT. At the time it was horrible to have to listen to "FLLYYY ME TOOO THE MOOOOOON" 100 times a day. Nowadays though people think I have class cus I know the words to every Frank song 
I think the worst thing is that every year some idiot starts buying CDs with these on.
You're fucking joking right? They are exactly the same as the year before
You're fucking joking right? They are exactly the same as the year before
The normal songs are annoying enough. What drives me downright psychotic is the covers by pop singers that completely over-dramatize every. Fucking. Line.
We wish YOU! A MEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEERY...
CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAASSSS!!!
We wish YOU! A MEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEERY...
CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAASSSS!!!
And a HAPPY! NEW! YEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEeeeEEEEAAAAAAAR!!!
We wish YOU! A MEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEERY...
CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAASSSS!!!
We wish YOU! A MEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEERY...
CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAASSSS!!!
And a HAPPY! NEW! YEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEeeeEEEEAAAAAAAR!!!
Not to one-up you, only to demonstrate that it could be worse: I have three words for you:Toaster Hunter said:
Mexican. Christmas. Music.
Back in my early twenties, I was a bartender at a Tex-Mex restaurant for about 4 years. Every holiday season (starting in the first week of November), they would switch to the 'Holiday Songs'... and believe me, if you want jarring, listen to a song you know, only sung in a foreign language. Of course, they had some traditional Spanish Christmas folk music in there, too, but it was like one song amongst 10.
Given your other responses, it sounds like you work in a place that has a satellite feed. If they don't, and they have a CD player, buy 'A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas' and tell them to jam that puppy in the CD player. It's subdued and doesn't have many (any?) vocals, which is the element that really rapes your ears when it comes to Christmas music.
Christmas music SUCKS!
Not because it's necessarily bad, mind you. It's just because all of it is so played out, it drives me nuts.
I feel sorry for you retail workers. It must be absolutely maddening. Me, I have the luxury of carrying my MP3 player with me (with some noise-isolating earbuds) when I hit the stores...
...and restaurants. Fuck, why even restaurants!?
Not because it's necessarily bad, mind you. It's just because all of it is so played out, it drives me nuts.
I feel sorry for you retail workers. It must be absolutely maddening. Me, I have the luxury of carrying my MP3 player with me (with some noise-isolating earbuds) when I hit the stores...
...and restaurants. Fuck, why even restaurants!?
I don't mind the music i actually quite enjoy it
but i see how it could get annoying if you can't do anything else other than sit at your station and not move.
but i see how it could get annoying if you can't do anything else other than sit at your station and not move.
have you ever worked an 8 hour shift at a department store? trust me the job is easily mindless enough so that you could be employee of the week and still be able to count the number of times these songs were playedDaystar Clarion said:
Just get into the CD stack and replace everything with this:
I really hate Xmas music too. I don't know why, but it just hits a nerve with me. Anyway, sorry to hear about the torture they're putting you through. *hands noise-canceling head-phones*
I really hate Xmas music too. I don't know why, but it just hits a nerve with me. Anyway, sorry to hear about the torture they're putting you through. *hands noise-canceling head-phones*
Christ, tell me about it... That makes me want to round all those celebs and slap them with a metal glove.Lekonua said:
