It happens every year yet I never see it coming. Sunday. The market. I'm shopping as usual and the music being piped in is incomprehensible because when they recently refurbished the premises they decided to seal the ceiling speakers in a bowl of water. However in a moment of clarity, as I walked down the aisle looking for cat food my cat might actually eat I was once again assaulted with a new and even more frustratingly annoying version of the worst song ever written. "Feliz Navidad". A song so bad yet so catchy that it sticks in your head for weeks. And every musical genre aside from rap has an artist that has covered it. So I am accosted with a different version every nine minutes.

Thank God I have Christmas to take my mind off this awful, torturous song...

I had that feeling two weeks before Thanksgiving, when a Toledo commercial FM station began its traditional Christmas music, 24/7. Meanwhile, across town, an openly Christian youth-oriented station stepped up a nice bouncy, with-it run of anti-suicide songs. I kid you not.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 02, 2013, 07:09:55 PM
It happens every year yet I never see it coming. Sunday. The market. I'm shopping as usual and the music being piped in is incomprehensible because when they recently refurbished the premises they decided to seal the ceiling speakers in a bowl of water. However in a moment of clarity, as I walked down the aisle looking for cat food my cat might actually eat I was once again assaulted with a new and even more frustratingly annoying version of the worst song ever written. "Feliz Navidad". A song so bad yet so catchy that it sticks in your head for weeks. And every musical genre aside from rap has an artist that has covered it. So I am accosted with a different version every nine minutes.

Thank God I have Christmas to take my mind off this awful, torturous song...

Just for Boo.   

"Feliz Navidad"- Cha Cha

Quote from: quiller on December 02, 2013, 07:26:11 PM
I had that feeling two weeks before Thanksgiving, when a Toledo commercial FM station began its traditional Christmas music, 24/7. Meanwhile, across town, an openly Christian youth-oriented station stepped up a nice bouncy, with-it run of anti-suicide songs. I kid you not.

So they basically cancel each other out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o&feature=kp

Quote from: kopema on December 02, 2013, 08:02:05 PM
So they basically cancel each other out.

With goth and emo and every other film about the world ending, zombie apocalypse, and music of tortured teenaged souls....it's a necessary counterbalance to the gloom.

To their credit the lyrics are subtle by teenager standards, buried under surprisingly good rock or pop melodies. I had to listen repeatedly to several songs before it dawned on me what they are up to---and I approve. I don't think they're going to air any explicitly Christmas songs. They're religious, not commercial.

Quote from: Solar on December 02, 2013, 08:10:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o&feature=kp

In my opinion, this will be considered his finest song. The guitar work is terrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQSpA2hU6c

An oldies station in Madison, WI changed over to Christmas music the day after Halloween. Way too early.