Today I almost started a riot at Sears over the Christmas Music

[NecessaryCatharsis]

That's funny, I loathe Christmas carols with a passion, clenching my jaw every time I hear one gives me a tension headache, they make me actively angry...except little drummer boy. I wouldn't say that I like it, but it's the only one of the bunch I can stand in any way, shape or form.

[notalwaysright]

They have started playing a cover of "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music. I really hate this. I love that song, but I feel they are dirtying it. By making it about buying things not comforting things, if you know what I mean.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

That's funny, I loathe Christmas carols with a passion, clenching my jaw every time I hear one gives me a tension headache, they make me actively angry...except little drummer boy. I wouldn't say that I like it, but it's the only one of the bunch I can stand in any way, shape or form.

Only version I like of that song is the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet where Bowie sings his own song over the melody.

[siskaren]

Only version I like of that song is the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet where Bowie sings his own song over the melody.

The song Bowie sings is called "Peace on Earth". (I have this duet on my iPod.)

[lordlundar]

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra does a nice Christmas album. The Lost Christmas Eve I think it's called.

Yes it is. It was a tradition to play it as part of our music list for the holidays where I worked (we were in control of the music system at the time). Wonderful music.

Here we go. This is the song that got me hooked on the album (and the video that got my attention. The track is called "Wizards in Winter".

And because we got to choose the music, we got to get some "different" songs loaded in. Pretty sure one year we managed to sneak in "Christmas at Ground Zero".

[MoonCat]

My new favorite is "Santa Claus is Pagan Too" by Emerald Rose. Doesn't seem to be available as a single download, though.

When I was a kid we had an album called "Switched on Santa." It was Christmas songs done on a synthesizer. We no longer have it, couldn't play it if we did, and it's very hard to find now. Last year I found some of it on Youtube, though.