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Oh, Christmas music. How I always have battles about you.

Christmas music that is Christian (ie celebrating Christ's birth) I play year round. I see no reason why I should confine my celebration to only one month. Not everyone else shares my viewpoint, so I get lots of weird looks.

Regular ol' seasonal music I play anytime after it gets cold. Once I have my hot chocolate and snuggle in a blanket, I'm ready to play any of them. Mostly in December, though. I love any of the old classic ones and instrumental/choral music. We always played a mishmosh of Christmas music while decorating when I was young, so all of those bring the season spirit to me.

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I agree. Every once in awhile my church will sing Christmas music in the middle of July. I find it fun!

This Saturday I'll hear some Christmas music because of a concert I'm going to! After that all Christmas music will have to wait till after Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving I start listening to it nonstop. The old carols, the new songs, anything really. I like some of the new renditions of the old songs, but nothing beats Burl Ive singing Holly Jolly Christmas!

I love decorating for Christmas!! Once we get home from seeing family I bring out all the boxes. I might get some new lights to put up in other parts of the house, but I don't know. Stupid gas money for college is eating up my Christmas decorating money. I love having friends to help me decorate though. It's so much fun! Ginger bread house building contests, figuring out new ways to set up the lights, ect. It's just a good time. I'm so looking forward to it!

Also, Jf, I am in love with your Frank Sinatra banner. He is my hero! I love his music. I break into song every time I see your status. "Luck be a lady tonight...." Hahaha!

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Christmas music, hmmm....touchy subject under my roof.
I prefere waiting until around the first Sunday of Advent (which is usually the last weekend of November) - makes the Xmas season something special for me and my kids.
That said, my kids often have to practice singing/playing for the school´s Xmas pagent.
Practice starts before December, so quite a bit of caroling does go on in the house, before Advent.

My all-time favs are,
Adeste Fidelis
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Little Drummer Boy
Do You Hear What I Hear?
and a Danish carol called,
En rose så jeg skyde

and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeVUnGQOIk

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my Aragorn

I find Christmas music played before the month of December highly annoying.

I don't WANT to think about Christmas until AFTER Thanksgiving. But, apparently people go from Halloween straight to Christmas (in the States) and completely forget Thanksgiving. I do NOT want to hear Christmas music for two months straight. CURSE BUSINESS CORPORATIONS. *grumble grumble grumble*

I do in fact enjoy Christmas music. For the most part. It's all very festive and great for getting you in the holiday spirit and nice to have playing at parties and when you're decorating, etc.

There is a radio station in town that usually after Thanksgiving pretty much only plays Christmas music and I occassionly listen to that in December only. I don't personally make the conscious choice to play Christmas music much. Except, EXCEPT, on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I for some reason, have acquired a ridiculous amount of holiday music - so I have a playlist for it all, and Christmas morning I just hit play. XD

But I don't mind it so much in December if I don't hear it 24/7. Otherwise I go nuts.

I was shopping in Old Navy a couple weeks ago, and they were playing Christmas music. WHAT?

I forgot to add what music I do like.

Generally like the ... golden oldies of Christmas music. From the 50s and 60s.
Also I like more instrumental holiday music rather than having really annoying lyrics that are determined to get stuck in your head.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - because they make Christmas music epic.
Josh Groban - because it's Josh Groban.

Annnnd that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

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I can start playing Christmas music in July, though I have to admit, the closer to December you are, the better the feeling. I prefer carols and traditional songs, though there are some good modern (or relatively modern) songs as well. I don't like the "oldies" (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole etc) at all. There's nothing Christmassy about them to me.

I don't really care for the lyrical content in most Christmas songs, but the melodies are awesome and make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Favorite carols/traditionals:
Good King Wenceslas
Once In Royal David's City
Deck The Halls
The Little Drummer Boy
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Joy To The World
I Saw Three Ships
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
Forunderligt At Sige
När Det Lider Mot Jul
Gläns Över Sjö Och Strand
Bereden Väg För Herran


Anders Öhrwall, a Swedish composer, conductor and musical arranger has done some really incredible renditions of traditional Christmas carols for choirs. Listen to his arrangement of Ding Dong Merrily On High below, he's turned the choir into bells:

Ding Dong Merrily On High

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I love Christmas music! I start listening to it as early as possible because, hey, you can only listen to it one time of the year! Might as well take advantage. So I think I started about October, or whenever it got cold enough to feel like Christmas.

My favorite has always been this CD by the Boston Pops Orchestra. I like it because a lot of the tracks are actually medleys of carols and songs, and they're really well put together. They also have some lesser known carols that are really wonderful! (I've never heard "Bright, bright, the holy berries" or "Night Bethlehem" anywhere else, and they're two of my favorites.) When I was a child I used to love it because it had a picture of Santa conducting an orchestra of reindeer on the cover, which I thought was really clever and hilarious , and also because they have a sing-a-long! We definitely have a home movie somewhere of me singing Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer with this CD.

I also love listening to The Nutcracker, and I try to catch the ballet when they broadcast it on PBS, too.

I like Josh Groban's Christmas album because he has such an amazing voice (of course), but I admit I generally like more festive music than what he sings. Still, "Little Drummer Boy" and "Angels We Have Heard on High" are my favorites of his. Emmy Rossum also did a Christmas EP a couple of years ago, which had a really neat version of "Carol of the Bells."

But my absolute favorite thing to listen to at Christmas time is Michael Crawford singing "O Holy Night." It's just gorgeous.

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Just thought I'd mention that as of yesterday I heard my first Christmas song of the season, and it's not even the end of November. What is the world coming to?

I confess that I always wait for the snow before allowing myself to begin to even think of Christmas. This year, it only just arrived last week, which is wonderful, because I got to torment myself for longer than usual

I have to confess that I kind of enjoy all the old, classical caroling things that always make me think of what I imagine an English Christmas maybe back in the 30's or 40's. Wexford Carol, Christmas Pipes, Carol of the Bells...

Celtic Woman does this one Irish carol in Christmas that I ADORE. Vocals are amazing, it's really soft and pretty, and I can literally listen to it by a fire with drinking chocolate and feel all lovely inside.

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My work started to play X-Mas music yesterday! Really darned early, I think. It's mixed with the normal 'music' too.
I would so prefer something instrumental instead.

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I went to a Trans Siberian Orchestra concert Saturday. The first half of their show is always a Christmas story and the lest half is a mix a Christmas music and other random music. So that was my beginning of Christmas music. However, I am making myself wait till after Thanksgiving to bring out my own Christmas music.

The show was very epic though. All sorts of fire and lazer lights!!! Always a good show. They're a rock orchestra. Their music is good, but the added lights and fire just makes it even better. I love the classic Christmas music, but there is just something about Christmas music when done this way.

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