How does christmas music affect your mood?

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^^^that's one grumpy cat alright

Depends on who is doing the singing.
I find this Blink 182 cover has an autistic theme or two


This is my favorite cover of a Christmas Song and always pumps me up


Twisted Sister has a bunch of Metal spoofs of traditional Christmas music

Mostly I like it, but it can get annoying when I want to hear one of my favourite songs on the radio and have to hear a Christmas song instead.

Nothing says repetitive and mind-numbing quite like The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Christmas music is one of the best things about Christmas.

When I was a kid, we'd go Christmas caroling once or twice every year. Sometimes it was only to other houses in the community, but often to the houses of church members in nearby towns.

We don't do that any more. Christmas caroling was one of the best things about Christmas and it is quickly becoming a lost art. I don't think any of my nieces and nephews who grew up in the same community have ever been Christmas caroling.

The last time I went Christmas caroling was in college. Freshmen and Sophomores would sing Christmas carols to Juniors and Seniors. We would stand outside of their windows in the dorm and call their names. When they opened the window, we would then sing two or three Christmas carols to them. I bet they haven't done that in years at that school.

I'm an atheist. Some Christmas songs are beautiful /catchy/ cute/ funny, and I usually enjoy them. Sometimes I can play a song I enjoy over and over and over, other times I can temporarily tire of them if they are played often, but will like them again given time. Some make me laugh, some are moving in tune or words, some charming.

Strangely I have more than once felt Christmas spirit in summer of all times and played Christmas songs then (with earphones!)

Others are boring or even bad (subjectively, according to my personal taste), and they will make me feel nothing or mild annoyance if they are played a bit.

"Fairytale of New York"

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me,
"Won't see another one"
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you...

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day...



I first heard this song in 1988, about a year after it's release ... and about 4 months into living on the street ...

1988. Worst. Christmas. Ever.

... whenever I hear it again, it puts me into a blue funk that only OD'ing on chocolate will bring me out of.

Now, where'd I leave that box of Toblerone ... ?

I am happier when I listen to my collection of xmas musics

It makes me irritated, whenever I hear it I just want to get away from it as quickly as possible. Which sucks because guess what season is now, so I have had to prepare myself for the December hell. But no what really bothers me is before Halloween even starts places start putting up christmas s**t, its like come on can't we at least have Halloween before the Christmas stuff, like is it so hard that maybe they could wait till After Halloween to start with the Christmas stuff? I'd rather have Halloween for three months rather than christmas.

I hate music.
therefore I hate Christmas music.

Many of it are annoying. The more 'energetic' and loud, the more annoying.
Some are tolerable, likely lighthearted and toned down kinds of lyrics and rhymes.
Themes of love and hearts is a huge turn off to me, whether platonic or romantic. Romance especially. More so if it's just Valentine's theme mixing up with Christmas theme.

And very few exemptions. The kind that makes me feel the cold gentle breeze and candle's warmth.
Most of it happened to be a bit slower, melancholic, with themes of longing. I may reveal it, or deny while claiming to forget or not knowing why is this. But likely won't reveal why.

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I love traditional Christmas music. I sing in my church choir and can't wait for the Christmas season.

I don't like the pop variety songs such as "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," or nasty stuff like "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." I also hate the "elevator music" type arrangements you hear in stores.

One Sunday morning in the early 1990s just before Christmas, I was driving through Houston and was listening to the Rice University radio station. I could pick it up for about an hour and that was the greatest hour of off the wall Christmas music and other Christmas recordings that I had ever heard.

The only one I remember for sure was the recording of the Cajun Night Before Christmas:



They also had some more commonly heard songs such as Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer:



I was severely tempted to stop and listen to the entire show, but I was running late as it was.