How does christmas music affect your mood?

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the ELP laser turntable from japan, it costs as much as a car, and must be recalibrated at the factory in japan [$500 minimum charge just for shipping] once per year, and is VERY finicky, but when it works it sounds glorious. you must use it in a HEPA-filtered dust-free room to near lab grade. that excludes 99% of potential buyers other than outright fanatics and pro organizations such as record labels and professional restoration houses. I have two demo CDs with examples of how they sound, it is different from regular LP playback for sure, you have to hear it to understand what I mean. and "Winter Wonderland" is a very rare LP at least in its stereo edition, and playable copies are very rare in general, most are trashed and not listenable. my avocation is phonograph record restoration using DSP tools [CEDAR, Digital Audio Workstation. I use an old Denon direct-drive 'table with a basic elliptical stylus cartridge which has proven best at playing average LPs.

i have a copy of the original 1979 radio station demo disc for "grandma got run over by a reindeer" which differs markedly from the 1983 reissue that we're all familiar with at xmastime. WP user "naturalplastic" has a copy of that copy I gave him.

Christmas music gets me into a very good mood and I see magic all around. I also feel light on my feet.

The laser turntable is way out of my price range. Also, where I live, I don't think that there is such a thing as a dust-free room.

Also, my hearing isn't what it used to be. A couple of years ago, I was playing with a cell phone app that included a tone generator. I was playing with the tone generator and couldn't hear a thing unless I turned it pretty far down. It turned out that frequencies much higher than I could hear were driving other people at the office nuts.

despite some immediate hearing loss after exposure to unmuffled rifle-fire as a toddler, I still have most of my hearing which is handy considering my hobby. but what used to bug me as a kid, that penetrating whistle coming from the backs of analog tv sets [15.75kc horizontal scan whistle] is no longer audible by me, I could prolly still hear it if it was amplified, though. but it is not comparable to the treble response of a typical animal's hearing system which can hear well into the ultrasonic range. can you tell me what you believe to have harmed your hearing?

Me, too. I'm not religious and have not celebrated Christmas until I got married. I just love the music because they're beautiful. Music affects me deeply, the lyrics don't matter much. I have a large collection of songs in my head that are probably offensive to some people, but I enjoy them and don't care.

Sinking feeling, here we go again.

Christmas music gets me in the mood for Christmas.

But it also makes me feel sad, because some Christmas songs remind me of childhood and how magical Christmas was as a child and all the nativity plays I was in. It makes me yearn for those times. As an adult I love Christmas and I like to keep that Christmas spirit going, but sadly my family don't like Christmas any more, which makes me feel sad too. They seem to think that you shouldn't like Christmas if you're an adult because it's ''only for children'', which I believe is wrong. You can never be too old for Christmas. Christmas is too big a holiday to suddenly exclude yourself from as soon as you become a certain age. Like I said, the Christmas songs put me in a Christmas mood, the lights people have around their houses makes me smile, and I love the thought of getting the Christmas tree and decorations out and setting them all up. It's just all so lovely.

Most of the time, I don't really care for Christmas music at all. It makes me angry at myself for what I haven't accomplished.

But there are times when I do like it.

I really like December 26th, though. Then all the hoopla is over!! !!

Joe90,

I agree with you wholeheartedly. We must never lose the "kid at heart" feeling. I loved my traditions and am sad that I never married and had children to continue them with. I look forward to the Christmas choir season at church. I feel alive and uplifted at that time of year.

Perhaps, the folks at WrongPlanet could, once and for all, get rid of my Scroogie Tendencies

^^^KK, I think that if you listened to "a Christmas sound spectacular- John Klein @ the Carillon Americana with orchestra and chorus" (available on Amazon and elsewhere), you would feel pretty Christmassy.

Christmas music makes me want to ask Santa for earplugs

I could listen to xmas music year-round and it just makes me happy no matter what

I can listen to Christmas music at any time of the year and be happy. I also enjoy Christmas movies at any time of the year.

I don't mind Christmas music, just keep it out of my January-November.

Unless it's McCartney's "We're Having A Wonderful Christmastime", then I feel kind of stabby.