![]() ![]() "Jingle Bells", "Jingle Bell Rock", "Winter Wonderland", "Sleigh Ride", "Frosty the Snowman", "A Marshmallow World", "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm", and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" are technically just songs about winter and never even mention any specific holiday the latter two would really work just as well on Valentine's Day. Trivia: If you listen closely, you might notice that quite a few supposed "Christmas songs" have little if anything to do with Christmas at all. In other words, when done right, these are still indisputably Awesome Music. And for those who really like this stuff, at least one radio station in almost every town switches to all Christmas music all the time on December 1 ( if not earlier). Despite the many cheap, irritating, and soulless renditions (and re-renditions, and re-re-renditions ad nauseam) to be heard all over the place during the holiday season, the original simple melodies are still there, just waiting to be heard and to remind us why these songs really are merry and bright. Nonetheless, almost everyone's got that favorite album that they will lovingly pull out from the bottom of the cabinet when the end of the year rolls around. Sure, every so often somebody will pen an Anti-Christmas Song as an antidote, but the only real way to escape the onslaught is to become a Hikikomori-or go off the grid entirely-for at least two months each year. Even now, these tunes are virtually ubiquitous on the radio (as as well as in stores, malls, and practically every other place with a PA system) every November and December. ![]() Long ago, back in the days when sales of vinyl singles really did control the position of songs in the charts, Christmas was a time when glurge-laden seasonal ditties dominated those charts for weeks on end, as parents and grandparents purchased them for children (and vice versa). ![]()
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