I love Christmas Carols. I’m not sure what it is about them, whether it is what they represent (family time, Christmas and summer holiday), the music itself or a combination of both, but I love them.
My family aren’t quite as enamoured, but luckily for them it is only 2 weeks of the year that I rock out the carols. Mind you, the band I play in also plays at a few community caroling events, so it is a fairly intense few weeks of carols, lol.
What sort of Christmas carol fan are you: Do you rock them? Tolerate them? Total grinch?
Here’s one of my favourites 🙂
December 13, 2019 at 10:28 pm
I LOVE them! Mostly the oldies with Bing and Burl Ives but newish one’s too. I could listen to “all I want for Christmas” literally all day long and never tire of Mariah Carey’s voice lol I’ve had a playlist on my phone since the middle of November 😂
December 20, 2019 at 6:30 pm
I don’t have them playing that early – but we also have a Barbarian with a birthday quite close to Christmas so we have a rule that there is no “Christmas” until after the birthday so it doesn’t take away from his special day.
December 20, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Aww that’s a good rule! It’s hard to keep birthdays close to Christmas special. My brother has one in early January and even as an adult he feels left out!
December 14, 2019 at 4:26 am
I’m a total Scrooge. But I come by it honestly. For 11 years I worked at the evil toy store (now defunct). Season (and it was capitalized) was long and busy and stressful. And the music tape (so long ago that it was a tape) that played in the background every single day. The same Christmas carols over and over and over again. (The tape was about 3 1/2 hours long, so on an 8-hour shift we heard it all twice.) For weeks? It burned me out permanently.
And we won’t even discuss the jr. high school “Jingle Bell Rock” marathon…
December 20, 2019 at 6:31 pm
Oh, that would probably have turned me off Christmas carols for life too, Liz. What a shame 🙁 It does sound like an evil store!
December 14, 2019 at 6:16 am
I’m kind of between “Rock Them” and “Tolerate Them.” I like them, just not enough to want to listen to them all the time.
December 20, 2019 at 6:33 pm
I think you are probably say the same as nearly everyone, John. My family are like that so we certainly don’t have the carols playing all the time.
December 14, 2019 at 7:50 am
Love them. I used to sing in an a capella carol group every year and I miss it so much. Every year I now have a tradition that we have carols blasting while putting up the Christmas decorations and when I’m cooking the fruity cakes I give to family and friends, I play carols and sing all the descant parts. I don’t like it when they get sung too slow like a dirge though.
December 20, 2019 at 6:34 pm
I would have loved to have heard your group (knowing your voice I’m sure it was amazing). My fave carol CD is a rocking, upbeat version of the carols.
December 14, 2019 at 7:14 pm
Tolerate them. I do like some of the older, mediaeval ones, and I used to do a Renaissance dance, the Bransle Officiale, to “Ding Dong, Merrily On High” – that is the actual tune that goes with it.
December 20, 2019 at 6:36 pm
I love hearing the origin of music. I wonder whether Ding Dong Merrily on High was a carol before it was a dance?