does christmas music make you sad?

[gh0st]

well does it? im not talking about the happy shit like jingle bell rock or whatever, i'm talking about the classic ones about jebus and shit. i dont know why but they all remind of... missed family, old times where christmas meant something, missed opportunities and just, i dont know, happy times that arent really around anymore.

/emo

 

[Absinthe]

No, not really. But I'm usually drunk 24/7 around Christmas so perhaps I can't tell.

 

[gh0st]

yea me too, heh. i only ask because im listening to it now and it just seems way more sad for whats supposed to be a happy time.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

It usually instills a sense of fear and panic in me.

 

[Pesmerga]

It reminds me of past times...

I think I dislike being reminded of past times because, although it may have been happy, it is very blurry and unclear, thus it scares me.

 

[Absinthe]

It's more "in the moment" kind of music. It works around Christmas because you're all jolly downing eggnog and getting loot. When you remove all that, the music only serves to remind you how much life sucks without holidays.

 

[Pesmerga]

Or maybe it's because it's a change from the norm. Thats why it scares me, maybe.

 

[Ikerous]

Old christmas music just makes me sleepy..

 

[Danimal]

I don't really listen to old christmas music.

Infact, I don't listen to christmas music at all anymore.

 

[dfc05]

Old Christmas music is sad. "Christmas Time is Here" from A Charlie Brown Christmas... "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".... "Somewhere in my Memory" from Home Alone. Mmmm, I don't know how anyone could ever dislike "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

Maybe it's nostalgia or good memories or just that the tunes are so sweet. Who knows...

And I was listening to Christmas music recently too . I found the Home Alone song and then just felt like listening to Christmas music. It was weird.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Yeah a lot of those christmas tunes seem to have a melancholy feeling to them.

I could be mistaking it for happy-sad music though if you get me. So happy it makes you sad, like you're so caught up in your own anger/hatred/depression the purity of the music tears it all down and strikes at your heart?

 

[Skaadi]

I dont celebrate christmas.....

 

[Raziaar]

I dont celebrate christmas.....

WHAT!? Everybody celebrates Christmas! Even though its a religious holiday.

The non religious folk just use it as a free holiday, though :E

 

[Skaadi]

WHAT!? Everybody celebrates Christmas! Even though its a religious holiday.

The non religious folk just use it as a free holiday, though :E

Heh, it seems completely normal to me. Christmas is just like any other day to me.

 

[15357]

WHAT!? Everybody celebrates Christmas! Even though its a religious holiday.

The non religious folk just use it as a free holiday, though :E

We get school on christmas.

 

[Raziaar]

Heh, it seems completely normal to me. Christmas is just like any other day to me.

Well nowadays it is. Its been commercialized, just like easter has.

Nobody really even seems to know(or care, but not that I blame them if they're not religious) that christmas marks Jesus's birth, and Easter his ressurection.

But nowadays its all about money money money, and free days off <chuckles>

We get school on christmas.

In the states they get quite a bit of vacation time.


Oh. And where in Korea do you live? Here's a tidbit from Wikipedia.

In South Korea and in Timor-Leste, where there are large Christian populations, Christmas is an official holiday. In Taiwan, December 25 is the date of the signing of the Constitution of the Republic of China in 1947. The official holiday on that date is largely treated as if it were Christmas.

 

[Skaadi]

Well nowadays it is. Its been commercialized, just like easter has.

Nobody really even seems to know(or care, but not that I blame them if they're not religious) that christmas marks Jesus's birth, and Easter his ressurection.

But nowadays its all about money money money, and free days off <chuckles>

Well, I'm going to be Catholic soon. I doubt even then I'll care about Christmas.

 

[Raziaar]

Well, I'm going to be Catholic soon. I doubt even then I'll care about Christmas.

Tell your friends that. That way, they don't have to buy you presents :E

 

[Absinthe]

But nowadays its all about money money money, and free days off <chuckles>

Yeah... *sniff* isn't it great?

 

[Skaadi]

Tell your friends that. That way, they don't have to buy you presents :E

*grins* they know. I'm so happy *wipes tear from eye*

 

[Raziaar]

Yeah... *sniff* isn't it great?

Well... if you acknowledge the fact that its big buisness you support

 

[15357]

Oh wait, never mind, we get a day off.

 

[CyberPitz]

No, not generally...then again, I hate christmas. Damn Wal-Marts ploy for more money.

 

[Skaadi]

No, not generally...then again, I hate christmas. Damn Wal-Marts ploy for more money.

Indeed, we must stop their hostile takeover! Fight the power!

 

[The Dark Elf]

I love Christmas! Everything about it, from corny decorations to sad old songs, to the repeats of laurel and hardy at 4am and the christmas episodes of programs you'd never normally watch and not forgetting garfield christmas specials to gifts to eating far too much to just being able to get away with reverting to your childhood and being far too happy to be sane for atleast a few days every year.

I just hate New Years, its like Christmas with all the cool stuff taken out of it and the realisation that thats yer lot for another year.

 

[Absinthe]

I just hate New Years, its like Christmas with all the cool stuff taken out of it and the realisation that thats yer lot for another year.

Fireworks!

...Beer!

Which isn't such a great idea if you think about it, but WOOHOO any way!

 

[The Dark Elf]

Fireworks!

...Beer!

Which isn't such a great idea if you think about it, but WOOHOO any way!

Fireworks!

Beer!

Casualty!


New Years is better in other countries from what I've found. UK its pretty piss poor unless you can get to the center of london and then its just mostly a large pool of alcopop induced vomit in Trafalgar Square

 

[Absinthe]

Casualties add to the experience! Nothing like a roman candle fight and walking barefoot across hot coals while intoxicated.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Casualties add to the experience! Nothing like a roman candle fight and walking barefoot across hot coals while intoxicated.

lol

I'd do the barefoot across hot coals while sober.. But never while drunk, knowing my luck I'd fall flat on my face mid walk

 

[ComradeBadger]

I love Christmas! Everything about it, from corny decorations to sad old songs, to the repeats of laurel and hardy at 4am and the christmas episodes of programs you'd never normally watch and not forgetting garfield christmas specials to gifts to eating far too much to just being able to get away with reverting to your childhood and being far too happy to be sane for atleast a few days every year.

I just hate New Years, its like Christmas with all the cool stuff taken out of it and the realisation that thats yer lot for another year.

So true, but I love New Years as well

 

[Dalamari]

I <3 teh christmas, especially New Years day because that's my birthday

But the music doesn't make me sad, just makes me think of why I am listening to christmas music when I could be listening to other things.

 

[kaikisjew9]

no it actually cheers me up. i love christmas time.

 

[TheSomeone]

well does it? im not talking about the happy shit like jingle bell rock or whatever, i'm talking about the classic ones about jebus and shit. i dont know why but they all remind of... missed family, old times where christmas meant something, missed opportunities and just, i dont know, happy times that arent really around anymore.

/emo

You think christams ever meant anything more than it does today?

Pffft

** Converts to Judaism **

 

[Greatgat]

I like Christmas in general (Presents! Whee!) but hate the music. So, I guess it doesn't so much as depress me as send me into a towering frenzy of rage.

And, as a fun aside, here's a quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer about Santa.

Dawn: Um, guys, hello, puberty? Sort of figured out the whole no-Santa thing.
Anya: That's a myth.
Dawn: Yeah.
Anya: No, I mean, it's a myth that it's a myth. There is a Santa Claus.
Xander: The advantage of having a thousand-year-old girlfriend. Inside scoop.
Tara Maclay: There's a Santa Claus?
Anya: Mm-hmm. Been around since, like, the 1500s. But he wasn't always called Santa. But with, you know, Christmas night, flying reindeer, coming down the chimney, all true.
Dawn: All true?
Anya: Well, he doesn't traditionally bring presents so much as, you know, disemboweled children. But otherwise...
Willow: The reindeer part was nice.

 

[Last One In]

I love that song "silent night." I have it on an mp3 being played on a celtic banjo. It almost brings tears to my eyes.

 

[Lemonking]

no it actually cheers me up. i love christmas time.

me 2 I love Xmas

 

[evil^milk]

the songs are great, they remind me of happier moments and memories when i was a kid. they may get you a little sad/melancholic (basically emo), because they remind you of how you used to be careless and just happy compared to the emotional state you are now, or maybe, as you said, having missed opportunities, missing the general feel of the moment that is now gone, etc. that's the way music is, it's one of its characteristics. they bring back memories. words just can't describe the feeling.

really every christmas is great, as both my brother and sister come and eff around here. plus, it's sort of a time for new beginnings, getting drunk, etc.

 

[xLostx]

christmas is just another day to me, i havent felt that christmas feeling in years.

 

[Ennui]

you confuse sadness with nostalgia gh0st. i get the same thing when i hear christmas music. there are a lot of things that induce great nostalgia in me though - starcraft music reminds me of being ten years old and playing live action starcraft in my friend's backyard (six years ago, christ )

 

[Absinthe]

starcraft music reminds me of being ten years old and playing live action starcraft in my friend's backyard (six years ago, christ )

Damn... I did the same exact thing.

Those days ruled.