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December music
I wonder if there are any restaurants in Pittsburgh that are not playing steady streams of Christmas music. Besides the kosher restaurants, I mean, which don't work for lunch or post-Shabbat excursions.
I actually don't mind the better Christmas music so long as it isn't blaring and thus intruding on thoughts/conversation. Basically, don't make me become involved and I can ignore it, or even appreciate the occasional piece's craftsmanship. I think the insipid stuff is a lot worse than the religious stuff. The radio stations or muzak sources or whatever seem to be going entirely for the secular stuff, like "Rudolf" and "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", to name three I heard at Sushi Too today. Sheesh. I think if I were a Christian I'd rather hear *no* music than hear *that* stuff. I can empathize with the people who are unhappy about the secularization of their holiday.
The best compromise IMHO for places like restaurants and public buildings would be to stick to instrumental renditions and lose the cheesy stuff.
I actually don't mind the better Christmas music so long as it isn't blaring and thus intruding on thoughts/conversation. Basically, don't make me become involved and I can ignore it, or even appreciate the occasional piece's craftsmanship. I think the insipid stuff is a lot worse than the religious stuff. The radio stations or muzak sources or whatever seem to be going entirely for the secular stuff, like "Rudolf" and "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", to name three I heard at Sushi Too today. Sheesh. I think if I were a Christian I'd rather hear *no* music than hear *that* stuff. I can empathize with the people who are unhappy about the secularization of their holiday.
The best compromise IMHO for places like restaurants and public buildings would be to stick to instrumental renditions and lose the cheesy stuff.
You can prolly tell what I think of much Christmas music
I know what you mean. I am subjected to 8.5 hours of Christmas music a day, because my coworkers found a radio station that is playing only that till Christmas; however, this is an improvement over what came before (those coworkers playing a pile of Christmas CDs over and over every day), both because the radio station has news breaks, etc and because the radio station has better taste than my coworkers. Interspersed in the "Jingle Bell Rock" and the "Here Comes Suzy Snowflake" crap is a wonderfully goodly portion of heartfelt, often but not always religious Christmas songs. I wouldn't listen to this by choice, but I can deal with Nat King Cole singing "The Christmas Song" or Andy Williams singing "Do You Hear What I Hear" much better than Mariah Carey endlessly wailing out screechy high notes on Christmas-themed love songs.
That said, I'd rather hear something else. And I wish the station were at least trying to be a holiday station rather than specifically Christmas. But I try to look on the bright side, and the bright side has Bing Crosby and some actually beautiful music on it.