Nothing says christmas like Nine Inch Nails…
How about some festive Metalica… or maybe some Ministry happiness.

I am not absolutely positive why, but there are very few christmas songs I like (there are even a few that I will cover my ears and LA LA loudly at until I have got myself a safe distance from the sound).  It could be multiple years working in malls and restaurants where christmas music starts right after halloween.  It might be that so many christmas songs are delivered in an excessive, over the top, screeching on high, drawn out orchestration, trying to wring emotion out of stone manner.  It could be the high rotation of a select few in the christmas song line up.  It is also possible I am just grumpy and get mild satisfaction from raining on other peoples parades. My ‘Christmas tunes – tolerable’ playlist has thirty-three songs on it, including four versions of ‘I saw three ships’, two ‘Baby, its cold outside’, two ‘Carol of the bells’, and one or two that I think I should edit.

I attempted to get in the festive spirit while I wrapped with a Christmas playlist on Spotify.

… nope, not that one … ugh, not that one … eww, really …

Then I thought maybe some Motown … ooo, Christmas Motown … mmm, maybe not … frustration … Hey, maybe angry music.  So as Nickleback transitions to the cheery and dulcet tones of Queens of the Stone Age, I wrap.