Christmas Music - Love It or Hate It?

I celebrate Christmas and there are a lot of things I love about the season. Since I'm a musician, you'd think music would be one of those beloved things - not so much. It doesn't help that the Christmas music starts pouring out of store speakers and radio stations as early as November 1 - about 8 weeks before the actual arrival of Christmas. The older I get, the more I can do without another pop singer's take on "Santa Claus is Coming To Town," "Baby It's Cold Outside," and the tedium of "The Little Drummer Boy." I'm also not a fan of more experimental takes on holiday music - but maybe you are. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and we'll be closed, but we're open until 9 PM today (12/23/09) unless the weather goes foul. Here are some highly unusual Christmas CDs in our collection - of course, we have plenty of the standard issue variety as well. Happy holidays, whatever it is you celebrate.

• We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year - featuring Lemmy, Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper and Ronnie James Dio, just to name a few.
  
  
• Christmastime in Larryland - um, "Larry the Cable Guy," anybody? I assume this was funny at some point in recent history.
  
  
• A Looney Tunes Sing-a-Long Christmas - the lyrical stylings of Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales and Pepe Le Pew make for a very diverse, multi-national holiday collection.
  
  
• A Colt 45 Christmas - by Afroman. Comes with a Parental Advisory Sticker. I'd advise this if Christmas makes you very, very angry.
  
  
• Mistletoe Jam - Christmas Jug Band. A full album of jug band Christmas tunes might actually make you long for Mariah Carey again.
  
  
• The American Song-Poem Christmas : Daddy, is Santa really six foot four? - The title alone is a real head-scratcher, but how about "songs" like "Rocking Disco Santa Claus" and "Santa Came On a Nuclear Missile."
  
  
• Finally, the puzzling The First Christmas for Baby: the Story of Christmas in Words and Song. Maybe I'm cynical, but can baby actually understand the words of the Christmas story?

If you get here and these gems are all taken, there's still time to browse the carts of Christmas music you'll find on the third floor. Happy holidays and don't bang your head too hard in 2010.