One of the many problems with Christmas music on the radio

[dvandom]

A lot of Christmas standards (please, these aren't "holiday" songs, with a few exceptions) simply aren't all that long. Sure, many of them have obscure additional verses that can be used to stretch them out to the radio standard 3:15 length, but a lot of Christmas songs on the radio are horribly padded out, repeating the entire song twice with an instrumental solo in the middle or something.

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[grant-p.livejournal.com]

That's under the best of circumstances. Yesterday I heard a guy singing the SAME verse three times. I didn't remember the song, but I thought "This makes no sense..."

At least they could put in some of the Weird Al stuff to pad things out...

[randomlinenoise.livejournal.com]

There's a version of "Sleigh Ride" I keep hearing which doesn't even use the "middle eight", but instead repeats the first part of the verse a couple of times.

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

I don't think any of the Weird Al stuff is totally holiday suitable, to be quite honest. World War III and Santa butchering his elves might get a few angry phone calls.