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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[zqadams.livejournal.com]

Christmas music on the radio (as opposed to iTunes where I can control it) went on my avoid-at-all-costs list a few years back when someone decided that, because it takes place on Christmas Eve, Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" belonged in the rotation. It's a decent little soft rock tune, I guess, but hearing it sandwiched between "What Child is This" and "Winter Wonderland" is kind of a punch in the guts every time.