An afternoon listening to KOOL 108 while sitting in traffic on 94...

... which is a pain, by the way. I know it's the holiday season so people are going out shopping... and I know it just snowed a ridiculous amount, but it feels as if it's twice as slow as it should be taking into account those things.

Anyway, most of that was spent listening to KOOL 108, because they had Christmas music on... and I am a Christmas kind of person. They're decent for a nonstop holiday music station, but I have a few complaints, and I am going to list them right here... because obviously station heads check random corners of the internet on suggestions how to improve their Christmas playlist:

-Please stop playing whatever the hell the Christmas song is called by The Eagles. I know that by going to all Christmas music, you have to account for the fact that your listeners expect your playlist to be 25% Eagles... but haven't they released another Christmas song or two?

(Apparently not. I typed in "Eagles Christmas" into Google... the top ten results for videos are the same song... the other two aren't actually Eagles related... also I'm going to post the videos, because in order to get my suffering, you might need to listen to this song about 12 times in a row...)



-Also, less Bruce Springsteen's version of Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. I heard it three times in the span of two hours. THERE ARE OTHER CHRISTMAS SONGS.

(This video somehow manages to be more annoying than the one I've heard millions of times.)



-No Carpenters. For the love of God.

-This song:



Apparently it just won "most annoying Christmas song" according to a poll in Bulgaria. You'd think radio stations would want to appease their Bulgarian demographic.

-The Vince Guaraldi stuff from A Charlie Brown Christmas is good... but if you're insisting on putting certain songs on constant repeat, throw in a little of this. Also, I have heard You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch exactly once over the course of a month.

Also... anything from the Phil Spector Christmas album needs to be on constant repeat. Actually, just play this song:



Honestly, you could play that song maybe once every 20 minutes and I wouldn't tire of it.

Hell, here's more from Phil Spector. Just ignore that he's a crazy murderer and try to enjoy the warm Christmas-y feelings you get from these: