Stayin' Alive

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https://xkcd.com/988/
"Every year, American culture embarks on a massive project to carefully recreate the Christmases of baby boomer childhoods."
- It is bizarre that we made Christmas music as a genre and just decided that the genre needed zero additional songs for the rest of time with the exception of Mariah Carey.
  
  And god-damned Wham.
  
  There have been others that have popped up, we've just collectively decided to forget them the following year because they were so bad.
  Please don't make us think of them. Let them die, or I'll curse you with my yearly Christmas Trolling song, Christmas In The Northwest.
  
  Here in Britain we have a whole slew (or sleigh) of others, but, sticking with the theme, very few of those are from the last 30 years.
  I'm surprised at least a couple of them didn't catch on in the US. Maybe they're too whimsical or alien for the average US audience.
  Similarly, Feliz Navidad is largely unknown over here. Then again, we don't have the large Hispanic cultural influence that might have allowed it gain a foothold.
  
  Sia made a christmas album a few years back and it's actually very good.
  
  My dude, every year micheal buble is all the christmas charts. And how about that kid that's probably a adult by now.
- This is bizarre. And it's weird that after the boomers die off a similar thing won't happen for gen X since their childhood Christmases were defined by the same thing.
  
  Millennials as well, considering we're mostly the kids of boomers
- Funny thing is for me...
  Christmas music is like 30% Traditional, 2% new picks and 58% snowy video game music... and 10% Phineas and Ferb.
  My favorite Winter-y video game music has to be:
  Winter Tundra - Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
  Freezeezy Peak - Banjo Kazooie
  Ice Cavern - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Kinda sounds like something from the old Rudolph special.)
  Ice Cavern - Spyro the Dragon
  And for P&H, We've got S'winter and I know it's cheating but the Let It Snow cover isn't all that bad either. And I really don't hate Christmas.
  
  Don't forget In a Snowbound Land from Donkey Kong Country 2
  Arguably the best track in the game. They only used it a couple times, and it only shows up in some of the last levels.
  
  You see valentines is torture and my birthday is a mess, New years a lot of noise and arbor days a pest
  
  Video game christmas song are bangers, don't know why.
  Killing floor 2 has a really good metal/synthetic cover for carol of the bells
  Payday 2 had a joke xmass album,the whole thing is great but this one is my favorite one.
- Fuck boomer Christmas. Claymation sucks. Charlie Brown is boring. Frosty should've been left to melt. And 'It's A Wonderful Life' bombed at the box office for a reason. Just because it was dirt-cheap for TV stations to air during the Holidays in the late '70s/'80s doesn't make it good.
  
  Lmk how your inevitable life-changing journey with a magical Christmas creature goes
  
  It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie...
  
  Would you say everyone who likes that stuff should be boiled in their own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through their heart?
  
  I agree about Charlie Brown and the Rankin/Bass TV specials, but It's a Wonderful Life is a great film that has stood the test of time.
- Are you saying that industries such as the automotive industry exploit nameplates born in the 60s? I thought the Charger, Challenger, Bronco, Mustang, Blazer and Ford F truck were all original names and designs.
- I've been wanting to remake this chart for a long time.. So I made one based on the first 20 of Billboard's "Holiday 100 most charted songs"
- What about Last Christmas? That's from like the 80s
  Also Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time

When you realize that music was created by people from the silent generation.
- Silent generation was before 1945, boomer from 45 till 64, the pill came out 62 no more baby boom, so tell me about the hits before 45.....oh fuck you got me.....
  
  Lets look at the members of The Beatles (:
  John Lennon was born in 1940
  Paul McCartney was born in 1942
  George Harrison was born in 1943
  Ringo Starr was born in 1940
  Just because the music was made during the age of the boomers doesn't mean the people that made it were boomers.

Christmas music from 90s is mariah carey, 00s consists of justin beiber and 10s consist of Ariana grande. I would take 50s christmas any day over these options

Can confirm, I'm currently on an 80s synth-pop kick.
- Gen X in shambles rn
  Good
  
  gen x easily the worst music era (excluding hiphop/rnb which really came into it's own during this generation)
  Then: Vibrant creativity and authentic analog sound of the 60s-early 80s, all music was recorded with real instruments
  Now: Availability and ease of use provided by computers/free software/internet meaning more music being made than ever before, plus algorithmic sorting providing exposure to only the best of the best the world has to offer.
  In between: gen x oof i mean, Nickleback? really? come on

It turns out you can buy some forms of love, but it's really impractically expensive.

I can keep The Beatles and Steely Dan, everything else can get their coats.
- Black Sabbath gets to stay too.
  
  For sure.
- Zep had a few good albums. Jethro Tull. David Bowie. Pink Floyd.
  But there are also a finite number of times you can listen to the same album before you start craving new stuff.
  
  Are you suggesting kids nowadays know anything about music?

Don't forget Boomer movies. So many classics that we have all collectively forgotten about. Personally, I'm getting into Westerns.

Relatable

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