Hey all, as some of you know, we do the “Little Drummer Boy” challenge each year. It’s really simple, if you hear the “Little Drummer Boy” song between Black Friday ( Nov 26 at 12:01 AM in whatever time zone your in) and Christmas Eve ( Dec 24 at 12:01 AM) your OUT. Also, for those playing “The Game”, you’re out too. haha. One does not need to hear the full song to be out, as long as one recognises it as the song, your done. This includes samples and remixes and whatever else you want to call it, if it’s the LDB, youre out. Nor does it matter where you hear the song, at home, in a store (ha like any of us go out), driving or whatever, it all counts. Now, if someone tries to trick you or RickRoll you into hearing it, you are safe and they are out. The full challenge rules can be found here.
I think this is the first year that this post has been on time, so progress? This should also make in-person Black Friday shopping moar eventful, as now you need to avoid a song and the “acting like a fluid” crowds.
And this will be the first year that neither kid will be in Christmas concert (not counting last year’s covid cancellations as both were in school groups that were to preform), so my chances of making to the end are dependant on if I can make it through decorating the house with the family without hearing the song. So, somewhere between nope and not bloodly likely.
I’ll see if I can get this post on the main page and we can update the post as we fail in the challenge. Good luck everyone.
Ladies are gentlemen, I played it straight up. It is 1036 CET, Christmas Day, and I finally heard TLDB. Normal holiday exposure, typical listening schedule. So what do I win?
I’m out. Walked over to the Grove to do some quick shopping, and when I briefly paused the podcast I was listening to, there that little fucker was. And one of the more obnoxious versions of it, too — some gospel-ly airy-fairy shit. The song sucks in all of its versions, but I cannot for the life of me understand why a professional recording artist would do a song called “The Little Drummer Boy” and not have the fucking drums be audible.
Out. Got a video from my son’s daycare of him drumming along.
I worried about Friday night. Office holiday cocktails at a bar, I’m at their mercy if they’re playing Xmas tunes.
Survived Friday’s party, and just now a visit to Whole Foods.
I’m out. Thought i would lose at the airport tonight, made it out, toggling through SiriusXM and BAM Stevie Wonder’s version of LDB.
That fucker came out of nowhere.
Seems like neither one of you saw that coming.
I was out on December 12th, 4:10 PM. FACK.
I’m still alright!
I got bounced Sunday afternoon at Bryant Park as we sat by the restaurant. Max Brenner has the second-best hot chocolate to my knowledge in the city. (MarieBelle downtown might pip it by just a bit.)
Taj committed LDB suicide by not knowing that the Three Tenors did a version.
Yours truly remains alive in the challenge..
12/4/21 4:39 pm. Song was just ending as we got in the car and the radio came on.
Pa-rum-pa-pa-done
And I’m out. Came in from putting more lights up outside and it was playing as my family was listen to holiday music. Damn it. But also called it
Damn, that was quick!
That’s what she said.
Ok, dumb question: What’s “The Game “?
It’s fucking dumb. Basically if you think about it at all, you’re out.
I’d lose that if it had to do with tits and asses.
The only Christmas song I really like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KneOdEDwDEc
GREAT read:
https://theathletic.com/2957890/2021/11/26/no-brakes-no-breaks-an-nfl-sunday-with-redzones-scott-hanson/
damn you pay wall
– diplomatic cable from U.S. to Mexico, circa September 2020
It’s worth it for the Lesser Footy coverage alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0j1u6hhJyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23cjXModWpA&t=8s&ab_channel=JonLajoie
Whatever that song is that goes:
“Ding, fries are done,
Ding, fries are done,
Ding, fries are done,
I can’t for the life of me remember what the original words are. The fourth line isn’t ‘get-a, get-a, get-a Garmin’, even though that Garmin commercial is permanently stuck in my head, as well. And I know it’s always part of some car promotion, like December To Remember sales event, or Happy Honda Days. This song has been ruined from here to eternity.
I gotta run
I gotta run
I gotta run
*Its from family guy when Peter works at Burger King
whelp, 2022 is looking like it is going to be a ton of fun as well….
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-w
I wonder if we can get a subscription service for all the new vaccines coming out.
Is this an unofficial Christmas music Request Line? Oh boy! I was exposed to this just a couple of days ago; not an environment where I expected to encounter Iggy himself:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3J31QNoSBTw
Usually, 1-3 days before Xmas, I will listen to almost all of this. Whether hosting a gathering, or enjoying recluse time, it’s all the music you need:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20D0zPiF654
My personal fav xmas song. But the Trans Siberian Orchestra stuff is a close second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmTkQk0zA4
Also, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/07/100-best-christmas-songs-ranking/
Well if people are posting the best Xmas songs of all time…
THIS SONG LITTLE DRUMMER BOY I CALL IT THE DETROIT LIONS ON THANKSGIVING BECAUSE IT SUCKS OUT LOUD BUT WE KEEP IT AROUND ON THE HOLIDAYS FOR TRADITION
I’m still in the game! If it were the “Feliz Navidad” challenge, whole different story.
Anyway, here’s the best Xmas song of all time. It’s about guests overstaying their welcome. Notable lyric: “They fill their hands with pork, and then wipe with the curtains”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pw7qYt8Vkbs
Earlier this week I had a nervous moment when I realized the shopping center I was walking through was playing Xmas music already. But it was pre-Black Friday, so I would have been safe anyway, and in any even they did not play the dreaded song.
Anyway, here’s the best Xmas song of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
Agreed, and it’s not close.
That’s the one! Everybody else, go home and try again next year. You will fail, but give it a shot.