What's on in the background when you open presents in your house?

[ScrappyMalloy]

I am looking for inspiration. We open presents before breakfast, so nice and early, and every year I think how weirdly quiet it is. But I am always too knackered to think how to change the ambience
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Carols? - hardly an earth shattering suggestions

We have Vintage TV on with the countdown of cheesy and naff Christmas hits on.

Christmas VH1 or a cheesy film that we have seen loads of times before.

Nothing here, it has never occurred to me to put anything on. I hate background music though.

One of the TV music channels playing Xmas songs...

The Father Ted Christmas Special!!

The inlaws moaning about how many Xmas presents our two boys are getting is our background noise.

You're welcome to have them at yours if that's what you desire

Note - the boys get around 5-8 presents each I guess, quality over quantity, need over frivolity.

One of the music channels that plays Christmas tunes.

Last year for our Xmas lunch we put the telly on and watched the woman walking her reindeer and sled through the snowy forest (no background music or talking) - it was brill! Hope it's on again this year.

YouTube Xmas music.

I put on a classical Christmas compilation. there are some great choices on Spotify.

Present opening music is an essential! Usually we have whatever Christmas CD my mum has found, which range from excellent to bloody awful. We are at home this year though! When we were putting the decorations up ds found a good Christmas play list on YouTube so we'll have that playing through the xbox.

Christmas CDs. One is carols from Wells/Winchester cathedrals and features Harry Secombe, couple of CDs of Judy Garland, Beverly sisters, Dean Martin, Louus Armstrong that type of thing.

5yo DS' favourite Christmas song is Zat You Santa Claus so that'll feature heavily!

No tv unless it is a Christmas film. No doubt Muppets Christmas Carol and Polar Express will alternate all day!

We always play The Spector album A Christmas Gift for You.

It's much better than the cheesy title suggests.

In our old house we lived right in the genre of town opposite a church so it was Bella all.morning...it made it quite atmospheric ..almost Dickensian..we were in a small Victorian cottage. This year I shall have to think of something different we are now in a New Build ..you cant here anything. I have some playlists in Amazon prime with.all the usual...maybe some carols or classicalfm music on in the kitchen blaring.through. Not sure I can cope with Slade and Wizzard first thing!

sorry....tired... Bells all morning..centre not genre

Christmas song compilation album.

Or Tijuana brass.

oooh yeah love that Spector Album

Christmas CDs

We'll probably put a cheesy Christmas album on one of our phones

Spotify has a really good play list of Christmas hits. I'm pretty sure they do a free trial period, could sign up just for Xmas. Xx

Throughly recommend classic fm on Christmas morning. Lots of beautiful but non-grating Christmas music interspersed with phone ins from people prepping their turkeys etc. It's one of our favourite bits of Christmas!

I have Classic FM (100.0) on all morning while I cook. Sing along to the carols, and get a bit teary at all the stories of people who phone in with requests. No ads all day, just a couple mins of news on the hour (which usually gets me a bit teary too).

Present opening has clinks of glasses and people eating pudding in the background.

Brilliant suggestions. I love hearing what people do Christmas Day!

Classic fm sounds lovely as I adore carols.

I am really tempted by Father Ted but I would be watching rather than opening

Carols, the crackling of the fire, and DH pottering in the kitchen making waffles.

This year probably also the sound of lashing rain outside.