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gopiscrap

(24,180 posts)
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:21 PM Dec 2013

What Christmas Carol do you hate the most?


28 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
Jingle Bells
0 (0%)
Deck the Halls
0 (0%)
All I Want For Christmas Are My Two Front Teeth
3 (11%)
Let It Snow
0 (0%)
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
1 (4%)
Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer
12 (43%)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
0 (0%)
Up On The House Top
2 (7%)
Other (please state)
8 (29%)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Underneath The Misletoe
2 (7%)
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What Christmas Carol do you hate the most? (Original Post) gopiscrap Dec 2013 OP
Too obvious dude Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2013 #1
Jingle Bell Rock is my least favorite - seems so insipid el_bryanto Dec 2013 #2
While not strictly a carol, I really hate "Baby, it's cold outside." Chan790 Dec 2013 #3
It is skeevy - but i really like the version on Merry Mixmas el_bryanto Dec 2013 #13
Best version here: Ray Charles and Betty Carter dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #72
Oh come on! You don't prefer the version with Ilsa Dec 2013 #77
I thought it romantic hootinholler Dec 2013 #20
it screams date rape tabbycat31 Dec 2013 #22
baloney n/t hootinholler Dec 2013 #23
really? Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #59
Have you actually read the lyrics? jmowreader Dec 2013 #58
Not sure it had that connotation when it was written in 1944 dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #68
Even in the context written... Chan790 Dec 2013 #71
Ditto. My favorite version was from the only season I watched Idol... adirondacker Dec 2013 #122
I like the version by Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone House of Roberts Dec 2013 #47
I like this one better... tosh Dec 2013 #105
i like them all. nt seabeyond Dec 2013 #4
silver bells swilton Dec 2013 #5
"Mistletoe and Holly" (aka the awful "oh by gosh by golly") NRaleighLiberal Dec 2013 #6
Ordinarily I'd vote for "Little Drummer Boy" immoderate Dec 2013 #7
Gawd, I hate that one. longship Dec 2013 #41
my daughter sang that in first grade Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #60
Peter Griffin did it best.....maybe he can convince you...? MADem Dec 2013 #78
I despise the "Little Drummer Boy" okwmember Dec 2013 #132
I love Bruce, but hate his version of Santa Clause is Coming to Town Va Lefty Dec 2013 #8
Christmas Shoes... SidDithers Dec 2013 #9
hard one to listen to, it's sooooooo sad Liberal_in_LA Dec 2013 #19
That came out the Christmas after my mother died, it makes me cry. nt Raine Dec 2013 #67
Agreed. Maudlin, cloying, annoying, and stupid at the same time. n/t FSogol Dec 2013 #84
UGH, UGH, UGH, UGH, I hate this song so much Scootaloo Dec 2013 #101
Thank you. phylny Dec 2013 #103
The worst by far. newcriminal Dec 2013 #134
Two, actually Warpy Dec 2013 #10
...Little Drummer Boy... Adsos Letter Dec 2013 #14
That song should not be named nor played. 2theleft Dec 2013 #38
This is the one version of 'Little Drummer Boy' that I like. Are_grits_groceries Dec 2013 #49
They always cut off the end where der Bingle yanks out his belt and give Bowie a good whuppin' Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2013 #79
That was lovely. undeterred Dec 2013 #88
And this version: Arugula Latte Dec 2013 #98
An even better version FrodosPet Dec 2013 #126
I like this one too. LuvLoogie Dec 2013 #137
Well there is the godawful Holly Jolly Christmas tularetom Dec 2013 #11
i hate them all. DesertFlower Dec 2013 #12
+a zillion truebluegreen Dec 2013 #80
agree babydollhead Dec 2013 #112
i turn the radio station for most on ur list Liberal_in_LA Dec 2013 #15
I play pandoras Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #62
me too! Liberal_in_LA Dec 2013 #100
"Oh Holy Night" nevergiveup Dec 2013 #16
That's a shame FrodosPet Dec 2013 #127
That freaking Christmas Shoe song diabeticman Dec 2013 #17
I hate that one too. nt TBF Dec 2013 #124
What I HATE, is thinking about, and SHARING, what I HATE. You like sharing what you HATE? WHY? cherokeeprogressive Dec 2013 #18
+10000000 Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #64
It's obvious. Everybody not only has to hate someone FrodosPet Dec 2013 #128
Other: ALL OF THEM Matariki Dec 2013 #21
Hey gopiscrap, I notice a typo in your vote options. Skip Intro Dec 2013 #24
Typo thank's I'll fix it! gopiscrap Dec 2013 #42
ermergerd! RandiFan1290 Dec 2013 #63
Jingle Bell Rock Change has come Dec 2013 #25
"Joy to the World" winter is coming Dec 2013 #26
Sacrilege. You cannot hate any Christmas song! NoOneMan Dec 2013 #27
Madonna's "Santa Baby" Aerows Dec 2013 #28
GMTA Warpy Dec 2013 #45
There is so much wrong with that song Aerows Dec 2013 #73
I love the original Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #61
Agree entirely dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #69
she has the prettest voice Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #114
I'm not feeling it Aerows Dec 2013 #74
it was written by a woman, too Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #75
I don't care who wrote it Aerows Dec 2013 #76
Tossup between LiberalElite Dec 2013 #29
12 days of christmas XemaSab Dec 2013 #30
I voted "Other" with "12 Days" tied with "Little Drummer Boy." KansDem Dec 2013 #107
Deck the Halls is the only Christmas Carol on the list. LuvLoogie Dec 2013 #31
And Jingle Bells isn't even a Christmas song. Jenoch Dec 2013 #117
You're absolutely right. kskiska Dec 2013 #136
Good King Wenceslas JimDandy Dec 2013 #32
are you old enough to remember Pogo's version of this? CTyankee Dec 2013 #65
I don't know. JimDandy Dec 2013 #99
Walla Walla wash in Kalamazoo! Shrike47 Dec 2013 #102
gawd, me too! CTyankee Dec 2013 #106
Happy Holidays! LuvLoogie Dec 2013 #33
Which one of those was in the choir you used to sing in? freshwest Dec 2013 #34
None of them gopiscrap Dec 2013 #43
So you sang in Latin? freshwest Dec 2013 #95
I do if I get paid gopiscrap Dec 2013 #115
TY, saw in another thread that you sing in many different languages. n/t freshwest Dec 2013 #116
I like Christmas carols. murielm99 Dec 2013 #35
never heard christmas shoes before now. definitely not. my favorites? ellenfl Dec 2013 #36
Little Drummer Boy. stopbush Dec 2013 #37
Little Drummer Boy n/t doc03 Dec 2013 #39
Other...There are several on the list 2naSalit Dec 2013 #40
I don't have any I hate, Jamaal510 Dec 2013 #44
The one with the stupid lyrics. Quantess Dec 2013 #46
Winter Wonderland treestar Dec 2013 #92
Of those listed, 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas' LeftishBrit Dec 2013 #48
These are Christmas carols? AngryOldDem Dec 2013 #50
Little Drummer Boy......aggggghhh! The Xmas equivalent of "Bolero" in Boredom. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2013 #51
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is depressing as hell. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2013 #52
I absolutely despise Little Drummer Boy - weak, lame, and cloyingly saccharine pseudowhimsical NBachers Dec 2013 #53
Feliz friggin' Navidad Princess Turandot Dec 2013 #54
. boston bean Dec 2013 #56
One year I was in labor on Dec. 24th... There was this LOOP annabanana Dec 2013 #55
Little Drummer Boy. Too many a rump pa pums. Shrike47 Dec 2013 #57
Yeah, and whoever wrote the tune must not have ever played... KansDem Dec 2013 #108
UGH, no question about it ... Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer! nt Raine Dec 2013 #66
None. LWolf Dec 2013 #70
Jingle Bells by the barking dogs K.O. Stradivarius Dec 2013 #81
Do You Hear What I Hear TlalocW Dec 2013 #82
LOL! distantearlywarning Dec 2013 #85
I disagree! FrodosPet Dec 2013 #129
"Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time" distantearlywarning Dec 2013 #83
+1 treestar Dec 2013 #93
yes, it is bad. I hate that song. laundry_queen Dec 2013 #110
Felix Navidad superpatriotman Dec 2013 #86
Little drummer boy, especially Bing Crosby's version. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #87
I was stuck in line at a deli on CHristmas Eve where they had a dancing Santa NoGOPZone Dec 2013 #89
Happy X-Mas (War is Over) HughBeaumont Dec 2013 #90
I dislike most of the secular ones treestar Dec 2013 #91
Santa Baby Squinch Dec 2013 #94
All these responses.. 3catwoman3 Dec 2013 #96
So many excellent choices. MH1 Dec 2013 #97
"Carol of the Bells" Paladin Dec 2013 #104
Grandma got run over by a reindeer? raging moderate Dec 2013 #109
EVERY Christmas song by the Beatles. Also, 12 days and Little Drummer Boy. nt Demo_Chris Dec 2013 #111
Dominick the Donkey or I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. nt Earth_First Dec 2013 #113
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" Liberal_Dog Dec 2013 #118
I detest It's a Holly Jolly Christmas. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #119
Alvin and the Chipmunks "The Christmas Song" GreatCaesarsGhost Dec 2013 #120
A SONG is not necessarily a CAROL. WinkyDink Dec 2013 #121
Funny, the one about Grandma and the Reindeer is far and away my favorite. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #123
This piece of trash album! PM Martin Dec 2013 #125
Christmas Shoes. Terra Alta Dec 2013 #130
Stores playing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" starting in October Faryn Balyncd Dec 2013 #131
"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" Walk away Dec 2013 #133
None of these (to me) are 'carols'... Rhythm Dec 2013 #135
They all suck. Just to be clear. kwassa Dec 2013 #138

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
2. Jingle Bell Rock is my least favorite - seems so insipid
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:23 PM
Dec 2013

With Wandering Awe is probably my favorite hymn, The Merriest is probably my favorite christmas song.

Bryant

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
13. It is skeevy - but i really like the version on Merry Mixmas
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:40 PM
Dec 2013

Baby, It's Cold Outside (ARP Remix) by Dean Martin which is very skeevy but the music kind of underlines it? it's an odd effect.

Bryant

Ilsa

(62,251 posts)
77. Oh come on! You don't prefer the version with
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 11:13 AM
Dec 2013

Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart? yes, I heard it on Sirius radio yesterday. Awful song.

jmowreader

(51,512 posts)
58. Have you actually read the lyrics?
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 05:04 AM
Dec 2013

Any song that contains the line "say, what's in this drink?" is not a "lovely" anything.

adirondacker

(2,921 posts)
122. Ditto. My favorite version was from the only season I watched Idol...
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 09:30 PM
Dec 2013


I actually liked Haley's voice (sucker for a raspy jazz vocalist) and attitude.
 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
7. Ordinarily I'd vote for "Little Drummer Boy"
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:27 PM
Dec 2013

But Ahmad Jamal did a version that rocks! (swings?) Sorry no Youtube.

--imm

longship

(40,416 posts)
41. Gawd, I hate that one.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 12:41 AM
Dec 2013

Prum! Prum! Prum! Come they told me, parumpapumpum...

Now that's a horrible ear worm that I will not get out of my brain for hours. I sang it in choir at church in my youth and my sisters knew I hated it and would regularly taunt me with it regularly during Christmas season in the back seat of the car on the way home from church. I sat in the middle and there was no escape.

It is a wretched song.

Not even Ahmad Jamal could convince me otherwise.

Thanks!


Niceguy1

(2,467 posts)
60. my daughter sang that in first grade
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 05:43 AM
Dec 2013

On the Christmas performance....it's still stuck in my head lol

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
10. Two, actually
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:30 PM
Dec 2013

"Santa, Baby" has always chapped my ass because it features your basic high maintenance female wheedling consumer shit out of some guy. It sucks on so many levels it would take me several long, boring paragraphs to outline all the suckage.

The other shall not be named because I'm engaged in a contest to see how long we can all go before hearing our brains go "pa rumpa pum SHIT" to store Muzak. I do not want to invoke that evil thing up from hell. I'm listening to Beirut Nights radio for the duration.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
11. Well there is the godawful Holly Jolly Christmas
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:34 PM
Dec 2013

and "Jingle Bell Rock" sucks big time as well. Except for the line about the "fuckin pie".

nevergiveup

(4,815 posts)
16. "Oh Holy Night"
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:52 PM
Dec 2013

As a child I botched it really good in a piano solo at a church Christmas program. The night was not "brightly shining" during my performance. Whenever I hear the song I break out in a sweat even though it was 50+ years ago. I doubt I practiced it much because I really didn't care all that much for playing the piano and I probably thought I could fake it. Following my dismal and embarrassing performance my mom yanked me from any future piano lessons. My musical career was over.

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
127. That's a shame
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 09:53 PM
Dec 2013

It is a beautiful song. My favorite among the religious Christmas carols.

But yeah, for singing or piano, it is a challenging song.

 

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
18. What I HATE, is thinking about, and SHARING, what I HATE. You like sharing what you HATE? WHY?
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 10:53 PM
Dec 2013

Hey everyone...! Let's spread a little HATE!

HATRED: It's what's for dinner.

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I hate red light cameras. I hate 0500. I hate Crows. I HATE people who can't use the mirrors on their cars, or turn signals.

You hate Christmas Carols. I hope your thread gets you the validation you desire...

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
128. It's obvious. Everybody not only has to hate someone
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 09:56 PM
Dec 2013

Everyone has to hate something.

This is the saddest single fact about our species.

Skip Intro

(19,768 posts)
24. Hey gopiscrap, I notice a typo in your vote options.
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 11:14 PM
Dec 2013

I guess it's a typo.

You capitalized every word in each question except the word "white." Was that a typo or intentional? And if intentional, why? What are you trying to convey with that exception?

RandiFan1290

(6,426 posts)
63. ermergerd!
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 05:54 AM
Dec 2013

He did the same with the words of, the, and a..

Must be an anti christian anti white anti duck hunter code!

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
45. GMTA
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 02:15 AM
Dec 2013

I absolutely loathe that song. I've been known to drop purchases on a counter and sprint for an exit when it's played in a store.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
73. There is so much wrong with that song
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 10:56 AM
Dec 2013

I can't even list it all. I didn't even see your post up thread ranting about it before I posted - that song IMMEDIATELY pops into my mind as the worst Christmas song ever (what the hell is Christmas-y about selfishness?).

UGH.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
107. I voted "Other" with "12 Days" tied with "Little Drummer Boy."
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 05:43 PM
Dec 2013

"12 Days" just goes on and on. And even worse are the instrumental versions. On and on. And the arranger seems to always give Day 5 to the brass section. Get it? "Five golden rings" = color of brass?

But "Little Drummer Boy" should be renamed "Little Bummer Boy" Very bland and lacks any interest whatsoever!

CTyankee

(65,097 posts)
65. are you old enough to remember Pogo's version of this?
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 06:48 AM
Dec 2013

Good king, Sauerkrauer, look out
on his feets uneven...



Then there's his Deck us all with Boston Charlie, another favorite when I was young...

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
99. I don't know.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 02:31 PM
Dec 2013

I've seen the strip in the past, just didn't read it. More of a Calvin and Hobbs and Bloom County fan.

CTyankee

(65,097 posts)
106. gawd, me too!
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 05:28 PM
Dec 2013

Every Christmas there would be a Pogo strip singing that song! It was a ritual to find it. Kinda reassuring in a way...

ellenfl

(8,660 posts)
36. never heard christmas shoes before now. definitely not. my favorites?
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 11:39 PM
Dec 2013

not christmas carols but music of the season . . . halleleujah chorus by quincy jones with various other artists and anything by transiberian orchestra.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
44. I don't have any I hate,
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 01:14 AM
Dec 2013

but I can't really relate to most of them because I'm never anywhere that snows on Christmas!

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
46. The one with the stupid lyrics.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 02:28 AM
Dec 2013

No, not that one, I mean the one about the snowman that says "are you married?" and you'll say no dear, but you can do the job when you're in town.

That one irritates the shit out of me.

LeftishBrit

(41,306 posts)
48. Of those listed, 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas'
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 03:41 AM
Dec 2013

Not because the song is so bad in itself, but because it has contributed to the exasperating idea that Christmas has GOT to be white, or else it Is Not Christmas.

Several others that are not the list aggravate me more; e.g. 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'; 'Having a Simply Wonderful Christmastime' (not Paul McCartney's finest moment!) and that dreadful one from the 70s, 'I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day'.

AngryOldDem

(14,176 posts)
50. These are Christmas carols?
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 04:14 AM
Dec 2013

More like Christmas pop schlock.

That said, I'm surprised McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" hasn't come up at least once. That usually gets dumped on a lot here around this time of year.

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
51. Little Drummer Boy......aggggghhh! The Xmas equivalent of "Bolero" in Boredom.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 04:40 AM
Dec 2013

White Christmas....a real snore.

Wonderful Christmastime is booooring. Not Sir Paul's finest song.

A friend of mine had a tape of old Xmas songs she needed to have transferred to CD.

I heard a couple of funny ones on there: Rusty Chevrolet, and one about Santa ("He's everywhere! He's everywhere!&quot giving a kid "guitar lessons and a full-color eight-by-ten picture of Bo Diddley, suitable for framing"!!!!

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
52. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is depressing as hell.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 04:44 AM
Dec 2013

If you think about it too much. And knowing what a messed-up life Judy Garland led doesn't help any, since she sang it in "Meet Me in Saint Louis".

Why don't the conservatives ever complain about "don we now our gay apparel"??? Huh???

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
55. One year I was in labor on Dec. 24th... There was this LOOP
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 04:54 AM
Dec 2013

of Christmas songs on the intercom. There is some pain involved with all the standards for me.

Another year my Dad passed away on Dec. 23, and now my sweetie is in the hospital... and I wonder what I've done to kick up this kind of karma..., Christmaswise

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
108. Yeah, and whoever wrote the tune must not have ever played...
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 05:46 PM
Dec 2013

...a drum around an infant.

"Smiling" does not come to mind...

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
70. None.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 08:32 AM
Dec 2013

I do my best not to hate things. Hate is counter-productive and destructive to the hater.

I admit that sometimes it's a struggle not to hate, but christmas carols are nowhere in the universe of things I struggle not to hate.

I like almost all, and can tolerate those I care less for. Music is art. Music is speech. I don't need to hate it.

TlalocW

(15,629 posts)
82. Do You Hear What I Hear
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 12:10 PM
Dec 2013

Because of the line, "A child, a child shivers in the cold/Let us bring him silver and gold." Right, and these are the 3 Wise Men? What are you going to do - stack bars of silver and gold around the son of God to warm him up? And don't tell me that Joseph and Mary can use the gold/silver to buy a blanket. It's CHRISTMAS! All the stores are closed!

Now that we've warmed him up with pieces of freezing metal, here's some shepherd kid with a drum to keep him awake!

TlalocW

distantearlywarning

(4,475 posts)
83. "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time"
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 12:11 PM
Dec 2013

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. On and on, ad nauseum, until I want to claw my ears off.

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
110. yes, it is bad. I hate that song.
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 06:05 PM
Dec 2013

I'm not a fan of anything McCartney (something about his singing and his melodies are nails on a chalkboard to me) but this song especially irks me. Probably because they play it a zillion times on the radio every Christmas. At least with a regular song, you hear it like crazy for a few months then you rarely hear it again. This song comes back to haunt me every friggen year.

NoGOPZone

(2,971 posts)
89. I was stuck in line at a deli on CHristmas Eve where they had a dancing Santa
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 12:29 PM
Dec 2013

on the shelf playing Jingle Bell Rock. The got annoying real quick.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
90. Happy X-Mas (War is Over)
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 12:33 PM
Dec 2013

Hate, Hate, HATE that annoying and depressing downer of a song no matter who sings it. I just get visions of funerals, crying and dying/dead people whenever I hear it. "Hey, It's CHRISTMAS!! Let's all cry and mourn and overdose on barbituates, YEAH!!!"

Runners up:

Pretty much any Christmas song recorded after 1989 - no overproduced, over-embellished Mariah, Whitney, Celiene, Vanessa or any vocalist named Michael or Josh (unless it's Homme) in my life, thanks.

Little Drummer Boy. DUMBEST song ever. "Uh, kid? Ixnay on the snare, dumbass, baby's sleeping . . ."

Gayle Peavey's "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". Yet another reason to loathe the 1950s.

ANYthing by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. TSO is like hummus - you're either like the diahrrea-like substance or you don't, there is no in-between. "Dial it down" is just not in TSO's repetoire.

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. Great labor-friendly musician, but someone give this guy some Ex-Lax on this one already.

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings" - Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McClahlan (?). Came utterly close to getting my "worst" vote. Anything that comes out of the most Schwebels band in history has me running for the off button to begin with, but this one is just cringe-inducing horrible.

"Please Come Home For Christmas" - The Eagles. The only way this could be ruined more is if Glen Frey and not Don Henley sang it.

"Grandpa Got Runned Over by a John Deere" - Cletus T Judd. Just . .. shut it, slapass.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
91. I dislike most of the secular ones
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 12:35 PM
Dec 2013

It doesn't have to do with religion, just that the tunes tend to be cutesy.

3catwoman3

(25,517 posts)
96. All these responses..
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 01:47 PM
Dec 2013

...and not one mention of Dominic The Christmas Donkey? Surely I can't be the only person who has heard this dreadful song.

raging moderate

(4,506 posts)
109. Grandma got run over by a reindeer?
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 06:01 PM
Dec 2013

After she shopped, wrapped, decorated, cleaned, baked, and cooked most of what was enjoyed at Christmas time? One year, my husband kept singing this song and getting my son to sing it over and over again. Finally, I led my daughter in a rousing chorus of "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Reindeer." My son looked shocked, and my husband looked annoyed, and they stopped their little tuneless marathon. It was a relief in more ways than one.My daughter and I are the family members who actually can sing!

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
123. Funny, the one about Grandma and the Reindeer is far and away my favorite.
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 09:41 PM
Dec 2013

I wonder if DU's Demographics aren't, again, at play here.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
130. Christmas Shoes.
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 10:03 PM
Dec 2013

Though I wouldn't really say I hate it, it's just that every time I hear it I end up bawling like a damn baby. It's a pretty song, just very depressing, and Christmas is supposed to be a happy time of the year.

Rhythm

(5,435 posts)
135. None of these (to me) are 'carols'...
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 11:54 PM
Dec 2013

But as far as 'Christmas songs' go, that "Christmas Shoes" song stomps on my last nerve in golf shoes.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
138. They all suck. Just to be clear.
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 01:11 AM
Dec 2013

The modern ones are uniformly terrible, some of the medium old ones have been played to death, and if I never hear them again, that will be wonderful.

Give me Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and some of the really old carols, like hundreds of years old.

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