Ok, second poll: Christmas tune you HATE?

[Archae]

What Christmas tune could you really do without this year?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "The Little Drummer Boy"

in all its horrible, hokey, treacly arrangements.

[LSparkle]

4. rum pa pum prum ...

Ever been in a choir and tried to sing the harmony parts on that one? YECCCCCCHHHHHH!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

37. "Little Drummer Boy," "Silent Night" and "Come All Ye Faithful"

[Archae]

10. Mannheim Steamroller's version is good.

Because they leave out the words! :-)

[LincolnMcGrath]

17. Bowie N Crosby nailed that tune

[Archae]

19. And how!

I have the original tune, and video of Bowie/Crosby.

[flamingyouth]

42. I remember watching that special when I was a kid

Always have had a soft spot for that song.

[stanwyck]

20. Yeech!

Hate that song! And Patridge in a Pear Tree. And Sleigh Ride.

[Archae]

23. Worst version I ever heard...

"Little Drummer Boy" by Joan Jett. AGGGGHHHHH!!!

[njdemocrat106]

33. "The Little Drummer Boy" used to scare me when I was little

Those constant, deep-pitched "rum-pums" freaked me out.

[LSparkle]

2. Yep, Away in a Manger

It's the only song the kids know and they learn it before they can even sing -- makes me want to cover my ears. And in some churches they sing like three verses of it ...

[Archae]

6. Ye gawds.

That second verse is just so frikkin' asinine.

[tjdee]

18. Most second/third/fourth versions are asinine....

See: all other verses of Joy to the World.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. I hate "Away in a Manger" and "Silent Night"--in any language

I don't understand why people get all misty-eyed and sentimental about them. No church would dare have a Christmas Eve service without Silent Night, but I'm like, "Oh, that again."

[progmom]

40. I love the alto part of Silent Night

What can I tell you?

:shrug:

[Valerie5555]

50. It was surprising I don't hate at least "Away In a Manger" thanks to a

certain incident that happened some 25 years ago when I was in the 3rd and 4th grade, to which there was an actual Calgary connection since the guy who saved some of the hostages in that incident was originally from Calgary.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"

Runner up: Jingle Bell Rock

[Merlot]

5. The 12 Days of Christmas not on a most hated list?

[Archae]

9. Depends who does it.

Bob and Doug MacKenzie's version is a hoot and a half. :D

[LSparkle]

12. Not to mention Kid Rock's

ending with "two stripper girls and an old Bob Seger CD."

[tridim]

13. I like the Muppet version

with Beaker. :)

[jcappy]

7. "Away in a Manger" is best of bad lot

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

8. all of them

Feliz Navidad is the least heinous, but they're all bad. I voted for Jingle Bell Rock just because it doesn't have any votes yet.

EDIT: Oh! I can't believe I forgot "Santa Baby"! That is the single worst Christmas song EVER! "Santa baby, fill my stocking with a rolex, And checks...." Blech!

[Sympleesmshn]

11. lets see...

"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" is my vote, but "Feliz Navidad" brings up some sad memories about a girl I used to have a thing for.

[tridim]

14. The worst is Paul McCarney's

"Simply Having A wonderful Christmas Time"

[njdemocrat106]

34. Sorry, I like Macca's Christmas song.

:)

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

51. oh, yeah, that's pretty awful too

I'd never heard it until I started working retail...oh, the joys of Christmas "muzak."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Ooh! Ooh! I just thought of another one!

"Do You Hear What I Hear". Similar to "The Little Drummer Boy" in its shallow sentimentality and amenability to hurl-inducing arrangements to be sung by washed-up celebrities and played over supermarket Muzak systems.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

39. Oh yeah! "Do You Hear.." No I don't!!!!!!!!! You're schizo!

[RadicalMom]

54. Now it's stuck in my damn head!

[tjdee]

16. The word "Rock" in a song is a sure sign it's NOT, "New Old Fashioned Way"

....what the hell is a new old fashioned way?

Eww.

But, I voted for "Grandma got run over by a reindeer". My grandma's dead, but I'm singing about it! That's comedy! :eyes:

And an honorable mention for "I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas."
Luckily I don't hear it enough to actually hate it.

[Archae]

21. Forgot one...

"I Want A Hippopatamus For Christmas." :argh:

[last_texas_dem]

22. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"

I dislike this one for reasons related to my childhood. I thought it was a neat, mysterious little song back when I believed in Santa. Once I found out the truth this one just pissed me off... it was rubbing in my face the fact that Santa wasn't real and was really my parents! Maybe I was a bit sensitive...

Also "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"; I find this one quite grating for reasons I'm not quite certain of. I think maybe it was that I didn't like the "Mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again" bit whenever I listened to it as I child. (My sensitive childhood nature again, I guess. haha) The first version I heard was by the Chipmunks, though, for whatever that's worth.

And for the record, I must come forward as the rare major fan of "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney.

[Diane L]

24. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

[Guy Fawkes]

25. All of them

[NNadir]

26. Well I love The Temptations version of "Silent Night".

It's freaking beautiful, with powerful Gospel influences. I say this, BTW, as an atheist.

[NightTrain]

32. Absolutely! That's the best "Silent Night" I've ever heard.

Six minutes of absolute, unequivocal beauty. :loveya:

[signmike]

27. Little Drummer, 12 Days, J Bells,...

I HATE Christmas music!x( all of it.

and if you go to the store there's no relief. The only ones I can stand are the Phil Spector 'Wall Of Sound' album from the '60s.

[No Mandate Here.]

28. The dogs barking Jingle Bells

[Merlot]

35. I met the guy who created the barking dogs of x-mas

And wouldn't you know, he was a has-been child star looking to prolong his 15 minute.

[Valerie5555]

48. Bet the meowing cat version may be worse

"QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALL THE SPCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


On edit Poor Buddy Guy and Lesley Anne for I bet they would have to hear that one.

[shesemsmom]

29. Grandma got run over by a Reindeer

is the most disrespectful song for anytime of year ever made. I just cringe when it comes on and am forced to listen to it. Some of my family takes great joy in playing it over and over again because they KNOW I can't stand it. As long as they vote the right way I guess I can tolerate the nonsense once a year

[Sanity Claws]

31. I agree

I have to turn it off when it comes on the radio.

[NightTrain]

30. Others that I can't fucking stand

The Chipmunk Song
Jingle Bells (by the Singing Dogs)
Nuttin' For Christmas

[Ms_Mary]

38. Other - O Christmas Tree

[vixengrl]

41. If you've worked enough retail--All of them!!!

In my husband's store, they started with the Christmas music even before Thanksgiving--and when I was in retail, we had the same damn thing. The very sound of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" makes me want to throttle somebody with a strand of garland. Eight, nine, heck, with Christmas being peak--ten hours of straight Christmas music for five or six days a week for six weeks--it's a form of torture.

[Guaranteed]

43. I just remembered this last night: the really, really fast version of

Jingle Bells, where the lady's getting all funky and jazzy.

SO irritating!

[motely36]

44. What about the god-awful Christmas Shoes song

:puke:

[noshenanigans]

45. "Frosty the Snowman" is soooo depressing.

Honestly, I can't even watch the cartoon, it kills me. He wasn't gonna stick around, he could melt at any moment!

Thumpety-thump-thump, indeed.

[bikebloke]

46. All of them

I used to work at this place that played Muzak. My desk was directly under one of the speakers. Right after Thanksgiving, the christmas tunes would bleed out day after f*cking day. And they had the volume cranked up. I learned to loathe them all. It didn't help that the job was a loathsome survival job.

[jdots]

47. i'm gonna take hostages if i hear jingle bell rock again

in a store........" jinglebell time is a swell time " call the cops i have lost it !!!!!

[OhioChick]

49. The Little Drummer Boy....n/t

[Ediacara]

52. A song called "It's the Holiday Season"

It's TERRIBLE. It's like silly crooner Christmas song with lines like:

So leave a peppermint stick
For Saint Nick
Hanging on the Christmas tree

It's absolutely grating.

Aside from that, the 12 Days of Christmas is the 2nd worse.

[Piperay]

53. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer...

whoever wrote that song deserves the hottest place in hell. :grr:

[RadicalMom]

55. All I Want for Christmas

Is mt two front teeth. I know that kid is spitting. And come to think of it, he's probably dead by now. Karma.