What is your LEAST favorite Christmas song?

[KansDem]

There are several I don't particularly care for. Probably my least favorite is "The Twelve Days of Christmas" because of its monotony. It's just too long and repetitious. Even worse are the all-instrumental versions (at least with a vocal version you can hear what the 12 days are about but even then it gets boring). With all-instrumental versions, I wonder how the musicians stayed awake. Don't forget by the time the tune is though, the musicians have played some of the licks dozens of times. And the clichés: in the fifth day with its "five golden rings" it seems every orchestrator uses a full brass section in forte. Get it? "Gold" brass instruments playing "five golden rings?" Hahaha...sigh. Why not use the double reeds for once? Or pizzicato strings?

A close second is the "Little Drummer Boy" which I find almost as equally repetitious and monotonous. The relatively narrow melodic range doesn't help much either.

Below are seven others chosen due to their overall-annoying characteristics, and of course "Other..."

[skygazer]

Christmas Time Is Here

Sung by a chorus that sounds like its singing a funeral dirge. Back when the only time I heard it was once a year when A Charlie Brown Christmas was on, it was okay but it had context there. Now I hear it all the time (at work primarily - 40 hours of Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas is enough to sour anyone on the genre) and it's so damn gloomy!

[HughBeaumont]

13. I like that song, but couldn't they get kids that sang on key?

Unless that was their intent . . .

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. Aww, I like that song!

Yeah, the kids are all out of key, but it reminds me of the Charlie Brown special and brings back good memories. :D

[LaraMN]

1. Other- "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus."

That song bugs the crap outta me.

[texas1928]

26. It does me too.

The song makes it sound like they are happy and can not wait to bust up the marriage. Due to mommy kissing Santa Claus. It bugs me.

[Zavulon]

2. I was going to write in the "bring us some figgy pudding" song until

I saw the "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" one. As soon as someone invents the time machine, I go back to prevent the fucker responsible for that stupid, utterly unfunny song from being conceived.

BTW, I love Christmas - but I hate Christmas music. I hate it all, and I hate it a lot.

[Zavulon]

3. Oh, let's not forget that abomination by Paul McCartney (NT)

[nykiera]

4. Other- That "Christmas Shoe" song.

Yuck.

[Guava Jelly]

10. you beat me to it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AhFq9RZM-Gc

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. That song is the WORST!

If I even hear one note of it, I want to :argh: :banghead:

[jakefrep]

24. Agreed....

...It's even worse than "Gramma got run over...".

[AllegroRondo]

5. I hate all Christmas music - seriously

but especially that damn "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson.

It comes from too many years playing in the band. I started at age 9, and all through high school, college, and 15 years of US Army Band. Every year, you're expected to have a Christmas concert. And every year, you start rehearsing the music for that concert in September. So for 4 months of the year, every year, you play Christmas music. And that damn "Sleigh Ride" is on EVERY Christmas concert. I can play that thing in my sleep. If it comes on the speakers at a store, I get out ASAP.

[Sequoia]

29. I only like the Boston Pops version.

[Montauk6]

6. Grandma...

Few songs have me violently reaching for the tuner dial as that UNFUNNY piece of crap does!

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. FUCK "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"!!!

:grr: I fucking HATE that song! I can take just about all the other ones, but this piece of crap makes me twitch. :yoiks:

[QMPMom]

8. The Little Drummer Boy by miles. Never have liked that song.

[Guava Jelly]

9. Christmas Shoes

I'd rather be smacked in the jewels with a sledgehammer than hear that crappy song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AhFq9RZM-Gc
Here.. listen if you dare!

[u4ic]

11. The Paul McCartney tune

Simply Having a Wonderful Xmastime? followed closely by Feliz Navidad.

Just detest the first, the second is horribly overplayed.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Happy Xmas (The War is Over). Sung by anyone.

GOD that is such a downer of a tune. I liken it to the soundtrack of end-of-the-year memorial vignettes, where they have all the photos of those who died during the year. All I think of with that song are sick kids, relatives that passed away and sad endings.

I know how John Lennon is revered around here, but not everything that guy touched turned to gold, especially when his tone-deaf wife was involved in the recording.

Runner up - I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas by Gayle Peavey. Yet another reason to hate the 50s.

[deucemagnet]

14. Well, I've been trying to keep my anti-Christmas rants out of the Lounge,

but I just have to chime in and say all Christmas music is horrible, Christmas decorations are gaudy and ugly, and the entire season is an unholy pain in the ass.

Why do I hate Christmas so much? It started when I was an undergrad in college. It's hard enough holding down a job and going to school full-time without having this holiday bullshit foisted on you during finals. It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

:rant:

Thanks for listening! I'll try to keep my grinchitude to myself for the rest of the year. :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

15. For years, I never

was that annoyed by xmas music...than one cold day in 99, I was on our city bus...and it was Jingle Bells HOUR!!! Yay! Not....they played the jingle bells song over and over again, and each time was a different version, from dogs barking the damn song(I almost wanted to choke on my own hand and die), to cats meowing it...I about lost my mind...so now, I do have a definate answer to your poll question...

Jingle Bells....

[TangoCharlie]

16. In additon to "Grandma", ...

... anything sung by "the chipmunks" makes me want to thrown a can of cranberries at the stereo.

[hyphenate]

17. There are two kinds of XMas music

The ones with a religious overtone, and then there are the pop music counterparts.

I checked off the Little Drummer Boy because it does bore me, but more significant than that, I absolutely hate some of the pop ones, as follows:

Santa Baby--ohmifuckinggod. This is THE worst song EVER. It grates on my nerves like crazy. I know a woman whose every day talking voice is almost as high pitched, and it really is uncomfortable listening to the song. It must go.

Rocking around the Christmas Tree. Don't know why, but it reminds me of ultimate optimism, I guess, and it sounds so phony as a result.

Two Front Teeth--yikes. It's okay to sing to a child, but get anywhere above that age range, and it's just pathetic.

Christmas for Cowboys--eh. I don't care for many C&W songs to begin with, so this one is representative of those.

Deck the Halls--talk about repetition!

Away in a Manger--This is one with religious overtones, obviously, but it's such a puerile song in my opinion.

Lots more, I'm sure.

[yellowdogmi]

18. Feliz navidat

This was so over played here last year on the radio. I made the mistake of mentioning that it was killing off my brain cells when ever I heard it. The woman in my life will not pass on the opportunity to crank it up. It has become like nails on a chalkboard.

[terrya]

21. Isn't there one of dogs barking to "Jingle Bells"?

Just TRY sitting through that one...

[KansDem]

27. You mean this one?

http://doghause.com/sounds.asp

Second to the last link.

Also has cats meowing to "Jingle Bells," although the clip isn't quite as long (last link).

[Phillycat]

22. Where is that shoe one?

That's the obvious choice. This poll is bogus.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. That would be my choice as well.

At least "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" is freaky enough to make Dr Demento's Christmas cd.

[Phillycat]

23. delete dupe

[bigwillq]

25. Drummer boy

It's just annoying.

[jmowreader]

30. There are two BRAND NEW Christmas songs to hate.

One is "Everything (Bonus Track)" by Simple Plan:

Santa is coming tonight
And I want a car
And I want a life
And I want a first-class trip to Hawaii

I want a lifetime supply
Of skittles and slurpees
And eskimo pies
I want a DVD
A big screen TV
Just bring me things that I don't need

'Cause now it's Christmas
And I want everything
I just can't wait
Christmas
So don't stop spending
I want a million gifts that's right
Don't forget my Christmas list tonight
'Cause now it's Christmas

Somebody take me away
Or give me a time machine to take me straight to midnight
I'll be alright
I wanna girl in my bed
Who knows what to do
A Playstation 2
I want a shopping spree
In New York City
Just bring me things that I don't need...

* * * * *

The other one's worse. I can't even find this shit on the Internets, but it's some Mexican-sounding guy singing this song in which the chorus is...

Ay-yi-yi it's Christmas and I don't know what to do
Ay-yi-yi it's Christmas and I don't have a gift for you
I can give you ay-yi-yi
All you need is ay-yi-yi
I can give you ay-yi-yi
On a winter's night

Okay, we know ay-yi-yi is fuckin'. I figure that either it's a Mexican guy singing the role of a Mexican woman, or this dude's a bottom because there ain't NO WAY IN HELL any guy who doesn't have a Christmas present for a woman who's expecting one is gonna get any ay-yi-yi for the next month.

Anyway, the fuckwit who programs our Muzak at the store plays those two songs incessantly. It's about time to raid Muzak headquarters and play some high-quality Christmas music like crooners singing traditional songs, the Kinks singing "Father Christmas" and John Valby singing "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Syphilis."

[Katina]

31. Santa Baby annoys the hell out of me

I can't listen to it at all.

[Crap_in_a_Hat]

32. Why has no one mentioned that "Christmas Donkey" song

Am I the only one who knows it? For your sake, I hope so. If there was a way to insert pain directly into your ears, it would sound like that.

[Lavender Brown]

33. Ug, yeah

That's the worst. My mom hates that it has become known as the "Italian Christmas song." :eyes: