What Christmas song is like nails on a chalkboard to you?

[rurallib]

I walk into a store and hear "Blue Christmas" i kind of shake.
Or "little Drummer Boy" except the Bowie / Crosby version.

Or that Paul McCartney song - Wonderful Christmas or something.
but worst of all is that Mariah Carey song whose name I don't even know.

[MADem]

1. I don't mind it, in small doses.

I'm trying to come up with one that grinds my gears, but I haven't yet heard enough of it this year to have that visceral reaction.

I think the Mariah song you don't like is "All I Want for Xmas (is You)"

[rurallib]

6. thanks for posting it, but I will pass on watching it

[lillypaddle]

134. Wish I had!

[ihaveaquestion]

87. NSFW Chatroulette Version - Funny!

(about 3 years old)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. "The Little Drummer Boy" in all arrangements makes me want to hurl.

"Do You Hear What I Hear" is a close second for nausea-inducement. Then there are all those idiotic novelty songs, like "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and that stupid thing with Alvin and the Chipmunks. And I hate, hate, hate "Jingle Bells" and any other arrangement of anything that includes sleigh bells.

Bah, humbug.

[lastlib]

7. YES!

That f*cking Little Drummer Boy , is "gag me with a chain-saw" BAAAAD!

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If I ever run into that kid, I swear I will smash his f*cking drum into a million pieces, and shove it out his arse by way of his nose. And I'll send his drumsticks via the same route--sideways.

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[Ken Burch]

14. He practices rudiments all night in the apartment right above you, I'm guessing.

[keithbvadu2]

61. Little Drummer boy was even worse before

[Ken Burch]

15. "Do You Hear What I Hear?", though, was actually written with anti-nuclear intent.

The composers, Noël Regney and, Gloria Shayne Baker wrote it during the Cuban Missile Crisis, as there way of asking the world's leaders to at least try not blowing all of us to bits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_What_I_Hear%3F

Listen to the song again, knowing that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I remember when it came out, and I also remember

the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nevertheless, the song itself is pure treacle, especially the arrangements that followed the original.

[Ken Burch]

28. The claim has been that the image of the "star" in the song

was actually of a nuclear missile being launched.

[ChazInAz]

63. Here's something truly different.

Sir Christopher Lee, late in his long life, recorded his own rather unique cover of "Little Drummer Boy".
THAT Christopher Lee.

[stopbush]

3. "Feliz Navidad." Real dreck.

Drummer Boy is also awful.

[Nitram]

74. Feliz?

[lillypaddle]

135. Feliz Navidad

Hey, it's got a good beat and it's catchy! What's the matter with you????

[stopbush]

139. It's too wordy

[lillypaddle]

140. That's why it's so catchy,

silly.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. All of them.

Call me Grinch.

[rurallib]

5. Grinch!

[cemaphonic]

9. This is my answer too, mostly

I like most of the traditional carols, and a lot of the classical music associated with Christmas, but all the rest of it, sheesh.

All that syrupy Tin Pan Alley stuff that we have to endure because the Baby Boomers have a nostalgia boner for it

Rock and Roll Christmas songs - an idea so bad that even Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon can't salvage.

Unfunny novelty songs that make you dumber each time you hear them (with the possible exception of Weird Al's "The Night Santa Went Crazy.&quot

All garbage.

[awoke_in_2003]

114. +1. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Jingle Bell Rock. It's not real rock, and it's not a real Christmas carol.

Like "Jingle Bells", it's a song about fun in the snow. No connection to Christmas except the coincidence of season, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Same applies to any song about snowmen, sleigh bells, and other winter staples.

The first time I heard it, I could only wonder "WHY?". I was pretty damned sick of "Jingle Bells" already, didn't need an ersatz pop/rock rip-off.

[pinboy3niner]

10. I kinda like the one about that razor guy

'Occam All Ye Faithful.'

[ailsagirl]

12. OUCHHH!!!!

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[Fortinbras Armstrong]

117. I bet you also like

"Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear"

[ailsagirl]

11. I like the traditional carols...

It's those stupid ditties that annoy me:

"It's Getting to Feel a Lot Like Christmas"
"Rudolph..."
"I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"

You get the idea

[Ken Burch]

29. And, of course "Sleigh Ride" and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year".

n/t.

[ailsagirl]

32. Oh, and "White Christmas!!"

[rurallib]

49. must say I kind of like the Drifters version

[ailsagirl]

53. I didn't know they had a version of it

Thanks for the link-- I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Love every song they sang, esp "Broadway," "Up on the Roof," "Under the Boardwalk," etc.

What voices!!

[rurallib]

76. you would be surprised to know it was in the background in Home Alone

I didn't even realize that until someone pointed it out here one day

Here is a cute version:

[japple]

85. This is one of my favorites!

eom

[ailsagirl]

99. Very cute!

[TNNurse]

112. Oh, lord, that is wonderful

thank you.

[Granny M]

133. Love this!

Going to look for it on CD.

[alfredo]

110. One year I successfully went the season without hearing white xmas.

[lastlib]

131. It's STILL the second-biggest-selling music recording of all time!

I'm not real fond of it, either, but only Elton John's "Goodbye English Rose" has outsold it.

[Ken Burch]

13. "The Christmas Song", though the tune is pleasant, always bothered me.

I always thought it sounded like an advertisement for Christmas(or some sort of Noel-themed Southern California housing development) than anything remotely connected to the spirit of the season. There's just something way too generic about it.

[whistler162]

94. You a close

Mel Torme and his writing partner Bob Wells wrote it in South California in the month of July. According to Mel Torme in his autobiography Bob Wells wrote the words to cool down on a very hot July day.

http://performingsongwriter.com/christmas-song/

One of my favorite songs, especially when Torme sung it.

[JHan]

17. "all I want for Christmas is you"...

By Mariah... that song is even annoying when drunk...

[Donkees]

18. Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey :)

Uploaded on Dec 6, 2007
Dominic the Italian Donkey song and video
Dominick the Donkey is a well known Christmas song written by Ray Allen and Lou Monte and first sung by Lou Monte in 1960. For decades the song was only occasionally heard. Oldies 103.3 WODS of Boston, Massachusetts and WCBS-FM in New York are common stations that play the song around Christmas . It was perceived to be too novel for the softer music stations and too old or corny for CHR/Top 40 stations. But beginning in the early 1990's, more contemporary artists began to record Christmas music. As a result, younger skewing radio stations began to feature more Christmas music on their stations, even going wall to wall on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. While there were more Top 40 core artists doing Christmas music by 1992, the stations still needed to play older artists to supplement the newer Christmas music. A few stations found this song and began mixing it into their Christmas rotations. The song got very positive feedback and as a result, this song began to gain airplay in many formats. Many people assume it was a recent recording and do not realize this song has been around for over 40 years.

[3catwoman3]

45. This one is completely...

...gag-worthy.

[Paladin]

19. "Carol Of The Bells"

You know---that one with around 46,000 rapid-fire lyrics, none of them intelligible, sung to the same 3 musical notes, over and over and over and over....

"Oh how they pound / Raising the sound / O'er hill and dale / Telling their tale...."

AAAAACK!

[Wolf Frankula]

22. The Real Lyrics Go

"Thump Thump a Thump,
Sump Sump a Sump,
Dump Dump a Dump!
Bump Bump a Bump!

Hump Hump a Hump!
Rump Rump a Rump!
Crump Crump a Crump!
Chump Chump a Chump!

Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy Merrymas!
Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy Merrymas!

And so on with minor variations on words ending with -ump until the last which is
"Long Dong, Long Dong, Long Dong, Long Dong."

Wolf

[Paladin]

23. By George, I think you've got it! And all at 78 rpm speed.

Maybe it was catchier, in the original Ukrainian......

[DMJG10]

128. Shedrick (so called Carol of the Bells)

Actually, the original Ukranian has nothing to do with bells... and it is actually quite secular

[Skittles]

20. Stevie Nicks Silent Night

horrible

[Paladin]

21. Best antidote to that I can think of:

Listen to Barbra Streisand's version of the same carol, with a couple of inches of single-malt scotch near-by.....

[annabanana]

24. I was in labor, Christmas Eve, 1986. . The hospital had an endless loop

of Christmas music..

I hate ALL of it!

[rurallib]

25. sounds like torture

[annabanana]

26. Yeah.. good thing I like my kid!

[Ken Burch]

31. And THAT's why you begged for an anesthetic!

Childbirth, you could handle. But "White Christmas" over and over again.....

[mrmpa]

35. has nothing to do with Christmas.........

I had a History Prof in college, who was in Egypt when she delivered her daughter. She said she was surrounded by women, who every time they had a contraction would say "Allahu Akbar".

My Prof who was a Mid-East scholar says every time, thereafter, when she heard this phrase she almost involuntarily had a contraction.

[FSogol]

27. "The Christmas Shoes" by Christian Country Band, Newsong.

It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line
Tryin' to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood
Standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously
Pacing 'round like little boys do
And in his hands he held a pair of shoes
His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe
And when it came his time to pay
I couldn't believe what I heard him say
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight
He counted pennies for what seemed like years...

Ugh, it is the most maudlin dreck ever. I think it proves there is no god which is about the worst thing a so-called Christmas song can do.

[Coventina]

33. Argh! You just had to remind me!!!!

[Sentath]

34. You beat me to it,

too bad we can't beat the recording, with magnetized clubs!

[3catwoman3]

46. This one is in a 3-way tie with...

...Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer and Dominick The Christmas Donkey.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

52. I'd never heard that one so I checked it out.

And I was very, very sorry I did.

[TimeChaser]

96. The worse part of that one

Is the end where the narrator says that God sent that little boy to remind him of the true meaning of Christmas.

... so... God killed a kid's mom on Christmas to teach your ass a lesson? Awesome

[Ken Burch]

30. This classic from "Little Augie Rios"

(spent one December working in a diner in Juneau and it was on the one Christmas mix tape they kept playing over and over again.)

[Callmecrazy]

36. I like this one...

and this one:

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[lunatica]

37. The elevator kind

Berserksville!

[Bucky]

38. Anything sung with that high strung church-lady warbling sound

Give me a jingle over a chorale any day

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

39. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee

I worked at a Pizza Hut in college, and each time Christmas rolled around, the manager had the vending machine company swap out half of the singles in the jukebox (This was back in the early 90s) with Christmas songs.

Nothing like hearing that song eight times in a five hour shift. And it was only that song that was played so damn often for some reason.

[Liberal Veteran]

41. Ugh...ugh...ugh

"You will get a sentimental feeling When you hear voices singing "Let's be jolly; Deck the halls with boughs of hol-ly"

That is not a sentimental feeling I get. It is the urge to find an icepick to shove into my ears.

[Danmel]

121. Dear God I hate that song

Torture.

[Mad_Dem_X]

40. The Christmas Shoes

Worst. Christmas song. Ever. When it comes on, I can't change the station fast enough.

[Auggie]

42. Jingle Bell Rock

[Wolf Frankula]

43. How Can you not Love this song?

Or This Song?

Wolf

[Va Lefty]

44. I hate Springsteen's version of Santa Claus is coming to town

[3catwoman3]

47. Has anyone heard any of the...

...tracks from Bob Dylan's Christmas album?

You don't know what you're missing if you haven't.

[awoke_in_2003]

115. Bob Dylan Chistmas album?

Sounds like a new level of hell.

[Laffy Kat]

48. "Twelve Days of Christmas".

Please, God, make it stop.

[rurallib]

50. and all the 'funny' variations

I'd forgotten all about that monster.

[eShirl]

83. Hey! Take off you hosers!

[ailsagirl]

54. I have to say I really like that one

[Laffy Kat]

57. Well obviously a lot of people do or it wouldn't be so popular.

No judgement here.

[ailsagirl]

58. I certainly wouldn't want to hear it all the time!!!

So no judgment here either!!

[world wide wally]

89. All 27 verses!

[OxQQme]

104. Jeff Foxworthy Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas

[ret5hd]

51. Every F---ing One Of Them.

[ailsagirl]

55. "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" ARGH

[stopbush]

56. There's chorus of the horny shepherds from Handel's "Messiah."

aka "All we like sheep..."

[neeksgeek]

59. Several Christmas seasons working retail ...

Including a stint at Toys R Us. As I result, I can only listen to certain Christmas songs, like "Silver Bells" ... I can endure most of it, but the novelty tunes especially grate on my nerves. When you've heard "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" every two hours for literally weeks.... it gets old!

[Archae]

60. Any Christmas tune that substitutes "cutesie-poo" for good music or humor.

Someone mentioned "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth."

Another is "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas."

Surprisingly enough there is one good version besides Crosby/Bowie doing "Little Drummer Boy."

The Mannheim Steamroller arrangement.

[jmowreader]

123. One of the shipping companies is using that awful hippo song in their ads this year

Guess which shipping company I will NOT be using this year.

[LakeArenal]

62. Mama Got Run Over by a Reindeer

[radical noodle]

98. Yes!

I'm grateful that I didn't have to type it.

[ailsagirl]

100. Oh, LakeArenal

I do so love your sigline-- simple, poignant, yet powerful

[Doreen]

64. Bing Crosby's "white Christmas"

I loath that song.

[progressoid]

65. That McCartney song is on the top of my most hated Christmas songs.

My daughter hates that" do they know it's Christmas" dreck from the 80s.

[joshdawg]

66. All of them!!

Really do not like any xmas carol.

[sinkingfeeling]

67. All of them. Since they begin immediately after Halloween

[DFW]

68. I never liked Christmas sings except for one from the 1950s, so I made up my own. Here goes:

This was specific to Christmas 2007, but you'll recognize plenty of the players:

And this was the ONLY Christmas song I EVER liked (NOT autobiographical, I swear!):

[TrogL]

69. Winter wonderland

[TrogL]

70. I used to hate "Sleigh Ride" until a friend and I pulled a prank

This was a formal concert at a world-class concert hall. Everybody in tuxes and tails. Conductor was a friend who invited me as guest artist.

The stage manager brought out a music stand. I entered carrying my music and what appeared to be a stick. I gravely and carefully adjusted my music then gave a formal and distinguished bow to the conductor who bowed back, then began the piece.

I stood there, motionless and implacable.

3/4 of the way through the piece I came to life, swung the stick, which gave the "whip crack" sound. The audience roared with laughter, realizing they'd been truly had.

[countryken]

71. Christmas songs

Two that make my skin crawl are 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' and those damn dogs barking 'Jingle Bells'. These are two novelty songs that might be considered amusing at first listen by some (not me), but to hear them year after year... Arrrggghh.

A novelty song that is definitely worth hearing is Roy Zimmerman's "Christmas is Pain"! This is a brilliant Bob Dylan spoof - find this on Youtube, and you'll probably stay to hear much more Roy Zimmerman. He's one of us.

A few years ago my wife mentioned to me that she wanted to write a Christmas song. I replied, 'We don't need another Christmas song!', and that became the title of the song, and it is now one of my favorites, complete with references to homeless, domestic abuse, and hope. I think we need to make a Youtube video of that one this year.

Finally, I kinda like the Johnny Cash version of the Drummer Boy.

[kairos12]

72. Grandma ran over by a reindeer.

[Nitram]

73. Rum-a-tum-tum!

[Coventina]

75. From "Santa Clause Conquers the Martians"

[FSogol]

78. I watched Rifftrax make fun of that last night.

Still laughing.

[Coventina]

79. Me too!!!!

Did you stay for the whole thing?

"Mrs. Rudolf is making me emotionally confused."



BTW: The Short "Christmas Rhapsody" is why I can only have artificial Christmas trees now.

True story!!!!

[FSogol]

84. Yeah, we stayed for it all. It was great. n/t

[hopeforchange2008]

77. 'Christmas in Maine' is a horror show /nt

[colorado_ufo]

80. Hate the stupid-cute ones but

My personal choice is Drummer Boy. For some reason, it makes me want to punch a wall, and I am actually a very happy, sweet and nice grandma! Thanks for this thread; it is great to know that I am not alone!

[rurallib]

81. just a cursory reading of this thread it seems Drummer Boy

is the one most love to hate.

[retrowire]

82. Good to see little drummer boy is the most hated

Slow. No complexity. Totally uninteresting. Fucking kill me now.

[awoke_in_2003]

116. And a stupid premise...

here this lady just popped out a kid, and some little brat is in the corner beating a drum. Had the writer never been around women in labor?

[northoftheborder]

86. The chipmonks

😖😖😖😖😖

[cabot]

88. Feliz Navidad

I don't know why...but that song irritates me. BUT my taste is suspect because I love "The Little Drummer Boy" which, apparently, everyone in the world hates.

[world wide wally]

90. Has anybody else ever heard Ozzie Osborne "I am Santa Claus" to the tune of "Iron Man"?

Or was I hallucinating?
I only heard it once (I think)

[jmowreader]

125. This one?

It's actually Bob Rivers, but you knew that.

[world wide wally]

126. Wow man, I wasn't hallucinating!

Now, about this Trump thing…..

[jmowreader]

127. Sorry man, you're not hallucinating about that either

Just for today...

[Stargleamer]

91. Mary's Boy Child by Bony M

although Paul McCartney's song is just as bad

[lanlady]

92. I really like the Charlie Brown song

You know the one I mean - it's played on a piano. Great tune! Not sure why it's associated with Christmas, but it seems to get played most often this time of year. I was in Bed, Bath & Beyond the other day nearly wretching over the Yuletime dreck they were playing, when, mercifully, on came the Charlie Brown song. It cheered me up considerably.

I can sorta tolerate Karen Carpenter singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - love her voice.

As for the rest of the usual repertoire of Xmas songs, two words: bah, humbug

[eppur_se_muova]

107. Something by Vince Guaraldi ?

He did the whole "Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack ...

[Ken Burch]

113. The "Christmas Time Is Here" segment of that show always gets me.

Even though it passes quickly, the "why has thou forsaken me?" bleakness of that section has been etched into my memory since the moment I first saw it, when I was probably about six or seven(thus, was probably about the age of most of the characters of the show).

[elleng]

93. All of them. Watching The Santa Clause now, and I'm home alone!

[whistler162]

95. "little Drummer Boy" except the Bowie / Crosby version.

got that right.

[TimeChaser]

97. All of them

I work in retail, so fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Christmas songs.

The Grinch is tolerable, but only the original. No shitty remakes. The Christmas Shoes and Do They Know Its Christmas hurt me in my soul.

[flying rabbit]

101. That Mcartney one.

I do like the drummer boy, though.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

102. Feliz Navidad---omg how I HATE that one!

Eh, the only good xmas music is Medieval -- Renaissance --Baroque.

[No Vested Interest]

103. I like " I'll Be Home for Christmas" nostalgic, written during WWII

when so many servicemen wouldn't be home, with family and loved ones, at Christmas.

[ailsagirl]

105. Sad song, really

[Locrian]

106. a good anti christmas song

[heckles65]

108. While there are a lot of good candidates,

for me the clear winner is "Baby It's Cold Outside." Two minutes+ of a man begging for p___y - unendurable!

[rurallib]

109. !

Right you are

Welcome to DU!

[jimmil]

111. The more replies I read..

The more I think, yeah, that song really sucks. There are just too many choices to pick one song as the absolute suckiest, nail scratching, make me grab my nuts and run around the mall screaming.

[Lyric]

118. Jingle Bells. I despise it. nt

[yonder]

119. I dislike most listed so I'll buck the thread with a favourite: The Pogues-Fairytale of New York

[kwassa]

120. great song.

[jmowreader]

122. After six years in retail? ALL of them!

I would like to open a restaurant with a huge and well-stocked bar that has a sign outside from Halloween to New Year's Day: "NO FSCKING CHRISTMAS MUSIC WILL EVER BE PLAYED HERE!" It'll be full of retail employees.

[LakeArenal]

124. Also the one where dogs bark Jingle Bells

[spiderpig]

129. While Drummer Boy is the whale-poop standard of carols

(first that came to mind)

I also loathe "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

I don't care if it was in The Godfather.

Isn't Christmas the birth of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior, according to believers? What's "little" about it?

(I'm not a believer - it's just a dumb song.)

[IrishEyes]

130. Baby, It's cold outside.

Creepy song about a guy trying to get a girl to stay at his house when she repeatedly says that she should leave.

[Granny M]

132. Paul McCartney song.

Just can't stand it.

[Lionel Mandrake]

136. Rudolph the fucking red nosed reindeer,

especially when sung BY children.

[Bob Loblaw]

137. Anything by Mannheim Steamroller

I got roped in to attending a Christmas concert of theirs last year. It was like being stuck in the world's largest express elevator..., to the 10,000th floor of a rest home..., with the guy standing next to you sporting a pantload. It literally smelled like diapers in there from all the soiled Depends of their blue-haired fans. They "performed" with all the showmanship and spontaneity of a 1979 Geritol commercial. A year later and I'm still "over Q-tipping" in an effort to exorcise those demons from my aural canals.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

138. Little Drummer Boy, Up on the Rooftop, Silent Night,

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

[Uke]

141. Rare-anti Christmas 45s

I was inspired to write these anti-Christmas songs:

Hoppy Holidays!

[beaglelover]

142. 12 Days of Christmas