Try Goin’ on a Date with Santa as performed by Dr. Elmo (of “Grandma Got Run Over…” fame). Yeah, a guy singing–badly–about going on a date with Santa.
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While I am sick of all Christmas songs because they have been playing since Thanksgiving, at least acknowledge why the Little Drummer Boy was playing his freaking drums. The original lyrics didn’t say “Baby Jesu” or, worse yet, “Little Baby”. His name is Jesus, dammit! That kid with the snare was drumming for Christ. Say the name!QUOTE]
I agree with you, but I think the original lyric is Baby Jesu, because it should rhyme with “I am a poor boy, too” But that “little baby” thing just makes me want to hit something. It doesn’t work within the song and it’s a really stupid change. Is it really too hard for people to understand “Baby Jesu”?
Ugh. Whenever we get in the car my wife insists on tuning to the literocklesstalk station, which has been playing carols 24/7 since Halloween. And “Christmas in SF” pops up with annoying frequency, along with the aforementioned “Last Christmas” and “Simply Having a blahblahblahba”. And Streisand’s “My Grown-Up Christmas List”. Puke.
I actually love Christmas carols. My home playlist has about 10 hours of quality classic recordings. It’s missing this commercial crap that are really just cheezy pop love ballads with a vaguely xmas-y theme (generally, I’m so sad my baby isn’t with me on xmas).
I never noticed it, but just now I listened on youtube, and you’re right. It is odd. The “gav” especially.
I’ve held my tongue in the thread that is praising this song, so I hope the lovers of this tune show me the same respect, but I can’t begin to conceive why “Fairytale of New York” is either a good Christmas song or a good song in **any ** sense of the word.
Oh dear. This is my favorite Christmas song. Honestly. 
I loathe Feliz Navidad (ubiquitous to the nth degree), Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Debbie Downer Christmas), and Mele Kalikimaka (especially by Bing Crosby). I also love Run, Run Rudolph - the Chuck Berry & the Dave Edmunds version.
VCNJ~
This song makes me physically angry. I want to go and beat the shit out of a mall santa every time I have to hear that pointless reverby synth line.
Granma Got Runover by a Reindeer
I both hate this song and like it at the same time. I can’t explain it.
I dislike the Christmas songs with “rock” in the title or lyrics.
The song I really hate, the one that makes me want to harm someone or something is “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses. I’m not sure how much airtime this one gets anymore, but I truly despise this sham of a song.
Ooh…I LOVE “Christmas Wrapping”! The fact that the Shrek holiday special included that song redeemed the whole misbegotten thing in my eyes…
Ah, Charo, the woman who once referred to the decor of the Surreal Life house as “Liberace with diarrhea, 1980.” Truly the first weirdo female celebrity- without the horrible Britney/Paris/Lindsay aftertaste.
Actually, God prefers barefoot. He’s one of those “take your shoes off in the house” kind of Gods.
Regards,
Shodan
“Do they Know It’s Christmas” is absolutely the worst.
What I hate is that Santa knows who’s naughty and who’s nice, right? Everywhere in the whole world, right? Thousands of miles away even. Shouldn’t the naughty or nice thing apply to his reindeer who are right under his freakin’ nose too? Why didn’t he step in and make them quit picking on Rudolf long before that fateful foggy night then? I guess he’s just not as nice as all the PR makes him out to be or he just didn’t care until he found a way he could exploit Rudy’s unusual talent. Bah humbug on Santa, I say!
Whatever that song is with the line “Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.”… I don’t have a problem with the lyrics, but the sound of a cracking whip does not sound festive to me.
Oh, man, the Santa in that special (the Rankin Bass one) was EVIL. Purest evil. But that’s something of a hjijack…
I have that, but on vinyl. It’s an acquired taste.
And I like Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero” and “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, but not played very often. And not while sipping cocoa or at the fireside. Maybe they’re songs to play while paying bills.
I heard a Jack Johnson version of “Rudolph” in a store this year that added a verse about Rudolph shaming the other reindeer for their shallowness.
I used to hate Christmas songs, but I’ve been able to mostly avoid hearing them against my will, which helps a lot. Now I have four discs worth of Christmas music on my iPod (the three Santastic collections and The 8bits of Christmas). My least favorite Christmas song is The Jackson 5’s version of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.
I Farted On Santa’s Lap, Now Christmas Is Gonna Stink For Me