Of course, the pa-Rum-pa-pum-pum part!
First place: I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
Second place: nothing even comes close
I first heard that song five years ago. Why couldn’t I have gone my whole life without hearing it?
I watched that video and thought it was funny, but I’m with several other posters on here who said they’ve never actually heard the song “Christmas Shoes” before. I looked it up on YouTube and found it. Listened to about a third of it before having to turn it off. It’s pretty bad, but how much airplay does it get? Because I’m 39 and I’ve never heard it before.
Actually, the “Through the years we all will be together if the fates allow” is from Meet Me in Saint Louis, set around 1900, and Judy Garland’s singing it to her little sister, who’s depressed because they’re going to move.
This thread reminds me of the time a woman chose a song on a jukebox to play called “Here Comes Santa!” The lyrics run like this: “Here comes Santa with his sack of s#%! His sack of s#@!” Over and over. She was appalled, but it was kind of funny.
That toneless thing about “Chet’s nuts roasting on an open fire” (or something like that). Either the Bing Crosby or the Mel Torme version. And Bing Crosby’s “Jingle Bells”. Come to think of it, just about anything by Bing puts my teeth on edge.
And why has nobody yet added Springsteen’s “Santa Clause is comin’” to their hate list? Allow me the pleasure of being first.
One song that always grates is Ray Charles’ “Little Drummer Boy”. I like Ray Charles on other songs. And I like “Drummer Boy” by other singers. But somehow the two together just don’t work.
“Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer”, a la Gene Autry is so corny it’s almost (but not quite) likeable.
On the other hand, put me in the ranks of folks who happen to love “Mary’s Boy Child” by Boney M. In fact it’s one of my favorites.
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We have the album of Christmas music by Jim Reeves that includes “Mary’s Boy Child.” I’ve always loved it. It was especially endearing to me the first Christmas after our son was born.
At a Christmas pageant at my kids’ school, one class based their performance on “Mary’s Boy Child,” but did a rock-n-roll rendition. Bleah. (Before the taxpayers stage a First Amendment revolt, it was a parochial school.)
~VOW
“It’s the Holiday Season.” At least I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s called.
How lazy do you have to be to write a song where 2/3 of the lyrics are gibberish?
The part that drives me up the wall is the “words” “doop ee doo and dickery dock/don’t forget to hang up your sock.” Sock? The songwriter apparently couldn’t come up with a rhyme for stocking so he used sock and still couldn’t think of a real word. It’s not that hard. Off the top of my head-flock, dock, block, frock, smock.
Quick! Someone put this to music. Throw in some sleigh bells and we’ll have the next Christmas hit.
In my office they have piped in music in the bathrooms, and I have now heard four different versions of this song. It’s not even December yet.
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Seconded. As for Weird Al, I find “Christmas at Ground Zero” and “The Night Santa Went Crazy” effective when I need to purge the glurge from my brain.
This right here, with the exception of Carol of the Bells.
I linked this version in the “favorite Christmas songs” thread, and not only does it include that verse, it’s sung by the basses. Badass.
I have a Xmas Pandora station and before even knowing it’s him, I vote down every Kenny Rogers Xmas song.
Christmas in Killarney (with all the folks at home)
First year working retail at Sear’s, main cash wrap. Working 7a-4p…go to work in the dark, go home in the dark…no windows…
and that song got stuck on loop for 9 hours that day…I was ready to take a hostage!!!
Up on the Housetop: I hate, hate, HATE this song. Hate the melody, hate the unbelievably stupid lyrics.
Jolly Old St Nicholas: sounds religious, but it’s really about the smug self-righteous narrator demanding to know what Santa’s bringing him/her because they’re Santa’s favorite, don’t you know. At least that’s what it sounds like to me.
Santa Baby: I always thought she was more of a whore than a gold-digger.
Also hate Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, but I’d listen to that any day rather than the others.
Those of you who hate 12 Days of Christmas, Google *The 12 Days After Christmas *as therapy. The melody is different, and the lyrics begin “One the first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight. And so I chopped the pear tree down, and burned it just for spite. And with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge…” Hilarious.
I hate stores with endless looped background noise being played over the loudspeakers, be it ads, music, whatever. I always feel sorry for employees who have to listen to it all day.
I think you’re right. I still don’t think it’s a Christmas song. 
No, you don’t get it. The precise reason people hate 12 DoC is because there are so many insipid fill-in-the-blank overplayed parodies out there.
It might actually not be that bad. I’ve worked in places with shitty music playing all day, and after awhile it just sort of…ceased to register. I’ve literally had customers ask me “boy, don’t you ever get tired of this music?” and I’d have to think about it for a minute, because music? What music? Oh yeah, that music. I guess it is a little annoying, now that I think about it.
While we’re all bitching about Christmas, does anyone here understand these lyrics from Do You Hear What I Hear?
It’s supposed to be a poetic description of the Wise Men’s journey, not a “kid is chilly = bring precious metal” problem/solution. This infant went from warm in his mother’s belly to born and laid to rest in a stable’s manger. The Wise Men will be traveling with precious gifts to honor this very special baby.