# Family fun: Scumbag Christmas Playlist!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [December 18, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724 "2022-12-18T03:04:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724/21 "2022-12-19T00:29:25Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> I don’t know how a scumbag Christmas playlist can exist without this song. It starts sweet, ends sweet, with a whole lotta scumbaggery in the middle

This. It’s also the _only_ good Christmas song.

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**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724/22 "2022-12-19T01:05:32Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> The list would be obliged to include Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero”.

Don’t forget “The Night Santa Went Crazy” by Weird Al; I always prefer the Extra Gory Version.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724/23 "2022-12-19T01:13:51Z")

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> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> “Santa Baby” gets Google results as disturbing because the singer is a blackmailing female gold digger willing to seduce Santa for presents.

I don’t see any blackmail in that song, and at least with the best version, by Eartha, she is clearly telling his presents will get him a _very nice_ reward- including at the end- marriage.

Not many of the old classics qualify. Now, there are many modern “novelty” songs which are indeed- nasty. But that was the point.

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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724/24 "2022-12-19T01:19:15Z")

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The OP specified they are less interested in parody songs, but Bob Rivers has several whole albums full of Christmas songs, some of which are great. Some of my favorites:

[Sled Zeppelin](https://youtu.be/Z5bH5jGhN_I) (music is an amazingly accurate rendition of D’yer Mak’er)  
[O Little Town of Bethlehem](https://youtu.be/RGxpPuzGT44) (to the tune of House of the Rising Sun)  
[I’ll Be Stoned for Christmas](https://youtu.be/1plowBKKGmQ)  
[We Wish You Weren’t Living With Us](https://youtu.be/kQ_MqeYqPdE)  
[Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear](https://youtu.be/VPtefCrMSAs)

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-fun-scumbag-christmas-playlist/976724/25 "2022-12-20T22:11:01Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3ucdPfXdwh4/hqdefault.jpg "Podge and Rodge Music - Fester 'n' Alain, There is a Dead Man up the Chimney") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ucdPfXdwh4)

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