# Favorite And Not-So-Favorite Christmas Songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699 "2003-12-03T12:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/41 "2003-12-06T03:28:42Z")
Moving this to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/42 "2003-12-06T05:16:11Z")
**This Year’s Model** got my favorites, Winter Wonderland and White Christmas. Since I don’t celebrate the holiday, I prefer the secular songs that are more about the season. But reading through this thread, I’ve realized that there is no such thing as a Christmas song I don’t like. Except for a few of the modern ones that I haven’t heard of, I’ve probably sung every song listed in either category at least a few times already this season. I even wrote a song called “Christmas Is My Favorite Time of Year”. ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/43 "2003-12-06T07:35:37Z")
Favorite: **Christmas in the Trenches** , John McCutcheon. It makes me go all warm and gooey inside. 🙂 The Despised: Anything that may be classified as a holiday song, as opposed to a Christmas carol. For example, I would say that **Joy to the World** is a Christmas carol, but **White Christmas** is a holiday song. _shudder_ _holds hands up in defence_ I swear, I have an excuse. I’m not American, and holiday songs appear to be a purely USA-centric phenomenon. Give me ten more years in this country and I might come to tolerate them. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ripley2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Ripley2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripley2004)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/44 "2003-12-06T08:28:15Z")
Favorites: **Linus & Lucy** ~ Vince Guaraldi **The Christmas Song** ~ Nat “King” Cole **Winter Wonderland** ~ Anne Murray or Annie Lennox **Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas** ~ Chrissie Hynde **Gabriel’s Message** ~ (a third vote for) Sting Makes My Brain Feel Like It’s Gonna Explode: McCartney’s hugely overplayed **Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time** or something. It’s simply horrid. Madonna’s **Santa Baby** Bing Crosby’s **White Christmas**. I’ve disliked the song all my life, and since it was disclosed that he beat up his kids, I hate it. ---
**Author:** ![rickh57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@rickh57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rickh57)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/45 "2003-12-22T22:35:39Z")
Speaking of Madonna’s version of Santa Baby, what is an “out-of-space convertible”? My daughter heard the song yesterday and thought Madonna said “outer space convertible” and wondered what good a convertible would be in outer space 🙂 (And I like the Eartha Kitt version MUCH better than Madonna’s…) Rick ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/46 "2003-12-22T22:44:44Z")
**Great:** _Merry Christmas Everybody_ - Slade _I Believe In Father Christmas_ - Greg Lake _Stop The Cavalry_ - Jona Lewie _All I Want For Christmas Is You_ - Mariah Carey _I Want An Alien For Christmas_ - Fountains of Wayne _Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)_ - The Darkness **Good:** _I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day_ - Wizzard _Wonderful Christmastime_ - Paul McCartney _Merry Christmas Everyone_ - Shakin’ Stevens _Happy Xmas War is Over_ - John Lennon **Aarggh:** _White Christmas_ - Bing Crosby _Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas_ - ? _Lonely This Christmas_ - Mud ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/47 "2003-12-23T02:47:56Z")
**Favorites** : Ding Dong, Merrily on High Carol of the Bells The Christmas Song **DIE!** : Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer Jingle Bell Rock (When performed by our school’s Chorus, as opposed to the Muppets) [hijack] Okay, you haven’t heard the Hallelujah Chorus, until you’ve heard ‘Handel on Drugs’. The A Cappella Choir and Madrigal had just gotten done caroling through the hallways, and were bored, chilling in the choir room. The Madrigal had learned the piece a while earlier, and decided to sing it. They get in tune, and its all pretty, then one of them screams out (as will a rock band drummer) ‘One, two, three!’ and they just _go_. I mean about three times as fast as normal. Turned into a church revival, what with people being healed and collapsing. Was very, very, amusing. I love our Choir.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/48 "2003-12-23T22:52:33Z")
I like (and hate) plenty of the songs mentioned here, but I’ll add Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” and “Hodie”. I grew up listening to those and they’re absolutely lovely. Also, I have deep love for Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”. One of the few super-sexy holiday songs. As my mom put it, “He really doesn’t sound too upset about not being able to leave the house, does he?” Another positive vote for John Lennon’s “Merry Xmas (War Is Over)”. People who don’t like it ain’t got no soul. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_Snerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Elmer\_Snerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_Snerd)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/49 "2003-12-24T00:03:22Z")
[The Carol of the Old Ones](http://www.cthulhulives.org/solsticecarol.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699/50 "2003-12-24T01:21:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chicago Faucet \* > **My second favorite Christmas song is from the Carpenter’s Christmas Album. Best. Christmas. Album. Ever. But for the life of me I cannot remember the title of the song right now. If I do remember it, I will post it.** Is it [Merry Christmas, Darling](http://www.lyrics007.com/Carpenters%20Lyrics/Merry%20Christmas,%20Darling%20Lyrics.html)? If not, the linked page provides access to plenty of other Carpenters’ lyrics. **BubbaDog** : The monarch who initiated the tradition of standing during the Hallelujah Chorus was King George II of England. See the blue box on [this page](http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/classic/sfo/messiah/messiah.html) dedicated to the San Francisco Symphony & Chorus’s performance of _Messiah_. Although it’s not a happy Christmas song, Gordon Lightfoot’s [Circle of Steel](http://www.azlyrics.us/105445) provides an all-too-true take on the season as it’s experienced by too many folks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-and-not-so-favorite-christmas-songs/216699.md?page=2)