# Hatin' on Christmas music! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 20, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897 "2023-12-20T18:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/1 "2023-12-20T18:18:19Z")
'Tis the season … for retail workers, customer service agents, etc. to be subjected to endless rounds of 50-year-old renditions of “Jingle Bell Rock,” plus all the new! fresh! yay! reworkings by yesterday’s has-beens. Wanna join me? Got specific gripes? I can start us off: 1. “Little Drummer Boy” Picture the scene: an unmarried teenager has just given non-medicated birth inside a literal barn - complete with livestock and the attendant manure, flies, etc. - and has just gotten the $%! newborn to sleep, when some strange asshole barges in and starts beating on a friggin’ drum. You just know that 🎵 the ox and lamb ~~kept time~~ … absolutely lost their shit. They spook easily, yanno. 1. “Little Saint Nick” (the Beach Boys) The lyric 🎶 “Christmas comes this time each year …” 🎵 makes me irrationally stabby. It’s an annual holiday. Do we not understand how annual holidays work? Your turn, Dopers! What’s your absolute least-favorite, “I will murder someone or else stab knitting needles through my own eardrums” holiday music … and why do you hate it so? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/2 "2023-12-20T18:21:51Z")
**Dominic the Donkey** is the worst by a lot. I will not link to this dreck. Though most versions of **Little Drummer Boy** are indeed bad, I like the Bing Crosby & David Bowie version. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lCpXMy5GalI/maxresdefault.jpg "Bing Crosby, David Bowie - Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI&t=109) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/3 "2023-12-20T18:23:51Z")
Feliz-fucking-Navidad. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/4 "2023-12-20T18:24:37Z")
I just googled the original Jingle Bell Rock and I stand corrected. In the interest of fighting ignorance, the Bobby Helms version is 66 years old (released 1957) which is a bit too close to the Mark of the Beast for my confort. ETA: I have never heard of the donkey song, and I’s a-feared to look it up. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/5 "2023-12-20T18:25:36Z")
The two worst by far are _Jingle Bell Rock_ and the _Jingle Bells_ version where the “singing” is barking dogs. I will walk out of a store before I’ll listen to more than the opening measure of either song. Oh, yeah, I just remembered, _Santa Baby_ is horrific and the woman who sings it should be killed. I’ve got no particular opinion pro- or con- about the many generic traditional renderings of _Jingle Bells_. It’s dumb schmaltz, but Christmas tunes are _all_ dumb schmaltz. ETA: Ref @purplehorseshoe’s latest post … The _Donkey Song_ is kinda catchy. Like _Baby Shark_ catchy. I can see it being a big hit at elementary school kiddie pageants. Cute, but slightly redeemingly cute. I first learned of it just a couple of years ago myself. ---
**Author:** ![mjmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/6 "2023-12-20T18:26:21Z")
Christmas Shoes is hands down the worst piece of shit that they play at Christmas. It has no redeeming qualities. I don’t know what I find more annoying, the song itself, or the people that get all teary eyed about it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/7 "2023-12-20T18:28:30Z")
I forgot that piece of burning crap. **Christmas Shoes** is a match for **Dominic the Donkey** for being terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/8 "2023-12-20T18:38:54Z")
Grandma needed to get run over by a reindeer. Too bad the song wasn’t in her pocket. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/9 "2023-12-20T18:39:28Z")
Wonderful Christmastime. Annoying and alienating ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/10 "2023-12-20T18:40:34Z")
I like Dominic the Donkey, though I’m sure not hearing it much contributes. I hate The Christmas Song. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/11 "2023-12-20T18:41:03Z")
> [@mjmartin](#): > > Christmas Shoes is hands down the worst piece of shit that they play at Christmas. > [@The Absolute Worst Christmas Song, Bar None](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-worst-christmas-song-bar-none/928972): > > I don’t hate Christmas music, for the most part. I’m happy it’s a once-a-year thing, but for that month, I can put up with a few dozen repetitions of “Deck the Halls” and “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Adeste Fidelis” and all the rest, until they go back into cold storage after the New Year. With one exception. There is this one song. This one fucking song. It’s not the most commonly heard of the Christmas standards. If you tell Alexa to shuffle modern holiday favorites, you’ll hear Mariah Carey’s t… This is me disagreeing. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/12 "2023-12-20T18:43:57Z")
Streisand’s “Jingle Bells” – pick a tempo and _stick to it_, Babs! I haven’t heard it this year, fortunately. > [@mjmartin](#): > > Christmas Shoes is hands down the worst piece of shit that they play at Christmas. I recently referred to that in another thread as “super-glurge”. ---
**Author:** ![deltogre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deltogre/32/5041_2.png) [@deltogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltogre)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/13 "2023-12-20T18:45:19Z")
Every single version of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” They all suck. And they are everywhere. It’s the de facto advertising song for the season. You can’t escape it. ---
**Author:** ![mjmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/14 "2023-12-20T19:00:43Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > This is me disagreeing. I’d take an hour of Mary did you know? over an hour of Christmas Shoes any day. Though I admit that I can’t present nearly as good of a rant against Christmas Shoes as you did for MDYK. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/15 "2023-12-20T19:05:33Z")
That throwaway piece of shit by Paul McCartney that I refuse to even name. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/16 "2023-12-20T19:07:54Z")
Are you simply not having it? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/17 "2023-12-20T19:08:51Z")
As soon as you get home and feel that you are finally safe, I’m gonna’ show up with 30 Christmas Carolers. 😈 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/18 "2023-12-20T19:21:17Z")
It would be nice to hear one of Gayla Peevey’s _other_ Christmas songs once in a while. Yeah, she sung about things other than that hippo. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/19 "2023-12-20T19:31:50Z")
Jolly Well Done, Man! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/20 "2023-12-20T20:01:00Z")
🎶 Do they know it’s Christmas time at all? 🎶 The many Africans who are not Christian likely _ **do not** _ know it’s Christmas time, and / or do not care. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897.md?page=2)