thanks!
Ooh, that is a tough one to beat. I submit Christmas Shoes.
glurge.
While you are every kind of correct in your assessment that the song has no business being on a Christmas playlist, the Pentatonix version is a lovely arrangement.
BTW, this thread is in Cafe Society, but the heading says that it’s an IMHO thread. Is that because it started there and was moved, and is that a thing with threads that get moved and I’ve just never noticed it?
At two in the morning. I can’t find it anymore but years ago there was a YouTube video stop-action animation video of The Little Drummer Boy with slightly different lyrics.
Mary nodded, pa-rum pa-pa pum
It was a secret sign, pa-rum pa-pa pum
So Joseph took me outside, pa-rum pa-pa pum rum pa-pa pum rum pa-pa pum
And fed me my drum
Fleas on my dog
Yes, I got fleas on my dog
Deseroomie worked for years at the local movie theater chain in the middle of Mormontown and Christmas Day was the busiest of the year, bar none, until about three in the afternoon. We figured it was the cooks getting all the idlers out from underfoot.
That was one of mine. Glad you liked it! 
Glad to see this thread revived. It’s the most… horrible tunes… of the year. Bah effing humbug!
I think you are mistaken that the thread now shows as being in Cafe Society. It’s not there for me now. It appears in IMHO right in order for me. Did you perhaps find it by the tag [Music] and assume that meant it was in Cafe Society? Tags are unrelated to categories.
Yeah, I think I got my wires crossed somewhere. But come on, even though it’s about opinions about music, it’s fundamentally about music. Mentally assigning it to CS is surely forgiveable.
My comment was aimed solely about Discourse functionality, not about your thinking or the OP’s thinking.
There’s no way I know of to know which category a moved thread originated in. Other than if a mod enters a note saying they moved it. Which they usually do.
I agree with you that this thread fits as well or better in CS than in IMHO. But probably got more readership from the not-a-music-enthusiast crowd by being in IMHO.
Part of the point about tags is exactly that they cut across category boundaries. For historical (read “vBulletin”) reasons we use categories (was “forums”) to break out topics (was “threads”) by general subject matter. But also by rules and by type and intensity of moderation.
Arguably it’s past time to regroup categories to just be about rules & moderation, and let tags do the work of categorizing the content of a topic. But given the Luddite nature of our user community that would fly like a lead balloon.
“Fleas gnawed my dog”. 
This is what I hear.
And the only 12 Days I like is the Japanese transistor radio version,
Funny- once. Maybe twice.
Cite?
I’m gonna regret this … I’m SO gonna regret this … but I’d click the link, too.
There’s a reason curiosity killed the cat.
12 Days of Christmas sucks ass. Not only is it tedious to listen to, but every year some poor reporter is sent out to write a feature on how much the gifts would cost today. About as original as sending a tv crew to a store selling lottery tickets to ask how the players would spend a jackpot if they win.
The First Noel brings out my pet peeve- the way “Israel” is pronounced as “Ih-is-RYE-el”.
Even worse - beginning of the second verse same as the first
They looked up
And saw a star
Everyone tries to sing those as one line and then discovers there’s no following line. Bad lyrics.
Just heard “Run Rudolph Run” by Chuck Berry yesterday on a local radio station. Jeez, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet!
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Also, I repeat, I don’t mind it at all!
Whether it matches the complexity or geographic/cultural origins of Christmas, I pretty much only want Christmas music that matches the mood of a dark, snowy and cold season, with muffled sounds, fires keeping the chill and dark at bay.
Choral music, dulcet mid-century singers… things that are more reminiscent of family and closeness than of partying and modern festivity. Without yucking anyone else’s yum (he says while proceeding to do so), the glee with which so many seem to embrace the whole “Christmas season” which is nothing more than excessive, performative and almost competitive red and green themed commercialism is one of the things that makes me depressed about humans in general. Most (but not all) pop Christmas recordings feel like low-effort attempts at propaganda, either for consumerism or for the 21st-century version of Jesus-worship that’s a little too much for this non-Christian to stomach.
That said, there are plenty of good pop/rock Christmas-themed songs. I just don’t find them central to my own Christmas experience.
Give me Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas, Nat King Cole, a choir singing carols in Latin and English recorded in an echo-y church, and some street-performer’s hammer dulcimer Christmas album, and I don’t need or want anything else. Maybe throw in some Handel.
I’d break up with the guy and toss him and his menagerie out the door! LOL
I’d most certainly get a call the next day. He would ask, “Um … there were 40 golden rings, too.”
I would feign innocence and reply, “Well, they’re pretty small. Look carefully in the grass.”