You do you, but as someone who grew up where the Christmas season has none of that sort of climate, those themes are the least relevant to me.
Of course!
Yes! Good jazz and very listenable. Christmastime Is Here is one of the few seasonal songs that don’t make me homicidal.
The Little Drummer Boy bugs the shit out of me with the line about the ox and lamb keeping time. Yeah, right. Plus if I was Mary and had a baby I’m trying to put to bed, I’m going to stick that kid’s drumstick where the sun don’t shine.
The First Noel has a pleasant enough tune but that tortured pronunciation of “Ih-is-RYE-el” is both irritating and nonsensical.
Little known fact: “Lamb” was another nickname for Keith Moon. This song is actually a reference to John Entwistle and Keith Moon keeping it together down in the manger. Pah-rum-pum-pum-pum.
I asked My Beloved and she sang “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…the very next day, I burned down your house (with you still in it)…”. 
Hah! That was great!
(For folks wondering what’s behind the link… a short parody/commentary on different historical approaches to Christmas music. Video description: “Instead of focusing on theology, the British love meditating on snow, silence, and livestock in their Christmas hymns. Martin Luther finds this annoying.”)
I admit, I have a particular opinion. I like Christmas music that reminds me of when I was a Christmas-loving kid. Which was the late-sixties to the early 70s. I like the music I heard then. I am unashamedly attempting to recreate my lost youth. I turned to look, but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now.
So no music newer than then. But also, no Baby it’s cold, no Santa baby, no one run over by a reindeer, and no dogs barking Jingle Bells. More Mantovani and Nat King Cole (who was a merry old soul, was he) and Mitch Miller and der Bingle, Mormon Tabernacle Choir. That sort of thing.
And lest anyone laugh, to paraphrase Dr Frank Furter, “I didn’t play it…for you!” 
Just remember all, the day after Thanksgiving we open the Straight Dope Christmas playlist submissions.
Is there anything that didn’t annoy him?
And back to the topic:
To clarify, when I posted my comment about “Baby It’s Cold Outside” above, I didn’t mean to imply (by the “dated social dynamic” comment) that I thought the song was about toxic masculinity and that it should be banned. I don’t think so.
I just personally don’t enjoy a song about a period in history when women had to constantly worry about their reputation including having to worry about being seen staying over at a man’s house because “what will people say?” And the related implications (she’s probably dependent on her father till she marries and the ramifications of being caught over at her boyfriend’s house in the evening may be quite serious, and so on). Plus the melody itself does nothing fro me. I have nothing against those who choose to broadcast or listen to the song.
From the Joke thread:
Twenty years from now, kids are going to think, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is really weird, and we’re going to have to explain that it has to be understood as a product of its time.
You see, it used to get cold outside.
That’s cool, I was just sharing (what I thought was) a funny alternative take.
That is funny.
At my work, a bit over a year ago, we finally ditched the radio and subscribed to Soundtrack Your Brand, which is Spotify, but meant for public areas/businesses.
Two things that are really nice about it are 1)It’s not all or nothing Christmas music. We just put one of the Christmas stations into the mix and we end up with some, but not all, Christmas music and 2)the ability to block songs (Christmas or otherwise).
It’s so much nicer not hearing the same dozen or so songs over and over and over every day for 4-6 weeks.
This is about the only fair criticism I have read about “Baby its Cold Outside”- never cared much for it either, except the Dean Martin version. Altho the Bing and James Steward version is pretty funny. Reasonable points made.
As for Santa Baby the ONLY version I like is Eartha Kitt, whose voice and tone promises “Santa” all sorts of dark sensual delights. It doesnt sound so greedy then.
Oddly very few “Christmas” songs are religious, and about half never even mention Christmas- “Winter Wonderland”, “One Horse Open Sleigh” “Frosty the Snowman”, “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” and even one which isnt even a Christmas song at all-”A few of my Favorite things”. of course “Baby it’s Cold” isnt a Christmas song either.
Worked in retail for the Xmas rush all through law school and consequently absolutely cannot stand Xmas music. With one possible exception only because it is sufficiently subversive that it was never played in store (glossary of Australian slang supplied on request):
For my part, until I started reading about it here, I never gave much thought to the lyrics. My gripe is that I just don’t like the song. For a duet, IMHO, it sounds like two people singing two entirely different songs and it just doesn’t work for me.
I like most of the original “Christmas” songs from the 50s and 60s - mixed in with church choir classics such as Franck’s “Panis Angelicus” and Schubert’s “Ave Maria” (nothing tops Nana Maskouri’s version). But let’s get rid of any that have to do with animals (reindeer, chipmunks, hippos, etc.).
I’d be happy with just not having to hear songs sung by animals. Specifically chipmunks and pigs.