# Most hated Christmas Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911 "2005-12-16T14:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/1 "2005-12-16T14:29:31Z")
You don’t even have to hate the song itself. Just a particular version of it. My choices are a tie between Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, with that fake laugh in the last part where he repeats the chorus ad nauseum, and Cory Hart’s putrid rendition of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Which ones do you hate? ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/2 "2005-12-16T14:52:47Z")
“Feliz Navidad”. It’s gonna be stuck in your head for at least 3 hours. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/3 "2005-12-16T14:54:38Z")
“All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”. When I was a kid, my father used to say (over and over and over ) that when I was switching to my adult teeth I always reminded him of this song, so I came to hate it. Years later I learned it was a big number for Spike Jones and his City Slickers, but even that couldn’t rehabilitate the song. I still hate it. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/4 "2005-12-16T14:54:58Z")
Oh , this is SO easy for me. I normally love “Blue Christmas”. It is one of the prettiest Christmas songs ever written. Except… …when sung by Elvis Presley. The radio gets turned of so friggin’ fast. He put on so much when he sang it it just turns my stomach. Where is that puking smiley ??? ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/5 "2005-12-16T14:56:54Z")
“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” I’ve **BROKEN** radios playing it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/6 "2005-12-16T14:57:36Z")
Springsteen’s offering is a good (or should that be _bad?_) candidate; that spoken narrative might have sounded funny _once_ (or not), but hearing it over and over is about as much fun as eating sand. Cliff Richard’s _Mistletoe and Wine_ is just an awful dirge. Actually, pretty much all of his Christmas songs have been terrible. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/7 "2005-12-16T15:02:29Z")
Inna Gada da Vida ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/8 "2005-12-16T15:05:01Z")
I love Christmas music, but I have come to nearly hating any vocal version of “Winter Wonderland” because, after a lifetime of not paying much attention to the lyrics, I’ve noticed how damn stupid they are. Still makes for a great instrumental, though. Unless I’m thinking about the unsung words. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/9 "2005-12-16T15:07:29Z")
Gotta agree with **BabaBooey**. I turn homocidal when I hear _Feliz Navidad_. I lived in El Paso for 20 years, and the Powers That Be in that city apparently decided that a bilingual song was the perfect unofficial offical holiday anthem. That f\*cking song was played on a loop at the bus plaza, banks, and at some shopping centers EVERY year. Not to mention the nauseating frequency with which it was played on TV and on the radio. My high school choir director tried to have us sing that song one year. In an almost unprecidented move, he caved under a storm of protest. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/10 "2005-12-16T15:15:50Z")
> [@BabaBooey](#): > > “Feliz Navidad”. It’s gonna be stuck in your head for at least 3 hours. Damn you sir. BTW, a trivia side note: _In America, that means ‘Merry Christmas’ in Mexican._ (TM Randy Hickey) I have two hated songs, and a specific version of a third. **Do You Hear What I Hear?** I wish I didn’t. I can’t stand any version of this horrible song. **The Twelve Days of Christmas**. I hate hate hate this song, but there’s actually one version I can stand - a fairly mangled version sung by **Relient K**. And the specific performance that grates? **Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer** by **Jewel**. At one point she breaks into this horrible be-bop routine and my ears actually manage to develop muscle tissue and fold themselves shut. _Teh horrar…_ ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/11 "2005-12-16T15:55:03Z")
Ricky Martin’s _Ay Ay Ay It’s Christmas_ > [@](#): > > Ay, ay, ay, it’s Christmas and I don’t know what to do > Ay, ay, ay, it’s Christmas and I don’t have a gift for you > I can give you ay, ay, ay > All you need is ay, ay, ay > Un poquito ay, ay, ay > On this Christmas night, yeah (Whoo!) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/12 "2005-12-16T16:15:48Z")
Mine is from waaaaay back: from the _Dennis The Menace_ TV show. It’s the episode where he sings “Silent Night” I used to run from the room when that little tow-head started in with his treacly crooning. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/13 "2005-12-16T16:27:06Z")
The Little Drummer Boy. As much as I like Brave Combo, even their version can’t save it. I actually get angry when I hear “pa-rum-pa-pum-pum.” ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/14 "2005-12-16T16:31:44Z")
For perpetrating “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime”, Sir Paul McCartney should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/15 "2005-12-16T16:38:28Z")
Just about any song that glorifies the crappiest season of all–winter. That phony Bing Crosby liked White Christmasses because the only snow he ever saw was the fake stuff on a sound stage. Mel Torme gleefully extolling Jack Frost nipping at my nose, idiots who want the snow never to end, who make snowmen and call them Parson Brown all belong locked-up in a looney bin somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/16 "2005-12-16T16:38:39Z")
The Happy Honda-days version of Jingle Bells. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/17 "2005-12-16T16:49:35Z")
There have been a few mentioned here already that I hate (Feliz Navidad, especially—damn you, Jose Feliciano!). I must, however, add “Mary, Did You Know,” sung by anyone. It’s like e-mail glurge set to music. Bad music. Also, I used to hate Elvis’s version of “Blue Christmas,” but I have since heard the Porky Pig version about eight times a day on the crap oldies radio station my cow-orker insists on blasting in the main part of our office. The Elvis version suddenly doesn’t sound so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/18 "2005-12-16T17:14:22Z")
**Holly Jolly Christmas** makes me want to exhume Burl Ives just so I can kick him in the nuts. Or at least in the general area. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/19 "2005-12-16T17:20:54Z")
**Christmas Shoes** by _NewSong_ …now I’m all about schmaltz/cheesy songs but this on ereally makes my ears bleed ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/20 "2005-12-16T17:22:39Z")
[.All of them!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=292422) Every single [del]fuc[/del] [checks forum] infernal hymn, carol, novelty song, special Christmas album, childhood favorite, chipmunk and barking dog. I loathe them, each and all. This is my second year of hearing the same 40 pieces of crap revolve over and over and over and over. Today, if I had to pick the one I hated the most, it would be Peggy Lee’s “Snow.” Mercy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911.md?page=2)