# 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:** 2
**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, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/21 "2005-12-16T17:27:55Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > **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. Yo Burl, have a cup of this… ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/22 "2005-12-16T18:21:16Z")
I’m with you **Dante** , on Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town.” Can’t stand it. Ditto “The Christmas Shoes.” Whoever wrote that piece of glurge should be shot. The one I hate the most though, is “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” By any artist, but especially if it’s by an adult trying to sound like a little kid. JFTR, I love Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad.” ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/23 "2005-12-16T18:29:38Z")
“Jingle Bell Rock” and “Rocking around the Christmas Tree”, simply because they get played ad nauseum every year. Every radio station plays them all the time (around here anyways). ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/24 "2005-12-16T18:33:20Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” > > I’ve **BROKEN** radios playing it. How do you feel about “Grandpa got run over by a beer truck”, the parody? Because “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” really needed a parody. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/25 "2005-12-16T18:41:28Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > 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.” Not even Petter Griffin’s version? _I have these gifts for you They’re up in my bum!_ Also his version of SIlver Bells is nice: _Ahh silver bells, blah silver bells, Holy crap here come Jesus! Holy crap here comes Jesus!_ Am I the only one who thinks Seth McFarlane really should make Peter Griffon X-Mas album? Oh, and I despise 99% of all Christmas music. The Muppets holiday album is OK, but everything else? Crap. But **Do You Hear What I Hear** is, by far, not only the worst x-mas song ever, but possibly the worst song in existance. ---
**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, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/26 "2005-12-16T19:12:27Z")
Add to the list all of the versions of “Jingle Bells” arfed, clucked, meowed,etc. Oh, and Stevie Nicks’ “Silent Night”,too. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/27 "2005-12-16T19:25:13Z")
“Last Christmas” by _Wham_. Apart from the mention of Christmas presents, it has practically nothing to do with the season. Why does this song still find its way onto Christmas albums, for pity’s sake? ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/28 "2005-12-16T19:27:33Z")
“Mary’s Boy Child”. I have no idea who sings the version I loathe. It’s a woman and a lot of synthesizers. It sounds like a lame karaoke tune. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/29 "2005-12-16T19:39:43Z")
The one I hate the most is The Twelve Days of Christmas. And especially any variant thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/30 "2005-12-16T19:47:53Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > “Last Christmas” by _Wham_. Apart from the mention of Christmas presents, it has practically nothing to do with the season. Why does this song still find its way onto Christmas albums, for pity’s sake? I came in here to add my vote for “The Little Drummer Boy,” but now I’m weeping because “Last Christmas” will be stuck in my head through January. Curse you, **JThunder**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/31 "2005-12-16T20:27:39Z")
“Jingle Bell Rock.” I _despise_ this song, and will turn it off if I’m able any time I hear it. I also hate “Little Saint Nick” by the Beach Boys. It always struck me as a cheap attempt to rip off their own music to make a quick Christmas buck. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/32 "2005-12-16T20:30:53Z")
I hate **The** Christmas Song (Chestnits Roasting on an Open Fire), particularly when sung by Nat King Cole. He just sounds so smarmy. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/33 "2005-12-16T21:00:52Z")
mmm…roasted chestnits…mmm… :o ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/34 "2005-12-16T22:52:32Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > 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. Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/35 "2005-12-17T02:05:08Z")
[The Christmas Guest](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/reba-mcentire/the-christmas-guest-8152.html) by Reba McEntire. Although, it shouldn’t really count as a song, since she doesn’t sing the ‘lyrics’. Unfortunately, my mother loves Reba, and I would chew hot coals for my mother, and so I put up with the ‘song’ every year. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/36 "2005-12-17T02:50:46Z")
I can’t think of the titles, but here are snippets of the verses: “lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you” (I hate the horse-neighing sound at the end and the whip-cracking throughout) and “up on the rooftop, click, click, click” (just annoying) And of course, “Do they know it’s Christmas?” (Simply the worst) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/37 "2005-12-17T03:19:26Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The one I hate the most is The Twelve Days of Christmas. And especially any variant thereof. The version performed by John Denver and the Muppets is pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/38 "2005-12-17T03:39:29Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > The version performed by John Denver and the Muppets is pretty funny. BA-DUM-DUM-DUM!!! **AmericanMaid** , the only version of “Mary’s Boy Child” I even know is by the German reggae group Boney M. And it can’t be the one you hate because it’s inconceivable that anyone can possibly hate anything by Boney M. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/39 "2005-12-17T03:55:11Z")
My two have already been mentioned. **The Christmas Shoes** is just universally hateable. It’s like email glurge set to music. And **Mary Did You Know** is #2 for me, again, any version. But Clay Aiken’s is particularly gruesome, just for being by Clay Aiken. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/40 "2005-12-17T03:56:15Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > the German reggae group Boney M. Gah! German _calypso_ group. Not reggae. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911.md?page=3)