# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![La\_Llorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@La\_Llorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/La_Llorona)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/61 "2005-12-20T04:44:24Z")
I confess myself a fan of Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime”, as well as anything by Wham! (“And now you tell me that you’re having my baby/I’ll tell you that I’m happy if you want me to!” Remind me again how we didn’t all know that this man was completely non-heterosexual?). Incidentally, through some iTunes explorations, I have found out that the immortal anthem “Last Christmas” has also been covered by such illustrious personalities as Hilary Duff, the Cheetah Girls, and Kidz Bop. My personal vote for most-hated Christmas song is, along with many others, “The Little Drummer Boy.” Performed by anyone. Yes, even Wham! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/62 "2005-12-20T05:39:25Z")
I actually like most traditional Christmas music. However the one that’s been bugging the crap out of me lately is “Here Comes Santa Claue”, in particular the line “there’s Vixen, Blitzen and all his reindeer pulling on the reigns.” The reason I hate it is because I always hear Nixon instead of Vixen and I don’t really like the mental picture I keep getting. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/63 "2005-12-20T06:08:35Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Same goes with Dan Folgelberg’s Same Old Lang Syne. It mentions Christmas Eve in the first three lines, but the song has nothing to do with Christmas. Yet, it’s in the line-up. Gack. I came here to mention that song. The only thing worse than these non-Christmas songs getting stuck in the Christmas lineup is people calling in to request them as though they were Christmas songs. Don’t encourage it, people! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/64 "2005-12-20T06:49:00Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I can’t think of the titles, but here are snippets of the verses: > “lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you” That would be “Sleigh Ride.” Mine goes for that fucking “bells” song. “Here come the bells No! Not the bells! I hate the bells Please stop the bells” ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/65 "2005-12-20T08:08:20Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Ugh, I just heard “Please Christmas Don’t be Late” by **Alvin & The Chipmunks**. > > Curse my wife, and her finding of the 24 hour satellite Christmas station!! I still want a HOOO la HOOOOP ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/66 "2005-12-20T08:11:39Z")
I’m gonna have to be in a minority here and say I like Bob Seger’s Drummer Boy. And happy Xmas (you canNOT hear Yoko on that!) I dislike In Excelsior deyo. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/67 "2005-12-20T11:14:07Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > I’m gonna have to be in a minority here and say I like Bob Seger’s Drummer Boy. And happy Xmas (you canNOT hear Yoko on that!) > > I dislike In Excelsior deyo. The bloody awful racket by The Darkness. For Og’s sake, somebody take that fella’s balls out of the vice! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/68 "2005-12-20T11:23:55Z")
> [@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. Oh, thank you very much. Now I’ve got the “_Ther_ choir _of_ chil_dren_ sing _their_ song” earworm. Thank you so much, O great and wonderful lyricist, for managing to stress _all_ the wrong syllables, and _only_ them. Stand Macca next to Ive’s exhumed corpse while I go strap on my special pair of _boots, +2, +5 versus 'nads_… ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/69 "2005-12-21T00:04:44Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > I’m gonna have to be in a minority here and say I like Bob Seger’s Drummer Boy. And happy Xmas (you canNOT hear Yoko on that!) > > I dislike In Excelsior deyo. Well, GE, hate to tell you…either your speakers or ears need fixin. Or else John and Yoko sampled that Art Bell recording from Hell. But, having said that, I’m with you on Seger and Happy Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/70 "2005-12-21T01:22:12Z")
_I’m Gettin’ Nuttin’ Fer Christmas_ --I dont’ know who it’s by and I don’t want to know. It’s on a compilation CD we have and we all run to skip it. Lil Drummer Boy–drum _this_. I’ve gotten used to grandma and the killer reindeer one–it grows on you (sadly enough). I was sitting at the orthodontist’s and heard 3 different versions of Ave Maria–oy, ve. I also heard something bout a Christmas donkey, but mercifully, my short term memory is not that good… ---
**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 21, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/71 "2005-12-21T01:38:51Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I was sitting at the orthodontist’s and heard 3 different versions of Ave Maria–oy, ve. Unless one of them was Streisand, they weren’t the Oy Veh Maria… > [@eleanorigby](#): > > I also heard something bout a Christmas donkey, but mercifully, my short term memory is not that good… o/` Ching-a-ching-ching! It's Dominic the Donkey! Ching-a-ching-ching! The Italian Christmas Donkey! o/` ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/72 "2005-12-21T01:43:25Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I also heard something bout a Christmas donkey, but mercifully, my short term memory is not that good… Do you mean chingety ching ee-haw-ee-haw it’s Dominick the donkey? Chingety ching ee-haw-ee-haw the Italian Christmas donkey? That one? That gets stuck in your head for weeks and weeks and weeks until you try to swallow an entire string of Christmas lights just for something else to do? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/73 "2005-12-21T05:58:51Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > o/` Ching-a-ching-ching! It's Dominic the Donkey! Ching-a-ching-ching! The Italian Christmas Donkey! o/` Ya know, I consider myself lucky that there’s a few songs mentioned that I have never heard. Thankfully, this is one I’ve never heard, I think if I had it would really get my Italian up. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/74 "2005-12-21T12:34:27Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > That phony Bing Crosby liked White Christmasses because the only snow he ever saw was the fake stuff on a sound stage. Mr. Crosby was born in Tacoma and raised in Spokane, Washington, both which recieve snow every winter. He was also an avid snow skier for many years. My vote goes to any of the Carpenter’s Christmas songs. I performed feats of amazing agility for a fat bastard to hit a radio power switch the other day so I didn’t have to listen to one. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/75 "2005-12-21T16:59:18Z")
I hate all Christmas songs. Not because they are sucky - well, I guess I should really say not JUST because they are sucky - but because they are everywhere. They’re on the radio, they’re on the PA in the grocery store, every friggin’ commercial on TV has them. You can’t escape them. But… The people responsible for writing, recording, producing, selling or otherwise inflicting “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” and “Jingle Bell Rock” all deserve to be taken out on a summer day in west Texas and staked out naked next to a fireant mound, with honey smeared on their genitals. And then we poke the mound with a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/76 "2005-12-21T17:01:59Z")
> [@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.” Where the heck did that idea of a little drummer boy at the Nativity come from, anyhoo? 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/77 "2005-12-21T18:19:25Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That would be “Sleigh Ride.” > > Mine goes for that fucking “bells” song. > > “Here come the bells > No! Not the bells! > I hate the bells > Please stop the bells” That just reminded me of “Ding! Fries are Done”—which I actually like, in all its politically incorrect glory. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/78 "2005-12-21T19:09:40Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > That just reminded me of “Ding! Fries are Done”—which I actually like, in all its politically incorrect glory. Have you seen the one with the music changed to the Trans Siberian Orchestra’s version of “Carol of the Bells”? ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/79 "2005-12-21T22:46:49Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > “Last Christmas” by _Wham_. Seconded. I just can’t stand that song. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911/80 "2005-12-22T01:30:11Z")
Hmm, no votes for \*I Wonder as I Wander \* yet? A.) It has the word “ornery” in it; B.) A sample of the brilliant lyrics: "When Mary birthed Jesus, ‘twas in a cow’s stall, With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all; C.) The version I’m familiar with is from my parents’ Christmas album, and is sung by Barbra Streisand, who (in addition to being such a profound mismatch for an Appalachian Christmas carol with the word “ornery” in it) so overdramatizes it, you think she’s going to pop a blood vessel or something. FTR, I love the Carol of the Bells (a/k/a [Shchedryk](http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/ru-ot121304.php)), and just found out some interesting stuff about its origins (it didn’t start as a Christmas song at all). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-christmas-song/335911.md?page=5)