# Putcher Hated Holiday Songs Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418 "2004-12-17T21:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 17, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/1 "2004-12-17T21:18:43Z")
Inspired by [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5620112&postcount=1) and my own workplace canned music hell, I thought I’d do my part in spreading Yuletide cheer by listing holiday songs that fill me with rage. I’ve divided it into two lists: Songs I used to like, but never want to hear again: **Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Santa Baby Carol of the Bells Baby, It’s Cold Outside Winter Wonderland So This is Christmas** (this one may actually belong below) Songs that no sane person would _ever_ intentionally subject themselves too: **Silver and Gold Holly Jolly Christmas The Most Wonderful Day of the Year Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer** …and the worst of the worst? ::drumroll:: \*\*\*I’m jolly old Kris Kringle, (I’m the king of jing a ling!) \*\*\* Yours? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/2 "2004-12-17T21:25:33Z")
_Little Drummer Boy_. Even – nay, especially – the Bing Crosby-David Bowie version. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/3 "2004-12-17T21:40:23Z")
The only two that I can think of are: Grandma got run over by a reindeer and The Twelve Days of Christmas. Especially any “joke” version of it. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/4 "2004-12-17T21:48:47Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The Twelve Days of Christmas. Especially any “joke” version of it. Ugh. I hate the joke versions, too. The other day one of my co-workers had the radio turned to a country station and they played this stupid redneck version (Jeff Foxworthy, maybe?). I will admit to liking the Muppets version with John Denver, however. I also hate “I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas” (this is my mother’s favorite Christmas song, for some reason unbeknownst to me) and “Daddy, Please Don’t Get Drunk this Christmas.” ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/5 "2004-12-17T22:20:54Z")
“Jingle Bell Rock” invariably makes me want to jam sharp objects into my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/6 "2004-12-17T22:37:13Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > **Santa Baby** That’s my number one, right there. I used to work at a place that had a thirty minute mix tape of Christmas music (60 minute tape with _both sides the same_), which played all day for a couple of weeks out of the year. It included Madonna’s version of _Santa Baby_. You think hearing _Santa Baby_ is bad? Try hearing it eighteen times a day. For a couple of weeks. I don’t remember what the other songs on that tape were – they were only run-of-the-mill grating. _Santa Baby_ made me want to kill. ---
**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, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/7 "2004-12-17T22:41:40Z")
“Grandma Got Run Over By a Mother-F\*\*king Reindeer” I hope the writers spend their eternity listening to this at full volume. That, and “Silent Night”. When I was a little kid, it would make me cry. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/8 "2004-12-17T23:40:53Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > That’s my number one, right there. I used to work at a place that had a thirty minute mix tape of Christmas music (60 minute tape with _both sides the same_), which played all day for a couple of weeks out of the year. It included Madonna’s version of _Santa Baby_. > > You think hearing _Santa Baby_ is bad? Try hearing it eighteen times a day. For a couple of weeks. > > I don’t remember what the other songs on that tape were – they were only run-of-the-mill grating. > > _Santa Baby_ made me want to kill. Eartha Kitt’s version of _Santa Baby_ made me want to jam knitting needles on my ears, kill people and dring Drano. In that order. Actually, just about all Christmas music makes me want to become violent. Except for Elvis’s _Blue Christmas_. I think it’s because it’s so over the top, so camp. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/9 "2004-12-17T23:52:44Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > _Little Drummer Boy_. Even – nay, especially – the Bing Crosby-David Bowie version. I hated this song when I was a kid and I hate it even more now that I’m an adult and a drummer. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/10 "2004-12-17T23:55:24Z")
I heard a horror today about “All I want for Christmas is a hippopotamus.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/11 "2004-12-18T00:21:46Z")
How about: 1.“I’m Gettin’ Nuttin’ for Christmas” (horrible, horrible–sung by a kid who should have been strangled at birth). 2.Grandma and the damn reindeer song. 1. Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer. :rolleyes: 2. Lil Drummer Boy (the only version I can stand is the Bowie/Bing one). There was a time when I like The Carpenter’s Christmas album (or whatever it’s called)–no longer. Her voice is like chunky treacle. 1. Frosty the Snowman–c’mon heat wave! 2. Barbra Streisand’s version of Jingle Bells. yuck. 3. Mariah Carey’s rendition of any Christmas song, period. Throw Gloria Estefan in there too–and Celine and Whitney. Carrolls are not meant to be wailed. I could go on all night… ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/12 "2004-12-18T00:30:59Z")
All of 'em. Really. I worked in radio stations that played one Xmas song an hour starting on Dec 1 and gradually increased it to all Xmas Xrap all the time. It makes you want to kill something. I also worked in a department store for two years. They started playing it 24/7 on Nov 1. I never want to hear another seasonal song as long as I live, if I can help it. Of course, it won’t happen, but I’ll avoid them if I can. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/13 "2004-12-18T02:14:39Z")
“The Little Drummer Boy” and “Pat-a-Pan” are definitely top of my list – it’s a whole big drum thing. Can’t stand 'em. I mean, songs about 'em. I have to assume that any Christmas song involving a drum was cooked up for the benefit of little children with toy drums, because any sane adult realizes that, hello, drums and Christmas go together like camels and pine trees. Any version of a “popular” song that doesn’t have all the verses. Exceptions: “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph,” both of which are awful from start-to-finish. But “Jingle Bells,” for example, _rocks_ with all the verses in. If you’re going to do the song, _do the song_. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/14 "2004-12-18T02:15:12Z")
I first heard the song _Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer_ in 1984. It’s easy for me to remember that date, because that was also the year that my own grandmother passed away after a lingering illness, just in time for the holidays. She had always loved having the whole family over for supper on Christmas Eve, and the grief and loss the family felt that year was (at least in my case) greatly exacerbated by all the radio stations playing that novelty song about once every hour. Even twenty years later, hearing that song still brings all those bad feelings rushing right back. Thanks for poisoning my holiday, Elmo and Patsy. Rot in hell. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/15 "2004-12-18T02:21:17Z")
The Mariah Carey “_All I want for Christmas is yoooooooooooouuuu_” makes me want to kick puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/16 "2004-12-18T03:46:53Z")
**Christmas Shoes**. What a bunch of overly schmaltzy dreck. Pure glurge. I see people posting elsewhere on the board about how the song makes them cry, and, to be honest, I wonder about those people. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/17 "2004-12-18T04:54:46Z")
I second “Christmas Shoes”. That song is aural torture. Here’s one of my favorites though–it’s quite an effective antidote to all the glurge: [The Chimney Song](http://missy.reimer.com/lyrics/chimney.txt) _“There’s something stuck up in the chimney And I don’t know what it is, But it’s been there all year long. I’ll been waiting up for Santa like I did last year But my brother says, “He’s already here.” And he’s stuck up in the chimney And he doesn’t say a word And he’ll be there every Christmas. And we’ll have him every Christmas.”_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/18 "2004-12-18T04:56:16Z")
You wanna sing about snow? Fine. You wanna sing about how snow = Christmas? Fuck you. Christmas isn’t about the weather outside, you tool of Satan. So, go ahead Bing, sing about a having a white Christmas with the family you beat; I’ll sing about a holy Christmas. And I’m from NJ where we often have snowy Christmases. How do all of you (semi)tropical and Southern Hemisphere inhabitants deal with the export of this snowy nativity crap? What? Is my eye twitching again? And don’t get me started on all the secularized PC crap where ‘holidays’ is substituted for Christmas so as to be more inclusive. For Christ’s sake (literally) the incarnation is supposed to be a gift for all humanity (at least, when not told by fundamentalists) – you can’t get more inclusive than that. Grrrrrrrrr… ## Peace on Earth. _Oh, there’s no place like Church for the Holy Days…_ ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/19 "2004-12-18T05:14:48Z")
I was at Basic during Christmas 2002. All the trainees from our squadron were at the chapel. They played _I’ll Be Home For Christmas_. You should have heard it… booing, yelling, screaming, even crying. Haven’t liked that song since. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418/20 "2004-12-18T06:19:36Z")
I heard a version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” tonight, sung by Rod Stewart and Dolly Parton. I have a policy of not throwing up in people’s cars if I can help it, so I did not display my natural reaction. I hate that song, and that combination didn’t help. I also hate “The Little Drummer Boy.” What makes it worse to me is that it gets stuck in my head and I end up singing under my breath all day, “Rum pum pum,” and when I catch myself, “Dammit!” “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” is also horrid. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putcher-hated-holiday-songs-here/280418.md?page=2)