No novelty songs, please-Just the ones you hear every year on the radio.
For me, it’s Madonna’s sterile version of “Santa Baby”. I much prefer Eartha Kitt’s version.
I have never liked “Away in a Manger”, by anybody.
Jingle Bell Rock has always been vomitous, in my opinion.
It’s so frickin’ white bread it sets my teeth grinding.
I’ve found a nice station (Vancouver’s CISL) that doesn’t play any really crappy Christmas music. No Shoes, their Grandma is the superior Irish Rovers version and isn’t played all that often, etc.
The very first Christmas song I heard this season was a smooth jazz version of Oh Come All Ye Faithful.
I don’t like smooth jazz to start with, and if you’re going to do Oh Come All Ye Faithful, then do it like this!
Feliz Navidad, may it and its author burn in hell for a million years.
Little Drummer Boy by anybody.
If there’s a good version of this one, I haven’t heard it. And yes, that includes Bing and Bowie, and Joan Jett’s versions.
Oh, I really thought that was going to link to the Twisted Sister version.
The Twelve Days of Christmas. Any song where people commonly make it into a joke because of how long it takes to sing the chorus? Not a good song.
Any incarnation of THE FIRST NOEL. Especially if it’s part of a vesper or church service I’m attending and have to sing along to. Hate.
This. What a stupid concept for a song. let’s see, you’ve been on the road forever, spent hours looking for a place to stay, squeezed out a baby, and finally got him to bed. Then some kid comes up and offers to play a drum solo, and you *agree *? Please…
I’ve been occasionally tuning in to the local “all-Xmas music” station. Two of my least favourites so far this year have been “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” (my Xmas doesn’t usually include ghost stories or toasting marshmallows) and “It’s A Marshmallow World” (way too saccharine for my taste). I don’t mind “Walking In A Winter Wonderland” in general, but it’s been played way too frequently on the station in question so I’m sick of it by now.
My least favourite Xmas song of all time is probably “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas”. That fake “widdle kid” singing just puts my teeth on edge. Luckily I haven’t heard it so far this year.
Little Saint Nick, only because “Christmas comes this time each year” is the worst lyric ever.
Baby, it’s cold outside. Not one more time, please. I don’t care if Ella Fitzgerald is singing it, I don’t want to hear it again. This year they’re playing it every other song.
Holly Jolly Christmas.
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
Oh god I cringe every time I hear it. I haaaaaaaaate that song
I’ve been meaning to ask where this fucking ear poison came from. Is it from a movie or something? It feels like it’s supposed to sound retro but I’m sure I would have heard it before. Fuck off; hippopotamus girl. I hope you get one and it sits on you.
Ok, I know I already posted but this is was what I meant to comment on before I got sidetracked by the goddamn hipppo song.
Christmas Don’t Be Late by Alvin & the Chipmunks. Thankfully I haven’t heard it in a few years.
I’ll forever love that song for its association with the old Sesame Street Christmas that used to run every year (yet sadly seemed to stop long ago)
I pick Last Christmas by whatever pop tart covered it a few years back. I’m no huge fan of the Wham! version, but it doesn’t bother me. This one is gag worthy atrocious (like most pop music of recent years) and should be the target of Krampus.