# What Christmas standard do you not want to hear any more? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056 "2016-12-06T22:17:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/1 "2016-12-06T22:17:06Z")
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.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMyF9fDKzE) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/2 "2016-12-06T22:19:26Z")
I have never liked “Away in a Manger”, by anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/3 "2016-12-06T22:43:00Z")
_Jingle Bell Rock_ has always been vomitous, in my opinion. It’s so frickin’ white bread it sets my teeth grinding. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/4 "2016-12-06T23:10:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/5 "2016-12-06T23:24:44Z")
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!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbV3CrQ6Sa0) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/6 "2016-12-06T23:25:56Z")
Feliz Navidad, may it and its author burn in hell for a million years. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/7 "2016-12-06T23:31:31Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/8 "2016-12-06T23:34:58Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > 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!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbV3CrQ6Sa0) Oh, I really thought that was going to link to the Twisted Sister version. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/9 "2016-12-06T23:36:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/10 "2016-12-06T23:36:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/11 "2016-12-06T23:45:22Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > _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. 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… ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/12 "2016-12-06T23:52:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/13 "2016-12-06T23:54:35Z")
Little Saint Nick, only because “Christmas comes this time each year” is the worst lyric ever. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/14 "2016-12-06T23:56:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/15 "2016-12-06T23:59:20Z")
Holly Jolly Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/16 "2016-12-07T00:03:14Z")
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Oh god I cringe every time I hear it. I haaaaaaaaate that song ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/17 "2016-12-07T00:09:47Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > \ > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/18 "2016-12-07T00:11:30Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Holly Jolly Christmas. 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. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/19 "2016-12-07T00:32:27Z")
_Christmas Don’t Be Late_ by Alvin & the Chipmunks. Thankfully I haven’t heard it in a few years. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/20 "2016-12-07T00:33:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Feliz Navidad, may it and its author burn in hell for a million 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=2)