# 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:** 10
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/182 "2016-12-22T12:22:28Z")
> [@NetTrekker](#): > > Winter Wonderland…stupid lyrics. “Later on, we’ll conspire…to face unafraid the plans that we made…” Nothing like a good Christmas conspiracy. Why were you making plans that you’d be afraid of in the first place? > [@Biotop](#): > > Snowmen are also not legally authorized to marry couples. But the next iteration says they’ll have fun with Mr. Snowman, _until the OTHER kiddies knock him down…_ So the bit about the snowman officiating takes a back seat in the creepy and wrong derby to the little kirds getting married. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/183 "2016-12-22T13:13:30Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I would just like to add that any Christmas song that refers to Rudolph as “Rudy” should automatically be removed from airplay… and this needs to apply going forward for any wannabe songwriters of the future. I’m wondering if someone could write a novelty song comparing Rudolph to Rudy Guiliani. You know, a noun, a verb, and a foggy Christmas Eve. ---
**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 22, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/184 "2016-12-22T13:53:39Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > [A Peter Griffin Christmas album.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arov0NjZetE) Holy craaaaap here come’s Je-sus. And he doesn’t look too haapppyy. ---
**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 23, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/185 "2016-12-23T10:41:26Z")
I have nothing against “Deck the Halls”. However, when I was little I had a children’s tape of Christmas carols and standards, featuring mostly children singing. I think it was part of the “Wee Sing” series. While most of the songs had a small chorus of kids, or a few kids singing different lines, their version of “Deck the Halls” featured a single kid who sang “fuh luh luh luh luh” instead of “fa la la la la”. Annoyed the heck out of me. ---
**Author:** ![PAjoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pajoe/32/58_2.png) [@PAjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PAjoe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/186 "2016-12-23T18:37:49Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not sure it rises to a standard, but it just came on the radio and I remembered how much I hate it. > > Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses. I think I hate that more than a theoretical Santa Baby It’s Cold Outside medley. I hate this one too. the lyrics are so obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/187 "2016-12-23T19:36:33Z")
I’m a fan of Christmas songs, but I dislike the ones with religious overtones, Jesus birth and Mary and all. O’Holy Night sucks regardless of what artist covers it. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/188 "2016-12-24T04:29:05Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not sure it rises to a standard, but it just came on the radio and I remembered how much I hate it. > > Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses. I was in a store today and they were playing some twee, slowed down acoustic cover version of it. Just in case you thought it couldn’t get worse. I guess the fact that it’s getting covered might qualify it as a standard. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/189 "2016-12-24T05:06:52Z")
There are many I am sick of since I work full time in retail. Little Saint Nick Run Run Rudolph Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (My grandmother passed away just before Christmas) Little Drummer Boy I’ll Be Home for Christmas (no, we won’t, for the 18th year) Santa Baby (all of them, but especially one version sung by a man) The worst may be a medley of “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” with “Don’t Worry Be Happy.” (I’m not kidding) ---
**Author:** ![toastie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@toastie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toastie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/190 "2016-12-25T01:03:16Z")
Apple Music just hit the worst Christmas songs of all time trifecta: John Lennon - Happy Christmas - Just can’t stand it. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime - Probably the most insipid lyrics I can think of Do they Know its Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/191 "2016-12-25T02:07:03Z")
> [@toastie](#): > > Apple Music just hit the worst Christmas songs of all time trifecta: > > John Lennon - Happy Christmas - Just can’t stand it. > Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime - Probably the most insipid lyrics I can think of > Do they Know its Christmas? What does Apple have to do with “do they know…”? I am going to pile onto that christmas rapping song by the waitresses. The idea of this chick that was last heard sneering at guys and saying “Nyah Nyah” talking at us and telling us that she had a stressful christmas season, and she’ll “miss this one this year.” The most bathetic and worst of all time. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/192 "2016-12-25T02:15:56Z")
All of them. I don’t mind instrumental only Xmas music but I hate the singing and I really hate the modern ones. ---
**Author:** ![wanderer2575](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@wanderer2575](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wanderer2575)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/193 "2016-12-25T04:04:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Feliz Navidad, may it and its author burn in hell for a million years. Seconded and then some. My coworkers have been notified that I will not be responsible for my actions if this song comes on the radio and said radio is not immediately silenced. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/194 "2016-12-25T04:35:30Z")
> [@wanderer2575](#): > > Seconded and then some. My coworkers have been notified that I will not be responsible for my actions if this song comes on the radio and said radio is not immediately silenced. \*Feliz Navidad \*joins my list of "I dont mind hearing it once…_just once_… a year. " On a regular rotation, played every hour…:mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![toastie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@toastie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toastie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/195 "2016-12-25T05:28:10Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > What does Apple have to do with “do they know…”? Nothing in particular, just that they managed to string together the 3 worst Christmas songs together, one after another… ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/196 "2016-12-25T05:59:31Z")
All of them, pretty much. _Last Christmas_, especially. Look, we get it already. You got your heart broken last Christmas (well, the day after, technically), and this year you’re determined for a little neener, neener, so you’ve already planned that you’re going to fall in love with some hunk o’ burnin’ whatchamacallit who will you already know love you forevah, and that will show them, whoever it is that’s happening to listen to this twee nonsense. Who just might have the attention span of brain damaged lice, so you’ll sing the same lyrics two or three times, just in case they didn’t get if the first eternity or two. Okay, fine, but I’ve got to go: got to plan my final words to the priests I’ve got to find to execute me. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/197 "2016-12-25T22:19:40Z")
For many years, I sang in a symphony chorus that did an annual holiday concert, so I’ve performed just about every holiday song ever written, many of them many many times. We did a version of _Do You Hear What I Hear_ that always brought the audience to their feet, yelling and applauding. I never figured out why. Our most hated song was [_Merry Christmas Merry Christmas_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpZF1jboC0). Listen to it 200 times and you’ll start to understand how we felt. Whenever I hear the song, I visualize the shower stabbing scene in _Psycho_. While I’m here, I’ll mention that the lyric “lo, he abhors not the virgin’s womb” creeps me out. And “Let’s give thanks to the Lord above cuz Santa Claus is coming tonight” is downright weird. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/198 "2016-12-25T23:46:12Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > All of them, pretty much. > > _Last Christmas_, especially. Look, we get it already. You got your heart broken last Christmas (well, the day after, technically), and this year you’re determined for a little neener, neener, so you’ve already planned that you’re going to fall in love with some hunk o’ burnin’ whatchamacallit who will you already know love you forevah, and that will show them, whoever it is that’s happening to listen to this twee nonsense. > > Who just might have the attention span of brain damaged lice, so you’ll sing the same lyrics two or three times, just in case they didn’t get if the first eternity or two. Okay, fine, but I’ve got to go: got to plan my final words to the priests I’ve got to find to execute me. It’s rather poignant right now. ☹ (George Michael died). Mine is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. It sounds anything BUT. ---
**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 26, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/199 "2016-12-26T04:07:59Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > I can’t believe no one’s mentioned “The Christmas Shoes”. I love Christmas music in general, but that one makes me nauseated. Re-read post #4. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/200 "2016-12-27T00:24:05Z")
Regarding Post #195: At the time, I had not heard about George Michael’s passing. I certainly meant no disrespect to him, and I truly wish that he rests in peace. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/201 "2016-12-27T02:04:07Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > It’s rather poignant right now. ☹ (George Michael died). Mine is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. It sounds anything BUT. Last Christmas, I hope from now on this means they stick to the wham original instead of the pop tart version they’ve been playing in recent years. Not that the wham version is great or anything (I wouldn’t miss it if gone) but it’s a damn sight less obnoxious from whoever little ms thang singing it is. HYAMLC, it’s really not, when the original lyrics include “until then we’ll have to muddle through some how” that doesn’t exactly say holly jolly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=11)