# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/21 "2016-12-07T00:35:00Z")
While I love Christmas music more than anyone I know, I do not ever want to hear _Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer_, _All I Want For Christmas Is My Two-Front Teeth_, _I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas_ or many other Novelty songs that should have died out a year or two after they were released. ---
**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, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/22 "2016-12-07T00:39:13Z")
I missed the edit window - since the Chipmunks’ song is probably considered a novelty song, I second _Jingle Bell Rock_. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/23 "2016-12-07T00:40:29Z")
All of them! Except for Vince Guaraldi’s [_Linus and Lucy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM), because it’s [**not a Christmas song!**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=710415) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/24 "2016-12-07T01:01:48Z")
> [@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!!! Not that I’m all that fond of Xmas in the first place… ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/25 "2016-12-07T01:13:23Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > _Jingle Bell Rock_ has always been vomitous, in my opinion. This is my first thought. It’s only rock to people who would prefer Sinatra… and I actually see on Wikipedia that it originally charted as a country & western song. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/26 "2016-12-07T01:13:23Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I pick Last Christmas by whatever pop tart covered it a few years back. Preach it. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/27 "2016-12-07T01:15:14Z")
If I never hear that dumb “dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay,” again, it’ll be too soon. No Jewish people actually sing that song at Hanukkah. The sole purpose of this song is to be a token for elementary school music teachers to stick in the “Holiday” pageant that includes 11 Christmas songs, and one rendition of “The Dreidel Song.” ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/28 "2016-12-07T01:17:56Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > 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. If it helps… it was sung by a real child, and dates back to the 50’s when it was released like any other single back then. So it’s authentically childish and authentically retro… but still fucking ear poison. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/29 "2016-12-07T01:24:05Z")
The only xmas song i like by my usual standards is Carol of the Bells, although I’m only familiar with the instrumental version and just found out it has lyrics–copyrighted no less! ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/30 "2016-12-07T01:42:00Z")
Really, anything sung by Burl Ives. I don’t know what it is about that man, but I can’t stand him. And, yeah, the cover of Last Christmas is hideous. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/31 "2016-12-07T01:53:18Z")
All of them? Can I say that?? Perhaps especially little drummer boy, jingle bell rock, that dogs barking thing, and that incredibly annoying upbeat sleighbells one – I think you know what I’m talking about. ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/32 "2016-12-07T02:11:35Z")
> [@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. The only version I like of that song is the one where it’s performed as a mix with Bolero, which is fairly entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/33 "2016-12-07T02:14:13Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > If it helps… it was sung by a real child, and dates back to the 50’s when it was released like any other single back then. So it’s authentically childish and authentically retro… but still fucking ear poison. I’ve always loved it myself, but then for years I knew it only as a weird old song that I’d hear once a year, if that, on the Dr. Demento show. I always assumed it was an obscurity and was surprised to learn that it was actually a hit in the '50s. I think its latter-day revival stems from its use in a 1998 Christmas episode of _Ally McBeal_. Now “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” should never have existed and needs to be banned forever. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/34 "2016-12-07T02:24:28Z")
Feliz Navidad made it so Jose Feliciano never had to work again and that’s OK with me. More a novelty song but I count it as a good holiday season if I get through without hearing “Snoopy and the Red Baron Christmas” And as for the “Little Drummer Boy”, you could have given him the effing drum, you moron. ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/35 "2016-12-07T02:32:27Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > And, yeah, the cover of Last Christmas is hideous. …“the” cover of Last Christmas? Last year I went to a mall and I heard Last Christmas played four times by three different artists in the span of two hours. Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/36 "2016-12-07T02:42:39Z")
I’ve hated _Silent Night_ ever since being subjected to Jay North’s awful rendition on Dennis The Menace. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/37 "2016-12-07T03:04:00Z")
Pretty much any of the secular carols. Not because they are secular, because they SUCK! ---
**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 7, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/38 "2016-12-07T03:18:42Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > And, yeah, the cover of Last Christmas is hideous. Does this mean you actually enjoy the original? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/39 "2016-12-07T03:27:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Feliz Navidad, may it and its author burn in hell for a million years. This one is _ **WAAY** _ overplayed because, you know, _diversity_. And I hate all Mexican brass music enough that I’d support a global embargo on copper to Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/40 "2016-12-07T03:47:30Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > …“the” cover of Last Christmas? > > Last year I went to a mall and I heard Last Christmas played four times by three different artists in the span of two hours. Yeesh. That’s funny. Truly had no idea. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=3)