# 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:** 3
**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, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/41 "2016-12-07T03:49:31Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Does this mean you actually enjoy the original? One of a few Wham songs I like, and I don’t remember it being overplayed when it was released. I hear it more often now. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/42 "2016-12-07T03:56:01Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > 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. You’re going to have to be more specific than that… The song I hate above all others is “Christmas Time is Here.” I have to change the station whenever it’s on. I loathe it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/43 "2016-12-07T05:52:13Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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.” This. I mean, _THIS!!!_ I think it was better when I was a kid, and there was no attempt at diversity. At least no one has come up with “Hanukkah Shoes.” :eek: ---
**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 7, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/44 "2016-12-07T06:08:06Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > You’re going to have to be more specific than that… > > The song I hate above all others is “Christmas Time is Here.” I have to change the station whenever it’s on. I loathe it. You really mean Vince Guaraldi’s tune from Charlie Brown? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/45 "2016-12-07T06:11:24Z")
I could stand most of those once a year. The second time turns the Christmas season into a time of evil and violent desires. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/46 "2016-12-07T06:13:42Z")
> [@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. Then you have not heard this one! [Little Drummer Boy](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C4PNLx9-bGE) by corporal blossom. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/47 "2016-12-07T06:16:40Z")
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is the very definition of what is wrong with Christmas music. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/48 "2016-12-07T06:21:58Z")
> [@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. That song was sung by a 10-year-old girl named Gayla Peevey. I like it mostly because of the hearty, full-throated way she belts it out. Pretty damn good singing for a 10-year-old kid. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/49 "2016-12-07T06:41:48Z")
Not what I’d call “standards”, but these get played a lot on the pop stations that go to all-Christmas formats, and they are _not_ Christmas songs: Last Christmas (Wham!, and any and all covers) Same Old Lang Syne (Dan Fogelberg) My Favorite Things (from The Sound of Music) Also, while it’s a Christmas song, “Wonderful Christmastime,” by Paul McCartney, needs to just go away, because it’s an awful song. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/50 "2016-12-07T07:56:03Z")
Anything that mentions Jesus. Maybe that’s unfair of me, but I don’t care. Also, Springsteen’s _Santa Claus Is Coming To Town_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/51 "2016-12-07T08:42:59Z")
_I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus_. It’s just so pervy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/52 "2016-12-07T09:55:43Z")
Feliz Navidad. The motherfucking drummer boy, in any language and any version, with special hate for Raphael. And Last Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/53 "2016-12-07T10:41:29Z")
This far into the thread and no one has mentioned “Sleigh Ride”?!? :dubious: :eek: I loathe this song! Every time I hear _“Giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, let’s go!/Let’s look at the show!/We’re riding in a wonderland of snow!”_ I want to commit murder. :smack: :mad: And now I won’t be able to get it out of my head for the rest of the day. **ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!** ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/54 "2016-12-07T12:43:35Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > 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. Our hymnal lists this one as “The First Nowell”. Every time I hear it, I sing along “Where in the hel-el is I-is-RYE-el?” For me, it’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree. Despise that song. It’s so nice to go into stores on Dec. 26 and not hear Christmas music. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/55 "2016-12-07T13:20:32Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Our hymnal lists this one as “The First Nowell”. Every time I hear it, I sing along “Where in the hel-el is I-is-RYE-el?” Whenever I hear it, I think of Chicago: _No El, no El! Ah, so I’ll take a streetcar!_ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/56 "2016-12-07T13:35:17Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/57 "2016-12-07T13:40:47Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > You really mean Vince Guaraldi’s tune from Charlie Brown? That one, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/58 "2016-12-07T13:41:14Z")
All of them if it’s before the 24th. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/59 "2016-12-07T13:41:16Z")
“Wizards in Winter” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Love TSO, but that song makes me want to shove icepicks in my ears. ---
**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, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/60 "2016-12-07T13:42:12Z")
Can we also mention just how horrible “Last Christmas” is anyway? I gave you my heart and you broke it so I’m going to give it to someone better. Yeah, that’s what I want in my Christmas songs, misery and heartbreak [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=4)