# 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:** 6
**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 8, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/101 "2016-12-08T03:12:33Z")
I was half jewish, had a Jewish name, and in grammar school they had us sing carols once a year in the auditorium. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to go. There couldn’t have been one other jew in the school. I always loved it and I have no real hard on for particular songs. Some are so campy you can’t hate them. (Sing I’ll be home for Christmas in a falsetto, right now…) Drummer boy and sleigh ride had interesting melodies. The only song we never sang and I never knew about til I was an adult, I can really do without though: O Holy Night. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/102 "2016-12-08T05:30:55Z")
Another one: “We Need a Little Christmas” from Auntie Mame. Yeesh. “We need a little Christmas right this very minute before we all become totally unwound, we’re miserable and desperate for a little fake seasonal cheer”. Yeah that’s festive. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/103 "2016-12-08T11:10:22Z")
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned “The Christmas Shoes”. I love Christmas music in general, but that one makes me nauseated. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/104 "2016-12-08T11:33:15Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Aw, these are two of my favorites, pop music wise. It probably says a lot about me that my favourite pop Christmas song is “Please Come Home For Christmas” by The Eagles. What could be more festive than a song that kicks off with “My baby’s gone, I have no friends” in the first verse? > [@](#): > > And anyone who doesn’t like Messrs. Bowie and Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy deserves a lump of coal in their stocking:p I do like that one, even though they’re both obviously phoning it in. ---
**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 8, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/105 "2016-12-08T12:37:15Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It probably says a lot about me that my favourite pop Christmas song is “Please Come Home For Christmas” by The Eagles. What could be more festive than a song that kicks off with “My baby’s gone, I have no friends” in the first verse? > > I do like that one, even though they’re both obviously phoning it in. You think so? I mean, the whole schtick before they start singing is pretty awkward but I think their low key approach is spot on. And I agree about The Eagles song (though for some reason I thought it was a Henley solo). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/106 "2016-12-08T13:05:57Z")
The Twelve Days of Christmas Feliz Navidad ---
**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 8, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/107 "2016-12-08T13:58:58Z")
Having warped my brain through years of reading Mad Magazine as a child, I habitually come up with parody lyrics for songs. I’m still working on all the verses of “Silent Night”, but here’s a sample: Silent Night, Holy Cow Son of Sam loves to fight Radiation Beams from Outer Space Shot at Dawn, a Screaming Disgrace Jesus I’m bored at thy birth Jesus I’m bored at thy birth ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/108 "2016-12-08T14:10:07Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Feliz Navidad, may it and its author burn in hell for a million years. Oh yes. This. I hate that song. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/109 "2016-12-08T14:14:52Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 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. I like the Bob and Doug Mckenzie version: … _4 Turtle Necks 3 french toasts 2 Turtle Necks And a bee e er in a tree._ ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/110 "2016-12-08T14:25:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Anything that mentions Jesus. Maybe that’s unfair of me, but I don’t care. > > Also, Springsteen’s _Santa Claus Is Coming To Town_. Even as a kid, I hated that song. He sees me when I’m sleeping? How can I be naughty when I’m sleeping?:dubious: ---
**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 8, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/111 "2016-12-08T15:12:09Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > Even as a kid, I hated that song. He sees me when I’m sleeping? How can I be naughty when I’m sleeping?:dubious: You kiddin’ me with this? That’s when I get up to my nastiest 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/112 "2016-12-08T15:20:34Z")
Ok, I will say that _Feliz Navidad_ is really, really annoying. It has like four lyrics, period. Endlessly repeated. **Endlessly**. ---
**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 8, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/113 "2016-12-08T15:27:44Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Ok, I will say that _Feliz Navidad_ is really, really annoying. It has like four lyrics, period. Endlessly repeated. **Endlessly**. It is the _La Bamba_ of Christmas music: 95% of the people singing along are mangling/mumbling words they don’t understand. ---
**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 8, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/114 "2016-12-08T15:28:31Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > I was half jewish, had a Jewish name, and in grammar school they had us sing carols once a year in the auditorium. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to go. There couldn’t have been one other jew in the school. I always loved it and I have no real hard on for particular songs. Some are so campy you can’t hate them. (Sing I’ll be home for Christmas in a falsetto, right now…) > > Drummer boy and sleigh ride had interesting melodies. > > The only song we never sang and I never knew about til I was an adult, I can really do without though: O Holy Night. You have been listening to the wrong version of [O Holy Night](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QZJ_n1fgpA). Try it as a noise piece. This is my favorite of all Christmas music and I would love to slip in in the mix down at the mall just to see the reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/115 "2016-12-08T15:37:14Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Another one: “We Need a Little Christmas” from Auntie Mame. Yeesh. “We need a little Christmas right this very minute before we all become totally unwound, we’re miserable and desperate for a little fake seasonal cheer”. Yeah that’s festive. Aww, the Ray Conniff version is my favorite Christmas song!🙂 > [@Lumpy](#): > > Having warped my brain through years of reading Mad Magazine as a child, I habitually come up with parody lyrics for songs. It’s been 45 years, but all the parody, dirty lyrics we made up in grade school for Christmas songs are still in my head, and every season they spontaneously burst out. Later on we’ll perspire, as we make out by the fire… > [@Honey](#): > > I like the Bob and Doug Mckenzie version: I prefer the original Allan Sherman: …and a Japanese transistor radio. (It’s a Nakashuma.) (And it comes in a leatherette case with holes in it, so you can listen right through the case.) (And it has a wire with a thing on one end that you can stick in your ear and a thing on the other end you can’t stick anywhere because it’s bent.) ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/116 "2016-12-08T18:53:13Z")
_A statue of a naked lady with a clock where her stomach ought… to… beeeeeeeeeeeee!_ Only version of “12 Days” I can stand. I hatehatehate “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” I _know_ the woman is just playing hard to get and doesn’t actually want to leave, and it’s simply a victim of values dissonance, but it still sounds coercive and creepy to me. ---
**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 8, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/117 "2016-12-08T18:58:03Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Ok, I will say that _Feliz Navidad_ is really, really annoying. It has like four lyrics, period. Endlessly repeated. **Endlessly**. _Fl-eas on my dog! Fl-eas on my dog! Is there a collar for my fleabit dog?_ ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/118 "2016-12-08T19:59:29Z")
So many, many shit songs this time of year. But the King Of All Shit is “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Honestly, the only Christmas songs I like at all are “Christmas in Hollis,” “The Grinch Song,” and most of the John Denver/Muppets album. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/119 "2016-12-08T20:09:59Z")
Worked retail (grocery) for most of the 90’s, and being subjected to constant x-mas shit over the PA in Nov./Dec. became fucking soul-destroying. Some were more hideous than others, but after getting lobotomized by _Hey Santa_ by the Wilson sisters for the gajillionth time by the end of my shift I had to decompressurize, and before I even got home I’d have to go on random arson rampages and small carbombings just to blow off a little steam. ---
**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 8, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056/120 "2016-12-08T20:21:56Z")
The _only_ version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” I like was performed at one of the Mark And Brian Christmas Shows by [Barry Manilow and one of their listeners-Pamela Holt(select #1 on the list.)](https://archive.org/details/MarkAndBrian-ChristmasShows-BitsAndPieces) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-standard-do-you-not-want-to-hear-any-more/774056.md?page=7)