You go too far, sir! Pistols at dawn!
Three times within two hours?! C’mon, CISL, I know you have much better music than that!
Any version of Santa Baby by anyone.
Any version of Baby It’s Cold Outside (even by Zoey in Elf).
And as mentioned, Springsteen’s Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Not only was it probably recorded in July (those poor unsuspecting concert goers, looking for Born to Run and being subjected to that crap) but it’s horrible!
At least we have a special iTunes playlist of just the “good stuff”*, and we don’t overplay the songs. We never hear any of these bad songs unless we’re in some store and can’t avoid them.
*YMMV. We have Rudolph and LDB and Alvin (ALVIN!) in the playlist, and Der Bingle, and the Andrew Sisters, and traditional hymns and Mitch Miller and…
“Happy Xmas War is Over” and “Wonderful Christmastime.” Much as I like John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s other music, I dislike those two songs.
Y’all forgot the Band Aid number from the eighties Do They Know It’s Christmas?. DO THEY FUCKING CARE?
For whatever perverse reason(s), it seems to come up on the Christmas playlists of radio stations and Pandora multiple times every year. Blech!
Heh, that’s actually my favorite version.
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I was just about to mention that one. Bono’s smarminess is what kills it for me. “So tonight, thank God it’s them, instead of yoooooouuuuu!” Yeah, I really need to hear that from a multi-millionaire. Bonus points for lines that refer to Africa as a monolithic state of poverty, as opposed to a diverse and in most cases highly-developed set of countries. In related news, inflation in Nigeria is cutting into locals’ Christmas shopping.
I will probably be dodging rotten tomatoes for this one, but I desperately wish *I’ll Be Home For Christmas’ * would be forever banished from the Christmas repetoire. I know the story and genesis of the song and because I do, it makes me so sad every time I hear it. Who wants to be sad at Christmas?? It didn’t help when the homeless organizations adopted it for their holiday giving campaign, either. Now I associate it with the homeless as well as dead soldiers. Yikes.
Please, Santa, make it go away.
Local station just played a version with Michael Buble and Miss Piggy…and didn’t even apologize afterwards.
Actually, that’s just about the only Christmas song I like. It’s one of the only ones that expresses (musically, not in the lyrics) the bittersweet feeling a lot of people have at this time of year. But I much prefer the instrumental version to any version with voices, and I could certainly see how the original sung one from the sound track would grate on one’s nerves.
I have no love for the song, but what’s pervy about it?
The point is that the kid doesn’t realize it was daddy dressed up as Santa, right?
That’s from the skit on The Muppet Show where Miss Piggy was trying to yank Buble’s towel off in the steam room:
Up on the Rooftop or anything by the Carpenters.
Until the third grade, I went to a Jewish Day school. In the third grade, I went to public school, and the Jewish kids got sent gloriously to the library during music when the other kids prepared for the “Christmas Pageant.”
The next year, and every year after, it was a “Holiday Program,” and we sung a bunch of Christmas songs, plus “The Dreidel Song.” One year, the teacher asked me and a couple of other Jewish kids if “Rock of Ages” was a good Jewish song. I didn’t know what to say until someone said that “Rock of Ages” was another name for “Maoz Tsur.” So we said it was a good Jewish song. And somehow, instead of an English translation of “Maoz Tsur,” we briefly were singing some bizarre Christian Hymn the went “Rock of Ages, cleft for me.”
Same here ! I hate this time of year now that I am older !
Yes, I had completely forgotten about this song. It was terrible, even it’s day. Now I need to re-forget it! 
That’s the way I understand it, too. The kid doesn’t realize Santa is daddy. I think it’s a cute little song from a kid’s perspective who still believes in Santa. Completely innocent. But then again, so few things are anymore.
I’m not hating on most of the ones listed but the one that makes me stabby is Porky Pig doing Blue Christmas. Not only is it offensive but it ruins an otherwise decent Elvis song.
It’s the non Christmas/winter songs that I don’t want to hear.
“My Favorite Things” - not a Christmas song
“Hard Candy Christmas” - despite the word “Christmas” in the title, it is not a Christmas song
That cover version of “Hallelujah” that’s getting airplay this year? Barely even in the same universe as Christmas songs.
It’s not like there aren’t eleventy million actual songs about winter or Christmas that could be played, stick to those.
Missed the edit window, but I realize now that I didn’t quite make it clear: I wish gentiles would just go ahead and have Christmas and leaved me out of it, instead of half-assed attempts to be “inclusive,” that result in me being forced to participate.