Why do people hate/dread Christmas music?

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@hogarth

Some Christmas songs are outright terrible. (E.g. Christmas Shoes.)

@Colibri

Most Christmas songs are fairly insipid, and even the good ones are given bland arrangements. So it’s not the best music in the first place.

These threads are the antidote:

Let's have a demented Christmas!

Help me devise a Christmas song mix to counter the insipid pap we are going to be pelted with from now until New Years Eve. I will begin with a thoughtless ode to Christmas homecomings, Linda Bennett’s An Old Fashioned Christmas(Daddy’s Home) Linda Bennett - An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home) - YouTube Next?

Strange Versions of Traditional Christmas Music

I am doing a radio show in the very early am hours this Christmas morning on the local college station. I’m looking for traditional Christmas music performed in a very non-traditional way. Bonus points for eeriness. Examples: mom and daddy: O Holy Night Autopsia: Stille Nacht Love Spirals Downward: Welcome Christmas Any recommendations?

Christmas Music with a Twist

Suggested by Zeldar in this thread. Only a couple of days until radio stations that haven’t done so already start up their all-Christmas formats. This thread is for tracks that aren’t typical of such playlists. No lyrics required. “Twistin’ Bells” - Santo & Johnny “Winter Wonderland” - Harry Connick, Jr. “Sleigh Ride” - The Ventures “Winter” - The Mello Men backed by Spike Jones