# Why do people hate/dread Christmas music?

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**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-dread-christmas-music/928109 "2020-12-15T16:59:29Z")\
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> [@hogarth](#):
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> Some Christmas songs are outright terrible. (E.g. Christmas Shoes.)

> [@Colibri](#):
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> 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!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-demented-christmas/926691):
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> 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DguvASLTmTI&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0zU1JEpxXce1XKzawssZL-3LwlhnAOGrCiomK_ZOQsFebAiGXey-Z3zNE) Next?

> [@Strange Versions of Traditional Christmas Music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-versions-of-traditional-christmas-music/706140):
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> 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QZJ_n1fgpA) Autopsia: [Stille Nacht](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYG-pQOMPvw) Love Spirals Downward: [Welcome Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdafbvxbBNk) Any recommendations?

> [@Christmas Music with a Twist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music-with-a-twist/561695):
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> Suggested by Zeldar in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=585176). 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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgcuCuAnuas)[“Winter Wonderland” - Harry Connick, Jr.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng8zdQeSruI)[“Sleigh Ride” - The Ventures](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEaY2RG4Bs0)[“Winter” - The Mello Men backed by Spike Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYUjUIaTi28)

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