# Worst holiday song?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646 "2000-12-21T03:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hokienautic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@Hokienautic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokienautic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/1 "2000-12-21T03:46:29Z")
A few friends and I recently had this debate, and I thought I’d throw it out to the people here. What is the WORST holiday song you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of hearing. I’m not talking songs that are supposed to be bad or tasteless, like the Dr. Demento songs, but songs that are supposed to actually be good, but just aren’t. The two nominations we came up with are Ricky Martin’s “Ay Yi Yi It’s Christmas,” with the chorus of “ay yi yi it’s Christmas and I don’t know what to do/ ay yi yi it’s Christmas and I have no gift for you” (going from memory, so I might be a bit off); and the Christian rock group New Song’s song called “Christmas Shoes” that’s just so freaking sappy as to be horrible – it involved a man at a store approached by a young boy who wants to buy new shoes for his mother so she’ll look pretty when she dies and goes to heaven to see Jesus on his birthday, but he has no money. Any other thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/2 "2000-12-21T04:14:46Z")
“I’m Gonna E-Mail Santa” by that one kid…uggghhhhh Hold that, I just heard Christina Aguilera has a Christmas album out… ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/3 "2000-12-21T04:50:53Z")
“Granma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” ought to be against the law. And what’s with that song that goes “It’s Christmas time, so hang up your sock…Doop de dooo…and woop de deee” ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/4 "2000-12-21T05:21:55Z")
I cannot stand “The Little Drummer Boy”. Pa-rum-pa-shut-up. I also don’t want to hear Kenny G’s Christmas songs ever again. Bah. Humbug. ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/5 "2000-12-21T05:29:57Z")
The recent remake of the already perfect Charlie Brown Christmas, now featuring Vennesa Williams (?!) Celine Dion’s cover of John Lennon’s Happy Christmas Mariah Carrey’s cover of Baby Please Come Home Madonna’s ridiculously whiny interpretation of Eartha Kitt’s wonderful Santa Baby. Perhaps most tragically, the recent butchering of Fairytale Of New York, originally performed by The Pogues and the recently deceased Kirsty MacColl, now done by some ex Boyzone member. I love a good cover tune, but these are just painful and IMHO heresy. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/6 "2000-12-21T05:33:39Z")
**Dire Wolf** —Yes! When I was in elementary school, I hated _Little Drummer Boy_, and I still do, now that I’m three times and change as old as I was then. Other horrible Christmas songs are _Jingle Bell Rock_ and _Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime_ by Paul McCartney. Horrible! I hate both of them so much! Perhaps the ultimate horrible Christmas song is the one that came out circa 1988, _Dear Mr. Jesus_. It was a treacly song about child abuse. It didn’t seem like a Christmas song, per se, but it got most of its airplay around Christmastime, so it was a sort of de facto Christmas song. It was horrible. I haven’t heard it for years, but it still haunts me. ---
**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 21, 2000, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/7 "2000-12-21T12:21:49Z")
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” will spoil my holiday spirit faster than a mall full of screaming kids. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/8 "2000-12-21T13:31:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by seriousart \* > **Celine Dion’s cover of John Lennon’s Happy Christmas** Thank you. My head just exploded. The one I love to hate is “Mary’s Boy Child”. For reasons not clear to me, every Norwegian singer who fancies him/herself a “serious artist” has to record his/her own interpretation of this song. The worse the accent of the singer, the more airplay it will get. Die, die, DIE! And when did that Sound of Music song about a few of my favorite things become a Christmas song? I heard it once with an unidentified male singer trying to make it sound sexy. He came off as more than a bit creepy when he got to the line about how much he likes “Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/9 "2000-12-21T13:49:40Z")
I was at a craft show several years ago, and the organizers of the show had only _one_ tape of holiday music, so all of us vendors got to hear the same thing all day long. Ever hear of a song called “Thistlehair, the Christmas Bear”? It’s a country song. I don’t know who the recording artist is. God Damn, what an _awful_ song. It ran though my head for weeks. AAAUUUUGGGHHH!! I also hate Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime”.\<\<\<\\>\>\> ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/10 "2000-12-21T14:33:31Z")
Nothing new, but I’ll second two choices already made: _Grandma Got Run Over_ and Paul McCartney’s version of _Simply Having_. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/11 "2000-12-21T14:38:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by seriousart \* > \*\*Celine Dion’s cover of John Lennon’s Happy Christmas > \*\* The original was pretty mediocre to begin with. In fact, I hate ANYTHING with Yoko’s voice in it. My favourite? “Rudolph The Deep Throat Reindeer”. Heheheh. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/12 "2000-12-21T14:58:40Z")
Not sure if this exactly fits into the OP, but… On [this](http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/44/the_worst_of_the_worst_ver.html) page, there are some Christmas songs that are terrible. I’m not sure where I got the link (maybe off a post here?). Yes, its cruel…but morbidly funny, too. ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/13 "2000-12-21T15:20:24Z")
> [@](#): > > The original was pretty mediocre to begin with. In fact, I hate ANYTHING with Yoko’s voice in it. BAH! With or without Yoko, this song’s a classic. (Though it’d be better sans Yoko) And while I’m at it, let me just say that I really dig the Little Drummer boy too! (Joan Jett and Bowie have both done great covers of this) Hell, I even dig Wonderful Christmas Time. If only in a cheesy, synth kinda way. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/14 "2000-12-21T15:52:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by seriousart \* > **The recent remake of the already perfect Charlie Brown Christmas, now featuring Vennesa Williams (?!)** ::Sputtering:: But, but…that’s _ **Sacrilege** _. I nominate the entire wretched Boney M Christmas album, inflicted upon me as a small child by a smugly, tone-deaf father (“It’s **MY** turntable and I’ll play whatever **I** want!!!”). **Flodnak** , you have not truly suffered until you have heard **their** version of _Mary’s Boy Child_. Cheers, Hodge ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/15 "2000-12-21T16:31:38Z")
“Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas” - thanks, but I’ll have any kind of freakin’ Christmas I want! This song always makes me think of rich, snooty people who find poor people “quaint”. My favorite of all time is “Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear” (to the tune of Walkin’ In a Winter Wonderland"). I sing this all the time at Christmas - just makes the yuletide bright for me. “Lacy things…missin’ Didn’t ask…permission I’m wearing her clothes Her silk pan-ty-hose Walkin’ round in women’s underwear” and so on. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/16 "2000-12-21T16:33:14Z")
Thank Heavens! I thought I was going to get pelted with rotten tomatoes if I mentioned how much I LOATHE that stupid “Drummer Boy” song. Ack! It’s enough to take me right OUT of the Xmas spirit!! ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/17 "2000-12-21T17:33:36Z")
I had to work at our company’s bookstore last week, and they were playing some God-awful Christmas album by the Beach Boys. (Matter of fact, I think it might have actually been called “The Beach Boys’ God-awful Christmas Album”.) Some songs had orchestral accompaniment which made the songs even more mind-bending. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/18 "2000-12-21T18:18:31Z")
“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” should be changed to “The Songwriters Got Gored by a Herd of Rabid Reindeer”. ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/19 "2000-12-21T18:23:01Z")
I have to agree whole heartedly with Celine Dion’s Happy Christmas version. I can’t stand it! ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/20 "2000-12-21T19:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Thank Heavens! I thought I was going to get pelted with rotten tomatoes if I mentioned how much I LOATHE that stupid "Drummer Boy"song. -pelt pelt- ``` :p ``` [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646.md?page=2)