# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/21 "2000-12-22T14:41:40Z")
The Twelve Days of Christmas always makes me wonder “What is this shit about.” Its only redeeming factor is the amazing parodies it has spawned. The only thing worse is setting "A Night Before Christmas to music. The San Francisco cast of Phantom of the Opera released a CD called Christmas Center Stage which has a version that makes me think of “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” It should be illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/22 "2000-12-22T15:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scratch1300 \* > \*\*Nothing new, but I’ll second two choices already made: > > Paul McCartney’s version of _Simply Having_. \*\* AAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!! I hate that song!!! ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/23 "2000-12-22T15:21:04Z")
“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” Now, I don’t actually hate this song. It’s ok. But one line just irks me to no end. It goes like this: [Andy Williams] There’ll be scary ghost stories And tales of good glories From Christmases long-long ago. [/Andy Williams] Who the hell sits around and tells ghost stories at Christmas? My wife says “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Jacob Marley, the ghost of Christmases past, and that kind of thing. I guess that is fine, but the song clearly says there will be stories, plural. So, once you’re done with “A Christmas Carol” what other ghost stories are there? It’s enough to make you nuts. Nuts I say! ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/24 "2000-12-22T15:41:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > **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 the wife is missin’ Didn’t ask for her permission I’m wearing her clothes Her silk pan-ty-hose Walkin’ round in women’s underwear. In the store, there’s a teddy with little straps like spaghetti It holds me so tight like handcuffs at night. Walkin’ round in women’s underwear. In the office there’s a guy named Melvin He pretends that I am Murphy Brown. He’ll say “Are you ready?” We’ll say “Whoa, man! Let’s wait until the wife is out of town!” Later on if ya wanna we can dress like Madonna. Put on some eyeshade and join the parade. Walkin’ round in women’s underwear. Lacy things missin’ Didn’t ask permission Wearing her clothes Silk pan-ty-hose Walkin’ round in women’s underwear. Walkin’ round in women’s underwear. Walkin’ round in women’s underwear! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/25 "2000-12-22T15:59:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hodge \* > **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_.** I… have. **shudder** My aerobics instructor snuck it into the music for a class just before Christmas once. I could never figure out if she was a real Boney M fan (since other times she’d have us all kickin’ to the strains of Rah-rah-rasputin, lover of the Russian queen…) or just had a somewhat sadistic sense of humor. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/26 "2000-12-22T16:00:38Z")
I guess I’m the only one that thinks **“It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas”** , by Burl Ives is the most tortured excuse for a Christmas song ever produced. _“Oh, by golly, have a holly jolly Christmas this year!”_ I keep visualizing that demonic Burl-ish snowman from the Frosty holiday special. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/27 "2000-12-22T16:26:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fear Itself \* > \*\*I keep visualizing that demonic Burl-ish snowman from the Frosty holiday special. > > \*\* That demonic snowman was from the Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer special. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/28 "2000-12-22T19:36:47Z")
Maybe it’s 'cause I’m young, but the one I hate most is ‘White Christmas’. It sounds far too miserable to be a Christmas song. Other than that, I like most Christmas songs, except ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, 'cause it’s condescending. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/29 "2000-12-22T19:39:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tommy the Cat \* > \*\*“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” > > Now, I don’t actually hate this song. It’s ok. But one line just irks me to no end. It goes like this: > > [Andy Williams] > There’ll be scary ghost stories > And tales of good glories > From Christmases long-long ago. > [/Andy Williams] > > Who the hell sits around and tells ghost stories at Christmas? My wife says “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Jacob Marley, the ghost of Christmases past, and that kind of thing. I guess that is fine, but the song clearly says there will be stories, plural. So, once you’re done with “A Christmas Carol” what other ghost stories are there? > > It’s enough to make you nuts. Nuts I say! \*\* The aforementioned “Nightmare Before Christmas”??? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/30 "2000-12-23T01:20:32Z")
The entire Barbra Streisand holiday album. Mariah Carey’s version of “O Holy Night” which starts out lovely then deteriorates until finally culminating in a glass-shattering screech of “Deeeeee-VINE!!!” ---
**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 23, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/31 "2000-12-23T02:16:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\*The entire Barbra Streisand holiday album. Mariah Carey’s version of “O Holy Night” which starts out lovely then deteriorates until finally culminating in a glass-shattering screech of “Deeeeee-VINE!!!” > > \*\* One of my favorites Cher’s version of “O Holy Night”: Wooah holeh naht… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/32 "2000-12-23T02:58:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dire Wolf \* > \*\*I also don’t want to hear Kenny G’s Christmas songs ever again. > > Bah. Humbug. \*\* Doesn’t anyone else find Christmas albums recorded by Jews to be a little, well, odd? Robin ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/33 "2000-12-23T08:48:46Z")
Not to be the ANTI-grinch, but… IJGrieve: > [@](#): > > Other than that, I like most Christmas songs, except ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’, 'cause it’s condescending. and Featherlou > [@](#): > > This song always makes me think of rich, snooty people who find poor people “quaint”. What part of these lyrics do you find snooty or condescending? Maybe I’m just partial because I always think of Chrissy Hynde (swoon) singing it. You can put me down for a big ol’ glass of snooty if Ms Hynde’s involved 🙂 Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. Next year all our troubles Will be out of sight. Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Make the Yule-tide gay. From now on our troubles Will be miles away. Here we are as in olden days, Happy golden days of yore. Faithful friends who are dear to us Will be near to us once more. Someday soon we all will be together If the Fates allow. Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow. So have yourself a merry little Christmas now. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/34 "2000-12-23T17:45:08Z")
Holly Jolly Christmas makes me want to pack my ears with cement so the sound can’t get in. That’s not my most hated Christmas song though… Little Drummer Boy touches some deep, dark part of my brain that makes me instantly psychotic, to the point of actually slicing off my own ears with a rusty knife, rolling them up, and sticking them in the holes, and then fastening them there with three inch nails to block the incessant rum-pa-pum-pum. Oh God…do you hear what I hear??? :::runs screaming::: Rose ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/35 "2000-12-23T22:51:03Z")
re. ‘Have Yourself…’ It’s the title line that I dislike. It sort of implies that _your_ Christmas isn’t important. That’s what I think anyway, ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/36 "2000-12-23T23:08:58Z")
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is my favorite along with O Holy Night and Mary Did you Know… I don’t see what is so snooty about the first one. I HATE “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” and this one song, I think it’s called “Very Special Christmas” and I don’t remember who sings it. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/37 "2000-12-24T01:49:46Z")
The Santa Ran Over Granny one makes me puke ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/38 "2000-12-24T02:39:04Z")
I’d like to second the many who’ve dumped on “The Little Drummer Boy”; I hated that song when I was six, and I still hate it now that I’m forty-six. And I’d also like to second **Chance the Gardener** ’s nomination of “Jingle Bell Rock”. Whoever wrote that bit of inanity should be put in solitary confinement for the rest of their years, with that song playing on an infinite loop through a speaker in the ceiling. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/39 "2000-12-24T03:34:10Z")
I can’t stand “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.” Maybe because I was completely drunk the first time I heard it, but I swear, it just sounds lewd. I don’t know who recorded it originally, but it seems to have popped up on the new Ally McBeal christmas album. And I must add that I do take it as a sign of the apocolypse that they recorded an Ally McBeal christmas album. ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Ace\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_Face)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646/40 "2000-12-24T03:51:50Z")
1. _Jingle Bell Retch_… I mean _Rock_ 2. The George Michael song, I think it’s called _Last Christmas_. Haven’t heard it in a while…thank God! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-holiday-song/46646.md?page=3)