# Xmas carol--"Little Drummer Boy"--Love it or hate it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199 "2002-12-03T12:56:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/41 "2002-12-04T06:02:45Z")
> [@](#): > > How crappy of a drummer must he be if he needed the ox and lamb to keep time to a f\*cking drumbeat??? This kid is more special than I originally thought; he devised the Click Track! (tho’ how the ox and lamb actually did “keep time” remains a mystery…) Just a few steps away was the inspiration for the Chick Tract! Coincidence…or was it? I don’t _intend_ to go to hell, anyway… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/42 "2002-12-04T15:43:30Z")
Shrink, this song makes me wanna _kill_. I said _kill_. I wanna see blood, gore, veins in my teeth, eat dead, burnt bodies, I said _kill_, _kill_…😃 And, like **Fenris** and **lost4life** , I really _like_ most Christmas carols. I love the great old hymns, from _Veni Emmanuel_ to _Adeste Fidelis_, as well as plenty of more recent ones. I love “White Christmas.” And I even love humorous Christmas songs and parodies: Tom Lehrer’s “Christmas Time Is Here, By Golly,” Al Yankovic’s “Christmas at Ground Zero,” and even “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” But “The Little Drummer Boy” is right out. I’d rather visit the dentist than hear that “Pah rum pum pum pum.” (Helps that I’ve got a cute dentist, but even if I didn’t. :)) I’d rather be flogged in public by **Arden Ranger** than listen to one more “Pah rum pum pum pum,” but that’s different, I spose. 😉 I also dislike “Jingle Bell Rock,” but not nearly as intensely as “Drummer Boy.” ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/43 "2002-12-04T17:33:28Z")
The only version of this song that’s any good is by Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra, and that’s 'cos the Great Bob Scott is at the helm, giving those drums of his a workout. None of this slow, solemn, ba-rum-pum-pum pum crap. He’s doing one-handed drum rolls on a snare and a tom at the same time. He’s got his bass thumping. Cymbals a-clanging. It sounds like he’s got 8 arms banging those skins. It’s one of the best drum recordings of all time – up there with Chick Webb playing at the Savoy or Neil Peart doing Rythym Method. ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/44 "2002-12-04T19:09:19Z")
I love it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/45 "2002-12-04T23:09:57Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d rather be flogged in public by Arden Ranger than listen to one more “Pah rum pum pum pum,” but that’s different, I spose. Pfft. Like you thought that was such a terrible proposition. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/46 "2002-12-05T02:19:07Z")
Well, that _was_ kinda my point. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/47 "2002-12-05T03:44:16Z")
Love it!!!..but then I sometimes sing bass in various vocal groups. It and Handel’s Messiah have bass parts that are wonderful. I don’t especially like to listen to either one on the radio or TV…I do have a nice version of the Messiah on one of my CDs, though. Full volume…eyes shut…hard to beat. ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199/48 "2002-12-05T04:30:58Z")
I have never heard any of the modern version, but I have hated it as long as I can remember. _The Lion Sleeps Tonight_,on the other hand, is one of my favorite songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xmas-carol-little-drummer-boy-love-it-or-hate-it/140199.md?page=2)