# Your favorite lesser-known Christmas recordings

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [December 14, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-lesser-known-christmas-recordings/976532 "2022-12-14T20:51:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-lesser-known-christmas-recordings/976532/7 "2022-12-14T22:04:58Z")

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This thread, despite the semi-misleading title, is also about obscure loved (and hated) Christmas songs. With lots of good cites in both directions.

> [@What is with the hate for Mariah Carey?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-with-the-hate-for-mariah-carey/976437):
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> Every day I see some sort of meme on Facebook about “All I want for Christmas is You” being a horrible hated song. Even the WSJ did a little article about it. Okay, I know that it is Pop music- which people do not like. Some people hate all Christmas music. And it can be overplayed. But that is true about just about every Christmas tune in the last few decades- Pop, Christmas, overplayed, and even saccharine So why that song? It makes no sense. There are LOTS of really bad, turn the dial, …

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