What Christmas Carol do you hate the most?

[gopiscrap]

28 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Jingle Bells
	0 (0%)
	Deck the Halls
	0 (0%)
	All I Want For Christmas Are My Two Front Teeth
	3 (11%)
	Let It Snow
	0 (0%)
	I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
	1 (4%)
	Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer
	12 (43%)
	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
	0 (0%)
	Up On The House Top
	2 (7%)
	Other (please state)
	8 (29%)
	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Underneath The Misletoe
	2 (7%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. Too obvious dude

[el_bryanto]

2. Jingle Bell Rock is my least favorite - seems so insipid

With Wandering Awe is probably my favorite hymn, The Merriest is probably my favorite christmas song.

Bryant

[Chan790]

3. While not strictly a carol, I really hate "Baby, it's cold outside."

Man, that song is skeevy.

[el_bryanto]

13. It is skeevy - but i really like the version on Merry Mixmas

Baby, It's Cold Outside (ARP Remix) by Dean Martin which is very skeevy but the music kind of underlines it? it's an odd effect.

Bryant

[dipsydoodle]

72. Best version here: Ray Charles and Betty Carter

[Ilsa]

77. Oh come on! You don't prefer the version with

Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart? yes, I heard it on Sirius radio yesterday. Awful song.

[hootinholler]

20. I thought it romantic

A lovely duet between two lovers.

[tabbycat31]

22. it screams date rape

[hootinholler]

23. baloney n/t

[Niceguy1]

59. really?

Whatever

[jmowreader]

58. Have you actually read the lyrics?

Any song that contains the line "say, what's in this drink?" is not a "lovely" anything.

[dipsydoodle]

68. Not sure it had that connotation when it was written in 1944

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[Chan790]

71. Even in the context written...

I find it really pushy.

[adirondacker]

122. Ditto. My favorite version was from the only season I watched Idol...

I actually liked Haley's voice (sucker for a raspy jazz vocalist) and attitude.

[House of Roberts]

47. I like the version by Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone

just 'cause it's Leon, and Zooey's so cute.

[tosh]

105. I like this one better...

[seabeyond]

4. i like them all. nt

[swilton]

5. silver bells

melody is monotonous

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. "Mistletoe and Holly" (aka the awful "oh by gosh by golly")

[immoderate]

7. Ordinarily I'd vote for "Little Drummer Boy"

But Ahmad Jamal did a version that rocks! (swings?) Sorry no Youtube.

--imm

[longship]

41. Gawd, I hate that one.

Prum! Prum! Prum! Come they told me, parumpapumpum...

Now that's a horrible ear worm that I will not get out of my brain for hours. I sang it in choir at church in my youth and my sisters knew I hated it and would regularly taunt me with it regularly during Christmas season in the back seat of the car on the way home from church. I sat in the middle and there was no escape.

It is a wretched song.

Not even Ahmad Jamal could convince me otherwise.

Thanks!

[Niceguy1]

60. my daughter sang that in first grade

On the Christmas performance....it's still stuck in my head lol

[MADem]

78. Peter Griffin did it best.....maybe he can convince you...?

[okwmember]

132. I despise the "Little Drummer Boy"

in all its forms by all performers.

[Va Lefty]

8. I love Bruce, but hate his version of Santa Clause is Coming to Town

[SidDithers]

9. Christmas Shoes...

The only redeeming thing about it is the Patton Oswalt deconstruction:

Sid

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. hard one to listen to, it's sooooooo sad

[Raine]

67. That came out the Christmas after my mother died, it makes me cry. nt

[FSogol]

84. Agreed. Maudlin, cloying, annoying, and stupid at the same time. n/t

[Scootaloo]

101. UGH, UGH, UGH, UGH, I hate this song so much

I hate it with FIRE.

[phylny]

103. Thank you.

Hate hate hate it.

(but one of my favorites is):

[newcriminal]

134. The worst by far.

[Warpy]

10. Two, actually

"Santa, Baby" has always chapped my ass because it features your basic high maintenance female wheedling consumer shit out of some guy. It sucks on so many levels it would take me several long, boring paragraphs to outline all the suckage.

The other shall not be named because I'm engaged in a contest to see how long we can all go before hearing our brains go "pa rumpa pum SHIT" to store Muzak. I do not want to invoke that evil thing up from hell. I'm listening to Beirut Nights radio for the duration.

[Adsos Letter]

14. ...Little Drummer Boy...

There...I said it...

[2theleft]

38. That song should not be named nor played.

You are correct, it is pure evil.

[Are_grits_groceries]

49. This is the one version of 'Little Drummer Boy' that I like.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

79. They always cut off the end where der Bingle yanks out his belt and give Bowie a good whuppin'

[undeterred]

88. That was lovely.

Thanks for posting.

[Arugula Latte]

98. And this version:

[FrodosPet]

126. An even better version

[LuvLoogie]

137. I like this one too.

[tularetom]

11. Well there is the godawful Holly Jolly Christmas

and "Jingle Bell Rock" sucks big time as well. Except for the line about the "fuckin pie".

[DesertFlower]

12. i hate them all.

[truebluegreen]

80. +a zillion

[babydollhead]

112. agree

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. i turn the radio station for most on ur list

[Niceguy1]

62. I play pandoras

Classic christmas station at work. ..its great

[Liberal_in_LA]

100. me too!

[nevergiveup]

16. "Oh Holy Night"

As a child I botched it really good in a piano solo at a church Christmas program. The night was not "brightly shining" during my performance. Whenever I hear the song I break out in a sweat even though it was 50+ years ago. I doubt I practiced it much because I really didn't care all that much for playing the piano and I probably thought I could fake it. Following my dismal and embarrassing performance my mom yanked me from any future piano lessons. My musical career was over.

[FrodosPet]

127. That's a shame

It is a beautiful song. My favorite among the religious Christmas carols.

But yeah, for singing or piano, it is a challenging song.

[diabeticman]

17. That freaking Christmas Shoe song

[TBF]

124. I hate that one too. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. What I HATE, is thinking about, and SHARING, what I HATE. You like sharing what you HATE? WHY?

Hey everyone...! Let's spread a little HATE!

HATRED: It's what's for dinner.

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You hate Christmas Carols. I hope your thread gets you the validation you desire...

[Niceguy1]

64. [phone]

[FrodosPet]

128. It's obvious. Everybody not only has to hate someone

Everyone has to hate something.

This is the saddest single fact about our species.

[Matariki]

21. Other: ALL OF THEM

Every fucking one of them.

[Skip Intro]

24. Hey gopiscrap, I notice a typo in your vote options.

I guess it's a typo.

You capitalized every word in each question except the word "white." Was that a typo or intentional? And if intentional, why? What are you trying to convey with that exception?

[gopiscrap]

42. Typo thank's I'll fix it!

[RandiFan1290]

63. ermergerd!

He did the same with the words of, the, and a..

Must be an anti christian anti white anti duck hunter code!

[Change has come]

25. Jingle Bell Rock

fingernails on a chalkboard.

[winter is coming]

26. "Joy to the World"

Used to be okay with it, but I've sung/heard it too many times.

[NoOneMan]

27. Sacrilege. You cannot hate any Christmas song!

[Aerows]

28. Madonna's "Santa Baby"

That song annoys the shit out of me. Her voice sounds terrible in it.

[Warpy]

45. GMTA

I absolutely loathe that song. I've been known to drop purchases on a counter and sprint for an exit when it's played in a store.

[Aerows]

73. There is so much wrong with that song

I can't even list it all. I didn't even see your post up thread ranting about it before I posted - that song IMMEDIATELY pops into my mind as the worst Christmas song ever (what the hell is Christmas-y about selfishness?).

UGH.

[Niceguy1]

61. I love the original

, I mever have gotten into any of the remakes of the classics

[dipsydoodle]

69. Agree entirely

[Niceguy1]

114. she has the prettest voice

This years favorite for me

[Aerows]

74. I'm not feeling it

I don't like the message behind the song, either.

[Niceguy1]

75. it was written by a woman, too

[Aerows]

76. I don't care who wrote it

Not a fan. Christmas isn't about selfishness.

[LiberalElite]

29. Tossup between

White Christmas and Holly Jolly Christmas (yecch)

[XemaSab]

30. 12 days of christmas

It's only ever sung badly and ironically.

[KansDem]

107. I voted "Other" with "12 Days" tied with "Little Drummer Boy."

"12 Days" just goes on and on. And even worse are the instrumental versions. On and on. And the arranger seems to always give Day 5 to the brass section. Get it? "Five golden rings" = color of brass?

But "Little Drummer Boy" should be renamed "Little Bummer Boy" Very bland and lacks any interest whatsoever!

[LuvLoogie]

31. Deck the Halls is the only Christmas Carol on the list.

[Jenoch]

117. And Jingle Bells isn't even a Christmas song.

It was written for a Thanksgiving program in 1857.

http://www.jingle-bells-lyrics.com/

[kskiska]

136. You're absolutely right.

The rest may be Christmas "songs," but are not carols.

[JimDandy]

32. Good King Wenceslas

Ugh. And that's being nice.

[CTyankee]

65. are you old enough to remember Pogo's version of this?

Good king, Sauerkrauer, look out
on his feets uneven...



Then there's his Deck us all with Boston Charlie, another favorite when I was young...

[JimDandy]

99. I don't know.

I've seen the strip in the past, just didn't read it. More of a Calvin and Hobbs and Bloom County fan.

[Shrike47]

102. Walla Walla wash in Kalamazoo!

Norah's freezing on the trolley,...

I'm that old.

[CTyankee]

106. gawd, me too!

Every Christmas there would be a Pogo strip singing that song! It was a ritual to find it. Kinda reassuring in a way...

[LuvLoogie]

33. Happy Holidays!

[freshwest]

34. Which one of those was in the choir you used to sing in?

I'm tired of all those pop xmas songs.

[gopiscrap]

43. None of them

I sang for the Vatican and the stuff we did there was serious shit!

[freshwest]

95. So you sang in Latin?

[gopiscrap]

115. I do if I get paid

I sang in Latin, French and German well before I ever sang in English

[freshwest]

116. TY, saw in another thread that you sing in many different languages. n/t

[murielm99]

35. I like Christmas carols.

What I hate is polls like this one.

[ellenfl]

36. never heard christmas shoes before now. definitely not. my favorites?

not christmas carols but music of the season . . . halleleujah chorus by quincy jones with various other artists and anything by transiberian orchestra.

[stopbush]

37. Little Drummer Boy.

[doc03]

39. Little Drummer Boy n/t

[2naSalit]

40. Other...There are several on the list

that I despise and a few I can still tolerate.

[Jamaal510]

44. I don't have any I hate,

but I can't really relate to most of them because I'm never anywhere that snows on Christmas!

[Quantess]

46. The one with the stupid lyrics.

No, not that one, I mean the one about the snowman that says "are you married?" and you'll say no dear, but you can do the job when you're in town.

That one irritates the shit out of me.

[treestar]

92. Winter Wonderland

That's one of the ones I don't like. Even our church choir sang it.

[LeftishBrit]

48. Of those listed, 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas'

Not because the song is so bad in itself, but because it has contributed to the exasperating idea that Christmas has GOT to be white, or else it Is Not Christmas.

Several others that are not the list aggravate me more; e.g. 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'; 'Having a Simply Wonderful Christmastime' (not Paul McCartney's finest moment!) and that dreadful one from the 70s, 'I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day'.

[AngryOldDem]

50. These are Christmas carols?

More like Christmas pop schlock.

That said, I'm surprised McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" hasn't come up at least once. That usually gets dumped on a lot here around this time of year.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. Little Drummer Boy......aggggghhh! The Xmas equivalent of "Bolero" in Boredom.

White Christmas....a real snore.

Wonderful Christmastime is booooring. Not Sir Paul's finest song.

A friend of mine had a tape of old Xmas songs she needed to have transferred to CD.

I heard a couple of funny ones on there: Rusty Chevrolet, and one about Santa ("He's everywhere! He's everywhere!&quot giving a kid "guitar lessons and a full-color eight-by-ten picture of Bo Diddley, suitable for framing"!!!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

52. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is depressing as hell.

If you think about it too much. And knowing what a messed-up life Judy Garland led doesn't help any, since she sang it in "Meet Me in Saint Louis".

Why don't the conservatives ever complain about "don we now our gay apparel"??? Huh???

[NBachers]

53. I absolutely despise Little Drummer Boy - weak, lame, and cloyingly saccharine pseudowhimsical

[Princess Turandot]

54. Feliz friggin' Navidad

It's like a demonic cross between an earwhig and Bolero. (And an ear worm to boot.)

[boston bean]

56. .

[annabanana]

55. One year I was in labor on Dec. 24th... There was this LOOP

of Christmas songs on the intercom. There is some pain involved with all the standards for me.

Another year my Dad passed away on Dec. 23, and now my sweetie is in the hospital... and I wonder what I've done to kick up this kind of karma..., Christmaswise

[Shrike47]

57. Little Drummer Boy. Too many a rump pa pums.

[KansDem]

108. Yeah, and whoever wrote the tune must not have ever played...

...a drum around an infant.

"Smiling" does not come to mind...

[Raine]

66. UGH, no question about it ... Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer! nt

[LWolf]

70. None.

I do my best not to hate things. Hate is counter-productive and destructive to the hater.

I admit that sometimes it's a struggle not to hate, but christmas carols are nowhere in the universe of things I struggle not to hate.

I like almost all, and can tolerate those I care less for. Music is art. Music is speech. I don't need to hate it.

[K.O. Stradivarius]

81. Jingle Bells by the barking dogs

[TlalocW]

82. Do You Hear What I Hear

Because of the line, "A child, a child shivers in the cold/Let us bring him silver and gold." Right, and these are the 3 Wise Men? What are you going to do - stack bars of silver and gold around the son of God to warm him up? And don't tell me that Joseph and Mary can use the gold/silver to buy a blanket. It's CHRISTMAS! All the stores are closed!

Now that we've warmed him up with pieces of freezing metal, here's some shepherd kid with a drum to keep him awake!

TlalocW

[distantearlywarning]

85. LOL!

No newborn infant in the history of the world anywhere ever needed a drum solo as a gift.

[FrodosPet]

129. I disagree!

EVERY newborn infant in the history of the world anywhere needs a drum solo as a gift!

[distantearlywarning]

83. "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time"

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. On and on, ad nauseum, until I want to claw my ears off.

[treestar]

93. +1

bad melody too

[laundry_queen]

110. yes, it is bad. I hate that song.

I'm not a fan of anything McCartney (something about his singing and his melodies are nails on a chalkboard to me) but this song especially irks me. Probably because they play it a zillion times on the radio every Christmas. At least with a regular song, you hear it like crazy for a few months then you rarely hear it again. This song comes back to haunt me every friggen year.

[superpatriotman]

86. Felix Navidad

Grating

[Egalitarian Thug]

87. Little drummer boy, especially Bing Crosby's version. n/t

[NoGOPZone]

89. I was stuck in line at a deli on CHristmas Eve where they had a dancing Santa

on the shelf playing Jingle Bell Rock. The got annoying real quick.

[HughBeaumont]

90. Happy X-Mas (War is Over)

Hate, Hate, HATE that annoying and depressing downer of a song no matter who sings it. I just get visions of funerals, crying and dying/dead people whenever I hear it. "Hey, It's CHRISTMAS!! Let's all cry and mourn and overdose on barbituates, YEAH!!!"

Runners up:

Pretty much any Christmas song recorded after 1989 - no overproduced, over-embellished Mariah, Whitney, Celiene, Vanessa or any vocalist named Michael or Josh (unless it's Homme) in my life, thanks.

Little Drummer Boy. DUMBEST song ever. "Uh, kid? Ixnay on the snare, dumbass, baby's sleeping . . ."

Gayle Peavey's "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". Yet another reason to loathe the 1950s.

ANYthing by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. TSO is like hummus - you're either like the diahrrea-like substance or you don't, there is no in-between. "Dial it down" is just not in TSO's repetoire.

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. Great labor-friendly musician, but someone give this guy some Ex-Lax on this one already.

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings" - Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McClahlan (?). Came utterly close to getting my "worst" vote. Anything that comes out of the most Schwebels band in history has me running for the off button to begin with, but this one is just cringe-inducing horrible.

"Please Come Home For Christmas" - The Eagles. The only way this could be ruined more is if Glen Frey and not Don Henley sang it.

"Grandpa Got Runned Over by a John Deere" - Cletus T Judd. Just . .. shut it, slapass.

[treestar]

91. I dislike most of the secular ones

It doesn't have to do with religion, just that the tunes tend to be cutesy.

[Squinch]

94. Santa Baby

[3catwoman3]

96. All these responses..

...and not one mention of Dominic The Christmas Donkey? Surely I can't be the only person who has heard this dreadful song.

[MH1]

97. So many excellent choices.

But the grandma hate has to win this poll.

[Paladin]

104. "Carol of the Bells"

3600 words, none of them intelligible.....

[raging moderate]

109. Grandma got run over by a reindeer?

After she shopped, wrapped, decorated, cleaned, baked, and cooked most of what was enjoyed at Christmas time? One year, my husband kept singing this song and getting my son to sing it over and over again. Finally, I led my daughter in a rousing chorus of "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Reindeer." My son looked shocked, and my husband looked annoyed, and they stopped their little tuneless marathon. It was a relief in more ways than one.My daughter and I are the family members who actually can sing!

[Demo_Chris]

111. EVERY Christmas song by the Beatles. Also, 12 days and Little Drummer Boy. nt

[Earth_First]

113. Dominick the Donkey or I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. nt

[Liberal_Dog]

118. "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

Just awful.

[hrmjustin]

119. I detest It's a Holly Jolly Christmas.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

120. Alvin and the Chipmunks "The Christmas Song"

[WinkyDink]

121. A SONG is not necessarily a CAROL.

[Warren DeMontague]

123. Funny, the one about Grandma and the Reindeer is far and away my favorite.

I wonder if DU's Demographics aren't, again, at play here.

[PM Martin]

125. This piece of trash album!

http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Merry-Christmas-Carols-Mickey/dp/B000JL2XMS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387766803&sr=1-1&keywords=disney+merry+christmas+carols

[Terra Alta]

130. Christmas Shoes.

Though I wouldn't really say I hate it, it's just that every time I hear it I end up bawling like a damn baby. It's a pretty song, just very depressing, and Christmas is supposed to be a happy time of the year.

[Faryn Balyncd]

131. Stores playing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" starting in October

[Walk away]

133. "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"

That is just creepy.

[Rhythm]

135. None of these (to me) are 'carols'...

But as far as 'Christmas songs' go, that "Christmas Shoes" song stomps on my last nerve in golf shoes.

[kwassa]

138. They all suck. Just to be clear.

The modern ones are uniformly terrible, some of the medium old ones have been played to death, and if I never hear them again, that will be wonderful.

Give me Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and some of the really old carols, like hundreds of years old.