Is there a holiday song for which you harbor an irrational hatred? Here’s why I’m asking. I received Faith Hill’s Christmas album, Joy to the World, in the mail a few weeks ago but held off listening to it until yesterday. (I blame the snowflakes I saw in Happy Valley, PA last weekend with weakening my resolve to wait until after Thanksgiving.) It turns out, I kinda hate "Joy to the World." Nothing against Faith (who does particularly lovely versions of "Away in a Manger," "Silent Night, Holy Night!" and "O Holy Night!," by the way), but I just can’t get it up for a song that is neither as sweet and/or stirring as those previously mentioned, nor as naughty as Elvis’ "Santa Claus is Back in Town" (which I still maintain is the sexiest holiday song ever). The only people I actually want to hear sing "Joy to the World" are Clark W. Griswold, in Christmas Vacation, and my sister, who sings those four words sarcastically whenever the Bierly family Christmas takes a turn for the worst.
So, which holiday song can’t you stand? My mother refuses to listen to "The Christmas Song," even when Nat King Cole is singing it. That’s just wrong.
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I don’t know if this counts since it’s not a traditional Christmas song, but I cannot STAND Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time.” Atrocious.
I also loathe everything that Manheim Steamroller has done to perfectly good Christmas carols.
I don’t have any that I necessarily hate, but there is one that I wish I wasn’t attached to: “Last Christmas.” It doesn’t matter what version. The lyrics are the verbal equivalent of a wet noodle. But I admittedly end up singing it gleefully throughout the season.
I have a bit of an aversion to “Sleigh Ride,” but only because we played it endlessly in my high-school band and the French Horn part is basically four pages of oom-pahs.
OH! I can’t believe I forgot Celine Dion’s glorious contribution to holiday songs: “Gawd Blesh Ush Ev-uh-ry-wurne.” If you don’t understand the latter half of my previous sentence, then I successfully proved my point.
1. “Christmas in Hollis” – It may be classic hip hop, but it’s tacky and annoying. This means that any other hip hop xmas song is bad, too.
2. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” – This song is just in poor taste. It makes me cringe every time I hear it.
I echo the loathing for “Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime” and raise it with John Lennon’s version of “Happy Xmas(War is Over)” Yoko’s voice in the chorus is PAINFUL
Mariah Carey… “All I Want for Christmas is You”. I just heard it yesterday and wanted to vomit.
so this is christmas- ugh
simply having a wonderful crhistmas time -yuck
I hate the nana getting boffed by the reindeer. There is no such thing as a bad Nat King Cole, or Rat Pack christmas song. The greatest bad christmas song is “Father Christmas” by the Kinks. Joy, greed and honesty all wrapped up in an excellent beat.
Aw, come on! Manheim Steamroller ROCKS!!! And so do all those cheesy ’80s Christmas songs like Bryan Adams “Reggae Christmas” and Billy Squier “Christmas is a Time to Say I Love You.”
It’s not a “traditional” Christmas song, but I hear it every year: The Chipmunks’ Christmas Song. Drives me insane. A friend of mine got married last December and played a lot of Christmas music at her reception. When Alvin & Co. started up I thought I would kill her.
Um… all of them? Since they now play Christmas music in all retail locations from Halloween to Valentine’s day, I officially hate it all.
I know what you’re thinking: would I just stop already? But I have just one more, one that I used to love as an 8-year-old, but now in adulthood I look back and cringe. That holiday song is “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses.
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
I can’t say anymore.
I’m a Christmas song lover, but…I can’t stand that Paul McCartney song…and Ave Maria, it’s just so loooooong…
I HATE THIS SONG!! “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”