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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLEAST favorite Christmas song?
As in a Christmas tune you hate?
For me, it's "Away In A Manger."
I know it's a kids' song.
But are our kids really that stupid?
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)I love Away in a Manger
Paladin
(28,272 posts)First time I'd heard Michael Jackson squeal it in years. It still sucks.
snpsmom
(684 posts)"pah rum pah pum pum?" Spare me.
Big Blue Marble
(5,150 posts)We are not alone. There is a Facebook page to see how long you can
avoid it. I have already been tagged by December third.
snpsmom
(684 posts)I have been playing xmas music for my students, but I get to fast forward past the ones I don't like
Archae
(46,345 posts)But Mannheim Steamroller did a fairly decent version of it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)teach1st
(5,935 posts)who likes "Drummer Boy." I guess it's a childhood memory thing.
northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)I hate anything the Chipmunks sing.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)House of Roberts
(5,182 posts)I actually leave stores if it plays while I am shopping.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Followed by 'Away In A Manger'
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Harker
(14,034 posts)by four skilled cellists. Best version I've heard.
northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)I think it has to do with the childhood songs we learn first.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)blm
(113,091 posts).
Freedomofspeech
(4,227 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Because once you go down that road....
underpants
(182,877 posts)Regardless of who sings it.
That song is the worst...
Doreen
(11,686 posts)randr
(12,414 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)blm
(113,091 posts)Blah
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,144 posts)There's an English and American version.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Its origins are murky but it's generally accepted that it dates from America in the late 1800s.
Nonetheless, it is sung in many Christian denominations by their general congregation. As a some-time church musician, that's been my experience, anyway.
Harker
(14,034 posts)Or maybe "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." The demanding of figgy pudding is disturbing.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)But I have to agree with you-"A Wonderful Christmastime" was, and still remains, an embarrassment!
I don't whether Paul was trying to even the score with John and Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)", but he clearly didn't.
Harker
(14,034 posts)Still can't muster up a pass for Sir Paul, though...
John Fante
(3,479 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)I'm so glad I'm not alone!!!
I hate that song, just hate it!
Harker
(14,034 posts)being sung by a woman. No improvement. Were it not a famous writer's song, who would bother covering it?
Coventina
(27,172 posts)it never would have been inflicted upon the world.
It has zero lyrical or melodic interest, all it has is inane repetition.
Damn you, Paul!
Harker
(14,034 posts)so I've been listening to them for a long time. The older I get, the more I appreciate the synergy and the texture they presented as a band, as I'm not a particularly big fan of any one of them as a solo artist.
You captured it well - damn you, Paul, indeed.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)They were before my time, and I wasn't exposed to them as a young person because my parents forbade rock and roll in the house.
Now that I'm middle-aged, and married to a Beatles fan, I can recognize the incredible entity that they were.
I think they are THE definition of gestalt = together they were something none could achieve on their own.
It's very sad that they broke up, and a tragedy that Lennon was murdered so young when he had so much more to do.
But, we're incredibly lucky that we have the body of work that they did produce.
Paul McCartney on his own is just.....kind of sad. Yes, he did produce some decent work, but none of it is the quality of his work with the Beatles.
Harker
(14,034 posts)to generations as yet unborn says a lot about the value of their work.
It's never too late to find music that speaks to you!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)ploppy
(2,162 posts)Just yuck.
Srkdqltr
(6,317 posts)My 8 year old granddaughter loves it. She may not come to my house until after Christmas. (Just kidding about coming to my house). I was humming it just now. Way to old for this LOL.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)rampartc
(5,435 posts)and any variation.
Harker
(14,034 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)It's monotonous. And most people don't even know that the 12 days are AFTER Xmas.
Archae
(46,345 posts)bif
(22,745 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)Harker
(14,034 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)
not the Barking Dogs barking Jingle Bells.
Archae
(46,345 posts)MFM008
(19,818 posts)I like more traditional even renaissance music.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)They all sound like funeral dirges to me.
TlalocW
(15,391 posts)I know technically it's not a Christmas song, but the only time they play that abomination is Xmas-time.
Christmas Shoes (on YouTube there's a great animation set to a Patton Oswalt routine walking us through the song).
Anything by Pentatonix but especially, "Hallelujah," which is NOT an Xmas song. Don't put non-Xmas songs on your damn Xmas albums!
Michael Buble's entire oeuvre. You see how he's holding that present in the picture below? He's FARTING ON IT, and that is symbolic of what he does to music.
TlalocW
Polybius
(15,476 posts)I have in in my "Christmas" playlist, and for some reason I only enjoy listening to it in December.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)to the creepy winter songs list.
TlalocW
(15,391 posts)But a couple Xmases ago, that was THE song to play on all 3 stations that switched to Xmas music. It was like they were all watching me for when I got in my car. "Okay, TlalocW is going out to his car... cue up, 'Santa Baby!'" "Which version?" "Any of the 5 we have is fine! Just cue it up!"
I describe the Madonna version as Madonna imitating Cyndi Lauper diong a Betty Boop impersonation.
TlalocW
LeftishBrit
(41,210 posts)In both cases, because I don't want a white snowy Christmas! It's OK in places where it's supposed to be white at that time, but in southern England, it becomes a slippery slushy dangerous mess.
Also not a fan of 'Having a Simply Wonderful Christmastime' (not Paul McCartney's finest hour).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It really sounds like he just pulled that one out of his ass at the last minute or something.
Harker
(14,034 posts)for a lousy retail outlet commercial.
Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)(I'm trying not to)
trev
(1,480 posts)But--just not to be totally negative--my favorite is Oh Holy Night, especially when sung slowly by a baritone.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)spooky3
(34,476 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)What would Cindy Lou Who have to say. For shame DU, for shame.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Guess I've heard them too often for too long. It's sad, really. I'm all bah humbug over the songs.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Harker
(14,034 posts)could have been nice, but one can't unhear the original.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)It would be easier for me to come up with a list of Xmas songs I actually like:
Silent Night
Happy Xmas
Blue Christmas (Elvis version)
That about covers it.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)And Im Pagan. 🤷🏻?♀️ There are ones Im not a fan of, The Christmas Shoes for example. But I kinda have a soft for even the more religious songs even though I am no longer a practicing Christian. I know, Im weird.
beveeheart
(1,370 posts)single song because that's all they play from Thanksgiving to Christmas. It's several years later now and there are many I still can't stand to hear.
LW1977
(1,236 posts)Christmas With The Devil by Spinal Tap is the best
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)"We're rich rock stars, don't you love us! Don't you love us?"
Little Drummer Brat.
White Christmas no matter who sings it.
And by Decembrr Twenty Oneth I'll be sick of all of them.
Wolf
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Three examples" Manheim Steamroller's "Deck the Halls"; Elmo & Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"; and Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Carol of the Bells" were all really cool when they first appeared. 10,000 times later, not so much.
Then there are songs that some people love and others just hate: "Dominick the Donkey," "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," "Christmas in Hollis," and "Mi Burrito Sabanero" are examples of polarizing songs. You love em or hate em.
My least favorites:
Amy Grant's "Grown Up Christmas List" - it tries too hard
Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" - it hardly tries at all
Lou Monte's "Dominick the Donkey" - I'm on the "can't stand it" side of that one.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)In 'Love Actually'.
Just crazy.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)"Ding, Dong, Ding, Dong" "Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas"
And about 14,000 other words, sung really fast so you can't understand any of them. Yuck.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)I don't know what it is about that song, but it throws me into a rage from the very first note. It's dreadful.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)about anything in the Albert Finney Scrooge musical... with memorable tunes such as, "I Hate Christmas".
LSFL
(1,109 posts)I hate it on every level. I hate the Universe for allowing such a monstrous abomination to exist.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)(Although I'm a Grinch when it comes to holiday music. Too many years in retail.)
Pendrench
(1,358 posts)In fact, my family and I refer to this as the "Dead Shoes Song"
FSogol
(45,525 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)and here he is!