Who else hates Christmas music with a passion?

[CalebHayes]

Man I do! It follows you around and there are only like 5 songs and they are all bad. I have never heard someone make one sound good. And thing about Christmas that is a song is always bad!!!!

[Kazak]

1. Not me...

Flaming humanist that I am (heck, it is all just metaphor afterall, isn't it?), I'll belt 'em out one after another.

BTW, Sufjan Steven's new Christmas boxed set can be streamed free here for your enjoyment: http://www.asthmatickitty.com/suf_xmas/suf_xmas.php for anyone who's interested. :)

[SeattleGirl]

2. Not me. I love Christmas music, but to each their own.

:hi:

[Nicole]

3. It depends

The stuff on the radio & piped in every store during Nov. & Dec.? I hate with a passion.

The music they sing a cappella in a candlelit church on Christmas Eve? I love it with a passion.

The songs being sung by family & friends during Christmas parties? Depends on how much I've had to drink first. :rofl:

[hfojvt]

10. it's always kinda awkward at church

we all light candles and sing "Silent Night" and after one verse almost everyone wants to keep singing, but NOBODY KNOWS THE WORDS to the other verses! One of these years I should memorize the 2nd and third verses.

[Nicole]

13. I never thought of that

We always sang with lyric sheets or hymn books in hand.
Except for the choir, who had rehearsed & could actually sing the right words.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. Here ya go, the second and third verses of my least favorite carol:

2. Silent Night, Holy Night
Shepherds quake
At the sight
Glory streams from heaven afar
Heavenly host's sing "Alleluia"
Christ the Savior is born
Christ the Savior is born

3. Silent Night, Holy Night
Son of God
Love's pure light
Radiant beams from they holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grade
Jesus, Lord at thy birth
Jesus, Lord at they birth

I do NOT understand why so many people love this song.

[yellowdogintexas]

79. we sing it at the end of the service, once all the little candles

are lit and all lights out, Then we exit the church singing the rest of the verses. We have lyric sheets! There are so many of us it usually takes two rounds of all the verses to get us all out into the street.

Bird's eye view of Christmas Eve services: and yes this is the BEST time for the Good Christmas Music.

[ChoralScholar]

4. When I hear Paul McCartney sing

'SIMply HaaAAVing a wonderful Christmas time'

I hate it.

But otherwise, I'm a choir director, and Christmas was made for choirs... We get to do a lot of obscure stuff from the 1500s and 1600s that I enjoy.

[Redstone]

5. I wouldn't mind it so much if somebody would write some NEW songs.

The repetition gets tiresome.

Redstone

[ghostsofgiants]

27. The Darkness did...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdomRkOHl40

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Well... not All of it

http://humor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/tunes/

Scroll down just a tad and click "Twisted Christmas Radio" on the right, or pick songs from "Twisted Christmas Tunes."

I highly recommend "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear," "I Am Santa Claus," "Jingle Hells Bells" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

Edit: Forgot "Sled Zeppelin." :headbang:

[hfojvt]

7. do they have "The Twelve Pains of Christmas"?

I like "Father Christmas" by the Kinks. It's so jolly.

It has always been my hope that a heavy metal band, like Twisted Sister, Guns and Roses, or AC/DC would do a Christmas Album - something with a little more kick than Mannheim Steamroller. I seem to remember though that somebody here suggested that something like that had already been done.

[Archae]

14. How about "Little Drummer Boy" by Joan Jett?

Oh yes, it's real. :crazy:

[hfojvt]

16. I love Joan Jett

so put another dime in the jukebox baby

[Jamastiene]

68. I love that song, by her.

:D

[pokerfan]

19. Father Christmas

When I was small I believed in santa claus
Though I knew it was my dad
And I would hang up my stocking at christmas
Open my presents and Id be glad

But the last time I played father christmas
I stood outside a department store
A gang of kids came over and mugged me
And knocked my reindeer to the floor

They said:
Father christmas, give us some money
Dont mess around with those silly toys.
Well beat you up if you dont hand it over
We want your bread so dont make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys

Dont give my brother a steve austin outfit
Dont give my sister a cuddly toy
We dont want a jigsaw or monopoly money
We only want the real mccoy

Father christmas, give us some money
Well beat you up if you make us annoyed
Father christmas, give us some money
Dont mess around with those silly toys

But give my daddy a job cause he needs one
Hes got lots of mouths to feed
But if youve got one, Ill have a machine gun
So I can scare all the kids down the street

Father christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
Well beat you up if you dont hand it over
Give all the toys to the little rich boys

Have yourself a merry merry christmas
Have yourself a good time
But remember the kids who got nothin
While youre drinkin down your wine

Father christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
Well beat you up if you dont hand it over
We want your bread, so dont make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys

[hfojvt]

8. I would distinguish between Christmas music, which I mostly like

and Clausmas music, which I despise - particularly Jingle Bells Rock, Rockin around the Christmas Tree, and melacaleketonin (or however the heck that is spelled)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

40. "Jingle Bell Rock" is the best Christmas song EVER.

:P

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

52. Are you talking about "Mele Kalikimaka" by Bing Crosby?

[hfojvt]

58. yes. a horrid, horrid earworm. Cannot stand it. n/t

[auntAgonist]

9. I love Christmas music

I love Christmas. We don't go all out, trying instead to keep it to a minimum. Celebrating life and family and love. We don't spend much and we encourage our family to do the same.

aA

[pinniped]

11. I only like the stuff Phil Spector produced- Darlene Love, Ronettes,....

and the Crystals.

[Jamastiene]

12. I don't. I even love Grandma Got Runned Over By A Reindeer.

And I usually despise country music.

[SeattleGirl]

18. *giggle*

I love that song!

[zanne]

32. My mother had a stuffed reindeer that played that song...

This was in perhaps her fourth year of Alzheimer's Disease. Nothing made sense to her anymore and she was often depressed. Then, somebody gave her that reindeer for Christmas. She played it over and over again (year round) and laughed every time. She died last Spring, but that reindeer is coming out of storage for Christmas this year.

[InvisibleTouch]

49. Can't go wrong with that one!

As for the rest ... I used to hate most of it, now I don't mind so much anymore. Lots of other stuff that's more worthy of my ire.

[hfojvt]

59. How do you feel about the sequel to that song?

"Grandpa got run over by my grandma ...
she had gotten sick and tired of hearing
the song where she is hit by Santa's sleigh."

[donheld]

15. I very much do

It doesn't matter whether it's religious or not. Ok, there are a few songs I like: Rockin' Around The Xmas Tree - Brenda Lee. Chestnuts Roasting - Nat King Cole, But most I hate.

[pokerfan]

17. Denis Leary's Merry Fucking Christmas

From his Christmas special a couple of years ago:

Ol' Saint Nick's got burban breath
It's so cold you could catch your death
A cop sold me some crystal meth
It's a Merry Fucking Christmas

Everything's so Chritmassy
The streets are twinkling with frozen pee
My priest just sat on santa's knee
It's a Merry Fucking Christmas

All the kids go to bed each night to dream what santa brings 'em (brings 'em)
Unless they're jewish or muslim or some other gyp religion
Crappy toys flying off the shelves
Midgets dressed up to look like elves
Spread good cheer or burn in hell
It's a Merry Fucking Christmas

All the kids go to bed each night to dream what santa brings 'em
Unless they're jewish or muslim or some other gyp religion
Cracklin' fires to keep me warm
And my collection of asian porn
Cradle my bells and work my horn
It's a keep on truckin', last year suckin', midget chuckin', slap the puckin', how much wood could a wood chuck chuckin', Merry Fucking Christmas

[NuttyFluffers]

20. with the fire of ten thousand suns...

"ConsumerMas" music drives me up a wall. and when i thought it was bad before, after doing a few years of retail there really is no comparison. my loathing feels like it knows no bounds.

my firstborn child for the chance to play what i want over mall speakers across america during christmas. Patti Smith's "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" and Joy Division's "Exercise One" will definitely make a marked presence in that set...

[zanne]

38. So you're saying you don't like it? nt

[Skittles]

21. DON'T GET ME F***ING STARTED CALEB

IT F***ING TRAUMATIZES ME EVERY YEAR

[CalebHayes]

75. Yes!

[neweurope]

22. As long as I don't have to hear it it's ok with me *g*

It drives me nuts having to listen to it in every elevator and shop, though. I actually love singing christmas songs like any other folk music. But ONLY if I'm able to evade the public christmas noise.

-----------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[YankeyMCC]

23. Not all of it

there are two classes of xmas music I think - pop (like Rudolf the Red nose reindeer) and religious (silent night)

Most of the pop stuff doesn't immediately annoy me.

Some of the religious stuff doesn't either.

But I get sick of the pop stuff very quickly after hearing it over and over again. A bit ironic, since I'm an atheist, the religious themed stuff that I do like (silent night is beautiful musically to my armature ear) don't get on my nerves as fast as the pop stuff does.

[sbj405]

24. Yes. As a good warrior against Christmas, I hate it.

I don't want to rock around the Christmas tree or have holly jolly anything.

[Fox Mulder]

25. I love Christmas music.

Just don't tell anybody. ;)

[Orsino]

26. It's the music *without* passion that I hate...

...so a lot of Christmas tunes are great.

[LostinVA]

28. I love it -- and I don't ID as Christian anymore

[Lowell]

29. I hate christmas music

all of it. I'm not very fond of christmas either. It is the most plastic, commercial holiday of the year.

[GirlinContempt]

30. Me.

Yesterday, my boss put it on at work. By the end of the day I was ready to kill someone. I think I'm gonna have to have a chat with her about that. Last year we had no christmas music and that's the way I likes it.

Actually Mojo Nixon, The Ramones, The Damned and others have done some pretty sweet christmas stuff, but even that gets tiring faster than normal.

[QMPMom]

31. I don't exactly hate it but I am pretty much sick of it by the time

Christmas actually comes around.

"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" is about the only one I really, really like.

But then again, I detest most religious music. I will actually plug my ears and go "la la la la la" if I hear "Amazing Grace". Funeral music, it is.

[skygazer]

33. I work retail so yes, I hate it

I used to kind of like some of it but now I hear it 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, from just before Thanksgiving right up until Christmas. That's approximately 180 hours of Christmas music, plus what I hear when I'm shopping myself. :banghead:

[haf216]

77. I feel your pain!

I hate the Christmas music that is played in my store. I work 10 to 12 hours a day and by the end of the day I ready to rip out the speakers or my hair. When I close I make them turn off the music as soon as we lock the doors. I do like good X-mas music they just don't any on they stuff they pipe in to any of the stores.

[kedrys]

34. Christmas "music" is the main reason why I don't go into stores in Decembers

unless it's an emergent emergency (like, er, getting food from the grocery store) AND I have my iPod earbuds duly screwed into my ears. With something LOUD and obnoxious playing.

Fortunately, with the internet I can get most of my family gift shopping done online.

Christmas music makes me want to get on a bus and kill everybody.

[GalleryGod]

83. Sad Post.

Good luck with that life.
:shrug:

[kedrys]

86. I'm very happy with my life, thank you

I'm very close with my family, we get together for a couple of weeks every year at Christmas time, and to me that's Christmas - not the pointless consumerism, insane behavior in stores, and the relentless aural drone of the same damn music everywhere. I'm perfectly capable of getting in the holiday spirit without all the background noise.

[Phillycat]

35. I love it! In fact, I'm listening to it right now!

:)

Check out http://www.live365.com/index.live for streaming internet radio.

[baby_mouse]

36. I love Christmas Carols but Xmas rawk music is appalling

Xmas rawk music is effing awful.

[havocmom]

37. Thanks for the reminder...

Time to fire up the CD player!

Deck the halls with reverberations of Mannheim Steamroller

Fa La lala la lalala laaaaa

and throw in lots of bells

[WritingIsMyReligion]

39. I love Christmas music, and I'm not even a good Christian.

You may revoke my atheist/agnostic card now. :P

[leftofthedial]

41. have yourself a merry little christmas

besides, they can never decide if the weather outside is frightful or all is calm, all is bright

it's bogus

[jakefrep]

42. I like Christmas music....

....but I hate hearing it before Thanksgiving.

[Dulcinea]

47. Agreed.

I like Christmas music except for that horrid barking dog rendition of "Jingle Bells."

[zappa_parappa]

43. You've obviously never heard jimmy buffetts christmas island

with the hit song "Ho ho ho and a bottle of rum"

Also notable:

Tom Petty - Christmas all over again
Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus is coming to town
Elton John - Step into Christmas

[havocmom]

44. Leon Redbone has some fun stuff too

[annonymous]

45. I only hate certain X-mas songs

The one I really hate is called The Christmas Shoes. I also hate I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. I highly recommend the Twisted Christmas CD's as an antidote.

[jmm]

50. I despise the Christmas shoes song

Why should Jesus care what shoes his mother wears when she dies? That song makes me want to throw stuff :argh:.

I almost hate it as much as the three hundred billion versions of Little Drummer Boy.

[TommyO]

46. Listening to Los Straitjackets'

'Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets, so not me.

I will admit that I tend to go for less traditional Christmas music, but still love some of the old standards as well.

[Rob H.]

93. Nice! That's what I was going to mention

Normally I can't stand Christmas music*, but Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets is such a fun CD that I can't help but like it. It's the only Christmas CD I own.



*It probably wouldn't bother me if stores and radio stations would wait a little later than the day after Thanksgiving to start playing it.

[undeterred]

48. I don't hate it on Christmas- but I hate it in November

[njdemocrat106]

76. Definitely agree

The day after Thanksgiving, all the radio stations near me pretty much play Christmas music 24/7. Whatever happened to the days when you only heard the stuff as you drew closer to Christmas?

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

51. Bah humbug.

I actually really do like Carol of the Bells though.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

62. About Carol of the Bells

It's based on a Ukrainian folk song that has nothing to do with either Christmas or bells.

It's called Shedryk Shedryk, and it's about a swallow flying into a barnyard on the eve of the Epiphany and telling the farmer that he will have good luck throughout the year.

[Left Is Write]

53. I could listen to traditional and old standard Christmas songs...

as sung by Frank, Dean, Sammy and Bing over and over and over and over.

Dean Martin's voice, especially, is like buttah. He makes everything sound good.

[azmouse]

57. Nat King Cole too! n/t

[Left Is Write]

64. Indeed!

[Blue_In_AK]

54. ME...

...and my husband loves it. This is one of the very few things we disagree on in life. I just grit my teeth and bear it.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

55. I loooove it

My favorite type are the old Jesus based carols, and I'm not even a practicing Christian. and I'm not a big fan of modern or cutesy christmas music. If its a really nice carol sung by a choir, I start to tear up.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

56. I get a gut wrenching reaction when I hear this crap on the radio or on

TV. :puke:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

60. I hate Christmas Muzak, as well as "Silent Night" and "Away in a Manger," but

I absolutely love the Renaissance motets and some of the European folk carols and contemporary compositions.

There's a lot more to Christmas music than chestnuts that ought to be roasted on an open fire.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. I'm with you; and include Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Handel, and Tchaikovsky in my list

Christmas just isn't Christmas without the Nutcracker. :hi:

[ulysses]

78. yup.

I have a 3-CD set of the Boston Camerata doing early, baroque and renaissance Christmas music. It's what I bring out to ward off the "All I Want for Christmas..." crap.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

89. That's the spirit! (literally)

Fortunately, my church choir does mostly Renaissance and European traditional music, along with some works from the English cathedral hit parade for Advent and Christmas.

Another great option, especially as background music for a dinner party, is brass music from that same period from composers such as Gabrieli and Monteverdi.

Since I don't listen to any non-public radio and don't spend a lot of time in stores between Thanksgiving and Christmas (or at any other time of the year), I have been spared the "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" crap.

However, looking through catalogues of CDs, I wonder why every famous singer from Bing Crosby to the present day seems to have been compelled to record a Christmas album featuring all the same damn songs.

[ulysses]

90. I have two cds, one by the empire brass,

of arrangements of traditional Christmas music. Really nice stuff. I have a soft spot for brass ensembles anyway. :)

The Boston Camerata set includes a really nice version of "Gaudete", which I may have to go put on shortly. Sucker for vocal harmonies, I am.

Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine, gaudete!

[Mutley]

63. Some of it's not bad

That song from "Love, Actually" is kinda growing on me as I hear it several times a day at work. The "All I Want For Christmas Is You" song. (I don't know if that's the actual title)

[jmowreader]

65. In about three weeks I'll be singing "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"

at work...

and other associates will be joining in...

because we will have heard the Same Thirty Songs Over and Over Again eight hours a day, every day...

On Christmas Eve last year I was singing "Christmastime in Hell" about once an hour.

[Bullwinkle925]

66. Nope - not me. 'Bout the only thing I do LIKE about this season.

Have you heard "Christmas By the Bay" by Tim Hockenberry? Very smooth and mellow. Since I live in the SF Bay Area it really speaks to me.

[Zomby Woof]

67. I like some of it

This is the second and better of two offered by the Chicago blues indie label Alligator Records:

[Initech]

70. I can only tolerate it the last two weeks of December.

But the cool thing about Christmas music is that I can trot out my Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Kevin & Bean Christmas CDs.

[GalleryGod]

84. My L.A. family & friends would disagree 110% They say the opposite.

To wit, Christmas Music has a "Special Resonance" in Southern California.

The 3X I've spent Christmas in L.A.- it's been great.

[elocs]

71. Sorry, I love Christmas music. All kinds. n/t

[BlueStorm]

72. No I can't stand it...

There are a couple radio stations here in my city that start playing Christmas music in October. In October!!! So you can see why I get sick of it by the time the actual month comes around.

Blue

[William769]

73. Not me!

I love it!

[bridgit]

74. i know just what you need, you need Jingle Cats...

http://www.jinglecats.com

[yellowdogintexas]

80. Not before December 1. Used to be you only had 24 hrs of

holiday music on the radio starting around Dec 23rd. Now it begins before Thanksgiving is over.

I own a lot of Christmas music, classical, standards, choirs, etc. We play it a lot toward the end of the season. Especially when putting up the tree which we do not do until 2nd week in Dec.

I even get a chuckle out of Robert Earl Keen's "Dysfunctional Family Christmas" but I hate the sappy tear jerker ones. Enough sadness in this world without that.

On Christmas Eve, when we light our little candles, passing the Light of the World symbolically to one another,and sing "Joy to the World" when all are lit it is a spine tingling moment of beauty.

[GalleryGod]

85. In Philly Market,it's getting earlier and earlier.

And I say.....:applause: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause:

[fudge stripe cookays]

81. Never used to, until...

I began working at Sound Warehouse years ago. You hear the same fucking songs, over and over, done by different artists, even!

Yup, count me as a Christmas music hater.

[GalleryGod]

82. I Love it. And actually Can't get enough of it.

If you HATE it?
You've got a blown transistor somewhere.

Of course, it could be a J.A.F.O. alert,too?
:nopity:

[MissMillie]

87. I don't mind it... it's a whole month of it that I mind

one week is enough

[HughBeaumont]

88. Depends.

Sung by Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis or Perry Como - astounding and timeless.

Sung by Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, (insert random song-destroying diva here) or Bruce Springsteen - well, it's 12 gauge to the speaker time.

[LWolf]

91. I like these songs:

Winter wonderland

Ring out solstice bells

Here comes the sun...beatles. Yes, I consider it a holiday song. Along with:

Morning has broken

Let it snow

silver bells

Deck the halls

wassail song

joy to the world

greensleaves

Let there be peace on earth

Some collections I like:

My charlie brown xmas cd; all the songs.

John Denver and the muppets sing christmas; my particular favorite is miss piggy and her FIVE GOOOOOLD RINGS!

And of course, for when you have had more than enough of all the good will, "twisted christmas" by Bob Rivers.

[LeftishBrit]

92. I like some of it...

On the whole, I like traditional Christmas carols - my favourites are "The Holly and the Ivy" and "Wassail, Wassail, All Over the Town". The songs I don't like are the modern songs that sentimentalize Christmas traditions and celebrations; e.g. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"; "White Christmas"; etc. I once heard a country song that began "We celebrate, 'cause a King was born/ With Santa Claus and popcorn" and included the lines "Christmas tree and mistletoe/ Jesus loves me, that I know". Now that was the pits!

[hedgehog]

94. What about John William's Christmas songs?

Unfortunately , they got buried in Home Alone ands Home Alone 2, but they really were quite beautiful.