The Chipmunks

now I'm singing the damn "rockin around the CMas tree" song!!! Even reading that gave me the earworm!!! aaaggghhh...make it stooooop-ppp

I can’t stand that one,—-from the bottom of my heart.

Although to not be a TOTAL Scrooge during the Christmas season I MUST watch "Its a wonderful life" & "A Christmas story". Honorable mentions to "Die Hard"

It is on our "Watch Every Year" list.

we watch it every year. a rudimentary search Roku channel (free), tubi, Prime (from $1.99), fawesome, plutotv and xumo and freevee.

I also have never heard of Dominic the Donkey.
Least favorite Christmas song is probably Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

I try to get away whenever it comes on

They aren’t, they’re stupid and annoying. I also hate “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Do You Hear What I Hear.” Bad music with even worse arrangements.

It was on the store PA and playing WAY too loud, and I just walked out without saying why. I actually went to the other Shoe Carnival and it was peaceful. I found some work shoes I needed as I wasn’t even Christmas shopping in the first place.

are also songs I detest.

My dad also detested Drummer Boy.

It's been so long since I worked retail, but just the constant loop of them in the store for a whole month was enough to drive anyone mad! (so...ALLL of them!)

Two of my wife's favorite stations went to Christmas music on November 1st!
I've been hearing it for a month now.
Consider yourself lucky that it's just starting now around you.

Feliz Navidad drives me nuts. It gets stuck in my head. I do like Frank Sinatra Christmas songs like White Christmas and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. My dad had a singing voice similar to his, and he would sing bits of his songs around the holiday.

and symphonic versions
Our local all classical station starts sticking them in here and there around Dec 1, and gradually increases them as we get closer to the 25th. It is peaceful and relaxing.

Listen to it on the website or on the app as well as a regular radio

This station is now part of the Public Radio group in North Texas. It was the first radio station in Dallas

The Twelve Days of Christmas.

I'm gonna have to make room on my worst Christmas Song list.

12 years is more like it.

The year my daughter was 9, (1993) our social chairman decided we needed a great fun thing which included our kids. So she entered us in the Fort Worth Parade of Lights Christmas Parade. The theme for the parade was "The 12 Days of Christmas" The only requirement was every float or group had to had lights on it/them. (all of us wore those little battery operated mini light strings )

So we decided we were going to BE the 12 Days of Christmas - all of them! We had a flatbed hooked to a truck, decorated it with lights and greenery for all the small kiddos with some moms to keep the little ones on the flat and standing up in the middle was one of our members who was quite pregnant and wearing a bird suit.
The Partridge in the Pear Tree....
FOllowed by"

Two Ninja Turtle Doves (a pair of 9 yr old boys in Ninja Turtle outfits)
Three French Men (3 members dressed up like French men with berets, etc) They said "Oh it was supposed to be HENS?)
Four Calling Birds Four women with handsets from princess phones, dialing and talking
Five Golden Hula Hoops Five women with gold spraypainted hula hoops
Six Geese A a laying: Straw wreaths around their waists, with large fake eggs glued on
Seven Swans A Swimming: Feather boas and snorkel gear of course
Eight Maids a Milking Milkmaid outfits - 6 women and 2 men - and the men were in hilarious drag. We had an extra character: a woman in a cow suit
Nine Drummers.. toy snare drums and band hats
10 pipers... bubble flutes
11 ladies dancing: All of our girls wore their recent dance recital outfits and high kicked it all the way with cartwheels
12 Lords a Leaping A row of our men, wearing white longjohns with red and green silk boxers over them. When we sang the song they would all jump up together and yell "LEAP!" (the purpose this group was two fold: 1. being silly with the theme along with the rest of us and 2. Making sure none of the dancing girls got separated from us. In all our subsequent parade appearances, the "Back Row" of these 12 men became a fixture.

We won First Prize in the Walking Unit Division. We still sing it every year in our class the Sunday before CHristmas, and we act out our parts. We are often joined by our kids and their kids to sing carols and eat Christmas cookies. (We did the parade 3 more times and won first place in 2 of them)

We marched in the parade 3 more years, and collected two more First Place Ribbons.

I remember learning "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" when I was seven years old, and I always signed up for the choir and glee club in elementary and high school. On the other hand, Elvis Presley's version of "Blue Christmas" is probably the worst rendition of any song ever by anyone. Actually, I don't like that song at all. A sad song has no place in a joyous season.

Thankfully I don’t think they play that one as often as they used to.
Unnecessary covers - “Happy Xmas War is Over” I only want to hear the John and (off-key) Yoko version. Same with “Last Christmas” - the song is bad enough as it is but only George Michael should be singing it.

I agree with all your picks. Maroon 5's version of "Happy Xmas" is especially putrid.

Breaking down that song. Look for it on YT.

. . .annoying as hell. Seems every fucking store has that song on radio.

I keep hoping that donkey will kick him in the parts that'll make him stop that god-forsaken drumming!

I imagine that poor Mary finally got the kid put down and he's almost asleep, then a-hole shows up. She'd be justified in putting that drum where the Star of Bethlehem couldn't find it.

I hear it 4-5 times during my shift at the market. I should receive workers comp for my misery.

Worst. EVER.

the ones sung by Karen Carpenter. She was so good she could make a bad song worth listening to.

Holly Jolly Christmas makes me want to scream

Put them together and it's a major injury to my ears.

The Little Drummer Boy.

Gagg...

the various comedic ones were funny. Back Then

It gives me a head and jaw ache. All the rest I can tolerate. Some even make me smile. My favorite Christmas hymn is, It came Upon A Midnight Clear. 🎄🎄🎄

decision.

As far as I'm concerned, they're ALL annoying. We've cancelled xms this year, I just don't have any holiday spirit. I lost it on November 5th.
I'm just putting one foot in front of the other.

...followed very closely by the utterly inane Dominic one, as well as Grandma Got Run Over.

All 3 of these are as noxious as the universally reviled Kars For Kids commercial.

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer -- it was amusing the first, maybe even the second time you hear it.

Little Drummer Boy.

But... Isn't anybody here going to defend the Chipmunks song, "Christmas, Don't Be Late?"

That is the greatest song! My sisters and I used to bond over that song every Christmas. It's just so cute. I never get tired of it. (Also, be aware there are two versions--the perfect original and some newer fake version that is just a little bit off.)

And you know the part where David scolds Alvin for being "a little flat"? I've listened so carefully and I don't think Alvin is flat. I think it's just a power move by Dave because Alvin is the "star" and it's gone to his head.

rethink the song.

Also:
Santa Baby
Burl Ives, Holly Jolly Christmas
All I want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
I'll Have a Blue Christmas Without You
Christmas at the Airport
Baby It's Cold Outside

Some that I like:

Angels We Have Heard on High
Oh Holy Night
Joy to the World
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Sleigh Ride
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

think I have just heard it way too much over the years.

Agree with others on Drummer Boy and 12 years - er days of christmas

O Holy Night, because that is a beautiful song.

by Mariah Carey. Blurg!!

will, year round, randomly get stuck in my head

our way to the store, school , etc. I liked it because it made him happy. I don't have to do that any more.

ugh
grandmother got run over by a reign deer. ugh.

But topping my list is "Grandma got run over by a reindeer".
And "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas".

brought me close to ripping the radio out of the dashboard and throwing it out the window. About the same for the grandma song. But the one that really annoys me is Lennon's Christmas song that happens to be a blatant Stewball ripoff; he had more than enough talent to create his own melody, and whenever that song comes on the radio I sing the lyrics to Stewball.

Having said all that, I'm one of those who genuinely loves Christmas music, and time of year doesn't matter. We grew up with parents' collection of 78s, and they were played every holiday season until I started high school in the '60s. Since then I've acquired my own collection, many found at thrift shops. And if I'm having a bad day in July I'm likely to bring myself out of it by listening to those vinyls. An absolute favorite: Gustav Holst's Christmas Day.

Merry happy, y'all!

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that are terrible and rip offs. Merry Christmas to you also.

It's just the same two verses over and over and over and it never ends.

Gawd...is that one stupid.

But a few on my hate list
Christmas Shoes
Baby, It's Cold Outside (not even sure how that became an Xmas song - raising the possibility of roofying a drink isn't very festive)
Anything by Michael Buble just because I hate him
Ditto for Harry Connick, Jr.

Also I want to find Pentatonix and slap them over and over while yelling, "Leonard Cohen's, 'Hallelujah,' is NOT an Xmas song!"

What bugs me is that one song seems to be the one that's picked every year by the two stations that do Xmas music in Kansas City to play to death, and obviously they're watching me to see when I get in my car to start playing it. Feliz Navidad, Santa Baby, Santa Don't Be Late, etc. have been some of the ones in the past.

Just sayin’

Not a Christmas song, but "Baby It's Cold Outside" is creepy too.

And having played countless holiday concerts, I can say without a doubt that I dislike all of them.

Especially that damn Mariah Carey disaster.....

Yeah, I know it’s Paul McCartney. But still can’t stand it.

Fortunately, I've not heard it since the WKRP in Cincinnati episode where Dr. Johnny Fever played it.

After listening to Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” for the umpteenth year (Vince Guaraldi Trio, actually), I finally twigged to the fact that “My Little Drum” is a soft jazzy riff on that awful song, and I enjoy it.