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What are your Least Favorite Christmas songs?

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December 21, 2025, 10:34 AM
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What are your Least Favorite Christmas songs?
The ones you can't stand. Mine:

That hippopotamus song.
Michael Jackson (in the Jackson 5) singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". "I'm gonna tell my dad". Ugh. Roll Eyes


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December 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
PHPaul
This time of year in the stores? Pretty much all of them.




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December 21, 2025, 11:02 AM
oddball
I won't include renditions of standards, there are tons of them, but as far as standalone songs, these two I consider just horrible-







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December 21, 2025, 11:34 AM
P250UA5
My wife cannot stand Feliz Navidad




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December 21, 2025, 12:52 PM
ugeesta
The one by Paul McCartney. Absolutely abhor it.




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December 21, 2025, 01:29 PM
Prefontaine
All of them. The entire genre.



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December 22, 2025, 12:21 PM
YellowJacket
quote:
Originally posted by ugeesta:
The one by Paul McCartney. Absolutely abhor it.

yep. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time is the worst song, not just Christmas song, of all time.

Amazing how someone who could write some of the best songs ever could also write the worst.



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December 22, 2025, 12:33 PM
BigSwede
My wife hates this one




December 22, 2025, 01:23 PM
Lt CHEG
The damn Christmas Shoes song is unquestionably the worst Christmas song ever. I believe playing that song to prisoners of war is specifically outlawed by recent revisions to the Geneva Convention. It is borderline a crime against humanity.




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December 22, 2025, 03:35 PM
BMR
I pretty much dislike all of them, but when Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" comes on a rock station I can't change the station quick enough.



December 22, 2025, 04:50 PM
egregore
quote:
What are your Least Favorite Christmas songs?

After being played in an endless loop since early November, just about all of them.





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December 22, 2025, 05:16 PM
patw
ALL OF THEM. If I hear Christmas music I turn the channel as fast as I can.
December 22, 2025, 06:47 PM
Sig Marine
For me, the one about grandma getting run over by a reindeer. Never liked the song, never will


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December 22, 2025, 07:31 PM
Todd Huffman
I'd much rather listen to my tinnitus than ever hear Mariah Carey sing her Christmas song.




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December 22, 2025, 07:56 PM
k5blazer
Having worked in retail in my youth I can’t stand Christmas music.
December 22, 2025, 08:06 PM
dsiets
I had Xfinity and I would put the Christmas music channel on for my mom.
It would play over, and over.


December 22, 2025, 09:15 PM
sigfreund
I have an unfortunate tendency to actually listen to lyrics, and those of “The Little Drummer Boy” are so ridiculously absurd as to be in the Hall of Fame Grand Champion category for absurdity.




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December 23, 2025, 06:06 AM
Patriot
The 12 days of Christmas…

Repetitive swill that drones on and on and on…

I feel like I am in a Chinese torture camp with the only thing missing being drips of water on my forehead


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December 23, 2025, 08:14 AM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by YellowJacket:
quote:
Originally posted by ugeesta:
The one by Paul McCartney. Absolutely abhor it.

yep. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time is the worst song, not just Christmas song, of all time.


Facts.

One of the very few songs (of any genre) that I absolutely despise.
December 23, 2025, 11:52 AM
CoolRich59
The John Lennon one. It's worse than fingernails on chalkboard.


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