I love Christmas music, but as a general rule, I cannot stand when pop singers sing Christmas music. They never sing it "straight" for lack of a better word. They are always scooping and sliding all over the place. The ones I especially hate are:

Jingle Bell Rock
Feliz Navidad
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Chipmunk Song

I do love the Charlie Brown Christmas theme.

OOOoooooHHHHhhhhh.

Rump-a-tum-tum-Rump-a-tum-tum-Rump-a-tum-tum-Rump-a-tum-tum-Rump-a-tum-tum-Rump-a-tum-tum

Shut it off! Shut it off! Please, for the love of all that is good and right with the world, shut off the Little Drummer Boy!!!!

Silver

ACK!!! As if hearing morose or silly Christmas songs aren't bad enough, I was sent a site that has countdown tickers until Christmas!! It had what to do each day, until the big day - at which time, I assume, you get to drink eggnog until you're silly and paste mistletoe on your forehead! But I did like this:

http://organizedchristmas.com/module...eindeer005.gif

And irishpipes, you are sooooo right! Take a wonderful song, give it to a celebrity, and it's a disaster! I think the only professional singers whose Christmas songs I like are Twila Paris and B.E. Taylor (both of whom are simply wonderful people - maybe that's the secret!).

Of course, Silver, you are right about the drummer boy. Drummer boys belong in armies of old, and not in a manger!

I actually like the Little Drummer Boy, even if it isn't theologically sound...

I HATE "Do you hear what I hear".

Edited to say:

I also hate:
Jingle Bell Rock
Feliz Navidad
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Chipmunk Song

Bumping. :D

I forgot to add "Step Into Christmas," by Elton John. Elton, I love you, but this song just sucks.
Also "My Only Wish This Year" - Britney Spears
And "Do You Hear What I Hear"

All I Want for Christmas is You - Amy Grant How Cheesy

I do like Kylie Minogue's new version of Santa Baby...but mainly because I didn't even know it wasn't the old version until I saw the artist displayed on the screen at Media Play.

I hate most modern renditions of classics. Britney, you shouldn't be singing Christmas carols. Stick to pop trash.

I despise "Blue Christmas" by Elvis. Ick.

OK... just mere weeks later I have developped an overwhelming love for Do You Hear What I Hear and Jingle Bell Rock. I no longer have a deep abiding love for Little Drummer Boy. More like a passing fondness.

The Twelve Months of Christmas -- oh, wait, It's the Twelve Days of Christmas.

It only seems like months (of agony) every time I hear it.

I have to say that, if I hear "Dominic the Donkey" one more time this season, I may have to hurt a disc jockey.

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas is also on my list of Most Hated - I've hardly heard any decent songs this year, so I finally broke out an older Twila Paris CD and started to smile.


And just because I do have a very sick sense of humor, if anyone has the words for "Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire (hot sauce dripping from their toes..."), I would be eternally grateful!

At the place I volunteer at, the clients are mostly Mexicans who don't speak English, so they played Mexican Christmas carols. They were in all Spanish and set to a salsa beat....funky music, but I like traditional better. :)

If I hear "Mary Did You Know?" one more time, I think I'll scream. I think the DJs at our Christmas station are obsessed.

Ours was ever "Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire" and "Winter Wonderland". I cannot be held responsible for what I'd do if I heard either of these songs one more time.

Aww, that's one of my favorites. LOL

Atlanta has a station that plays nothing but carols from mid-November on. This year they were obsessed with Andy Williams..."It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year":( , "Happy Holidays", etc. I think it was because he did a concert here a couple of weeks ago (it was at 5 PM, what was with that?) I turned off the radio a whole lot during this season!