Least Favorite Christmas Carol
 

Does anyone here have a least favorite carol? I have been caught in traffic once too often listening to "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and I have decided I hate it! The bits about "jingle-bell-ing" and "mistletoe-ing" make me nuts and so does the part where (I guess to make it rhyme), they sing "Your friends are telling you to 'be of good cheer'" (What would you do to a friend who told you that?) Then to cap it off, there's the line "there'll be scary ghost stories"! (HUHH?) Who tells those at Christmas?

Ugh...Call me Scrooge, but I hate Christmas music. The traditional church-style music is bearable though. I worked in a mall over the holidays a couple of years ago, and just haven't been the same since.

I'm a transfer from Maryland, so all Christmas music drives me crazy because its 85 degrees today (i know--boo hoo http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif ) and i'm just like whats going on? Wheres the cold? snow? ice?
But one song in particular I remember from when I was young, was I'll be home for Christmas, because my Dad hated it. While he was stationed in Vietnam (over Christmas) he said they played it like every 5 minutes, or so it felt to him. So he never let it be played when I was younger!

Where's your Christmas Spirit, it shouldn't matter what the weather is like, its a time of giving, sharing and being with Family. There should be no room for Bah Humbuging.

I feel your pain SHSUChiO!

I worked at a department store, then a credit union. It took me three years to be able to enjoy Christmas songs again. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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My family is still in Maryland. Trust me, when I get off that plane next weekend, Christmastime is going to slap me right in the face http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Speaking of warm Christmas's, has anyone seen that commercial where the guy orders biodegradable packing peanuts, dumps them all over his rock lawn, with cactus's and all, and then buys a shovel and boots online, and shovel's his sidewalk off? I think it's hilarious!

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Steve Corbin
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Mall employee for 1 Christmas Season which was 1 too long! Talk about being sick of the same music over and over!! The only thing worse was like 8 years ago with those freaking dancing flowers - they were sound activated and would dance until the music stopped....urrgghhhhhh!!! And now the Billy Bass sensation! I actually stepped in front of a little girl at the Cracker Barrel who kept setting that thing off. I could only take so much!

Oh yeah - back to the topic - I too do not like the Little Drummer Boy. I don't know why, but it drives me up the wall.

~*LOL*~ my mother and I were ROTFLOHO when we saw that one!


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I am with ya'll. Here in South Texas it is always warm for the holidays. Last year, It was 78 and sunny on Christmas Day. Absolutely disgusting. Nothin' says holidays like shorts and christmas lights in palm trees. Yick!

Ad for the least fav. tune, Little Drummer Boy, or ANYTHING by Bing Crosby. did that guy ever have a musical hit OUTSIDE of the holiday season? Plus, when he hits that first note in White Christmas, he sounds like he just got punched in the gut.

I feel like the Grinch bringing this to the top again but my favorite radio station does Christmas music 24/7 from Thanksgiving on and they won't stop playing, "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"! Jinglebelling and mistletoeing twice as much as they did when I started this thread last year!

Okay, when I worked at this jewelry store over Christmas, the manager loved Elvis. It was ridiculous. So, we had to listen to "An Elvis Christmas" over and over and over again. Specifically "Blue Christmas"...just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach.

I HATE THOSE FRICKIN' 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS!- It reminds me of 96 bottles of beer on the damn wall!

I just got In Sync's Christmas CD and IT SUCKS BIG TIME..what a waste of money. Here I thought there would be some great harmony.....

grandma got run over by a reindeer.

My least favorite also happens to be my most favorite...

You all know that Chipmunks' Christmas Song? The one that starts off "Christmas....Christmas time is here...time for joy and time for cheer.."

Yeah...I cringe everytime I hear it, but then I usually find myself singing along to it.

Miami1839-- grandma got run over by a reindeer.

HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT...IT'S ONE OF MY FAVES!!!

I really don't like away in a manger. Or the first noel. Bad memmories of 6th grade choir. bad, bad bad.

Nah, I like it I suppose. Psych. :)

Oh my - I am laughing soooo hard right now. Huge childhood memory right here. :) "I-i-i-i-iiiiiiieee just waaaaaant a huuuuuuuuula hoooooooop!"

My brother and I had this Chipmunks record and a bright blue record player. We would play that record over and over and over. Drove my dad INSANE! :p

The best part was when we discovered if you put a regular record on the player but on fast speed, they sound like Chipmunks too! :D

And...if you put the Chipmunks record on fast speed, they're just one big long squeal! It's so great! :D

If you had a Chipmunks record on 45 rpm, you could play it on 33 and clearly hear David Seville singing all 3 parts slowly!

I am not sure if I have an unfavorite...wait, I dont like that songs "Its almost Christmas"...I dont know if thats the name of it, but it keeps saying "do they know its christmas time at all"...
My mom however hates the song "Ill be home for Christmas" because she always remembered when my dad was in vietnam, and he wouldnt be home for christmas :(

It's got to be "White Christmas"

Having recently moved to southern California from Pennsylvania, I can tell you that half the people in this country have fantasies about snow and the other half have actually lived in it. There's no way to win. Snow sucks. You can have a white Christmas but then you have to go out and brush it off your car and have to drive when you live on a side street that never sees a salt truck. No one here seems to truly realize that.

volgirl - I think I know the song you're talking about. It's my least favorite too. Good message, but really annoying lyrics/tune.

White Christmas. Until this year, I never really thought much of it. But now I live in a town that is formed of 4 large hills, the University being on the top of the tallest, and my dorm being on the highest part of that hill.. Literally, to get anywhere, it's downhill.. and I'm sorry. but gravel gives you no traction! It's worse than ice! Now it's white all the time, and that song just reminds me of it more and more!

OOookaaayy--here comes Scrooge again for the third straight year because she just heard that nasty "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" again today! Ruining my holiday mood!

Does anyone else have an unfavorite carol?

I hate that song that goes... "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time". It drives me nuts. They play it constantly on the radio and it makes me want to impale myself on an icicle.

OMG I totally understand your pain... it's like that song was just created for those December afternoons at the dentists office.....total Muzak.....horrible....

On another note-
Anyone else think that whoever wrote "Silver Bells' was in serious need of some Prozac??? It depresses me every time.

I know I'm gonna get boo'ed off the board for this one, but I HATE "12 Days of Christmas" or whatever the heck that song is.

I can't stand it, can't stand it, can't stand it. It's even worse when the radio station plays the crappy "I hate Christmas" version of it...where children are screaming and men are screaming and babies are crying and the lights don't work etc. URG! It's like they play that right before Christmas just to piss everyone off that has to go out into the malls and so that mood just lingers with them and then they take it out on me when they can't find what they want because they've procrastinated too long~ but that's a whole different retail Christmas story!:rolleyes:

Hootie-I know I'm gonna get boo'ed off the board for this one, but I HATE "12 Days of Christmas" or whatever the heck that song is. I'm with you there-it's like the Christmas vesion of 99 bottles of Beer on the Wall!

New to my list is the ENTIRE N'SNYC (sp?) Christmas CD I bought last season. Should have gone with Boyz to Men. (once again, sp??)

I have worked the xmas season in both Macy's and Joanns... both play constant xmas music for the entire two weeks leading up the xmas and then at least weeks after. All i can say is that they ALL get annoying after a while. Hearing the same song 5 times a day even tho they are by different artists every time will sure make you sick after an 8 hour day.

One that I hear often at work is "I want a Hippopatumus for Christmas..." AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH! :eek:

And then "All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth"

"I'm Getting Nothing for Xmas..."

Just to name a few...

Ok. There's a difference between Christmas Carols and just plain old Christmas music. The former I love, especially when performed by a good choir. The latter I CAN'T STAND! I spent a while shopping with my aunt and cousin this weekend, and I couldn't believe the crap that was blaring from the speakers of the stores we visited. I wanted those people to be run over by reindeer, each and every one of them! Give me good, old fashioned Christmas Carols. That's all I need to be musically happy during this festive season.

Its a tight race between "Little Drummer Boy" & "Carol of the Bells." I don't know which is worse--singing the words "par-umm-pum-pum-pum" (more bad 5th grade choir memories)
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getting stressed out at the pace/key of "hark how the bells sweet silver bells all seem to say throw cares away..." AGCH!!!

That song does anything but make me want to throw my cares away. It makes me want to scratch someone's eyes out.

Otherwise, I like most Christmas music, esp. choral--a good rendition of Handel's "Messiah" puts me in the Christmas spirit.

Carnation, I'm with you...
 

I'm not too fond of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" either...because it's NOT the most wonderful time of the year! Go into a mall anytime between Thanksgiving and the end of December and you will see what I mean. Or better yet, come to my house.

I second that!

Also, I hate hate hate hate those stupid Mariah Carey songs! I mean come on! Its the same ones year after year!

I agree! When "All I Want For Christmas" comes on, it gets quickly changed.

All I want for Christmas is to never hear that song again, EVER!

I'm really old fashioned and traditionalist when it comes to christmas music. I like the old, religious christmas hymns as well as other classical christmasy music like the Nutcracker Ballet music. I hate all pop-style christmas songs like the ones by Mariah Carey or N'Sync. The one exception to that rule is John Lennon's "So this is Christmas" which I really like.

I cannot stand Carol of the Bells. I still know it from high school. Ding dong ding dong gets on my nerves.

My least favorite carol is all of them..

If you've ever worked in a mall/retail/restaurant type establishment you can probably relate... XMas music is just obnoxious.

Least Favorite Carol
 

The Little Drummer Boy
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