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04 Dec 2016, 5:19 pm

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I like Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer & I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas

Never heard the Hippopotamus number, but I absolutely HATE Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer!

Give me Heinrich Schuetz's Musikalisches Exequien, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Puccini's La boheme, Holst's Christmas Fantasy, and Hindemith's The Long Christmas Dinner a time for the holidays.

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04 Dec 2016, 6:25 pm

I'm returning to WP just this once to say that "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" and "Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer" are two of my favorite Christmas songs. I tend to prefer the fun and silly types of songs over the deep, religious ones.

I can't think of any Christmas songs I actually hate, but yeah, that 12 Days of Christmas doesn't make much sense these days. What's up with all the birds? But I love the Muppets version of the song.

The "Favorite Things" song - I don't exactly hate it, but it really has nothing to do with Christmas. Those "brown paper packages tied up with strings" are maybe the closest but they're referring to everyday groceries, not gifts, and then there's "silver white winters that melt into spring" is really about the coming of spring, which is long after Christmas is over (especially where I live). And yet they play this song every December.

Of course many songs that are sung at Christmas don't mention it at all. Jingle Bells (originally meant to be a Thanksgiving song), Winter Wonderland, Let it Snow, Frosty the Snowman ... you could sing those in January or even February, but people would look at you funny if you did. :santa:

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04 Dec 2016, 7:02 pm

Lyrics from Tom Lehr's A Christmas Carol.

Before Al Yakovich and Allan Sherman, there was a Harvard Math Teacher turned Celebrity.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Bw2ZeQcHw

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26 Dec 2016, 4:04 am

jingle dogs [barking dogs version of "jingle bells"]

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26 Dec 2016, 4:44 am

I've never liked Santa Baby for a few different reasons.

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26 Dec 2016, 4:58 am

there are very few xmas songs i outright hate, compared to the universe of other pop songs.

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26 Dec 2016, 7:23 am

auntblabby wrote:

jingle dogs [barking dogs version of "jingle bells"]

Ya hadda remind me! Every year, when my maternal grandfather was alive and drunk (since Dec. 24 was his birthday) we'd here this little gem!

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26 Dec 2016, 9:29 am

I can withstand hearing to any Xmas song, even repeated times. With one exception.

"The Christmas Song" by Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The only common Xmas song truly worth hating.

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26 Dec 2016, 9:37 am

nick007 wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

DarthMetaKnight wrote:

In this thread, we will talk about which Christmas songs are the worst.

I absolutely hate the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". It's annoying. It's repetitive. It goes on forever. It sounds old-fashioned and out-of-date. Who gives other people geese for Christmas anymore? Another Thing: Christmas only lasts for one day. What is with this crazy song?

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