[Tony in Hawaii]

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by the I Forget Who.

[Looking4Truth]

They all suck. Yeah, humbug, but I'm tired of hearing that crap over and over again whenever I go out in public. Just part of the retailers 'Holiday Season'.

Now that I think of it since there are NO more advertisements that wish a 'Merry CHRISTmas', I'm going to listen to the words in these songs to see if they have abandoned the Christmas theme in the 'muzak', too.

[ResistorSister]

Twelve Days of Christmas...up to the fifth day of Christmas is fine...but after that the song becomes tedious.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

OK. Not sure of the title but it was about snoopy and the red barron in a dog fight. And altho he shoots snoopy down he does not kill him.Closing lyric is something "merry Christmas my friend "

That and Elvis "Blue Christmas" I guess.

[GussiedUp]

ok I'll be a wet noodle but, except for anything that has YokoScreech-O in it, I love most all the music you mentioned, even Patsy N Elmo LOL I am just so mushy when it comes to Christmas, I love everything about it. My son asked me to stop singing carols in the grocery store today because I was embarassing him! Have a holly jolly Christmas, and in case you didn't hear....Oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas This year!

[Revolting cat!]

I don't have a list. I like them all (well, almost all.) What I hate are all those countless albums with the same set of Christmas songs by every greedy pop singer whose manager salivates seeing big dollar signs from another "evergreen" classic album (i.e. selling a few thousand copies every year in December.) I don't want to hear Trisha Yearwood interpret "The Christmas Song" that Faith Hill interpreted last year, and Brooks and Dunn the year before that.

But when Alan Jackson (or somebody) records an original Christmas song, why, that's cool!

[jackbill]

I personally would like to ban all "Christmas" music from the malls. The fact that I'm going to be bombarded, every time I go to a mall, with "Christmas" music keeps me away.

[Northpaw]

Okay, I like Bruce Springsteen.

Okay, so you are a flawed human being. ;^)

[Twodees]

"Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" That one ruins my day.

"Christmas in Dixie" Alabama did one song in their entire career that I liked, and this one ain't it. While not as puky as some of their others, this one makes me change the station.

Y'all already covered the others that I don't like.

[muawiyah]

The kids love "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". As long as there are new kids coming along, this song will have new fans. I say it has to stay on the play lists!

"Run Run Rudolph" is another great one not played enough in these modern times - this song has a depth of meaning that certainly beats "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or whatever it's called.

Bobby Helms, of Helmsburg, Indiana, just outside of Nashville, Indiana, came up with "Jingle Bell Rock" as a positive response to the cloying and sickeningly sweet "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", and unless they ban that one, the "Jingle" has got to stay! Obeying the law of unintended consequences, Bobby's recording of "Rudolph" has achieved vast playtime as well.

And finally, my all time favorite, which has been performed by more artists than just about any other song, is "Merry Christmas Baby". If they can't sing something else, every Elvis impersonator in the world has this one down pat.

[Give Piece A Chance]

The Bing Crosby & David Bowie duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" is particularly loathsome, especially with that "Peace On Earth" crud interjected at random. Ugh. Bing musta been hitting the bottle hard that year.

On the other side, the South Park Christmas tunes are a guilty pleasure and sure do surprise the heck out of guests expecting to hear the umpteenth playing of 'Deck the Halls'...

[CWRWinger]

IMO, good music is composed and performed when it has the following proportions: 60% melody; 30% harmony; 10% rythme.

I dispise Christmas music which accentuates the rythme, the harmony and contains mindless repetition.

[lowbridge]

Band-Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? Not only was this song a blatant rip-off of "We Are The World" (or maybe it was vice versa

It was vice versa. "We are the world" was the rip off. The American celebrities were so horrified to find that European celebrities came up with a novel way to raise money for charity, leaving them in the dust. They had to do something and produced "We are the world", which was a worse song than "Do They Know It's Christmas?" IMHO

[GeekDejure]

"The Taliban Torched Christmas" !!! :-))

[Paulus Invictus]

I cannot stand "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer." "The 12 Days of Christrmas" and even "White Christmas" is wearing on the ears. When it is playing non-stop in stores and malls and even parking lots, it's all getting to be tiresome and inane. Many of these songs have nothing at all to do with the birth of Christ. IMHO.

[katnip]

I hate the dogs barking Jingle Bells too.
One of my favorite Christmas CD's is Mariah Careys.
Her version of "Oh Holy Night" gives me goose-bumps.
There's also a great gospel song "Jesus, What a Wonderful Child" that's wonderful.

[Sueann]

The greatest Christmas music is Mannheim Steamroller. Rush plays it as bumper music every year at this time. I have all their Christmas albums, and I never tire of listening to it.

[reality bytes]

I would be elated if they were to just get rid of all jazz inspired xmas music. One thing i hate, going to the mall, or hanging out in barnes and nobel and all i hear is that crap played over and over again.

[RMrattlesnake]

most of the secular songs about santa, christmas trees and red nose raindeer. Keep the Chrismas hymns that have to do with what Christmas is all about. JESUS is the reason for the season.

[Doc On The Bay]

I don't recognise most of the songs you refer to--I DO recognise the "Springsteen" "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."

MUCH "XMAS MUSIC" is "DRECK!"--the "Springsteen" is, however, a "Classic!"

Twenty+ years ago, I recorded a tape of Xmas music for my (soon-to-be-wife, Noel).

The "Springsteen" is there (it IS a "Classic")--along with a large number of seldom heard carols & songs:"Hodie, Christus Natus;" "The Friendly Beasts," Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols," & MANY others--including the (was it Emerson Lake & Palmer?) Wonderfully cynical, "They told me of Peace on Christmas--the Christmas you Have, You Deserve!" Magnificent Orchestral Piece using the London Symphony Orchestra!

To this Day, my "XMas Tape" is played--Despite my protests!

Doc