WHAT CHRISTMAS SONGS DO YOU HATE?

I happen to love that piece. I am not a trained musician so my opinion is just that, an opinion, but in my opinion it should be sung as a solo by a POWERFUL baritone. I've heard it done that way and I've never since heard it done another way that I thought came even close to comparing. My .02 on that topic. ;) :)

But I'm with Rusty. I may make light of Christmas music I don't particularly care for, but I'm not about to let it wreck my mood.

Exactly... It should come in soft and gentle and end with a smoking crater where the audience used to be and someone asking the vocalist if everything is okay at home.
If this is not achieved, you need to try harder
 
Songs that make me mute the station as fast as my hand can hit the button:

Jingle Bells by the barking dogs
Santa Baby
Blue Christmas by Porky Pig

There are others that were fine the first 100-200 times I heard them, but now I mostly hit mute.

For real Christmas music, I turn on the local Christian music station.
There is a little bit of sauce to be found in the genre.
One of my fondest memories was from our work with the highschool choir we had for a few years.
Two female vocalists. One good, and the other an ethereal goddess on an improv high harmony.
It was weapons grade
Amy Grant - Breath Of Heaven (Mary's Song) (Lyric Video) - YouTube
 
One of my favorite versions of O Holy Night is this one - even if one of the young ladies was singing a bit off pitch some of the time. I think it's the orchestration that gets me.

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LOVE this!

Having sung in an Anglican (Episcopal) cathedral choir for 30 years (alas, no more) we sang a lot of those, one of my Christmas favorites being various arrangements of "In Dulci Jubilo", in this case in both original languages, German & Latin:

Michael Praetorius >>In dulci jubilo<< | Gaechinger Cantorey | Hans-Christoph Rademann - YouTube

We used to do this with a music group who's leader was music minister at a Lutheran Church. He was a great musicologist and dug up a lot of Renaissanse/Baroque type pieces. He had us sing at their Christmas services and it was SO beautiful I'll remember them forever.
 
M-80s were very....

A long time ago my mother had an electric santa that walked while playing some inane x-mas song. It disappeared, but a photograph was later discovered that showed the exact moment a m-80 went off on it's back side. Smoke, a little red fur and on to a Happy New Year!

M-80s were extremely useful implements. They could only be used once, but being M-80s that was all it took.:D
 
O Holy Night

similarly ... Missus Venom and I were discussing Oh Holy Night. and how she's never really found a rendition she liked, even after all her years as a church choir director.
That is not an easy carol to perform given it's range and dynamics.
In an SATB harmonized arrangement, dynamics suffer. Due projection and expression will clash with the harmony. Thus it is sacrificed for the overall aesthetic.

The best rendition I've heard was my fellow tenor in the choir that sang O Holy Night as a solo every Christmas Eve. Sincerity at its best.
 
What, no Alvin and the Chipmunks singing 'Christmas Don't Be Late?!' Blasphemy, I say!

The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (Remastered 1999) - YouTube

Or The McKenzie Brothers...
The Twelve Days Of Christmas - YouTube

The McKenzies reminded me of a song I heard on the CBC radio in the 70s called the 12 Ukranian Days of Christmas. (In Western Canada Ukrainian jokes were told in the same way Polish jokes were told in the US). The only verse I remember was the 7th day: 7 4X2 slabs for maybe to make chicken coop to keep ducks in.

No offense considering the current situation in Ukraine.

Another parody of the 12 days that turns up on our local classical station annually is in the form of a thank you letter to the "True Love" on the first day that turns into cease and desist notices from the lady's attorney during the second week. Hilarious
 
Well, I guess I'm a child at heart. There are no Christmas songs I hate. I love the Christmas season and all that's associated with it. It has tremendous meaning to me; the real meaning. Christmas music, decorated trees, family, staying up late on Christmas Eve, little joyful kids on Christmas morning, a feast. It's all good. I get a little bit sad when it's over.
 
South Pacific

My Dad always disliked Bing Crosby's "White Christmas ". He said it was played over and over and over on the radio for the troops entertainment. Problem was New Guinea and the Philippines weren't very Christmas-like that time of year.
 
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