Your most hated Christmas Carol....

[nonews]

Let's have some fun here. My most hated carol is "The 12 Days of Christmas." First of all, it's too damn long and just plain silly. When was the last time you saw a partridge in a pear tree?

[cyn2]

1. Gotta be that one by Burl Ives n/t

[flygal]

18. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas - yeah, kind of hokie

[Lydia Leftcoast]

People may flame me, but I can't stand either

"Silent Night" or "Away in a Manger."

[rurallib]

7. Just hate 'silent night', also

[BiggJawn]

15. It sounds better in German.

It beats "Pa-rum-pa-bum-bum" all to hell....

[City Lights]

25. I don't like those either.

Unfortunately they were must sings every year when I was growing up. The church I went to as a kid was founded by German immigrants (my Grandma was one of them), so we sang the first verse of Silent Night in German on Christmas Eve every year.

I'm not crazy about The Little Drummer Boy either. Too many pa rum pa pum pums.

[KitchenWitch]

2. "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"

Brenda Lee's voice makes me want to tear my ears off.

[MaryH]

21. I hate that one too.

[Dastard Stepchild]

31. agreed! n/t

[sui generis]

3. it depends who's singing it

the carolers at the door - it's usually nice.

The family gathered round the piano after drinking a gallon of mom's "special" eggnog and six straight hours of eating rich high volume methane producing foods . . . not so much fun.

[marylanddem]

4. Little Drummer Boy is the worst

It drives me crazy. pa rumpa pum pum. ...the ox & ass kept time...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

12. this marylander agrees

[bleedingheart]

22. yep...that one sucks...just goes on forever...

[arwalden]

29. That Song Is Horrid Pa Rum Pah Pum Pum

[Indiana_Dem]

5. Grandma got Runover by a Reindeer

I used to like it but I've heard it so many times it's annoying now and not very fuinny anymore. My husband always wants to play it over and over.

[Sparkly]

20. That's my most-hated, too

Hated it the first time I heard it, hate it now.

[marc_the_dem]

6. Joy to the world - certain versions

In some versions of the song.... The second line of the first verse is: "the Lord is come"....

It just doesn't strike me as proper English...

[flygal]

16. OH I hate that song!! it's so Morman tabernacle-ish

[vi5]

8. That one about the kid asking for shoes for her mom....

Yeah, I know it's not technically a Christmas Carol but it's a Christmas song. And I know it's supposed to tug at my heart strings but it just annoys me. Total maudlin pap in a pop-country veneer. And I'm not one who normally politicizes ANY popular culture whatsoever, but I can't help listening to this and finding myself getting annoyed politically.

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. Oh, GOD, I hate "Christmas Shoes"!!!!

Worst Christmas song EVER.:puke:

[WI_DEM]

9. Gotta agree on "12 Days of Christmas"

[parkening]

10. That time when Tim Conway

came over and dumped reindeer poop down my chimney. I just hated that Christmas!

-Ms Burnett

[nonews]

11. forgot one...

"We Thre King." With the baratone, it should be a Halloween Carol!

[parkening]

27. Most of the traditional Christmas carols

were written over 100 years ago. Those written in the minor keys, like 3 kings, God rest ye merry gentlemen, o come Immanuel, etc sound Phantom of the Opera-ish to our ears today.

[RoyalPurple]

13. Hidden meaning in 12 days

I remember this from my bible classes growing up. Its so stupid, here is the link to what I found through google with what the gifts represent.

http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html

I know I am new here, please don't flame me. Grandma got run over by a reindeer has to be the worst.

[nonews]

19. thanks..

it is now my most favorite carol

[kslib]

23. Thanks for the link

and welcome! I sent the link to my aunt. I'm agnostic, but interested in religion. Makes the song a little more bearable!

:hi:

On edit: My least fave carol is Away in a Manger. Oh the horror of little children forced to sing that dull tune every freakin' Christmas!

[amazona]

24. that is a recent invention of the hidden meaning

The "hidden meaning" that the 12 days is somehow some far-fetched church symbolism is an internet rumor that has been going around for a few years but not real convincing. There is nothing hidden about the 12 days of Christmas -- it is simply the 12 days of travel time it took from the birth and the sighting of the star for the wise men to actually reach the manger.

I used to have an old book that said the 12 gifts in the 12 days of Christmas were all birds but some of the language got distorted over the many hundreds of years. Many of the gifts are still explicitly birds. The "five golden rings" are ring-necked pheasants, which are brassy-gold in the sunshine and which were introduced into Europe in medieval times from China. Swans, geese, pheasants, hens, etc. are obviously birds, but some of the gifts are a little more difficult to identify. I would assume the drummers drumming are grouse. Modern people have little knowledge of grouse because they have just about been wiped out -- in case you are unfamiliar with them, I'll just mention that they are birds famous for gathering together and "drumming" to serenade their females who then pick the best "drummers" for their sexual pleasure. I'll spare the entire analysis but, as hidden meanings go, this makes more sense to me because the meaning became partly obscured/hidden just by the passage of time.

By contrast, people in late medieval times would not have to hide that they were singing about the Christian church. Quite the opposite.

No one really knows but there is nothing "hidden" about the Epiphany theme so I'll vote that if a "hidden" meaning is required it may be about the near-worship of the female by gifting her with an ever-escalating supply of gifts. Maybe the "courtly love" tradition of female worship comes into play here somewhere.


:-)

[genieroze]

14. Feliz Navidad

My fav is Oh Holy Night. That or Ave Maria by Celine Dion

[Butterflies]

26. Christmas hymns being played in shopping malls

that gets on my nerves. I'm also tired of "Jingle Bell Rock".

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. My least fave is "Kill all brown, black, red and yellow people in the

name of the Holy Baby" Doesn't really have a tune, but the machine-guns, bombs, and landmines make for a heck of a percussion section.

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[J-Lo Biafra]

30. Any that mention Jesus.

That should narrow it down, huh?