Christmas songs you can't bear?

[DontCallMeCharlotte]

I'm sure it's been done hundreds of times but which festive songs do you hate? I'm listening to a Christmas playlist and had to run from another room to stop "When A Child Is Born" by Johnnie Mathis. It actually makes my skin crawl. And the Jackson's version of Santa Claus is coming to town hurts my ears. So which ones send you running for the off switch?

Santa Baby. Grasping.

All of them some are truly dreadful.
I'm traditional and prefer carols.
Plus a few really remind me of my daddy so make me cry in the shops in front of everyone.

I can't stand the whole bloody lot of them! The years go by so quickly that it seems no sooner have we finished with one Christmas than the next one starts to loom menacingly on the horizon!

As a child and young adult I loved Christmas, but now I cba with most of it!

I also loathe Santa Baby. Is it supposed to be coquettish and sexy? It is embarrassing. It almost makes me ashamed of the women who sing it. Wake up to yourselves!

Ditto the Destiny’s Child one.

I strongly dislike ‘Little Saint Nick’ by the Beach Boys. I had a Christmas job in a pub during my university holidays, many years ago, and had to listen to the bloody thing endlessly.

Yes to the Jackson five doing ‘Santa Claus is coming to town’. As in, yes, I hate it.

However, I love ‘A spaceman came travelling’. Yes. I adore it. Sorry!

Destiny's child - the 12 days of Christmas

Little Saint Nick. Run run fucking reindeer
Gives me the rage, I'll walk out of shops to avoid hearing it!

I also work in retail and now cannot bear most of them. I walked into work the other day to "driving home for Christmas". Nearly walked straight back out.

I love the Mathis

I can’t stand Step Into Christmas by Elton John.

The 70’s have a lot to answer for

Fairytale of New York. Horrible song.

The only Christmas song i like is fairytale of New York
I hate last Christmas by Wham
Hate Mariah Carey

Wonderful christmas time by Paul McCartney .
Awful.

'Last Christmas I gave you my heart
The very next day you gave it away'.

Well either he's some sort of Frankenstein's monster or deliberate abuse of the transplant system.

I dislike most
I only really like fairy tale of New York and Greg Lake I believed in father Christmas
I have a soft spot for little drummer boy because I like Bowie

Last Christmas has to be the worst

I'm agreeing with ciscucumber
Good choices

Don't mind most of them but Santa Baby is so bloody irritating

Chris de Burgh - Spaceman - and it went "La la la la, la la la, la la la" ... I'm such a big star that I don't even have to bother writing lyrics.

I cannot bear the Chris de Burgh song, 'space man came travelling'. What's that got to do with Christmas ? Was he on glue when he decided that would be a good Christmas song ?

Not helped by the fact I don't like Chris De Burgh anyway.

Agree with the la la la bit in the song. As in, 'and it went la la la la' did it ? What did ? The space man ? Baby Jesus ? Mary ? Joseph ? The three kings ?

Make sense man !

Anything sung by Creepy Cliff Richard

'was he on glue'.... Rofl...

I was at a carol concert yesterday.. And though I am an atheist I was moved by some of the lyrics that so resonated about the state of the world at the moment, especially 'it came upon a midnight clear'

Beautiful beautiful words :

O'er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains,
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its babel sounds
The blessèd angels sing.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled2
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.

I don't think you actually need to believe in angels to appreciate the message... Stop fighting, shut up your noise and listen to a better sound... Peace

Stop the cavalry by Jona Lewie.. arggghhhhhh all that "wish I was at home.., for Christmas doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ..." arghhh bloody racket!!!

I have three I turn off:

Merry Christmas war is over by Lenon and yoko. Cannot stand either of them. Him because he was a do gooder but weird and look how good I am about it and she is just plain weird

Ince dulce Dublo. It just sounds like a mayday pole song

Do they know it's Christmas by band aid. The lyrics are so wrong - do they know it's Christmas time at all yeah they probably do as Christianity is the second biggest religion in Africa... and No rain or rivers flow the Nile which is the longest river in the world and spams 11 African countries....

Is the spaceman baby Jesus?

That one by Wizzard (I think "I wish it could be Christmas every day")

Elton John one (but I cannot abide EJ)

Band Aid aaaarghh

But the worst , oh the worst , kill me now one was 'Little Drummer Boy' shreiked out by Lil' Jimmy Osmond while I was shopping in Sainsburys. How my ears bled

I love love love FToNY but not the sanitised version with the middle verse missing or the Ronan Keating version.
Honestly Ronan, who told you to have a crack at Fairytale?