I must escape the muzak!

[squeequeg]

It's been a busy December for me, with the result that while I've done a lot of Christmas preparations, I don't quite feel like it's Christmas just yet. (As thomascantor would remind me, it's technically only Advent, and so that's just fine; I'll have 12 days of Christmas spirit later on.)

But one of the ways I've tried to get into the Christmas spirit has been through Christmas carols. I used to sing these all over the house as a kid (adding more gray hairs to my mom's head), and I still like a lot of them. Especially the really old ones; "Nova, Nova" is great when sung with Middle English inflections.

However, over the years my tastes in carols have changed, and what I once liked now grates on me. I would be very happy if, say, "The Little Drummer Boy" vanished from the face of the planet entirely. It's like the song was designed to get stuck in people's heads.

(It's probably not in the Christmas spirit to hear the line "then he [Jesus] smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum" and think "Baby Jesus probably had gas, kid. He won't be really smiling till Epiphany at the earliest.")

So here's a question for all of you: What Christmas carols (or other holiday songs -- yes, novelty songs do count) make you want to smash the radio?

Comments

[kmunson779.livejournal.com]

Jessica Simpson.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

'nuff said.

To expound on my previous comment...

[kmunson779.livejournal.com]

I'm very amused by bad Christmas music. I downloaded "Dominic the Donkey" the other day because I hadn't yet heard it on my internet radio station or the real radio. I sung "Santa Baby" for three years in high school and still enjoy it because of the hand motions we applied (although there's a new version out this year which bugs me because they "updated" most of the items on the wish list).

The songs that have bugged me this year are anything off J. Simpson's "Re-Joyce" album (ack! dumb re-spelling alarm ringing in my head!), and a version of What Child is This on the oldies station where the lady sings the correct notes only about half the time.

"New" one I heard for the first time this year: "Santa's Beard" by the Beach Boys. Funny story about bringing baby brother to see the mall Santa, and the kid tears off the fake beard and starts crying that he's not 'the real real santa'.