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?

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[2h2o.livejournal.com]

What Christmas carols (or other holiday songs -- yes, novelty songs do count) make you want to smash the radio?
Lately? All of them. There's a ton of Christmas music in the world, and all that gets played publicly are the same sorry dozen.
What I don't mind is subversive Christmas songs, like Sun 60's "Merry X-Mess."
(I almost typed "Shitsmas" above, probably as an unconscious homage to Saint Shit.)