Christmas songs that should be banned for being overplayed (and vice versa)

[Never Made it to Graceland]

This list is exhausting but not exhaustive.

White Christmas
Last Christmas
All I Want for Christmas is You
The Christmas Song
Merry Little Christmas
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Here Comes Santa Claus
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Silver Bells
Winter Wonderland
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Holly Jolly Christmas
Christmas Time is Here
Jingle Bell Rock
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
This Christmas
Feliz Navidad

Conversely, some songs that don't get played enough:
Hark, the Herald Angels
Do You Hear What I Hear?
I Believe in Father Christmas
Fairytale of New York
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Down in Yon Forest
Il est né le divin enfant
The Night Santa Went Crazy
Mele Kelinkimaka

Let me know your thoughts.

[BaldEagle1991]

Every single one of them.

[Blue3]

I never liked the Rudolph and Frosty songs.

[Sirius_]

None of them because that's really dumb

[Santander]

If you're at a bar around Christmas time, the girls go crazy when All I Want for Christmas Is You comes on. Take advantage of the situation.

[Alben Barkley]

If you're at a bar around Christmas time, the girls go crazy when All I Want for Christmas Is You comes on. Take advantage of the situation.

It’s not worth it. I still have PTSD from my days of working retail around Christmastime. I swear that f—king song never stopped.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

If you're at a bar around Christmas time, the girls go crazy when All I Want for Christmas Is You comes on. Take advantage of the situation.

I'll keep that in mind for next year.

[MaxQue]

My horrible business radio had like 8 different versions of Last Christmas on their playlist, it's unbearable.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I like Silver Bells.  But to add to the list...

Not played enough:

Santa Baby
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
O Holy Night (the most beautiful Christmas song)

Should never be played again, and every copy should be hunted down and destroyed:

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

[T'Chenka]

Authoritarianism is bad. Don't listen to the radio and/or organize a boycott on stores that play Christmas music.

[MaxQue]

My horrible business radio had like 8 different versions of Last Christmas on their playlist, it's unbearable.

To prove my point, 2 versions of it just played, only separated by another song.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Every single one of them.

Last time I was thinking about these things I was particularly pissed at All I Want For Christmas Is You, so I've made a vow to do a certain thing if I manage to get to 2021 without ever hearing that damn song. Others, like Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and Jingle Bell Rock would have been deserving of one as well. But it's moot since in both cases I didn't manage to escape them.

[KaiserDave]

All I Want for Christmas Is You should be banned.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

"All I Want for Christmas is You" is at the top of my sh**t list. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is up there too, not for the usual "iT's AbOuT rApE" reasons but because I just don't think it's good enough to justify the amount of furor it inspires. The song had better be pretty damn good if we're going to keep playing it even though someone somewhere ends up needing to infodump about late-1940s dating culture to defuse a flame war every time we do, and I just don't think it is. (It's in fact such a run-of-the-mill and unexceptional example of midcentury Christmas kitsch, to anybody as familiar with the genre as I am, that I half-believe the only reason it still has active fans is as a reaction against the third-wave feminist attacks on it.) Among religious carols, "Joy to the World" is sung too much and "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" is not sung enough.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

All I Want for Christmas Is You should be banned.

"All I Want for Christmas is You" is at the top of my sh**t list.

That feeling when the people you see eye to eye with politically ALSO have the right musical takes.

[NewYorkExpress]

If you don't like Christmas music, you have no soul.

[politicallefty]

I've always thought Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses is very underrated. I've always liked it though.

[Badger]

I like Silver Bells.  But to add to the list...

Not played enough:

Santa Baby
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
O Holy Night (the most beautiful Christmas song)

Should never be played again, and every copy should be hunted down and destroyed:

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

I agree on that last song. And I will add to that category the version of Jingle Bells "sung" by barking dogs.

Maybe it's hypocritical to put this under this list when I can't even remember the name, but what is that god-awful Maudlin saccharine Christmas song about some little girl check out grocery line buying something for her dying mother or something? Again, I can't even remember the name of it, but I will gladly put it under that category of songs that need to have every copy of it destroyed

[Horus]

Agreed on O Holy Night. Best Christmas song hands down.

[Mr. Smith]

PSISM (Please Sir, I Want Some More)

We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Silent Night [the absolute best]
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
O Christmas Tree [Original lyrics]
Coventry Carol
Hark the Herald Angels Sing

KIWF (Kill it With Fire)

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Santa Baby
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus [the good news is, this one seems to finally be on the way out]
Joy to the World
O Christmas Tree [English context, because it sounds so boring]
The Twelve Days of Christmas [even the Muppets parody is too overdone]

This should about do it.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Absolutely all of them! Except this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRjmD9h-YY

All Christmas music covered by the late Christopher Lee is all that we should get, it's what we deserve and need!

[Badger]

PSISM (Please Sir, I Want Some More)

We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Silent Night [the absolute best]
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
O Christmas Tree [Original lyrics]
Coventry Carol
Hark the Herald Angels Sing

KIWF (Kill it With Fire)

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Santa Baby
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus [the good news is, this one seems to finally be on the way out]
Joy to the World
O Christmas Tree [English context, because it sounds so boring]
The Twelve Days of Christmas [even the Muppets parody is too overdone]

This should about do it.

That's a pretty good list, but I MH O, Joy To The World Is way way out of place there

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Also, anything done by that stupid acapella group Pentatonix.

[Illiniwek]

The best Christmas songs are ones that are played at church. And I don't mean happy clappy bs churches. I mean the proper Catholic/Anglican ones.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

"All I Want for Christmas is You" is at the top of my sh**t list. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is up there too, not for the usual "iT's AbOuT rApE" reasons but because I just don't think it's good enough to justify the amount of furor it inspires. The song had better be pretty damn good if we're going to keep playing it even though someone somewhere ends up needing to infodump about late-1940s dating culture to defuse a flame war every time we do, and I just don't think it is. (It's in fact such a run-of-the-mill and unexceptional example of midcentury Christmas kitsch, to anybody as familiar with the genre as I am, that I half-believe the only reason it still has active fans is as a reaction against the third-wave feminist attacks on it.) Among religious carols, "Joy to the World" is sung too much and "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" is not sung enough.

I have a very specific reason to love" Baby It's Cold Outside". In the video game Mafia II, it's one of the radio songs in the first half, when you're driving around the frigid February streets of Empire Bay. I will always associate it with that awesome 1940s winter aesthetic, particularly the version by Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark.