What is your favorite secular Christmas song? And least favorite?

Fav; “I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus”

Favorites:
Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
Father Christmas by The Kinks
I LOVE The Chipmunk Song

Least Favorite: I don’t think I really hate any Christmas songs, secular or not. That Christmas Shoes song comes close, though.

“Sleigh Ride” has always been my favorite since we sang it in school.

“Walking in A Winter Wonderland” probably next.

All those childhood parodies of “Leise rieselt der Schnee”.

Christmas Time Again by Extreme—is probably my favourite secular Christmas song but not all that well known.

The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire) is probably my favorite of the better known ones O Holy Night and Winter Wonderland are up there as well although O Holy Night is religious.

With most Christmas songs there are few that I dislike although the particular version of a song I may like or dislike.

The only Christmas song I absolutely loathe is “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” I will turn it off at any indication it is in its intro stage. But I’ve never known anyone else to hate it as intensely as I do. The idea of not having front teeth and singing a song about it just creeps me out.

At least to me, “secular” means no mention of Christmas. The holiday is inherently religious, even if one doesn’t celebrate it religiously.

Favorite. “Sleigh Ride” by Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes. That entire “Wall of Sound” album, from 1963, still rocks That was Phil Spector at his best.

Least favorite. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” by Andy Williams. Sappy, sappy, sappy…

There’s a New Kid in Town. It’s country, and it’s Christian, but I love the song. Well, I suppose it could be secular.

I wish it could be christmas every day (Wizzard)
Merry xmas everybody (Slade)

@love_my_doggie

Completely disagree, a secular Christmas song is one that doesn’t mention Jesus.

^^^ Last time I checked, Jesus’s name was included in the word “Christmas.”

Christmas is Christ’s Mass.

It’s either my favorite or my least favorite. “The…..of NewYork”

To me, a secular Xmas song is one that doesn’t have any reverently religious references, such as God, Jesus, blessed, holy, etc.

E.g., although Blue Xmas by Miles Davis mentions Xmas, I’d say it’s very secular because it’s a protest against Xmas as he sees it.

My favorite secular Xmas songs are the aforementioned, Christmas; Baby Please Come Home by Darlene Love, and Feed the World.

@flo The what of New York?

@Love my doggie

You’re being way too literal.

Fairytale of New York

Love: none.
Dislike: Mariah’s whatever it’s called.
Loathe: all (except for one).

I think it largely depends on whose rendition it is. For instance, I love Frank Sinatra’s version of Jingle Bells, but if it was like the Chipmunks, I would hate it!

So as far as loathe: (no matter who does it)

Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer
Santa Baby (so sick of that damn song)
Feliz Navidad
Happy Christmas (War is over)
Do they know it’s Christmas
Wonderful Christmas Time
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Blue Christmas

Who doesn’t love to don some gay apparel, it’s non-secular and there’s no c word. How jolly.

Deck the Halls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPCXMTnO2Yw

Fleas Navidad
Do You Smell What I Smell?
O Holy Cow
Vaping in a Winter Wonderland

Santa and His Old Lady

Although Greg Lake’s “I Believed in Father Christmas” seems to espouse atheism, it is often categoriszed as a Christmas song, He said that he wrote the song in protest at the commercialisation of Christmas and a loss of innocence and childhood belief

It seems to me that it is in rebellion of the ‘deceptions’ of Christmas—belief in Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and Father Christmas that this song is about,

Still, it is an absolutely awesome song—English singer, harpsichords, a lot of sounds of distant choirs, bells, epiphanic orchestras and awesome sounds of Christmas’ past. Truly awesome song.

This is my first reply to a question on Fluther so please go easy on me.
Love:
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Father Christmas
Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
The Christmas Song
Loath:
Grandma Got Run Over..
All I Want For Christmas
Wonderful Christmas Time
FYI:
The new Eric Clapton Christmas Album is amazing.

I like “Christmas is a comin” & “The Christmas Waltz” & the King Cole version of “All I want for Christmas are My 2 Front Teeth”.

Favorite: Oh Holy Night
Really Great: Dance Of The Sugarplum Faeries
Hate: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

Worst: Baby It’s Cold Outside

Favorite (or at least the one I find myself humming the most) Bruce Springsteen doing Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Runner up: O Come All Ye Grateful Dead-Heads? – Bob Rivers

Least Fav: White Christmas.