Worst Christmas Rock/Pop song?

[KurtNYC]

I don't mind holiday shopping, much. Sure it's crowded and the aisles are stuffed with things no one would buy for themselves yet somehow they occassionally seem like a good idea for SOMEONE ELSE (?)

I like classic Christmas songs: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, Let It Snow. But what they play in malls is all the pop artist Christmas tunes and there are some horrible ones.

Which one annoys you most?

[Debbi801]

1. Crabs for Christmas and The Chipmunk's Christmas song.

[Menshevik]

5. I hate the chipmunk's christmas song with a passion

every time it's on the radio I want to throw it across the room

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Crabs for Christmas?

Are we talking shellfish or an STD?

[Debbi801]

46. ROFLMAO The shellfish...

Here's a link to a clip of the song...
http://www.thejoyboys.com/sound/d115t10a.mp3

I realized after I started searching for the song that it must be a Maryland thing, not a national song.

Debbi

[Left Is Write]

2. I'd have to say...

the "dance remix" versions of several holiday classics that I heard while shopping at Express recently. The day before Halloween.

There should be no Christmas music the day before Halloween ANYWAY, and there certainly should be NO DANCE REMIXES of songs sung by the likes of Sinatra, Crosby, et al.

[tuvor]

15. The prospect of actually dancing to a Christmas song

is just so sad.

[KurtNYC]

3. Dogs Barking Jiggle bells

I love dogs but that barking aint cute.

[underpants]

9. RuffRuffRuff RuffRuffRuff RuffRuff.....Ruff....RuffRuff

Now if they can only get that on a Billy Bass the red states might be too distracted to vote next time.

[MemphisTiger]

18. That's not as bad as the cat meow jingle bells.

It just makes me want to drive into a telephone pole.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. That Paul McCartney Christmas song ...

Sends me into total agony and fits .

[RPM]

10. yeah - i agree; "santa baby" was s close shitty second

I was going to say that dumb ass "santa baby" ho-bag song but that McCartney song is the worst. I cant beleive that it was written by the same person who gave us so much great music....

[KurtNYC]

14. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time?

includes some of the worst sounds ever to come from a synthesizer.

[ronnykmarshall]

51. I just HEARD that damn thing!

I was up in the cafe here at work and that monster was playing.

[AlCzervik]

6. Grandma got run over by a reindeer

hated it when i was a kid, hate it now.

[Dogmudgeon]

22. Another chalkboard-fingernail song

Not nearly as bad as "The Christmas Shoes," but bad enough.
--p!

[President Jesus]

7. any song on "NBC Celebrity Christmas"

with 'perfomances' by Bebe Neuwirth & John Lithgow, John Spencer & Stockard Channing Martin Sheen, Jay Leno, Marie Osmond, Sean Hayes, Jane Leads

[pagerbear]

8. Christmas hymns crooned by pop singers

"Oh Come All Ye Faithful" is great as a hymn, but not so great when sung pop style, whether it's Perry Como or Sting or Eminem (if you can imagine that!).

For the record, a carol is a particular genre of Christmas song, of the old English variety. From Gurunet:

carol, popular hymn, of joyful nature, in celebration of an occasion such as May Day, Easter, or Christmas. The earliest English carols date from the 15th cent. The carol is characterized by simplicity of thought and expression. Many are thought to be adaptations of pagan songs. Despite the folk-song character of true carols, many Christmas hymns composed in the 19th cent. have been called carols. The oldest printed carol is the Boar's Head Carol, printed in 1521 by Wynkyn de Worde. Carols of French origin are called noels.

"Good King Wenceslas" is a carol, and has no place in a Christmas-related church service, IMHO. "Silent Night" is a hymn (OK, now we consider it a hymn, and it was actually written for use in a church service), and I don't want to hear Madonna sing it.

Here endeth the reading for today.

[tigereye]

30. I love Renaissance carols and motets myself

it's not Christmas without all the wonderful stuff from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Boars Head Carol is a favorite and The Holly and the Ivy. Last Christmas we saw Piffaro perform a play of the battle between Holly and Ivy. It was wonderful and fun.

Thanks for the lesson.

[tuvor]

11. Paul McCartney: Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime.

Hands down the worst Christmas song EVER. This is not mere opinion. It's a FACT.

Who's done their own version? I think that speaks volumes about how truly awful that song is.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I can't think of one in particular

But I do find them annoying. The thing is, there are some radio stations that start "All Christmas, All the Time" music the day after Thanksgiving. Recording a Christmas song is a way for an artist to keep their voice on the airwaves for a month.

One I heard the other day was a new version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" recorded back in the Live Aid days. Quite honestly, I always found it kind of a strange song. Lest we forget, Christmas IS a religious holiday, and starving children in Africa aren't celebrating Christmas because, HELLO!, they aren't Christians.

[CO Liberal]

13. Any Christmas Song Performed By Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme

:puke:

[Mad_Dem_X]

50. OMG, YES! Their version of "Sleigh Ride"

is horrendous!!!!:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[TNDemo]

17. Jingle Bell Rock.

Yuck.

[babylonsister]

32. Ditto!

[mac56]

35. "Later we'll have some pumpkin pie...

And we'll do some caroling."

Sounds like a party out of bounds to me.

[sleepyhead]

59. Am I the only one

who heard it as "later we'll have some f***in' pie"? Or was my youth totally misspent?

[RevolutionaryActs]

57. I hate that song!

:puke:

[Dogmudgeon]

19. The Christmas Shoes by NewSong

The absolutely most mawkish, smug, self-congratulatory song ever written, for Christmas or any other occasion.

I have very wide tastes in music and seldom get worked up over a song. But this is one of them.

--p!

[Lavender Brown]

23. Oh BARF

I hate that. Hallmark cards are more sincere.

[Debbi801]

44. And just think, it was so good, they turned it into a TV movie. *gag*

[Mad_Dem_X]

52. Oh God, that song is HORRIBLE!

That one gets my vote. I don't have a negative reaction to many Christmas songs, but when that little kid starts singing about his dyng mom, well...I just wanna take somebody out!:argh:

[Lavender Brown]

20. The Wham song

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day..."

[no name no slogan]

21. All of them

I fscking hate Christmas. Biggest, fakest, most sanctimoniously hypocritical holiday of the year.

And the music blows goats, too.

:evilgrin:

[progressoid]

24. What I hate more is when they get stuck in my head and I start humming one

n/t

[McKenzie]

25. the cringeworthy Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richard

absolutely goddammed awful. Don't proceed any further if you have a delicate constitution. Otherwise, prepare to be wowed by the power of Cliff's lyrics>>>

The Child is a King, the Carollers sing,
The old is passed there's a new beginning.
Dreams of Santa, dreams of snow,
Fingers numb, faces aglow.
Christmas time, mistletoe and wine
Children singing Christian rhyme
With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree
A time to rejoice in the good that we see

Mind you anyone who writes songs like Wired for Sound is destined to spew out drivel..."I like smaaall speakers" I had to listen to that as a student...no wonder I'm mentally disturbed.

[no name no slogan]

39. Cliff Richard == source of all evil

Every freakin year (or so it seems) he comes out with yet another tired old cliched XMas ditty that races up the charts in the UK for one whole week-- the week of Christmas, when nobody's releasing new tunes anyway.

When I lived there in the early 90s, I remember that Iron Maiden knocked him out of the #1 spot the following week with "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter". Now THAT was priceless!

[McKenzie]

42. I reckon he is a cynical git who has found his market niche

he knows damned well what sort of people buy his drivel and he milks it to the full. The content is devoid of meaning, full of sickly homilies for the ignorant and just plain fucking shite. (ooerr, I hope hell doesn't really exist or that's me on a one-way ticket down the way...lol)

as for Iron Maiden trouncing him...hahaha...oh the irony.

[no name no slogan]

56. Yeah, Bruce Dickinson was in NME that week...

...and they were ragging him about it mightily. Of couse, he said it was all a marketing gimmick, seeing as damn near nobody releases singles the last week of the year.

Either way, watching St. Cliffie get knocked off by IRON FSCKING MAIDEN made my Christmas that year! :)

[RUDUing2]

26. not pop...or rock...it is a country one..Christmas Shoes...

yuckyuckyuckyuckyuck...

[KurtNYC]

27. Also "Rockin Around the Xmas Tree"

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

34. AHHHHHHHH!

I never, never, never want to hear that song again.
Working at a Pizza Hut while in college, we had a jukebox, and every single Christmas season they'd install a few seasonal songs.

That one was played EVERY TWENTY MINUTES! (I wish I was kidding, but honestly, in a typical 5 hour shift, I heard that song over 15 times.)

My ears bleed every time I hear that song now. People around me don't understand why I cringe whenever that song comes on.

[TNDemo]

40. Ah, yes. That ranks right up there with Jingle Bell Rock.

AAArrrrggghhh.

[noonwitch]

28. Bare Naked Lady's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

God, I hate that lame-ass band-they sound like every other 90s band.

[Wallflower_Liberal]

29. Now that is just blasphemy!

Don't diss the Ladies. Have you ever heard them live or gone to one of their shows? Awesome.

Besides, Steven Paige is my secret love slave, so I may be biased. Lol. Oh wait, that was just my delusional fantasy. Nevermind...Carry on...

[Debbi801]

47. I heart BNL. They are AWESOME in concert!

[mac56]

31. The aforementioned "Grandma Got Run Over..."

plus the execrable "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year". "Scary ghost stories"?! WTF?!

Also for sheer annoyance factor: "We Wish You The Merriest, The Merriest" by Sinatra and Crosby.

[The Blue Flower]

33. Feliz Navidad

Sorry, but it seems to be getting longer and longer every year. It is SO repetitive!

[gollygee]

37. I *so* hate that song

I always cringe when I hear Christmas music playing somewhere because I'm afraid that'll come on.

That one and "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" - for the same reason. REPETITIVE!

[DelawareValleyDem]

36. Misletoe and Holly by Sinatra

that and the Lou Rawls version of a traditional Christmas carol that I heard yesterday at the mall, can't quite remember which one it was but it sucked. Both of them had great voices but these songs didn't cut it.

[queenjane]

38. I used to love "Merry Christmas from the Family"

But now that Robert Earl Keen is performing at the inauguration, I hate it now!

[Dogmudgeon]

49. Robert Earl Keen, a 'Publican?

Man, that was a fast political conversion!

Maybe he lost a bar bet or something.

--p!

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. Or maybe a gig is a gig

Actually, I went to high school with him, but I haven't seen him since then.

[SmokingJacket]

41. Christmas in Killarney sung by Bing Crosby

I love Bing, but a song about celebrating Christmas in Ireland is just silly.

It's got a kind of jig thing going too.

[mac56]

43. I second that.

Definitely "Plastic Paddy" crap, IMO.

[Hobarticus]

45. "Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You", by Billy Squier

But Paul's assault "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" is a close second...

[skygazer]

48. It's so hard to pick just one

I work retail so for 8 hours every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas, I have to listen to them over and over and over and over and over and over.... well, you get the idea. I'm surprised more retail workers don't end up on the roof with a magnum...

The worst? The McCartney song is horrible. Anything with a chorus of off key children. The Chipmunks which was cute the first time I heard it back in 1967 but went downhill very quckly.

Gives me a headache just thinking about it....

[shawmut]

58. You'd think that choir of children could do a little better after a year

of practice!



Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, oh ...

[regularguy]

53. "Hey Clarence, you been good aw what?"

I'm a fan of Bruce, but please let me never here his Santa Claus song ever again!

[KurtNYC]

54. Yes, Christmas and rock bands just don't mix

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!