These indisputably are the two worst Christmas songs ever.

[LostInAnomie]

Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7VTlw9BHKU

Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAimJ-EXOF8

[Danger Mouse]

1. Bleah. I can't argue with either.

[mitchum]

2. No...this one makes those two seem like masterpieces...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2asrRn9QBE4

I think even Hans Christian Anderson would consider that to be some sick shit

[LostInAnomie]

4. As horrible as that is...

... at least it isn't a mind raping ear-worm.

That is horrible though.

[alphafemale]

21. I actually thought that was the best dark humor I've ever heard from a Christmas Tune

And it is completely without the cringe factor of "Dear Mr Jesus"

[Capn Sunshine]

3. "Feliz Navidad" is traditional

you are insulting a 39 year old hispanic tradition amigo.
Feliciano's version of "Feliz Navidad" (in which he plays both an acoustic guitar and a Puerto Rican cuatro) is one of the most downloaded and aired Christmas songs in the United States and Canada. It was also recognized by ASCAP as one of the top 25 most played and recorded Christmas songs around the world.

sorry you don't dig it. Agree about the McCartney drek.

[LostInAnomie]

5. A lot of people like scat porn too. That doesn't make it good.

That is my reply to you.

[Capn Sunshine]

6. I think the vote is in

In 2009, an Aqua Teen Hunger Force album was released with a rendition of the song featuring the voice actors from the series.

This song was played for 24 hours on 97.5 fm Connecticut.
now THAT is some freaky shit!

[Lasher]

18. Man am I sorry I looked that up.

[LostInAnomie]

20. Hahaha... That's a hard way to find out.

You should have known with the word "scat" in there it couldn't have been good.

[KamaAina]

57. I take it this has nothing to do with scat singing?

:shrug:

[whistler162]

26. my reply to you

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinear

[yawnmaster]

59. a lot of people??? define a lot. seriously, a lot of people like it?

link to the statistics please.
(no, not to the actual porn!)

[lukasahero]

69. I actually like -

God, I feel like I should put this in small print and run away - Celine Dion's version of it. :scared: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzhhxYoOJdk

FTR, I could not name off the top of my head another song Celine Dion has ever done. Wait. Did she have something to do with "The Titanic" movie? I have never seen it but that kind of rings a bell.

Oh, and on the chance you actually care about PR, my pup is a PR rescue. We're doing our best to keep her bilingual. :]

[Frank Cannon]

7. It's almost impossible to beat "The Christmas Shoes" by Newsong

Or Patton Oswalt's hilarious rant about such...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY

[cbdo2007]

14. I posted this song also without seeing your post.....Therefore, I think

it actually is the worst Christmas song ever. No other song has been mentioned twice, by two separate people, out of the blue for being so bad.

It seriously makes me want to shoot myself when I hear it.

[Frank Cannon]

35. The "Christmas Shoes" is the ultimate right-wing guilt assuager

I think most right-wingers have a microscopic conscience that tells them that the philosophy they have adopted is antithetical to anything that Christ taught. In the "Christmas Shoes" song, the poor little kid whose mother is dying can't come up with the last couple of bucks to buy her a pair of shoes to wear when she "meets Jesus". The "narrator" doesn't buy the shoes outright, doesn't send the boy off with a hundred bucks to give his medical-bill-devastated family a Christmas dinner... no, he "helps him out" with the rest of the money for the shoes and acts like it's the greatest fucking thing that anyone ever did for another human being.

[Arugula Latte]

54. Yes, "Christmas Shoes" is indisputably excrable, loathesome and abhorrent

Not to mention despicable, odious and vile.

[Mad_Dem_X]

33. "Christmas Shoes" is the worst song EVER. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. Christmas Shoes gets my vote for worst ever, followed closely by

"Man with the Bag" :puke:

[canoeist52]

8. Really? Ahem..."Dominic the donkey"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrdxtWgHbE

[Lavender Brown]

22. That's the only one that actually makes me change the channel

[Truthiness Inspector]

9. Feliz Navidad is a fun Christmas song

I smile every time I hear it. Maybe if you think about the song in the context of enjoying life, it might become fun for you too. :7

[cbdo2007]

10. Um....no that stupid Christmas Shoes song is the worst one ever!!!

[jmm]

11. Those are masterpieces compared to the Christmas shoe song or

anything off the Suge Knight produced Death Row Christmas CD.

[JVS]

13. Death Row Christmas CD?

[jmm]

16. I wish I was making it up

It's so bad if it didn't take itself seriously it might be good. Nothing quite like hearing smoking weed, Jesus, the Bible, .38 covered with chrome, and Hennessey all mentioned in the same Christmas song.

[jmowreader]

28. Compared to some of the songs on this list, Christmas on Death Row is a masterpiece

Face it: If you HAD to buy a Christmas album under penalty of death, and your choices were:

1) a compilation CD containing, among other things, "Billy's Christmas Wish" and "Christmas Shoes"

or

2) Christmas on Death Row,

which one would you get? I don't think it would be the one that had the song about the kid dying in Santa's lap.

[JVS]

12. Feliciano rules

[Dr. Strange]

30. I don't care what momma don't allow.

Gonna play my guitar anyhow.

[Archae]

15. I happen to like the McCartney one!

You want REALLY bad?

"The Little Drummer Boy" is bad enough as is, right?
How about by Joan Jett?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9UW-urO3g

:blech:

[flying rabbit]

23. I kind of like that...

McCartney's is much worse:P

[GoCubsGo]

36. I detest "The Little Drummer Boy"

It ranks right up there with that dreadful "Christmas Shoes" song. They are the musical version of ipecac syrup.

[doc03]

64. +1

[lukasahero]

70. I've seen a lot of people say that

Doesn't anyone here remember seeing Bing and Bowie sing it? For some of us old folks, that's a g*&d*(^ classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7LRDJ7B8gw

[tblue]

17. I love Paul, but what was he thinking?

Dang! You've given me that as an earworm!

[Lucian]

19. I nominate "Feliz Navidad" and "Pretty Paper"

:puke:

[rurallib]

24. There is so much bad Xmas drek it is hard to pick the worst

of the so called normal, main stream stuff I would have to go along with McCartney's song as the worst.
Have yet to hear Christmas Shoes. Have been avoiding it like a plague.
When you talk albums, Herb Alpert's "Tijuana Christmas" was fingernails on the blackboard to me. My SIL used to torture us with it every Xmas for decades.

[BolivarianHero]

25. Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer...

So bad, it's good...

At the other extreme, I can't get through the holidays with listening to Roger Whitaker's Darcy the Dragon.

[gmoney]

47. The worst ever.

But so bad, it's horrid.

[BolivarianHero]

55. Grandma or Darcy?

Darcy is lovely...

[gmoney]

56. You have to ask?

Grandma... the first time I heard it, I'd hoped it was some stupid local radio thing that would die a quick death, but no, it comes back year after year. Horrid.

[BolivarianHero]

63. I thought it was only popular in backwater Eastern Ontario...

Shows what I know.

[LT TX]

27. I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqIM_bPTws

Horrible song. The local radio station plays it all the time...

[jmowreader]

29. Oh come on, that's kind of cute

And it shows a bit of forethought on the part of the songwriter, in thinking of the logistics of getting such a large animal into the house...

"He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door
That's the easy thing to do."

[Minimus]

31. "The Cat Carol" gets my vote. It depresses the shit out of me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clePvNtJWpw

The cat wanted in to the warm warm house,
but no one would let the cat in
It was cold outside on Christmas Eve,
She meowed and meowed by the door.

The cat was not let in the warm warm house,
And her tiny cries were ignored.
'twas a blizzard now, the worst of the year,
There was no place for her to hide.

Just then a poor little mouse crept by,
He had lost his way in the snow.
He was on his last legs and was almost froze,
The cat lifted him with her paw.

She said "Poor mouse do not be afraid,
because this is Christmas Eve.
"On this freezing night we both need a friend,
"I won’t hurt you - stay by my side."

She dug a small hole in an icy drift,
This is where they would spent the night.
She curled herself 'round her helpless friend,
Protecting him from the cold.

Oooooo

When Santa came by near the end of the night,
the reindeer started to cry.
They found the cat lying there in the snow,
and they could see that she had died.

They lifted her up from the frozen ground,
and placed her into the sleigh.
It was then they saw the little mouse wrapped up,
she had kept him warm in her fur.

"Oh thank you Santa for finding us!
"Dear cat wake up we are saved!"
..."I’m sorry mouse but your friend has died,
there’s nothing more we can do.

"On Christmas Eve she gave you her life,
the greatest gift of them all."
Santa lifted her up into the night sky,
and laid her to rest among the stars.

"Dear mouse don’t cry you are not alone,
you will see your friend every year.
"Each Christmas a Cat Constellation will shine,
to remind us that her love’s still here."

Oooooooo

[GoCubsGo]

37. What a horrible, warped song!

Just like the "shoes" song. I can't imagine how twisted and sadistic a mind has to be to think up and write down songs like this for what is supposed to be a season of joy and good cheer. Sick.

[S n o w b a l l]

39. Damn....

I'm going in the garage now and running my car. What a sweet Christmas song for the children. :eyes:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

40. that's as bad as the wreck of the Edmund FItzgerald.

Makes ya wanna commit hara kiri.

:puke:

[annonymous]

51. That's the worst X-mas song ever.

I'm sure every cat lover who hears that little ditty will want to strangle the songwriter. I also hate The Christmas Shoes song. The local X-mas song radio station has that piece of crap in heavy rotation.

[Kajsa]

32. Love 'Feliz Navidad'.

always have, always will.

So 'Boo' on you!

:P

[Manifestor_of_Light]

41. Feliz navidad is great.

I think Trini Lopez (SWOON) also did Feliz Navidad back in the sixties, even before Jose Feliciano hit the charts. But they are both good!!!

[Kajsa]

48. Yes they are!

My mom, who is now 90,
loves it too.

She still sings it loudly with a strong
Swedish accent.

:) :hi:

[joeybee12]

52. I agree...I love that song and his version!

:toast:

[azmouse]

34. Barking dogs, Grandma and reindeer, shoes, anything with Yoko singing....

ohhhh, I could go on and on!

[GoCubsGo]

38. The barking dogs song reminds me of my grandma.

She used to listen to WGN radio every morning, where this song was played frequently. For some reason, Grandma seemed to enjoy it, even though she was not much of an animal lover. She sure talked about it a lot when it first came out, although it was quite a novelty back then. I miss my grandma.

[Systematic Chaos]

42. Sorry but y'all have it COMPLETELY wrong. The worst one of all -- BY FAR -- is

Barbra Streisand's skat version of Jingle Bells.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2lRSk0MWAY

That shit makes me wanna drown small furry things in a fucking bucket. :puke::banghead::nuke::grr::nuke::banghead::puke:

[Mad_Dem_X]

43. Yeah, that one is pretty bad.

I forgot all about that one. UGH.

[Arugula Latte]

58. Ugh! We've got that fucking song on an Xmas CD

I only play that CD once a year -- when we're decorating the tree. When that goddamn annoying piece of crap song comes on I can't race to the CD player fast enough to forward it. I should just download the CD and put it on my iPod and delete that song, but I'm too lazy.

P.S. I still say "Christmas Shoes" is worse, though.

[Deep13]

44. The Paul McCartney song and "Christmas Shoes."

Best: Marion Lanzo's rendition of "O Come All Ye Faithful."

[Deep13]

46. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Jinglebell Rock...

...are two examples of the souless, white-bread banality that passes for culture in this country.

[GoCubsGo]

68. I used to think the former was about a rat

To me, it sounded like "Rocky the Rat, the Christmas tree..." After that, it didn't make sense, so I had to look up the lyrics. Enunciation. It's a good thing.

[unpossibles]

45. not unless Celine Dion is covering them.... nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

49. I actually find Feliz Navidad far less annoying than most Christmas songs.

I mean, Jose Feliciano, ya got no complaints.
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I don't know. Once you've heard the same 5-10 songs played over and over and over ad nauseum by 500 different artists, they all get on your nerves. Although I heard the silver bells in "Silver Bells" actually refers to cash register bells.....if that's in fact true, then :puke:

[jobycom]

50. I'm sorry to be a grammar nerd, but there's a typo. W-O-R-S-T is not how you spell "Greatest ever."

I'm surprised you put McCartney's song as the greatest ever. It's catchy with some interesting music, but it's only good, not great.

I totally agree with Feliz Navidad. It is perfect! One of the few songs that gets me in the Christmas spirit no matter my mood, and a great sing-a-long.

[SacredCow]

53. WCT and FN are irritating, I grant you.

But I'm also going to go with the Christmas Shoes song as the worst.

[GoneOffShore]

61. Yes to McCartney - No to Jose

Little Drummer is the WORSTEST Xmas song ever.

[Taverner]

62. Aw come on - Maca's ain't that bad...

Could be worse

[Brother Buzz]

65. Just got back from my son's high school band performance

They played 'Wonderful Christmas Time' and it sounded GREAT! McCartney's rendition sucks.

[lunamagica]

66. I love both songs. They are fun and happy. But I think I'm the only one who does. :( n/t

[nickinSTL]

67. heh. my dad actually seems to like the Jose Feliciano

That one doesn't bother me.

or the Paul McCartney.

The Christmas song I hate?

Little Drummer Boy. Doesn't matter by who. Hate it.

:hide:

[cynatnite]

71. "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" is the second worst...

"Grandma got ran over by a reindeer" is definitely the worst of all time.

I love Feliz Navidad. It's what I sing in the shower.