What Is Your LEAST FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG???

[Wayne_Zitkus]

What song makes you scream and jab a button when it comes on your car radio?

For me, it's Roy Orbison's "Prety Paper". I think it's dumb.

I'll be posting another thread for your favorite Christmas song.

[AnnMarie]

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

Every year I think I'll escape hearing it, but somehow... it finds me.

:shocked:

[MellieD]

Those dogs barking 'Jingle Bells' Grrrrrrrr

[wtchmel]

I'd have to pick Silent Night. I just can't sing this song one more friggen time!!! I feel like I have to scream every year we have to sing it, You'd think someone would get sick of it, and we could just cut the number. Ahhhhhhhh, help me.
(i'm in a choral group, so I tend to think of the irritation of songs from this perspective).
Here's a funny song side note. At work, we had to put on 'songs of the season' . I work in a restaurant. The next thing I know a server is rushing to the office and telling me that the song being piped into the restaurant is an xmas song, jingle bells or some crap, being sung in..... FARTS And BUrps!! :eek: she said the customers felt is was inappropriate(which it was) I couldn't stop laughing, Just the thought of what the customers must have thought!! TOo funny. Needless to say, we aren't listening to this station at all, so we have no seasonal songs this year, LOL

[LillyBBBW]

I know I'm going to get flogged for this, this being John Lennon's anniversary and all, but I hate that song 'Happy Christmas (War Is Over).' It's redundant and Yoko's voice is enough to make you want to run bash the radio with a two-by-four.

[Tina]

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

I remember when it first came out hearing reports of some guy who took over a radio station by force and holed up and played that song and nothing else for a day. Now this song COULD have driven Noriega out, because it's hideously irritating, inane and just plain ugly to the ears.

Give me anything by Nat King Cole, the Vince Guilardi Trio or the Rat Pack any day. Those are my faves.

[Egbert Souse]

{i'm using "Yo" for all my contributions today...it just keeps seeming appropriate}

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

As a musician, i can't begin to tell you how many times that tune has made my life flash before my eyes.

I get these calls to play parties and stuff and it's all pretty much the same thing and i just go about my business doing what's required of me.
And then Christmas comes.

All of a sudden, you gotta play tunes you don't normally have to play. It's usually easy...Chesnuts roasting on an open fire........Jingle Bells.... that kinda stuff any idiot can play even though you don't sit around and listen to it all through the year.

I keep forgetting about that damned Winter Wonderland tune, though. If i had the least bit of professional integrity about the thing, i'd start working on it November 1st, but i don't.
Invariably, we'll get a request for it and the piano player will ask me if i know it and i'll think "Sleigh bells ring are you listening..." part, and say, "Yeah, no problem."

THEN we hit the bridge...that "In the meadow we can build a snowman...." part.

Oh lord. It's changing keys every four bars and being HIGHLY unnecessarily complicated. If people MUST write seasonal music, i say they should write it EASY.

That tune has kicked my ass more times than i want to think about.

[Jack Skellington]

That horrific Paul McCartney one and any song redone by any of those over appreciated under talented "pop divas." I don't need to endure the likes of Jessica Simpson or Mariah Carey screeching out brutalized renditions of holiday classics.

[BBW Betty]

I'd have to agree that it is often horrifying to listen to the over-stylized versions by various musicians and vocal artists. They usually make it so you hardly recognize the song anymore. This goes for pop, country, any "style." Give me a traditionally sung carol over any of those any time.

My least favorite Christmas song, though....

It don't really dislike it, but I don't want to hear it more than once or twice a year. I don't really know the title, but I heard it the other day.

"There's something stuck up in the chimney,
And I don't know what it is
And it's been there all night long..."

Basically, Santa gets stuck in a family's chimney and dies there. The song follows a little kid's observations over a week, a month, and the year.

Cute, but only until you hear it too much.

[jamie]

yikes, Lilly, I was going to say that one too. I just turned the radio off in the car this afternoon when it came on and was complaining about it. My boyfriend ldoesn't mind it, but it drives me nuts.

I feel similarly about that Christmas Shoes song, it is too manipulative to make any real statement to anyone.

[adam]

any one that is modern....or not sung by an old dead guy....a crooner....so prolly any recorded after '65 or so won't pass muster with me.

[Zoom]

Anything with "Christmas" in the title.

[fred_elliot]

all of 'em

I'm a grumpy sod

[fatlane]

I HATE...

1. Little Drummer Boy: I WILL BEAT HIM DOWN WITH GEORGE BUSH! PA RUM PA TUM TUM THIS, YOU ANIMATED PUPPET FREAK!

2. Happy Christmas (War is Over): Beautiful song, then Yoko opens her mouth and makes Black Metal sound like Gregorian Chants. She's pure evil, and this song proves it.

3. Any barking dog song. Or meowing cat song: Look, if you got a dog that can bark jingle bells on his own, that's badass. Record it and I'll watch. But getting a bunch of different tuned dogs lined up and beating them to bark in time is ANIMAL CRUELTY. STOP IT.

4. Any song with Santa committing negligent homicide, getting stuck, winding up dead, or landing in a menage a trois with mommy. HE'S A FRIGGIN' SAINT. SAINTS DO NOT DO CRAP LIKE THAT.

5. Songs that try to unify holidays. Screw that. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus christ, Hannukah is about a miracle in the temple during a time of oppression, and Kwaanza is a secular holiday with cool candles. That they are scheduled around the same time is not my fault.

6. White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and any other song praising snow. I HATE SNOW. KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME. Consider: Jesus was born in a HOT place. The Lord obviously didn't like snow, given He could have put the Promised Land any dang place that he pleased. Therefore, JESUS HATES SNOW, TOO. QUIT SINGING ABOUT IT.

7. Do They Know It's Christmas? No. They do not. They are Muslim. They know when it's Eid, though. Or they're Ethiopian Orthodox, in which case they have a different feast day for Jesus Christ independent of the date the Bishop of Rome fixed in order to go head-to-head with the birthday of Mithra.

8. Bruce Springsteen singing Santa Claus is Comin' to Town: He is so full of himself on this song. He is the Oprah of rock and roll.

9. That damn song with the bells ringing that sounds like it came from a Harry Potter movie. That song gives me the heebie-jeebies. It's a Halloween tune, not a Christmas song.

10. Any song with massive production and obvious "This'll sell a couple thousand every December" commercialization. If you believe in Jesus and want to sing a song to celebrate his birth, you don't need Phil Spector on the buttons. This is also why I hate most so-called "Christian Rock". It's designed to cash in on religion, for the most part. I'm Christian, I like to rock out, but not to Christian Rock. It turns my stomach as it beats me on the head with its bombastic message. Same for commercialized Christmas songs.

[CurvaceousBBWLover]

The one about "Santa Baby." I never liked that one since the firs time i heard it.

[Wayne_Zitkus]

The one about "Santa Baby." I never liked that one since the firs time i heard it.
"Santa Baby" caused quite a stir when it was first released in 1954, I still think the original Eartha Kitt version is far better than Madonna's remake.

[TallFatSue]

Tied for absolute worst Christmas songs in my book are "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" and "The Little Christmas Stocking With a Hole In the Toe". When I was a girl, my mother had an über-cutesy Christmas record (with screechy flutes and hyperactive xylophones) that she loved to play ad nauseum. It's not exactly lady-like, but eventually, whenever I heard either of these songs, I wanted to put the above-mentioned stocking on my size 13 foot and kick all the front teeth out of that sickeningly-sweet singer. Singing: "It seems so long since I could say, 'Sister Susie sitting on a' ..." Shut the hell up!

6. White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and any other song praising snow. I HATE SNOW. KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME. Consider: Jesus was born in a HOT place. The Lord obviously didn't like snow, given He could have put the Promised Land any dang place that he pleased. Therefore, JESUS HATES SNOW, TOO. QUIT SINGING ABOUT IT.
Agreed. We've spent some wonderful Christmases in the Caribbean and in Hawaii (where it's always nice and warm) and in Australia (where it's summer). One Aussie said it best: "White Christmas is simply agressive American marketing to make you think you want snow at Christmas, like selling ice to Eskimos."

[fatlane]

The one about "Santa Baby." I never liked that one since the firs time i heard it.

Yeah. That one falls in my #4 category.

[NotAnExpert]

"There's something stuck up in the chimney,
And I don't know what it is
And it's been there all night long..."

Basically, Santa gets stuck in a family's chimney and dies there. The song follows a little kid's observations over a week, a month, and the year.

Cute, but only until you hear it too much.

Oh man, don't go hatin' on Bob Rivers! The man is a parody genius! Yeah, "The Chimney Song" is gross, but that's just because it attacks the sappy sentimentality of brainless Christmas songs sung by small children. (Personally, I consider it child abuse.) It need not go into the rotation, but it should be heard once in a while.

Bob Rivers Christmas Songs: http://www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/tunes/xmastunes.asp

Back toward the topic, "O Christmas Tree", "Feliz Navidad", "Blue Christmas", "I'll Be Home For Christmas", Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" and any other song about "Christmas TIME" and "Christmas FEELINGS" that commodify and quantify a "Christmas" state of mind are abominations and capitol offenses. (Christmas traffic lights, ski lodges, snow in general and other ephemera do NOT enhance this "Christmas" feeling.) I realize that implicates several awe-filled religious classics but if it's just about standing (kneeling?) around being reverent and not about making the world a better place, what good is it? I'll take "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" over "O Holy Night".

I grant an exemption to songs that make fun of such things, ala Tom Lehrer, Stan Freberg, and Bob Rivers (maybe even Sten Boreson). But they really need to challenge thoughtless, feelgood assumptions about this Christmas thing. Songs about "Christmas" in Hawaii or Malibu or what kind of car Santa drives are junk. The worst of this ilk? "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer", a corny, derivative shlock of a song with an artificial crisis involving an extension of a story about imaginary creatures who are already peripheral to a silly original story about how one imaginary guy sneaks presents into childrens' homes. I hate that song, and the Rankin-Bass drivvel it spawned!

Oh, and "Santa Baby" too. Ewg, step on it! Stomp it good!

[Carrie]

That horrific Paul McCartney one

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime?

<shudder>

That's my pick, too. It makes me want to stab myself in the eardrums with a pen to end my agony.

[Isa]

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee.

My dislike of that one started over 10 years ago while working in retail and is in full out hate status now.

All I need to hear is the opening bars and the song must be changed, quickly. If it plays until she starts singing.....:eek:

[LarryTheShiveringChipmunk]

DING FRIES ARE DONE (http://www.americanangst.com/dingfries.html)

[mejix]

7. Do They Know It's Christmas? No. They do not. They are Muslim. They know when it's Eid, though. Or they're Ethiopian Orthodox, in which case they have a different feast day for Jesus Christ independent of the date the Bishop of Rome fixed in order to go head-to-head with the birthday of Mithra.

i actually like this song but, yeah, it does include some of the most moronic lyrics ever recorded. (they don't have snow? the horror, the horror.) of course it includes the famous line "well tonight thank god its them instead of you!" hows that for the christmas spirit of brotherhood?