Worst Holiday Song

[Groundbeef]

There are several songs that I dearly love to hear each Christmas season. However, along with the good, are the downright terrible, and awful, almost painful to listen to.

My all time most hated song has to be "Christmas Shoes", that sappy piece of crap about the poor kid trying to buy his dying mother a pair of shoes before she goes to see Jesus on Christmas day.

"All I want is a hippopotumus for Christmas" is pretty bad as well. And a recent addition to my library of bad holiday music is the John Denver tune "Daddy please don't get drunk at Christmas".

Please discuss your most hated music of the holiday.

[ForeverAutumn]

Well, I already listed three in another thread...

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
Jingle Bell Rock
All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

Add to that, The Little Drummer Boy. I HATE that song. Want to see me go squirrelly? Play the Drummer Boy song for me. I have heard countless versions of it by countless people and I hate each and every one. I recently heard a version by Sister Hazel that was barely stomachable, but I still hated it.

I know some people who love it. I don't get it. It's repetitive; it's boring; it's way to freakin' long and it's the equivalent of nails on a blackboard for me.

[elapsed]

All Christmas songs are created equal.. though Christmas elevator muzak is particularly awful

But I don't mind a little Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Ballet, this is probably the only holiday music I enjoy through the season (which incidentally is overused in holiday commericals!)

cheers,
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[GMichael]

Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

[Groundbeef]

Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

Thats a cop-out answer. Only hillbillies and inbreds like that song. Pick a real song that can be universally hated by all.

Such as this little gem:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/cybernana/funpage/dominick/dominick.htm

Please enjoy.

[Auricauricle]

I'll second Little Drummer Boy.... Oh, the a-go-ny!

You excuse me a mom', I'll just pop out for a barf and an ELP rinse-out....

[Groundbeef]

The little drummer boy does tend to linger on and on. Perhaps if it were either played double time, or the length cut in 1/2.

[Auricauricle]

Naaah. I like it better at 16 1/4!

[GMichael]

Naaah. I like it better at 16 1/4!

That's 16 2/3.:11:

[Rich-n-Texas]

A real math wiz ain't he? :rolleyes:

[Auricauricle]

I try. You know, it's been awhile! Testy so-and-so....hmph.

[GMichael]

I used one of these new contraptions. I think they are called cal-Q-late-hores.

[Rich-n-Texas]

What's the name of the one where it's a conversation between Santa and a 6-year-old who wants a jaguar auto but ends up with a real jag? It was funny once or twice, but after 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 plays, I HATED IT!!!

[Feanor]

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Add to that, The Little Drummer Boy. I HATE that song. Want to see me go squirrelly? Play the Drummer Boy song for me. I have heard countless versions of it by countless people and I hate each and every one. I recently heard a version by Sister Hazel that was barely stomachable, but I still hated it.

I know some people who love it. I don't get it. It's repetitive; it's boring; it's way to freakin' long and it's the equivalent of nails on a blackboard for me.

In my youth, almost 50 years ago :( , we had a church music directory and minister who really like Little Drummer Boy. Church goer as I then was, I had to listen to it at least two or three times every Christmas season. By Year 2 I really hated that piece of drivel.

[noddin0ff]

I'd have to rank this one way up at the top of my list for destroying the Christmas spirit. AND, it's a Johnny Cash classic to boot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JjC9jg5wQ

[kexodusc]

Yeah, Little Drummer Boy was the first that came to mind.
I don't really have any strong emotions one way or another for any other Christmas songs of the top of my head, but that one always gets the skip treatment from me.

[Worf101]

I come at this story a little differently. Between being overseas in the Service for 4 Christmas or too broke to come home for Christmas in College my least loved Christmas songs are the ones that make me cry.

"I'll be home for Christmas", is enough to make the most hardened veteran cry. The song bears no resemblence to Christmas in the Projects that I grew up experiencing but anywhere was better than where I was at the time.

"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", is just as bad as the above, the line "through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow...". Are you chittin me, I was freezing my ass of with B Company 2nd Engineer Battalion on the DMZ in Korea in December of '72 I think is was. I started crying and couldn't stop. First Sgt, knew I was a "straight arrow" (no drugs or drink) thought I'd lost my effin' mind. When I finally stopped blubberin' he just sent me to my hooch for a couple of hours. He, being a 20 year man, knew what I was going through but couldn't have it "infecting" the rest of the Company. I was eventually alright.

These are the two songs I can't stand but for obviously different reasons.

Da Worfster

[Auricauricle]

Tink yer onto something there, Creasy (heh heh heh...). A lot of this holiday music has become ingrained into our collective subconcious that it is no wonder that it evokes such a strong response. With "I'll be Home" written during the second World War, the images and thoughts surrounding it can fell even the most stalwart Klingon. It's just that so much of the stuff has been associated with kitch and schmaltz that has become unbearable.

This is my take: When I was growing up, my grandparents would host Christmas parties when friends and family would collect around the piano for some lusty carol singing. I remember the manuscript books from the forties and fifties, with Bing Crosby etc. on the covers. At their release and in the minds of those growing up with them, these documents portrayed something dear and familiar. Now it's trite and hackneyed, with Starbucks and department stores using the tunes as lures to bring in misty eyed and wistful customers.

I just wonder, though: How come there aren't any schmaltzy Hannukah songs out there?

[kexodusc]

Tink yer onto something there, Creasy (heh heh heh...). A lot of this holiday music has become ingrained into our collective subconcious that it is no wonder that it evokes such a strong response. With "I'll be Home" written during the second World War, the images and thoughts surrounding it can fell even the most stalwart Klingon. It's just that so much of the stuff has been associated with kitch and schmaltz that has become unbearable.

This is my take: When I was growing up, my grandparents would host Christmas parties when friends and family would collect around the piano for some lusty carol singing. I remember the manuscript books from the forties and fifties, with Bing Crosby etc. on the covers. At their release and in the minds of those growing up with them, these documents portrayed something dear and familiar. Now it's trite and hackneyed, with Starbucks and department stores using the tunes as lures to bring in misty eyed and wistful customers.

I just wonder, though: How come there aren't any schmaltzy Hannukah songs out there?
At the risk of being cheeseball and getting flamed, I kinda like hearing all the goofy Christmas carols for 3-4 weeks a year.

I have a lot of good memories of being with my grandparents (who raised me for several years) and other happy Christmas memories about my family. Actually those were about the only times everyone was together. So the tunes trigger some sort of warm emotional response.

Either that or there's too much rye in my eggnog? :ihih:

[Auricauricle]

Well you gotta admit, even my post was a little "cheesball" too, come to think of it. Worf just tickled it out and I couldn't resist the impulse to analyze it. Just a habit I have, I reckon....

I agree with you, too. Two, three weeks a year fine. When they start crankin' it up on Halloween I start gettin' ornery. Nice thing is the attending stocking up of Nog, which gives plenty of op to get comfortably numb and oblivious.

(I do not recommend this behavior; this is all metaphorical conjecture, here. I suggest everyone stay stone-sober and completely cogent this Yuletide!)

You softboiled egg-nog swillin' candyass!

[bobsticks]

I'll join the crowd with the "Little Drummer Boy" vote but I'll up the ante and be even more specific. The MTV version with Bing Crosby and David Bowie makes me wanna take a baseball bat to the androgynous and old alike...

[Rich-n-Texas]

You softboiled egg-nog swillin' candyass!
Y'all are a bunch of girly-men. I'm a manly-man! :10:

[Auricauricle]

Yes, you are, Big Daddy; yes you are.

(And like every other proud Texas boy I've known, you got the boots and peashooter to prove it too, doncha? Don't be shy....)

[emesbee]

Little Drummer Boy gets my vote, I can't stand it.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that I can't stand John Lennon's 'So This Is Christmas'. I like most of his songs, but not that one.

[Groundbeef]

Little Drummer Boy gets my vote, I can't stand it.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that I can't stand John Lennon's 'So This Is Christmas'. I like most of his songs, but not that one.

You don't have to go out on a limb. If you hate it, don't feel bad. It's just a song. It's not my favorite either.

But Christmas Shoes trumps all bad songs. It is quite simply the worst.

[ForeverAutumn]

I'll join the crowd with the "Little Drummer Boy" vote but I'll up the ante and be even more specific. The MTV version with Bing Crosby and David Bowie makes me wanna take a baseball bat to the androgynous and old alike...

LOL. That's actually the only version that I've ever heard and liked. For two reasons, I think. One, it's Bowie and Bing. Two of my favourite voices ever. Say no more. Second, it's a two, two, two songs in one deal so the torture of the Drummer Boy is lessened by the other half of the song.

I've heard about the Christmas Shoes song, but I've never actually heard it.

[Rich-n-Texas]

I can't believe there are so many "Little Drummer Boy" haters here! I've never found anything unappealing about it.

[Auricauricle]

Beat it, Little Drummer Boy!

It's not that it is so bad, Tex. It's just become so schmaltzified, it's unbearable!

[Rich-n-Texas]

Well I have to admit, the version that comes to mind is the one I listened to when I was a wee youngin'.

[Feanor]

Beat it, Little Drummer Boy!

It's not that it is so bad, Tex. It's just become so schmaltzified, it's unbearable!

The least intensely annoying version I know of is the one on this King's Singer disc (http://www.amazon.com/Little-Christmas-Music-Kanawa-Singers/dp/B000002RRF/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1228321579&sr=1-3), otherwise a very enjoyable recording.

I actually tolerate to listen to the zipped copy when my player is in 'Shuffle' mode
...

[kexodusc]

Little Drummer Boy gets my vote, I can't stand it.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that I can't stand John Lennon's 'So This Is Christmas'. I like most of his songs, but not that one.

Ooohhh. That actually trumps Little Drummer Boy for me...I forgot all about that one. It's got more buzzkill than any Christmas song ever should.

[ForeverAutumn]

Beat it, Little Drummer Boy!

It's not that it is so bad, Tex. It's just become so schmaltzified, it's unbearable!

No. It's bad.

[Groundbeef]

I've heard about the Christmas Shoes song, but I've never actually heard it.


Here you go FA. Either have a hankie nearby, or a barf bucket. Could go either way.

Please, enjoy. Really, enjoy, and Merry Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsvE33pRSw

[ForeverAutumn]

If we're talking buzzkill songs, I'd like to throw Do They Know It's Christmas into the ring. It's buzzkill and bad. Double-whammy!

[ForeverAutumn]

Here you go FA. Either have a hankie nearby, or a barf bucket. Could go either way.

Please, enjoy. Really, enjoy, and Merry Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsvE33pRSw

We have a winner!!!!

The one saving grace is that Rob Lowe provided some nice eye candy.

BARF!!!!

I was better off having never heard it...but at least now I know that I can laugh when other people tell me how sad it is.

[Groundbeef]

We have a winner!!!!

The one saving grace is that Rob Lowe provided some nice eye candy.

BARF!!!!

I was better off having never heard it...but at least now I know that I can laugh when other people tell me how sad it is.


Yeah, I don't get it when people love that song. Something about "the true spirit of Christmas?"

I prefer this description of the tune on another blog. "Christmas Shoes is the melodic equivilent of drinking a bottle of honey while euthanizing the family pet."

If that isn't a ringing endorsment, I don't know what is.

[Auricauricle]

Couldja be more specific, GB?