LEAST favorite Christmas Songs

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The Simpsons have ruined Jingle Bells for me forevermore. “Jingle bells, Batman smells…Robin laid an egg…” Ugh!

I agree. O Holy Night is a beautiful song but no one ever does it justice. Grandma Got Run Over may be a terrible song but I enjoy playing it on the piano. By the way, I NEVER get requests for it when I play for Christmas parties. Everyone else must hate it, too!

Radio stations began nonstop Christmas music before Thanksgiving here this year. I never realized there were so many wretched, horrible, terrible, awful, ugly, insipid, ridiculous recordings of so-called Christmas music out there. Horrendous! And, we have 4 weeks to go…I think I’ll be staying with National Public Radio until December 25th. Maybe they’ll do The Messiah and I’ll get to sing along! Ah ah ah ah ah! (Warming up…)
 
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pianoplayingmom:
The Simpsons have ruined Jingle Bells for me forevermore. “Jingle bells, Batman smells…Robin laid an egg…” Ugh!
The version of Jingle Bells you mentioned has been around since I was in first grade, at least. Matt Groening is from Oregon and Batman was popular on Channel 12 (which had the cartoons and Star Trek, too) so maybe that’s a local thing.

My least favorites are anything, especially with words, that I have to hear OVER and OVER and OVER, anything done in a pop style on an electronic organ (elevator music is elevator music) and essentially anything written since the early 1960s (that is, that wasn’t played when I was small), even the first time through.

And if I hear another secular Christmas movie in which the lead is described as “learning the true meaning of Christmas”, which turns out to mean nothing more than being jolted into thinking of a single person other than oneself for five minutes, I’m going to gag.
 
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puzzleannie:
I’m jealous, Ed, nobody is responding to “Favorites” because yours is more fun.

how about people who sing along with the Halleluiah chorus from the Messiah, but don’t know the parts or the words.
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puzzleannie,
By the time Christmas arrives, MOST people will be tired of the Christmas songs.
BUT after Christmas when we sing the ‘true’ religious songs in church, THEN we will know the real beauty in the songs that REALLY mean something…THEN your post should see some action.

Besides, when you have the ‘best’ you know the ‘worst’ will not be far behind.

annie, you’re doing fine! :cool:

P.S.
For the pre 1960’s style of music, the best Christmas songs are from Perry Como, Andy Williams, Nat King Cole.
To be honest, rock and roll kinda killed the meaningful Christmas songs.
 
I don’t care for Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear.

On the other hand, Five Naked Ladies Dancing in the Window is an intriguing holiday song that I must admit a certain attraction to.
 
One song that is in my top ten least favorite Christmas Carols is “So this is Christmas” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That one is a definate channel changer.
 
Pretty much…all of them. I enjoy what I hear at Mass, but that’s as far as I’ll take it. All the other trappings of Christmas just make my head hurt.

Although there was one song I heard once about a nuclear attack over the holidays that made me grin. I was in a crowded mall the week before Christmas, and total annihilation sounded quite nice at the time.
 
Bill Buck:
One song that is in my top ten least favorite Christmas Carols is “So this is Christmas” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That one is a definate channel changer.
I agree, that’s got to be the worst.

I always laugh, though, at walking 'round in women’s underwear

Merry Christmas, everyone!
Paul
 
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thann:
I don’t like most renditions of “O Holy Night,” but I LOVE the song itself. It’s a difficult song to perform well, and most people tend to get the measures wrong (they add a measure before each verse).

'thann
I feel the same way - I HATE Celine Dion’s rendition (just screaming, as far as I’m concerned), but I LOVE Josh Groban’s rendition.

I detest “Mary did you know.” That was sung before Midnight Mass last year at my husband’s assignment, and it’s an ignorant song. Don’t like most of the “humorous” ones. There’s a parody of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” that is just awful.

Oh, and anything by Mannheim Steamroller. ack 😃
 
My least favorite is Geographically specific.

The song is called “Christmas in the Northwest”

It is particularly loved by the Seattle radio outlets because it appeals to the areas “Seattlecentricism”.

Seattlecentric: adj

1. Relating to, measured from, or with respect to the center of Seattle.
2. Having Seattle as the center.
3. Centered or focused on Seattle or Seattle’s peoples, especially in relation to historical or cultural influence.
 
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Pyrosapien:
My least favorite is Geographically specific.

The song is called “Christmas in the Northwest”

It is particularly loved by the Seattle radio outlets because it appeals to the areas “Seattlecentricism”.

Seattlecentric: adj

1. Relating to, measured from, or with respect to the center of Seattle.
2. Having Seattle as the center.
3. Centered or focused on Seattle or Seattle’s peoples, especially in relation to historical or cultural influence.
I have mercifully been spared that one here in Oregon.
(But then, we are decidedly **not **Seattle-centric… although it would beat Texas-centric or NewYork-centric or Franco-centric any day. It’s more charming coming from Seattle, somehow.)
 
Bill Buck:
One song that is in my top ten least favorite Christmas Carols is “So this is Christmas” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That one is a definate channel changer.
So, what do you expect from anybody who writes a song called “Imagine” that has the line: “Imagine there’s no Heaven… it’s easy if you try.”

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BLB_Oregon:
I have mercifully been spared that one here in Oregon.
(But then, we are decidedly **not **Seattle-centric… although it would beat Texas-centric or NewYork-centric or Franco-centric any day. It’s more charming coming from Seattle, somehow.)
Franco-centric – centered in France, right?

(I know… I know…)

Just please do not call my home town “Frisco.”

Signed by a City-By-The-Bay-ite (a native of San Francisco who is currently in the northern cold wanting to go back to the Mediterranean climate and a city that actually has a critical mass of people)
 
So do we put the young Michael Jackson singing I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus in the bad or good song category? I think that I like to hear it ONCE, but after that it’s overkill.
 
Veronica Anne:
Franco-centric – centered in France, right?

(I know… I know…)

Just please do not call my home town “Frisco.”

Signed by a City-By-The-Bay-ite (a native of San Francisco who is currently in the northern cold wanting to go back to the Mediterranean climate and a city that actually has a critical mass of people)
When I lived near there, I was told SF was best referred to simply as “The City”… and do not allow your relatives to call it “Frisco”, even as a joke.

And as for songs, I wish any feature of Oregon had a cool song like “I left my heart in San Francisco” or “New York, New York”.
Oh, well.
 
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puzzleannie:
GGROBAR certainly tops the list, but the reason I will turn off the radio, even and especially the Christian station, until Dec. 26, is the “arrangements” of sacred hymns by rock and country singers (including Christian singers who work in those styles). O Holy Night has to be the most butchered hymn in history. It is one of my favorites, andwhat these eletronically enhanced untrained voices do to it is pathetic.Elvis singing anything is also dreadful.
Hey Now…Elvis sings great… :confused: ( :hmmm: make that sang great) or is that sung :confused: well…you know what I mean. 🙂
 
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chicago:
I don’t care for Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear.

On the other hand, Five Naked Ladies Dancing in the Window is an intriguing holiday song that I must admit a certain attraction to.
we must be listening to different radio stations. I gather these are not sung by Elvis, kenny G, or mannheim steamroller?
 
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chicago:
I don’t care for Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear.

On the other hand, Five Naked Ladies Dancing in the Window is an intriguing holiday song that I must admit a certain attraction to.
:rotfl:

Chicago…you are too funny 😃
 
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