LEAST favorite Christmas Songs

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sarcophagus:
Rodulph the rednose reindeer

frosty the snowman
grandma got run over by a reindeer…etc.

I’ve never been christian (until recently) but I’ve always thought that christmas music should be about christmas, not a blinking reindeer or a magic snowman.
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Hear! Hear! :clapping: :yup: :bounce: :dancing:
Here’s a novel idea…then shouldn’t Christmas music be played AFTER Christmas? Christmas is celebrated in reverse. The party and celebration with song should be ‘after’ the birth, not before it.
At least the religious Christmas songs should be played AFTER the event.
 
If you ever heard Mannheim Steamroller’s version of Greensleeves, you might change your mind. It’s beautiful.
 
I love the melody of Greensleeves; but each time I sing the Christmas version, I cannot help remember my college mentor, a very respected Jesuit, who would not let me play it for Mass because it was pagan.

I try not to listen to true Christmas hymns, such as *O Holy Night, *before December 24 (very late at night), because they are supposed to signify the joy we have from seeing the Face of God. But “regular” carols seem great, simply because of their upbeat tone or even their sentimental sloppiness, such as White Christmas and I’ll Be Home for Christmas.

But I have to cover my ears and sing a “ditty” when commercials come on the radio/television using the tunes of beloved carols. I don’t want to remember even Jingle Bells in connection with the local car dealer or furniture pusher!😉
 
I don’t know the title or artist but it goes like this, "Siiiiimply, haaaaaving awonderfulChristmastime." Nearly makes me homicidal.

Heaven help me if I’m in Wal-Mart and hear it. I’ll probably wind up in the sporting goods section buying a rifle. As it is I just mutter to myself when it starts playing in stores. I don’t like many of the others y’all don’t like but not as much as the one I have no name for.
 
Blood Rain:
I don’t know the title or artist but it goes like this, "Siiiiimply, haaaaaving awonderfulChristmastime."

I don’t like many of the others y’all don’t like but not as much as the one I have no name for.
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It is “Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time” by Paul McCartney. Far from Beatle quality, along with “Feliz Navidad” it takes the cake for sheer redundancy.
 
I got one! I got one! Probably one on the top 5 *worst! *Has anyone heard “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas?” I have never heard it before this Christmas season, so I am not sure if it is old and redone, or new, but it is bad.

Sherilo
 
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sherilo:
I got one! I got one! Probably one on the top 5 *worst! *Has anyone heard “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas?” I have never heard it before this Christmas season, so I am not sure if it is old and redone, or new, but it is bad.

Sherilo
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Yes it’s old probably the 1950’s or early 1960’s. In one of my ‘rare’ moods, I just happen to listen to my favorite talk show host to hate, Glen Beck, just did part of his show, the first hour, about the worst Christmas songs ever. Yes, The Hippo song made it on his top 4 including the Donkey Christmas song and the Barking Dogs. I do not know the other songs on his list, my bus arrived.
 
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Edwin1961:
Yes it’s old probably the 1950’s or early 1960’s. In one of my ‘rare’ moods, I just happen to listen to my favorite talk show host to hate, Glen Beck, just did part of his show, the first hour, about the worst Christmas songs ever. Yes, The Hippo song made it on his top 4 including the Donkey Christmas song and the Barking Dogs. I do not know the other songs on his list, my bus arrived.
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Hippo song is from 1953. It’s currenty played at least once an hour on radio station in the workspace I share with six others. Every time I change stations, some one changes it back.

I can’t stand the Chipmunk Christmas song, either.
 
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Edwin1961:
Yes it’s old probably the 1950’s or early 1960’s. In one of my ‘rare’ moods, I just happen to listen to my favorite talk show host to hate, Glen Beck, just did part of his show, the first hour, about the worst Christmas songs ever. Yes, The Hippo song made it on his top 4 including the Donkey Christmas song and the Barking Dogs. I do not know the other songs on his list, my bus arrived.
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Hippo song is from 1953. It’s currenty played at least once an hour on radio station in the workspace I share with six others. Every time I change stations, someone changes it back.

I can’t stand the Chipmunk Christmas song, either.
 
The Hippo song is currenty played at least once an hour on the radio station someone in my department listens to (turned up so everyone can hear it, of course). Every time I sneak in and changethe station, that someone changes it back.
I can’t stand the Chipmunk Christmas song, either.
 
I heard the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus sing the hippomotamus song on the radio a few weeks ago. The host wondered what the covert meaning might be.
 
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Patjoe:
I love the melody of Greensleeves; but each time I sing the Christmas version, I cannot help remember my college mentor, a very respected Jesuit, who would not let me play it for Mass because it was pagan.
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Greensleeves is pagan? I gathered that it was a song about a spurned lover that was obsessed with a certain Lady Greensleeves.

And What Child is This, set to the same tune, is a wonderful Christmas song. The traditional lyrics are especially moving because you really get the sense of Christmas in the shadow of the Cross, although unfortunately these days you don’t tend to hear the lyrics about “Nails, spear shall pierce Him through” - I guess the kids don’t like hearing about that anymore.
 
Doing some Christmas shopping the evening reminds me of some of my least favorites:

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (already mentioned)

One by Mariah Carey that goes “I don’t want a lot for Christmas…”

“Jingle Bell Rock” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”

and one that really annoys the heck out of me: “Sleigh Ride”.

There’s a particular instrumental version of “Sleigh Ride” that just terribly annoys me for some reason - it’s got a lot of brass instrumentation, and parts of it are played in some kind of “offbeat” or syncopated style which just grates on my nerves. It’s hard to describe exactly what I mean. But it’s been used in commercials for GAP or something like that, and I heard it today in Crate & Barrel. It just seems like the perfect anthem for all that bothers me about highly commercialized Christmas.
 
Bobby Jim:
There’s a particular instrumental version of “Sleigh Ride” that just terribly annoys me for some reason - it’s got a lot of brass instrumentation, and parts of it are played in some kind of “offbeat” or syncopated style which just grates on my nerves. It’s hard to describe exactly what I mean. But it’s been used in commercials for GAP or something like that, and I heard it today in Crate & Barrel. It just seems like the perfect anthem for all that bothers me about highly commercialized Christmas.
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You mean the one with the clomping horse sounds and the cracking whips? That would be the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler’s 1959 version. That’s my favorite secular Christmas tune! Wouldn’t be Christmas without it! 😃
 
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Micki:
That’s a Christmas song? I thought they were singing “Fleas My Dog Got”!!!
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:rotfl: :bounce: :rotfl:

HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR…

must’a got your dog real bad because they keep telling us,

over…

and over…

and over…
 
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Fidelis:
You mean the one with the clomping horse sounds and the cracking whips? That would be the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler’s 1959 version. That’s my favorite secular Christmas tune! Wouldn’t be Christmas without it! 😃
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yep, that’s the one. I know I’m in the minority - lots of people love it. But I say, give me an Andy Williams or Bing Crosby any day over that!

Speaking of which… I just heard the Amy Grant version of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, and I have concluded that only Andy Williams should be allowed to perform that song. Ever. Period.
 
I **HATE ** that song “Christmas Shoes”. What an absolutely horrible and disgusting piece of garbage. :banghead:
 
I was mildly warmed by Christmas shoes the first time I heard it last year. If I hear it one more time, watch for the headline: “Christian radio station in SoTex mysteriously loses power, terrorists suspected”
 
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