There has to be some coal out there-

Mine:

-Little Drummer Boy, by anyone
-Sleigh Ride, by anyone
-Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney [with full and deepest apologies to Penny Lane]

And in a category by itself, Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano. I either totally love it and get into it, or it makes me want to stick my head in the oven. No middle ground.

I do like "Wonderful Christmastime".

But to me, the worst Christmas song is...any Christmas song by Andy Williams, especially this lump of coal!...

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I am sick to death of all the updated "jazzy" or "bluegrass" or "disco" versions of classic Christmas songs. This cornball attempt to be "hip" or "relevant" just leaves me cold, and it makes me HATE Christmas.

I'm trying to think of some in particular... So many out there.

All I Want for Xmas is My 2 Front Teeth and The Chipmunk Xmas Song are the worst. A local radio station, unfortunately the only one that comes in well in my car, starts playing Xmas songs on Thanksgiving. I'm ready for Xmas to be over by the 2nd week of December. :-(

Alan Jackson "Daddy, please don't get drunk this Christmas"

There has to be some coal out there-

Mine:

-Little Drummer Boy, by anyone
-Sleigh Ride, by anyone
-Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney [with full and deepest apologies to Penny Lane]

And in a category by itself, Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano. I either totally love it and get into it, or it makes me want to stick my head in the oven. No middle ground.



that's ok opus.:lol:

Anyway my least favorites are

The Christmas Shoes:barf:

White Christmas - Bing Crosby(Big Yawn! and way overplayed!) I like the Drifter's version better!:)

Blue Christmas- Elvis Presley (another big yawn!)

I hate to hear "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from that Vince Vance act.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Does anyone remember the barking dogs Jingle bells? Came out in the early 70's That was pretty bad! I haven't heard it in years! Wonder if they still play it? It would like to hear it just for old times sake to laugh at it!!!

I lost a lot of respect for Andy Williams when I read his autobiography, because of how he made fun of Lawrence Welk. I think it's low class to make someone in your profession look bad -- when Welk never did anything bad to him.

I don't really have Least Favorites, but I'm getting a little tired of "Santa Baby" and "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."

All the garbage made from the 90s on is my least favourite christmas music.... COMPLETE UTTER GARBAGE!!

The Christmas Shoes:barf:

My second least favorite Christmas Song...It's too damn hokey!

I wanna buy these shoes for mom so that she can see Jesus...I think that's how it goes...and as a Lutheran...I can't even stand the song!

How could I have forgotten The Twelve Days of Christmas? That couple had a weird gift giving relationship.

baby its cold outside

ANY Song with a Political Message in it. :angryfire

Examples include:

Happy Christmas (The War's Over) - John Lennon

Someday at Christmas - Stevie Wonder

Do they know it's Christmas time at all? - Band Aid

In the case of the latter I read a village in Africa gets over $500,000.00 dollars each year in royalties from this song, Since it's been over 30 years since this song came out I ay we need to make a new version of this song called "Do they know that we're not poor anymore?".

baby its cold outside
I call that The Christmas Date Rape Song. There's nothing romantic about it, no matter how playful the singers try to make it.

Other songs that make me want to :cuss:

The Christmas Shoes
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Where Are You Christmas
Any Christmas song by Pentatonix
The Little Drummer Boy by Destiny's Child
White Christmas by Michael Bolton (I always liken his singing of it to him sitting on the toilet, trying to do you know what, and then when he hits that high note, he's finally found relief).
Any Christmas song sung by Christina Aguliera. Just SING the song, stop running notes for two minutes with all that oohing and aaahing!

Here's my 3rd worst Christmas song...

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What the hell does this song have to do about Christmas?!

Pentatonix "Winter Wonderland"

Relient K "Getting Nothing For Christmas"

Glee's "Christmas Wrapping" remake

I call that The Christmas Date Rape Song. There's nothing romantic about it, no matter how playful the singers try to make it.



On SNL this week they had Cosby singing it.

How could I have forgotten The Twelve Days of Christmas? That couple had a weird gift giving relationship.


The twelve days of Christmas is fun!!!! It's a trip!!! I love singing along with it!!!;) :D


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I call that The Christmas Date Rape Song. There's nothing romantic about it, no matter how playful the singers try to make it.

Other songs that make me want to :cuss:

The Christmas Shoes
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Where Are You Christmas
Any Christmas song by Pentatonix
The Little Drummer Boy by Destiny's Child
White Christmas by Michael Bolton (I always liken his singing of it to him sitting on the toilet, trying to do you know what, and then when he hits that high note, he's finally found relief).
Any Christmas song sung by Christina Aguliera. Just SING the song, stop running notes for two minutes with all that oohing and aaahing!


Hey!!! If I were back in the day when Dean Martin was alive and younger, he could sing "Baby it's cold outside" to me and I'd stay the night with him!!;) Even if it were 95 degrees and it was summer, he could sing that to me and I'd spend the night with him!!! ;) :D

Another song that I dislike intensely is Whitney Houston's version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" Her caterwauling grates on my nerves!I really hate when a singer takes a beautiful song and tries to make it their own. :rolleyes:




Note to Bonnie; I agree with you about Dean Martin and "Baby It's Cold Outside" I would fight you for him!:boxing: :lol:

Does anyone remember the barking dogs Jingle bells? Came out in the early 70's That was pretty bad! I haven't heard it in years! Wonder if they still play it? It would like to hear it just for old times sake to laugh at it!!!I love the barking dogs Jingle Bells! The seasonal station has been playing Christmas in July music and that song was played yesterday. There is also a cat group called The Jingle Cats that I have listened to their Meowy Christmas CD several times.

as for my least favorites
Spike Jones and any other fake kid singers
any Jessica Simpson Christmas song
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses
Happy Holidays
Baby it's Cold Outside
There are probably others I've forgotten about.

I love the barking dogs Jingle Bells! The seasonal station has been playing Christmas in July music and that song was played yesterday. There is also a cat group called The Jingle Cats that I have listened to their Meowy Christmas CD several times.

as for my least favorites
Spike Jones and any other fake kid singers
any Jessica Simpson Christmas song
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses
Happy Holidays
Baby it's Cold Outside
There are probably others I've forgotten about.


OMG really!!! :lol: I haven't heard that in years! How funny! :D

Hey!!! If I were back in the day when Dean Martin was alive and younger, he could sing "Baby it's cold outside" to me and I'd stay the night with him!!;) Even if it were 95 degrees and it was summer, he could sing that to me and I'd spend the night with him!!! ;) :D


Still waiting for Dean Martin to sing "Baby it's cold outside" to me! :lol: It didn't happen in the winter, but it's close to 95 degrees now and it's summer. His offer of having me stay over his place still stands! :D ;)

Type in barking dogs jingle bells and you can play the song on YouTube, complete with the dogs wearing Santa hats.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned my least favorite Christmas song, "Let It Snow." I loathe that song!

Also, I could do without Santa Baby.

I'm basically a Scrooge during Christmas so it really won't matter what song. Basically all of them..hahaha

:mad: My least is Santa Baby, Happy Christmas(War is Over), Wonderful Christmastime, most songs after 1986 to today!

My least favorite Christmas song (and its been done by just about everyone):

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (I think the Springsteen version is the worst)

A few others that make the list:

12 Days Of Christmas

Frosty The Snowman

Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer (another one done by everyone)

My least favorite Christmas song is Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad because it's just simply overplayed way too much and I cannot understand why they don't play any other Christmas song by Jose Feliciano. But another version of Feliz Navidad that I really like is Jaci Velasquez's version because it's so festive. Another Christmas song I dislike is a song that was a hit for the late Dan Fogelberg called Same Old Lang Syne. Has anyone heard this song played on radio stations every year?
Bestie

My least favorite Christmas song is Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad because it's just simply overplayed way too much and I cannot understand why they don't play any other Christmas song by Jose Feliciano. But another version of Feliz Navidad that I really like is Jaci Velasquez's version because it's so festive. Another Christmas song I dislike is a song that was a hit for the late Dan Fogelberg called Same Old Lang Syne. Has anyone heard this song played on radio stations every year?
Bestie

I don't like Same old Lang Syne either! Such a very dreary depressing song! :(

"The Christmas Shoes"
"The Little Drummer Boy"
"Wonderful Christmastime"
"Frosty the Snowman"

Another Christmas song I dislike is a song that was a hit for the late Dan Fogelberg called Same Old Lang Syne. Has anyone heard this song played on radio stations every year?
Bestie

"Same Old Lang Syne" isn't a Christmas song, the references of Christmas Eve & snow are why it's encouraged to be played during the holidays.

Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_Old_Lang_Syne)

Association with Christmas

"Same Old Lang Syne" is frequently played on radio stations during the American holiday season. The song begins mentioning Christmas Eve and ends with the acknowledgment of snow, commonly associated with the Christmas holiday. Apart from the initial (and final) reference, there is no further association with the holiday or holiday season. However, since the song's release, both the reference in the title and the musical quote of "Auld Lang Syne" (traditionally sung on New Year's Eve) as the epilogue have encouraged the song's popularity during December.


Link (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3506)

As Fogelberg tells it on his official website, the song is totally autobiographical. He was visiting family back home in Peoria, Illinois in the mid-'70s when he ran into an old girlfriend at a convenience store.

After Fogelberg's death from prostate cancer in 2007, the woman who he wrote the song about came forward with her story. Her name is Jill Greulich, and she and Fogelberg dated in high school when she was Jill Anderson. As she explained to the Peoria Journal Star in a December 22, 2007 article, they were part of the Woodruff High School class of 1969, but went to different colleges. After college, Jill got married and moved to Chicago, and Dan went to Colorado to pursue music. On Christmas Eve, they were each back in Peoria with their families when Jill went out for egg nog and Dan was dispatched to find whipping cream for Irish coffee. The only place open was a convenience store at the top of Abington Hill, at Frye Avenue and Prospect Road, and that's where they had their encounter. They bought a six pack of beer and drank it in her car for two hours while they talked.

Five years later, Jill heard "Same Old Lang Syne" on the radio while driving to work, but she kept quiet about it, as Fogelberg also refused to reveal her identity. Her main concern was that coming forward would disrupt Fogelberg's marriage.

Looking at the lyrics, Jill says there are two inaccuracies: She has green eyes, not blue, and her husband was not an architect - he was a physical education teacher, and it's unlikely Fogelberg knew his profession anyway. Regarding the line, "She would have liked to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie," Jill won't talk about it, but she had divorced her husband by the time the song was released.
The single was released about eight months ahead of the album, which was certified double platinum. The Innocent Age is a concept album consisting of a song cycle describing the many stages of life from cradle to grave. >>
"Auld Lang Syne" is a traditional song that is often sung on New Year's Eve. That's the reference in the title.
The melody phrase at the beginning of each verse ("Met my old lover at the grocery store...") was taken by Fogelberg from Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." (To get the effect, just sing that lyric twice, slightly speeded up. Maybe add a few fireworks explosions for good measure.) This song is one of several Pop tunes that have phrases or entire melodies ripped off from classical composers - Paul Simon's "American Tune" (from J.S. Bach), Billy Joel's "This Night" (from Beethoven), among others. >>
When Fogelberg started writing this song, he considered it "a joke," essentially laughing at himself as he looked back on the fateful encounter at the convenience store. When he finished the song, he realized it was an important one so he saved it for his album The Innocent Age. It ended up being his best-known song, exemplifying the gentle but very emotional stories his lyrics portrayed.

In late 2007, Fogelberg died at age 56 due to prostate cancer.
Fogelberg performed this song long before he recorded it, including at benefit shows for Colorado senator Gary Hart, who would later be a top presidential candidate before getting caught in a sex scandal.
In 2008, Abingdon Street in Peoria, which was the location of the convenience store where the events of this song took place, was designated "Fogelberg Parkway" in honor of the singer.
This was released as a single in December 1980. Fogelberg's record company expected the album to follow soon after, but the singer had an epiphany when he sat down to sequence it on New Year's Eve: it should be a double album with a "song cycle" starting with nostalgia and coming up to the present. Fogelberg spent another six months writing new songs.

When "Same Old Lang Syne" peaked on the Hot 100 at #9 in February 1981, there was no album for fans to rush out to buy, which drove the record company nuts. Finally, the album emerged in August with "Lang Syne" the last song on the first disc. The wait was worth it: Three more singles were released, each making the US Top 20, and the album sold over two million copies.
Smooth jazz giant Michael Brecker played soprano saxophone on this song. His part is featured in the ending, and is an improvised, jazzy snippet of the classic holiday tune "Auld Lang Syne." Brecker died of leukemia (a blood cancer) in January of 2007 at age 57.



Lyrics... (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/danfogelberg/sameoldlangsyne.html)

Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
I stole behind her in the frozen foods
And I touched her on the sleeve

She didn't recognize the face at first
But then her eyes flew open wide
She went to hug me and she spilled her purse
And we laughed until we cried

We took her groceries to the checkout stand
The food was totaled up and bagged
We stood there lost in our embarrassment
As the conversation dragged

Went to have ourselves a drink or two
But couldn't find an open bar
We bought a six-pack at the liquor store
And we drank it in her car

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how

She said she'd married her an architect
Who kept her warm and safe and dry
She would have liked to say she loved the man
But she didn't like to lie

I said the years had been a friend to her
And that her eyes were still as blue
But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I
Saw doubt or gratitude

She said she saw me in the record stores
And that I must be doing well
I said the audience was heavenly
But the traveling was hell

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to time
Reliving in our eloquence
Another 'auld lang syne'

The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say
She gave a kiss to me as I got out
And I watched her drive away

Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned into rain

I like Same Old Lang Syne. Even though it's not a holiday song, it stands out from all the usual tunes when it's played at Christmastime. I can picture the story happening in my mind as I listen to it. It's a very pretty, quiet song.

Elmo & Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"