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Really Bad Christmas Songs

out of my headout of my head Posts: 59
edited December 2008 in Other Music
I am compiling a list of BAD Christmas songs. Here is what I have so far. Please share what songs you can't stand to hear this time of year.

#1 - The Christmas Shoes - NewSong
#2 - A wonderful Christmas time - Paul McCartney
#3 - That damn "me I want a hoola hoop" song by the Chipmunks
#4 - Last Christmas - George Michael
#5 - Anything by Mariah Carrey, Jessica Simpson, or Christina Aguilera - way too over the top!
#6 - Any so-called "funny" Christmas song. I have never once heard a Christmas song that was actually funny. Examples include: Grandma got run over by a reighndeer, Walking 'round in woman's underwear, Jingle Cats or barking dogs, and I am Santa Clause
#7 - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas & Please Come Home for Christmas - these songs are way to meloncollie
#8 - Walking in a winter wonderland by Annie Lennox
#9 - Any traditional song that is sung differently. Example: "Oh Holy Night... the stars are brightly shining" becomes "Oh..... holy night..... the stars..... are brightly...... shining" . I can't sing along, dammit!

and for the record, I love "Feliz Navidad!"
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    I agree with that list
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    out of my head wrote:
    #5 - Anything by Mariah Carrey

    I would like to contest this entry. All I Want For Christmas Is You could be one of the best Christmas songs of the modern era.

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  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I would like to contest this entry. All I Want For Christmas Is You could be one of the best Christmas songs of the modern era.

    PBM

    +1!!! :D

    I HATE Mariah and her music, I think it's over-hyped shite... but DAMN!! I LOVE that song! :D

    I vote 'Millenium Prayer' by Cliff Richard.

    or anything by Cliff Richard for that matter.

    Simply ghastly.
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  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    I agree with that list...Grandma got run over by a reindeer sucks too
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  • out of my headout of my head Posts: 59
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I would like to contest this entry. All I Want For Christmas Is You could be one of the best Christmas songs of the modern era.

    PBM

    LOL, I'll buy you some Mariah Carrey tickets for Christmas
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    out of my head wrote:
    LOL, I'll buy you some Mariah Carrey tickets for Christmas

    I have no problem with that.

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    She has the most number-one singles for a solo artist in the United States...I gladly accept. :D

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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    That Alvin & The Chipmunks song makes me feel sick. Anything they sing makes me ill. My wife & I went & say "Four Christmases" this weekend and they played A&The Chip singing Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" before the previews and it was horrible. Then the announcer said that it was from their "forthcoming album"....dear god.
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  • out of my headout of my head Posts: 59
    mfc2006 wrote:
    That Alvin & The Chipmunks song makes me feel sick. Anything they sing makes me ill. My wife & I went & say "Four Christmases" this weekend and they played A&The Chip singing Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" before the previews and it was horrible. Then the announcer said that it was from their "forthcoming album"....dear god.

    Me too. Those squeaky little voices, ahhhhhhh!!!!!
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  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    Maybe I'm just a grinch but I don't like Christmas music.
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    So bad it's good :D

    Christmastime (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nkv61y004s


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  • unifiedsceneunifiedscene Posts: 462
    Anything with some "cute" little kid singing. Example: that hippopotamus for Christmas song. God is that awful. Santa Baby is another.
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    I totally agree with everything on your list. As far as quality Christmas songs go, I still love "Christmas in Hollis" by Run-DMC. You may remember hearing it in the movie Die Hard as John McClane gets escorted to his wife's Christmas party in a limo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juBEue3L4LE
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    -Tom Waits
  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    A agree with a lot of those songs but cmon the chipmunks! It's not xmas without those little guys :p.
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  • out of my headout of my head Posts: 59
    direwolf74 wrote:
    I totally agree with everything on your list. As far as quality Christmas songs go, I still love "Christmas in Hollis" by Run-DMC. You may remember hearing it in the movie Die Hard as John McClane gets escorted to his wife's Christmas party in a limo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juBEue3L4LE

    I love that song!

    another bad one: "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses. it was on a Christmas movie the other day, Elf I think, and it's tollerable for about 60 seconds, but it just came on the radio and now I am about to hurl...
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  • nepalnepal Posts: 143
    John Denver - Please daddy (don't get drunk this christmas)
    ...the dreams ain't broken down here now,
    they're walking with a limp
  • gregkitefangregkitefan Posts: 1,117
    Feliz Navidad

    I can't stand this song.
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  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    out of my head wrote:
    #7 - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas "

    Nah, this song is mint!

    I'm thinking more along the lines of every X-Mas song PJ has ever attempted. They're uh......not too good
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Santa Baby by anyone. And the Paul McCartney song on the list should be at the top. It is a big bag of fail. I feel like breaking my head when I hear it.
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Although I'm a huge McCartney fan, I agree that his xmas song is an epic fail. Lennon definitely beat him in that regard.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    JaneNY wrote:
    Santa Baby by anyone. And the Paul McCartney song on the list should be at the top. It is a big bag of fail. I feel like breaking my head when I hear it.

    haha, totally. I was just at Disneyland on Sunday and the damn song was in my head all day for no reason. Began to drive me insane. Worse than the Small World/jingle Bells medley which is really tough to top
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    out of my head wrote:
    and for the record, I love "Feliz Navidad!"

    i hate the shit out of that song.

    as far as funny songs, have you heard 'the 12 pains of christmas'? or what about porky pig singing 'blue christmas'? i love both of those. crack me up whenever i hear them.
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  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    I cant think of another person I respect more musically than paul mccartney, but his christmas song "simply having a wonderful christmas time" or whatever its called is pretty bad.

    another one, not sure of the title but the lines go something like this "last christmas I gave you my heart"
  • GalianaGaliana Posts: 554
    That was Last Christmas by George Michael.

    That McCartney song is cheesy, but I like it. It's one of my "it's not Christmas until I hear that song" songs.
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  • bigeye21bigeye21 Posts: 981
    I bought this Xmas compilation CD years ago with a lot of old classics like Brenda Lee's Rocking Around the Xmas Tree and Bobby Helms' Jingle Bell Rock... Anyway, most of the songs on there are pretty palatable if not pleasant. The one major exception is Baby's First Christmas by Connie Francis! God I hate this fucking song with suck a passion that when I hear it, I want to claw my eyes out and ram a goddamn meat thermometer in my ears! Anything to make it stop. It suuuuuuucks!
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  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" by Tom Waits is possibly the best Xmas song of all time:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1tQVJ-23ZY

    Followed closely by this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCXnlFWaIY
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    out of my head wrote:
    I love that song!

    another bad one: "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses. it was on a Christmas movie the other day, Elf I think, and it's tollerable for about 60 seconds, but it just came on the radio and now I am about to hurl...
    ...
    That is one of the best Christmas songs... along with 'Let Me Sleep (It's Christmastime)', Jill Sobule's version of 'Merry Christmas From The Family', the entire 'Charlie Brown Christmas' soundtrack and 'Happy Christmas/War Is Over' by John Lennon.
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  • JimNasticsJimNastics Posts: 679
    out of my head wrote:
    #2 - A wonderful Christmas time - Paul McCartney

    I have to argue against that, because I frequently visit the pub that the video was filmed in :Dhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BZDpni56Y - I quite like the song as well to be honest.
    #4 - Last Christmas - George Michael

    Totally agree with that, and the video is just horrific.

    Not sure if it's been mentioned, but I can't stand that new version of "Do They Know it's Christmas" they did not so long ago... that stupid rap bit tips it over the edge. The original was bad enough to be honest...
  • out of my headout of my head Posts: 59
    Gardenparty wrote:
    I'm thinking more along the lines of every X-Mas song PJ has ever attempted. They're uh......not too good

    I hate to say, but I agree. Maybe they'll put out a kick ass Christmas song this year... on time!
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  • out of my headout of my head Posts: 59
    JaneNY wrote:
    Santa Baby by anyone. And the Paul McCartney song on the list should be at the top. It is a big bag of fail. I feel like breaking my head when I hear it.

    I used to think McCartney's was the #1 worst until I heard "The Christmas Shoes" by NewSong.... it's absoultly dreadful. It's based on the story of a kid who buys fancy shoes for his sick mother "in case she meets Jesus tonight". AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look for it on youtube, I would post a link but youtube is filtered at work. but make sure nothing sharp is around or you will want to stab your eardrums repeatedly
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  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    Fuck Christmas
    Fear

    everything else sucks




    ....except for maybe "Baby It's Cold Outside" Dean Martin
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