What Is The WORST Xmas Carol/Song?

What Xmas song sends you flipping out and flipping the channels?

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Aaagh! That song is torture! The probably play it nonstop at Gitmo.

Mee Mee Mee Mee Mee

Talk about boring!

And it seems every orchestrator uses the brass section for the "Five golden rings." Get it? Brass? Gold? Hahahahahahahaha...ha...ha...

Real clever...

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Some performers can even make The 12 Days of Xmas sound OK. The poll is really about what song is the biggest piece of shit all on its lonesome.

Now that's a pathetic tune in general.

Except when you hear that version of Jingle Bells, you know that no one really wins.

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Edited to include lyrics for this glurgey junk

"It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line
Tryin' to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood
Standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously
Pacing 'round like little boys do
And in his hands he held a pair of shoes

His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe
And when it came his time to pay
I couldn't believe what I heard him say

Chorus:
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

He counted pennies for what seemed like years
Then the cashier said, "Son, there's not enough here"
He searched his pockets frantically
Then he turned and he looked at me
He said Mama made Christmas good at our house
Though most years she just did without
Tell me Sir, what am I going to do,
Somehow I've got to buy her these Christmas shoes

So I laid the money down, I just had to help him out
I'll never forget the look on his face when he said
Mama's gonna look so great

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

Bridge:
I knew I'd caught a glimpse of heaven's love
As he thanked me and ran out
I knew that God had sent that little boy
To remind me just what Christmas is all about"

enough when it comes on. God it's horrible.

it's an absolute disgrace

It's cynically manipulative and pushes all the wrong buttons for me. Good choice for worst ever!

Like your supposed to think he's some kind of hero. The lyrics are revolting, the arrangement is horrifying, and that creepy synthesized children's choir at the end is like something out of a horror movie.

I've never heard of this song, but I would definitely dive for the dial if I heard it.

I also don't care for "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." Throw in the Paul McCartney song, too. Oh, and the one by George Michael.

EVER. :puke:

I mean, I understand the need to remember those less fortunate, and all I'll say is that I do help out where I can, but that just the concept of music combined with charity and bashes you over the head until you're dazed and bloody. Hate it.

After Thanksgiving, the radio station that I normally listen to, changed to Xmas songs 24 hours a day. I wasn't sure which was worse - the same latest hit played over and over again (like, "Poker Face," by Lady Gaga) or "Walking in a Winter Wonderland," over and over again but by different artists.

TlalocW

That song is the 2nd most popular Christmas song currently played on the radio. I don't understand why that guilt inducing piece of crap is so popular. I immediately change the radio station whenever I hear it.

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It may be for the rugrat set, but it's still fucking stupid.

Even the Ru Paul version is ghastly.

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A hit on NPRs Annoying Music Show, I recall.

Vapid piece of right-wing guilt-induced drivel.

Stupidest song EVER.

Before I heard the Christmas Shoes and Billy's Holiday Wish (y'know, when I'm in the mood to feel good at Yuletide I always put on songs with people DYING in them!) I thought "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" was the most hideous Christmas song ever. It feels just like a dirge, y'know? But then I hear little Billy dying in Santa's arms (or did Santa just choke the living shit out of him? Hard to say) and the unnamed lad who can't afford the shoes begging for money because his mom's gonna die tonight and he needs new shoes so she'll look pretty for Jesus (question: if the little boy wants his dead mother to look pretty for Jesus, wouldn't he have been better off buying lipstick?) and I know Merry Little Christmas reallly isn't that bad.

I'm with you; I can't imagine why anyone would be singing about dying at Christmastime. Yuck. Are these country songs? They sound like the typical "crying in your beer" kind of offerings.

Billy's Christmas Wish was written by Red Sovine, who got rich by writing songs about people dying--mostly truckers dying on the road.

Christmas Shoes was written by Newsong, which is a Contemporary Christian Music band. The song is definitely country, though. (There's nothing preventing non-country bands from writing country songs--remember, the Rolling Stones released several country songs like Far Away Eyes.)

I hate Christmas music.

Fucking horrible.

Bleeach

there aren't many songs of any time or era worse than that one

if anyone still doubts that lennon was the great and mccartney was just the mccartney, a comparison of their xmas songs should be enough to prove who had talent and who had bluster

i hate hate HATE that "wonderful xmas time" song bah humbug indeed

So, so, so fucking painful to hear. And always on when I'm trapped somewhere with music overhead like a grocery store or dentist's office.

All that asking for stuff just sets my teeth on edge! They play at work all the time and it drives my crazy.

...is going to make him smile?


Hey, kid! I'm banging a drum here! Banging a drum? Why're you crying? You should be smiling! Hey, kid...!!!

Christmas in the Northwest is one the worst songs ever written. Just look at these god awful lyrics.

Christmas in the Northwest
Is a gift that we can share
Christmas in the Northwest
Is a child's answered prayer

Take away the presents
And they still will have a dream
For Christmas in the Northwest
Is a gift God wrapped in green

Though now it's being considered a classic

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010550846_classic20.html

It arrived 30 years ago, a rebellious little ditty that became the ultimate anti-Christmas carol by killing off an eggnog-loving Grandma in the very first line.

But during those 30 years, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" has become a holiday classic. Songwriter Randy Brooks estimates 40 million copies have been sold in various guises, from the earliest version on 45-rpm vinyl to today's singing ornaments and plush toys and ringtone downloads.

"I was totally surprised when it became a hit, and five years in I was still surprised," said Brooks, who lives in Dallas and works for American Airlines. "It was written to tell a joke, kind of, and once you've heard a joke, you know the punch line.

"But I didn't anticipate the way kids would like the song. And with new kids always coming along, that keeps the popularity high."

UGH!

Ponderous.:-(

but I find the whole mythology that 'Christmas has to be white' rather aggravating. White Christmas is fine in places where it generally *is* white at this time (the point of the song, really), but not in southern England where snow is not usual at this time, and when we do get it, the pavements and roads are soon dangerously slippery, and everything becomes totally chaotic (says she with feeling, as it's happening here right now with aforesaid results!) It probably wasn't snowy in Bethlehem anyway!

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

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I know, that loses me liberal points, but who cares. GOD that is such a miserable downer of a tune. I liken it to the soundtrack of end-of-the-year memorial vignettes, where they have all the photos of those who died during the year. Like life isn't hard enough, I gotta listen to this barbituate overdose of a song if I've ever heard one, and Yoko Ono's "voice" doesn't make it any easier. All I think of with that song are sick kids, relatives that passed away, coffins and sad endings.

I know how John Lennon is revered around here, but not everything that guy touched turned to gold, especially when his tone-deaf wife was involved in the recording. Same with Paul. You gotta love the two ex-Beatles and the one dumbfounding thing they share in common - having their tin-eared and musically untalented wives share their stage.

Runners up:

I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas by Gayle Peavey. Yet another reason to hate the 50s.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen. Sung with all of the subtlety of a drunk at his favorite karaoke palace.

Any Christmas song sung by a diva (especially Whitney Houston), boy band or modern R&B group. Instant disaster.

what are you? a right wing republican america hater???

But, having had three kids, I can categorically say that if some kid came up to my newborn and started drumming, I'd shove that drum down his throat.

The VERY worst of all time is Merle Haggard's 'Santa Claus and Popcorn', followed closely by Wizzard's "I Wish It Could be Christmas Every Day", Paul McCartney's "Having a Simply Wonderful Christmas Time", and someone or other's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

Of those on your list, probably "We Need a Little Christmas" - but I'm lucky enough not to have heard it very often.

I don't think I've ever heard "Christmas Shoes" - maybe it's a 'treat' reserved for Americans.

is just plain offensive.

"Mary smiled at me."

Yeah right. She just put the kid down and got him to sleep. You start with the drum. "WAAAAAAA."

dreary melody, confusing lyrics, (too worldwide)popularity for me! Combination makes this song the one song I detest all year long :boring: :puke:

dreary melody, confusing lyrics, (too worldwide)popularity for me! Combination makes this song the one song I detest all year long :boring: :puke: