Posted on 12/21/2014 11:36:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We asked you what you thought of Christmas music and while most of you love it – early appearances not withstanding – there are a few songs that just get under your skin.
Here are the tunes that iVillage.ca readers voted as the worst (read: most annoying) Christmas songs ever.
10. Run, Rudolph, Run
This rockabilly jingle is a bluesy take on Christmas.
“Run, run, Rudolph, whizzin’ like a merry-go-round,” croons Chuck Berry, as we imagine frenzied shoppers running in all directions to satisfy Christmas desires.
9. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
This song might be perceived as being modern, because we rarely hear the original version: it’s from 1953! Jimmy Boyd’s child voice sings earnestly and clearly in a southern twang, “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night. She didn’t see me creep down the stairs to have a peek!”
There is a worrisome part in the lyrics where the little boy mentions he saw Mommy taking Santa’s clothes off, but then humour steps in when he says Daddy would’ve had a laugh over that one (wait, what?!).
8. Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey
This classically kitchy Christmas song by Lou Monte is one of those things that divides people. Love it, or hate it, some of us just don’t understand it.
7. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Any way you slice it, this song is slightly offensive. The tune tells of grandma, who drank too much eggnog and went for a drunken walk. Santa and his elves were also moving askew Christmas Eve and so ran her over. The next day, everyone wore black to mourn grandma’s death except for grandpa, who didn’t seem to care. He drank beer and watched TV. Definitely the least heart-warming song on the list.
6. Christmas Don’t Be Late (aka the Chipmunks Christmas Song)
Two people voted the cute little rodents in for most annoying Christmas music. How could they?!
“Christmas, Christmas, time is here, time for love, and time for cheer”. Oh, wait, we get it now.
5. All I Want For Christmas is You (Mariah Carey version)
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more annoying…Justin Bieber recently sang a duet of this song with Carey. “What more can I doooooo? Oh baby, all I want for Christmas, IS YOU!” Jingle jingle.
4. Santa Baby
Most of us know Madonna or Mariah Carey (and most recently, Taylor Swift’s) version of this song, and agree they’re annoying. But have you heard Eartha Kitt’s slow-paced, staccato and authentically sultry version before? Singers today don’t hold a Christmas candle to her.
3. Wonderful Christmastime
Here’s a gem that has never died. I heard it just yesterday while eating lunch at a grocery store café, and it somehow made me want to wolf my sandwich down faster and skedaddle! Although the synthesizing beats and promise of a wawa pedal speak to greater possibilities, the chanting refrain of “Simply having a wonderful Christmastime” takes over. Repeat.
2. Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Those of us who had the pleasure of growing up in the 1980s remember the Live Aid movement well. “Feed the world; let them know its Christmastime!” The sentiment and donations the movement spurred is commendable; but the overplayed song is slightly annoying decades later.
1. Christmas Shoes
Christian country rockers Newsong are responsible for this ballad. The song is about a man in line whilst shopping, and a little fidgety boy in line in front of him. He has a pair of ladies shoes that he wants to buy, and a pocketful of change that won’t do. So the man in line helps the child out, and the boy buys his dying mama a pair of nice shoes so she can look her best when she goes to heaven. Heartfelt, sad and yet…annoying.
What’s your least-favourite Christmas song? Let us know in the comments.
The song about the kid wanting shoes for his mom. Like thanks for the buzz kill, Captain Killjoy.
“Walking in A Winter Wonderland” isnt even a Christmas song and gets played 10000000000000000000000 times!
“Home for the Holidays” really just annoys me.
“12 Days of Christmas” 11 verses too long.
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” Another song that isnt even a Christmas song. Just some dude trying to score.
Is it the 26th yet?
RE: Phillip Navidad
We have to know who the heck he is first.
It's the same tired playlist of 30-50 songs year after year after year.
One of the last original Christmas songs to make that playlist was that Mariah Carey song and that came out in 1994 - 20 years ago!
No wonder we are tired of Christmas music.
I have a Christmas playlist of about 1,600 songs and that's all I listen to this time of year. There is a huge supply of great Christmas music out there but you aren't going to hear it on the radio, or in shopping malls, etc.
11. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
that stupid lennon/ohno song....
has nothing to do with christmas, and yet it gets played ad nasuem for weeks.
ohno reminds me of nails on a chalkboard, and dont even get me started on the communist lenin....(sp intentional)
It’s not a Christmas song, but any version of Imagine has to be on the list.
Absolutely loathe that song...
Imagine there’s no religion
It’s easy if you try...
I’ve called out my local radio station on this one and asked them “If there’s no religion, what’s the point of celebrating Christmas?”.
My nomination is Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s, “I Believe in Father Christmas.” It was the original PC Christmas song.
Police stop my car
Police stop my car
The police made me stop
Walk a straight line and blow a balloon up
Police stop my car
Police stop my car
The police made me stop
Walk a straight line and blow a balloon up
They wanna wish me a sober Christmas
That’s why they always pull me over Christmas
They say they’re just making sure
That there’s no open bottles in my car
They wanna wish me a sober Christmas
That’s why they always pull me over Christmas
They say they’re just making sure
That there’s no open bottles in my car
Police roadblock
Police roadblock
Police roadblock
I can smell the donuts as they smell my breath
Police roadblock
Police roadblock
Police roadblock
I can smell the donuts as they smell my breath
They wanna wish me a sober Christmas
That’s why they always pull me over Christmas
They’re gonna let me out on bail this Christmas
From the bottom of their hearts
Police lock me up
Police lock me up
The police lock me up
‘Cause when I blew, I blew a 2.1
I do not like a song, 12 days of Christmas. I am talking about the one which has: a Japanese Transistor radio. I first heard it weeks ago. Wish they would leave songs alone.
The sleigh ride song where they keep whipping the horse
I was thinking of STASI.
True... Except for Josh Grodin's "O Holy Night," perhaps the best version of the best Christmas song.
You mean we can’t make jokes about the size of Santa’s candy cane?
Anything by the Chipmunks
I was sure that Santa Baby would be #1 on this list. If I never hear that song again, it’ll be too soon.
My list:
1. Christmas Shoes (the list and I agree)
2. Wonderful Christmastime
3. War is Over (Happy XMas)
4. Breath of Heaven (I know, I know...)
5. Last Christmas
Natalie Cole:
“She’s the little girl,... That Santa Claus.......
Forgot.”
/tissue?
Rockin Around the Christmas Tree. Everything about Brenda Lee is annoying to me.
“Santa Clause in a Helicopter” by Wing.
It can be used as a substitute for waterboarding. Absolutely, completely and wretchedly bad.
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