Worst Christmas songs: The 10 most annoying holiday hits

City News Toronto ^ | Shalini Roy

[Stepan12]

I like that one. I even played it for Howie Carr via my telephone.

[OneWingedShark]

Patton Oswalt's deconstruction of Christmas Shoes

[PLMerite]

If you could point me towards that online I’d appreciate it.

[Tanniker Smith]

The original version of "All I Want for Christmas is You" is probably one of the best original Christmas songs out there, and the reason I bought the CD. It beats all the remakes of remakes of remakes.

Now, if you want to have a laugh at Mariah's expense (which is easy to do, actually), listen to her rendition of Joy to the World. It's the Three Dog Night version.

[Savage Beast]

# ONE:

Chest-NUTS roastinnnnnnnggg on an O-pen-firrrrrre!

[BubbaJunebug]

3. Wonderful Christmastime
I hear that, and my first thought is “Chapman shot the wrong Beatle.”

I was on a China Airlines flight from LAX to TPE when that song came out...damn if they didn’t play it for everyone every 30 min.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, I hated Water World, but I like All I Want for Christmas Is You a lot. I don't know how I'd buy groceries without it.

[Bill Russell]

I can’t believe that no body mentioned Elvis’s Blue Christmas....The background vocals are like fingernails on chalkboard!

[Tanniker Smith]

Christmas Shoes isn't the greatest, but it isn't the worst. What makes it interesting is that it's based on a true story. (It was two girls, not a little boy.) The woman who paid for the shoes asked the younger one what she meant when she said that "Jesus would've loved those shoes" and they told her the story of their mother.

[dfwgator]

I can’t believe that no body mentioned Elvis’s Blue Christmas

I preferred the Porky Pig version.

[dfwgator]

I was on a China Airlines flight from LAX to TPE when that song came out...damn if they didn’t play it for everyone every 30 min.

Then I hear "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and I go, "Nope, Chapman got it right."

[CatherineofAragon]

"5. All I Want For Christmas is You (Mariah Carey version)

Oh, Man! I’m the only one on the planet that LIKES that song, as well as the movie, ‘Water World.’ LOL!"

I can't get into "Water World", but I'm with you on Mariah's song, LOL. I heard it today for the first time this season, on the way to the store, and I cranked it up.

The '80s were my time...aside from the message of the Band-Aid song, I loved it and still do. (The video, too).

Christmas Shoes is probably the most miserable of the bunch. I also hate Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, Feliz Navidad, and anything by Johnny Mathis.

[The_Media_never_lie]

6 more days; hope we make it? Bah, humbug!

[FroggyTheGremlim]

There are two versions of “Santa Claus is Coming To Town”

One, I'll call the "traditional" version.

The other I'll call the "Black" version. You can tell them apart when you hear them.

Racist that I am, I like the former, hate the latter.

[Ge0ffrey]

It’s a tie between Joni Mitchell’s Christmas song “River,” and the Kathie Lee Gifford version of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”

[TruthBeforeAll]

It's a tie between Jim Neighbors' "Sleigh Ride" Which is so bad that this is the only version of it I could find on the internet (the cloggers actually make it sound better than the original).

or Jimmy Dean's "Little Sandy Sleighfoot"

[elcid1970]

Check out Melissa McQueen’s sendup of Mariah Carey: “All I Want for Christmas is Jews!”

Priceless, & not anti-semitic in the least. She makes Mariah out to be some kind of avaricious cougar.

[dfwgator]

From the looks of things, the only thing Mariah wants for Christmas is food.

[SunkenCiv]

Anything where Celine Dion sings.

Anything where anyone sings (unless it’s the “Christmastime is Here” from the Charlie Brown Christmas, or the Hallelujah Chorus).

“Here Comes Santa Claus” in any form.

[MCH]

Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas - John Denver.

Can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet. And, I'll second Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.