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WORST Christmas Songs Ever - Vanity
11/19/2012 | VRWCmember

Posted on 11/19/2012 9:17:52 PM PST by VRWCmember

As some radio stations have already begun playing Christmas Songs, it is time once again to compile our annual list of the absolute worst musical offerings of the season. The first three songs on my list are pretty much indisputibly the worst songs ever written as musical celebrations of the season. The fourth I've only heard recently but immediately recognized that it certainly belongs in any top ten list of worst Christmas songs. The rest of the list should be wide open, so please post your contributions. Here is my top four songs on the list, with the top three being considered beyond debate:

1. Happy Xmas War is Over, by John Lennon
2. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time, by Paul McCartney
3. Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart, by George Michael / Wham?
4. Must Be Santa, by Bob Dylan


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To: VRWCmember

Bark,Bark,Bark.... Bark,Bark,Bark... Bark, Bark.... Bark,Bark,Bark.


21 posted on 11/19/2012 9:59:28 PM PST by Mike Darancette (I don't understand why the Boomers are so passive.)
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To: VRWCmember

Slade-Here it is merry Christmas


22 posted on 11/19/2012 9:59:41 PM PST by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: VRWCmember

Aww shucks....I love Paul McCartney’s A Wonderful Christmas Time. I never did like Burl Ives “Have A Holly, Jolly Christmas”......ugh.


23 posted on 11/19/2012 10:00:36 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: VRWCmember

Anything by Kenny G., Barry Malinow, Brbra, Lionel Richchey.


24 posted on 11/19/2012 10:01:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: VRWCmember
Drunk Santa - De Va La Gött
25 posted on 11/19/2012 10:04:00 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: stilloftyhenight
Anything with singing dogs or cats.

How about chipmunks?

26 posted on 11/19/2012 10:04:23 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: VRWCmember

Some song about buying shoes for somebody dying at Christmas. Treacly, maudlin, yecch. Heard it once, which was too much.


27 posted on 11/19/2012 10:04:41 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: moose07
The Slade song you’re referring to is actually called Merry Christmas Everybody . . . and if it were not played to death every blasted December in the British Isles and beyond, it might be tolerable.

The other song that gets played to death over there is I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by a band called Wizzard (lead singer Roy Wood, formerly of ELO). Those two songs get played so much together, they begin to meld together after a while . . . total horrors.
28 posted on 11/19/2012 10:05:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: VRWCmember

I may be the only one but I hate “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” Im not even sure why but I even prefer barking dogs to that one.


29 posted on 11/19/2012 10:05:24 PM PST by Tramonto
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To: Olog-hai

A King Diamond reference. :-)

“Jingle Hell” by Wargasm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggVMtGPC_1s


30 posted on 11/19/2012 10:07:32 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Smile on Dems: Ignorance is bliss.)
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To: VRWCmember

“Santa Baby” by Madonna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycWObpi73Y


31 posted on 11/19/2012 10:08:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Smile on Dems: Ignorance is bliss.)
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To: VRWCmember

Now I make a distinction between songs about the real Christmas—especially the great Christian Christmas hymns, which are rarely heard on the radio—between that, and what passes for “Christmas” in the pop culture, and which is played on the radio from mid-November up UNTIL Christmas, and then it suddenly stops, just as the real Christmas (the twelve days) is getting underway. I don’t mind some of the pop “Christmas” songs—they can be fun or cute or nostalgiac—but I don’t confuse them with real Christmas.


32 posted on 11/19/2012 10:11:00 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: gura

12 Days of Christmas
by Bob and Doug MacKenzie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4

Santa and His Old Lady
by Cheech and Chong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSH9ryRzHQ4


33 posted on 11/19/2012 10:12:51 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Olog-hai

How about “Danny Boy”?

Oops! Wrong thread!


34 posted on 11/19/2012 10:15:56 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: VRWCmember

3) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

2) Holly, Jolly Christmas

1) Fleas Navy, Dad Okay; okay! José Feliciano’s Feliz Navidad (almost as bad to listen to as 96 Tears the rest of the year)

Runner up: Jingle Bell Rock


35 posted on 11/19/2012 10:17:06 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Feliciano covered the wrong Doors tune. Shoulda been “Horse Latitudes” instead.


36 posted on 11/19/2012 10:19:40 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: stilloftyhenight
Especially when it’s by Doctor Demento, yes?
37 posted on 11/19/2012 10:22:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: bigbob
I have hundreds of comedy/novelty/goofy Christmas Songs and over 20 hours of the fabulous (now long discontinued) “Special X” program from XM Radio, and love ‘em all. The more weird, awful, irreverent, naughty, etc - the better

There was a talking blues version of A Christmas Carol that I heard, only once, back in the late seventies. IIRC, it was in a ghetto setting and used inner city vernacular. It may have been recorded before then. Are you familiar with it?

38 posted on 11/19/2012 10:27:36 PM PST by Roccus
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To: Alaska Wolf

“How about chipmonks?”


“Merry Christmas From Brooklyn”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2nzZqGGsY


39 posted on 11/19/2012 10:36:28 PM PST by Roccus
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To: VRWCmember; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

40 posted on 11/19/2012 10:40:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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