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
JASON AND THE STRAP-TONES - I Found The Brains Of Santa Claus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTO-fJi-uKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uW2PT-190
Christmas 78’s - I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas - Yogi Yorgesson
Absolutely. It’s hideous.
There are more, many more but these are revolting noise, all of them.
Any version of the “ Twelve Days of Christmas”
Any version of “The Little Drummer Boy”
Whatever Burl Ives is spewing about a “Holly Jolly Christmas”
Any version of “Jingle Bell Rock”
“Santa Baby”
There’s a purposely out-of-tune version of “Frosty the Snowman” that they play in Starbucks. Then the last go-through it’s back on tune. Like banging your head against a wall because it feels good when you stop—there can be no other point to it, since it has no redeeming virtue.
Good Lord, man — HAVE YOU NO SOLE??
Joe Diffy’s “Leroy the Redneck Reindeer.”
All of them.
Santa Baby ... no matter which sings it
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Anything political or by the Chipmunks
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Which = who
The song I heard traveling between NC and TN last year. Obviously an AA vocalist. The words were about how much her man loved her at Christmas because he bought her all these name brand clothes and rings and a fancy car. If anything could be opposite of the meaning of the season, that song was it.
I heard it twice, so grateful to never have heard it again. It will probably haunt me forever.
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!
Agree, absolutely. The only one worse than that is "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" by Sir Paul McCartney, which always makes me wish that Her Majesty the Queen had employed a sword to knight him horizontally, rather than vertically.
Play that Spinal Tap record at 78. As Paul once sang, take a bad song and make it better...
“Hark the Harold Angels Sing” This version can be best described as being “Apocalyptic Punk”. The title is screamed throughout the song followed by big dissonant chords. It is simply awful.
“Walking in a Winter Wonderland”. This version of a great song is done by a Mariachi band. Predictably the trumpets are sharp and overblown and it makes my ears bleed.
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” This version can be best described as being “Apocalyptic Punk”. The title is screamed throughout the song followed by big dissonant chords. It is simply awful.
“Walking in a Winter Wonderland”. This version of a great song is done by a Mariachi band. Predictably the trumpets are sharp and overblown and it makes my ears bleed.
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