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.
Linda Bennett
“A Real Old-Fashioned Christmas”
A mother is planning a Real, Old-Fashioned Christmas. The radio is playing Christmas music. Then (BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!) a news bulletin says that the bus that Daddy always takes home from work has hit a tree. Then (BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!) another bulletin says that everyone on board was killed. A bus so flimsy that everyone gets killed in a collision with a tree? Then the doorbell rings, and it’s DADDY! He missed his regular bus! To hell with all those dead people, Daddy’s home and we’re going to have a Real, Old-Fashioned Christmas!
hippo drives me nuts. must be the whine.
Oh my yes. I gotcher "parumpapapum" right here!
Other infuriating screechings that belong on the house speakers in Hell:
Santa Claus is Comin' To Town - the Springsteen version. A fat, disgusting diamond-encrusted rock dinosaur still pretending to be a working man and more than happy to give other people's stuff away.
Merry XMas (War is Over) - yeah, right. The War was ignored at that point by the sanctimonious, blood-stained creeps on the Left, not over. After all, the evil U.S. was out of it and there were only good guys left, like the Khmer Rouge and the NVA. I want to scream.
Jingle Bell Rock, any version. It isn't even rock, it's swing.
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Dear God, it's insufferable. A motley collection of some of the richest people on the planet chastising the rest of us for daring to be happy.
Gotta go blow this stuff out of my ears with a cranked-up rendition of Alleluia, Amen. Most of these turkeys above wouldn't like it, it's about Christ.
Shoot Kenny G. twice.
No “Feliz Navidad”? I call shenanigans.
As an aside, I read your tagline quickly and thought it said "I don't have hobbits."
That is really nice! Thanks for posting it.
-JT
There's no accounting for taste.
ALL Christmas music is annoying.
Almost brings tears to your eyes.
I used to love sleigh ride when we played it in high school band. . . And then I learned that there were lyrics and have hated it ever since.
Last Christmas, Santa Baby and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus are the absolute worst of the worst, of course there are quite a few that are nearly as bad.
Sounds like the perfect setting for that song! Thanks for sharing.
Christmas blessings, to you and yours :)
Not me! However, I like Michael Buble and I know he sets some peoples teeth on edge. :)
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I think that is an excellent measurement to use!
did you happen to catch her ‘earpiece malfunction’ when they lit the tree at Rockerfeller Center?
THAT was painful to watch!
Oh, I think Johnny Mathis’ rendition of ‘Winter Wonderland’ is so pretty! (I agree with you on the other songs...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPrINX6KcoM
LOL! My sister has been singing that version for years! :)
So is Bruce Srpingsteen, so it's really no wonder.
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