The 20 Worst Christmas Songs of All Time

rolling stone ^ | DAVID BROWNE & JON DOLAN & BRENNA EHRLICH & MARIA FONTOURA & JOE GROSS & KORY GROW & ANGIE MARTOCCIO

[x]

Whoever wrote that is trying far too hard to be clever. Like many pop culture critics the writer is more cringe-inducing than the stuff he attacks.

[Huskrrrr]

The Waitresses-Christmas Wrapping

[MayflowerMadam]

I absolutely hate, despise, abhor “The Little Drummer Boy”. I’ve looked, but can’t find chapter and verse on that.

Another one I have issue with is a few verses of “The First Noel” with lyrics that say the shepherds followed a star, which they didn’t. The angel told them where to find the baby Jesus. The carol itself is gorgeous, though.

The wise men followed a star. Maybe three of them, but maybe 30 or 100. Nobody on earth knows. There were more than one because it’s plural. Those names ... where did they come from?

The Bible says they didn’t find “baby” Jesus in the manger, but visited the Christ “child” in His “house” probably when He was about two. (Experts say the journey they took from start to finish would’ve taken about two years.)

[mellow velo]

I didn't click on the link, but I'm sure a rag like Rolling Stone wouldn't have the guts to include Blue Xmas by Miles Davis. Unless one was a member of the woke crowd, who else would enjoy a hateful song about Christmas (not Xmas, Miles btw) by an angry black man?

IIRC, his producer prodded him to come up with a Christmas song like other artists, which he didn't want to do since it was a white man's holiday. So he wrote the nasty little ditty that is Blue Xmas.

[pricilla]

Redneck 12 days of Christmas by Foxworthy....infantile crap keeps showing up.

[BradyLS]

Even hearing the occassional clunker helps to make the good ones stand out all the more. I’ll take the occassional “Grandma got run over...”, “Dominick the Donkey”, or “Christmas with the Devil” in the spirit of fun if they’re overwhelmed by the classics.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

see #11

[chuck allen]

Trivia: Paul McCartney makes a reported $400,000 yearly off of “Wonderful Christmastime”.

John Mellencamp “I Saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsat4e8jgHA

[SeekAndFind]

This article is not about the worst Christmas SONGS, but the worst Christmas RENDITIONS.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses

but yeah, McCartney is the absolute worst

[KosmicKitty]

That one is #2 on the list, isn’t it?

[hsmomx3]

Can’t stand this or anything sung by rockers.

[Fiji Hill]

Elvis for Xmas--Mad Milo (1956)

I like this one, but some of you might want to add it to the list. It includes excerpts from Ain't Got No Home by Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Tra La La by Lavern Baker, Send Me Flowers and Afar Into the Night by the Six Teens, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus by Mabel Scott, and Elvis Presley's Don't and Love Me.

[PghBaldy]

I agree with the Paul McKitschney song...

Some beautiful and/or fun songs are:
“Silver Bells,” by Doris Day https://youtu.be/JLYqkscuZkA

and I don’t know if it is a Christmas song, but it feels like it should be: “Scarlet Ribbons,” By Jim Reeves https://youtu.be/Ot6kfxd_wBk (or The Cats https://youtu.be/BKzgOguQjGE );

“Feliz Navidad,” Jose Feliciano https://youtu.be/N8NcQzMQN_U

“White Christmas,” The Drifters https://youtu.be/GfZPtkqXQIA

“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” Mahalia Jackson https://youtu.be/J4oMfJNuV0g

“If We Make It Through December,” Merle Haggard https://youtu.be/U9TByT3QlWc

“Silent Night,” Mario Lanza https://youtu.be/KfNNZuxjBtQ

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Yes, caught that after the fact. Thanks.

[Fiji Hill]

One that should have made the list is the Stevie Wonder tune from the sixties that begins,

Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys

[cyclotic]

Last Christmas is the worst, most disgusting dreck disguised as music

[KarlInOhio]

1 ‘The Little Drummer Boy’

You’ve heard of the War on Christmas? This song is the sinking of the Lusitania — the atrocity that makes previously peaceful civilians decide this war might be a groovy idea. “The Little Drummer Boy” would be at the top of this list no matter who sings it, even legends like Joan Jett or Bob Seger — the absolute ghastliest of holiday tunes. But Jessica and Ashlee Simpson put all their sisterly power into it, like they’re saying “You already think this thing sucks? Just you wait!” Each “pa-rum-pa pum-pum” is another drop in their musical waterboarding. Respect to the Simpson sisters for making every other “Little Drummer Boy” out there look tame. Christmas, you chose violence. —R.S.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Usually by Thanksgiving I am already pa-rum-pa-pummed out. I think what makes it worse is that every single singer who knows how to strum two chords on a guitar has produced a version of it and radio stations dedicated to Christmas music play some version as every other song.

You have to work pretty hard to come in fourth place way behind myrrh as a gift for Jesus, but somehow that drummer did it.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

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