Posted on 11/29/2005 11:30:51 AM PST by pissant
Last year, we ran through the list of best Christmas songs and carols. Lotsa of great memories. This year, it's time to list the WORST Christmas songs ever recorded. Some are because the version performed by the "artist" is horrid. Others because the song itself is weak and irritating. You be the judge.
Either way, I had a difficult time paring down the list. I left off "novelty" songs by the Chipmunks and Donald Duck, etc. They were intended to annoy, and thus were successful in their own right!
Top 7 Worst Christmas Songs Ever Recorded
7. Blue Christmas - by ANYONE OTHER THAN ELVIS PRESLEY -- Great song when sung by the King. Otherwise it is grating beyond belief.
6. 12 days of Christmas - various artists -- Why anyone listens to this silly thing is beyond me
5. Frosty the Snowman - various artists -- As annoying to me as the TV cartoon trotted out each year
4. Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid -- Another Bob Geldof save the starving biafrins effort. Truly unlistenable. With singing contributions from Boy George, Stink (Sting to some), and Wham, it is doomed to make many "worst" lists until it is completely forgotten about.
3. So This is Christmas - John Lennon -- As bad, if not worse, than his retarded Give Peace A Chance. A dirge for the ages.
2. Santa Clause is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen -- Truly pathetic, like 98% of his constipated sounding songs.
1. Santa Clause is Coming to Town - Jackson Five -- Truly the most irritating vocals I've ever heard, by a screeching young Michael Jackson. Nails on Chalkboards sound like Pavoratti by comparison
Grandma got run-over by a reindeer
Regis Philin's Christmas Album. Please someone tell this man he can't sing.
Yeah,
I hate Jinglebell Rock too...
And Holly Jolly Christmas (so sue me!)
and, oh dear....Winter Wonderland isn't one of my favorites either.
Anything by Mannheim Steamroller, Lennon's "So This is Christmas" and whatever the songs were that Marshalls decided to pipe into its stores during Christmas season 1998. I was working there at the time and got to hear the same canned music over and over again about every three hours. There was wretched one I think that was called "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas-time" which might have been Lennon too - his post-Beatles stuff was such dreck that it wouldn't surprise me. There was another one with a shrill, basically shouting not singing, children's chorus that went "ding dong ding dong ring the bell, ringing on the first noel" over and over again. My ears hurt just thinking about it.
I also detest it when washed up singers redo classic Christmas songs like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" but in a really drawn-out, over the top, lame R&B style with lounge music instrumentals. Gack.
Finally, Kenny G. No comment necessary.
Walking round in womens underwear ???
Make that Philbin.
Jingle Bells with dogs barking. Annoying as hell.
Well stated.
How about Bob Seger singing The Little Drummer Boy? Or anyone singing The Little Drummer Boy?
I still rather like the 12 Days of Christmas the way my brothers and I caroled the neighborhood:
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..a beer.
On teh second day of Christmas, my ... .
Those damned dogs barking out Jingle Bells!!!
And, any song that has been "Rapped Up". Why do they insist that making a one syllable word into a four syllable word, somehow improves it?
The absolute worst is the dogs barking out the tune of Jingle Bells.. Actually, the Chipmunks run a close 2nd place.
Oh, wow, it's like, un-American to be bustin' on Burl Ives!
You beat me by 44 seconds.
GMTA!
12 Days of Christmas (why are the sucky songs at least 8 minutes long??) and;
So This is Christmas. Yoko's squeeling is just unbareable.
"Grandma Got Run Over..."
"I Believe in Father Christmas" (I love ELP, but they are NOT a Christmas band!)
Nobody mentioned the endless ear-wrenching variations of The Little Drummer Boy, pa-rumpa-pum-pum!
Sheryl Crow has a version out that is unbearable to listen to. Incredibly whiney. Why re-do the King?!?
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