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Top 7 Worst Christmas Songs
PA Times | 11/29/05 | Santa Pissant

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


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To: pissant
I 'gotta go with “And So This Is Christmas”

If you're 'feelin depressed at Christmas... this one will have you 'lookin for the razor-blades.

41 posted on 11/29/2005 11:55:56 AM PST by johnny7 (“You have a corpse in a car, minus a head, in the garage. Take me to it.”)
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To: Clemenza
GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER is not only the WORST CHRISTMAS SONG

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It's awful. Really, really awful.

42 posted on 11/29/2005 11:56:13 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trad_anglican

Gotta love the Bing Crosby / David Bowie duet version of that one.


43 posted on 11/29/2005 11:56:57 AM PST by lugsoul
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To: clamper1797

great song.

Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator is another Bob Rivers classic.


44 posted on 11/29/2005 11:57:07 AM PST by Hoodlum91
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To: pissant
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.

My kids find this song to be hilarious, pointing out that many in Africa are not Christians, and therefore would not celebrate Christmas, and that it never snows in Africa, so what's the big deal. LOL!

45 posted on 11/29/2005 11:57:31 AM PST by Blue Eyes (I love Lucy. How 'bout you? Do you love Lucy, too?)
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To: Clemenza

*blush* Flatterer!


46 posted on 11/29/2005 11:57:40 AM PST by thoughtomator (What'ya mean you formatted the cat!?)
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To: pissant

"Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid "

Worst part of that song - "there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas" no s***. It's Africa. It's summertime in December.


47 posted on 11/29/2005 11:58:44 AM PST by Hoodlum91
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To: Hoodlum91

I agree. Christmas just isn't Christmas without rousing renditions of these two. Another favorite is Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol"


48 posted on 11/29/2005 11:59:58 AM PST by ssaftler
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To: pissant

6. 12 days of Christmas - various artists --

Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir it's priceless.


49 posted on 11/29/2005 12:02:02 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NY Times headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS, Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: pissant

Worst- "Grandma got run over..."

Best- "All I Want for Christmas Is You." By Vince Vance and the Valiants.


50 posted on 11/29/2005 12:03:06 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: pissant

I would nominate "Dominic the Donkey" by Lou Monte, but it actually started to grow on me after awhile.


51 posted on 11/29/2005 12:03:55 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: pissant

"You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" (Thur Ravenscroft)


52 posted on 11/29/2005 12:05:10 PM PST by w_over_w (VISUALIZE using your turn signal.)
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To: pissant
I have to echo those who said that crappy Paul McCartney "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" is on their lists, along with "So This is Christmas" by John Lennon. Horrible, horrible songs that all stores seem to play on endless loops.

But another one that gets me is, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year". It always seems to come on when I am standing in the longest line man has ever seen with the most disgruntled people on God's green earth working the register.
53 posted on 11/29/2005 12:05:20 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: pissant
Blue Christmas - by ANYONE OTHER THAN ELVIS PRESLEY

You haven't lived until you've heard the Porky Pig (impersonator) version of "Blue Christmas".

54 posted on 11/29/2005 12:05:29 PM PST by kevkrom (403-3)
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To: pissant
I prefer the Porky Pig version of "Blue Christmas"
55 posted on 11/29/2005 12:06:41 PM PST by fnord (497 1/2 feet of rope ... I just carry it)
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To: kevkrom

'You haven't lived until you've heard the Porky Pig (impersonator) version of "Blue Christmas".'

Love that song.


56 posted on 11/29/2005 12:06:53 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: kevkrom

I have heard this 100 times and still laugh - I think it's the guy in the background.


57 posted on 11/29/2005 12:07:46 PM PST by day10 (Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: pissant

Add in whatever that horrid Beach Boys song is... I mean "Christmas comes this time each year"... no s*** Sherlock.


58 posted on 11/29/2005 12:08:08 PM PST by kevkrom (403-3)
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To: EX52D

One of my co-workers had this one as a her cell phone ring last Christmas and she gets A LOT of calls.


59 posted on 11/29/2005 12:08:18 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: kevkrom
I mean "Christmas comes this time each year"... no s*** Sherlock.


60 posted on 11/29/2005 12:09:18 PM PST by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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