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
If you're 'feelin depressed at Christmas... this one will have you 'lookin for the razor-blades.
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It's awful. Really, really awful.
Gotta love the Bing Crosby / David Bowie duet version of that one.
great song.
Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator is another Bob Rivers classic.
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!
*blush* Flatterer!
"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.
I agree. Christmas just isn't Christmas without rousing renditions of these two. Another favorite is Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol"
6. 12 days of Christmas - various artists --
Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir it's priceless.
Worst- "Grandma got run over..."
Best- "All I Want for Christmas Is You." By Vince Vance and the Valiants.
I would nominate "Dominic the Donkey" by Lou Monte, but it actually started to grow on me after awhile.
"You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" (Thur Ravenscroft)
You haven't lived until you've heard the Porky Pig (impersonator) version of "Blue Christmas".
'You haven't lived until you've heard the Porky Pig (impersonator) version of "Blue Christmas".'
Love that song.
I have heard this 100 times and still laugh - I think it's the guy in the background.
Add in whatever that horrid Beach Boys song is... I mean "Christmas comes this time each year"... no s*** Sherlock.
One of my co-workers had this one as a her cell phone ring last Christmas and she gets A LOT of calls.
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