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Vanity: Most Annoying Christmas Songs
The Radio | 12/17/2008 | VRWCmember

Posted on 12/17/2008 7:50:42 AM PST by VRWCmember

For several weeks now a few local radio stations have been playing Christmas music non-stop, and I love hearing the songs celebrating the season -- especially the traditional carols.

How can you help but feel better when you hear Nat King Cole's smooth voice singing "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." (The Christmas Song) or Bing Crosby wishing you a White Christmas with every Christmas card he writes. And when Mark Lowry asks Mary if she knew that her baby boy would one day walk on water, it gives me chills. My drive home from work from late November to late December is so much more peaceful and enjoyable as I hear so many cheerful and encouraging songs celebrating the nativity.

There are, however, a few annoying songs that seem to get a lot of play this time of year that prompt me to change the station as soon as they begin. Just the first few notes, before the lyrics even kick in, make me want to hurl, or lash out at the stupidity of the idiot that put the disc in the player.

So as a diversion from the more important issues of the day, please post the titles/artists of the songs of the season that induce the urge to vomit or cause you to change the station when you hear them.

Here are my top most annoying Christmas songs ever: 1. So This Is Christmas (War is over?) by John Lennon 2. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney 3. Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart by Wham/George Michael 4. Santa Baby by Madonna


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To: VRWCmember

Most of them. By and large Christmas songs are atrocious. Special mention has to go to any Rudolf song except Asylum Street Spankers’ Hoochie Koochie Man version, and the entire body of work from Manheim Steamroller. Haven’t decided yet how much I dislike Trans Siberian Orchestra, on the surface they seem to be a blending of the worst habits of Steamroller and ELO, but a couple of their songs I’ve stumbled on have been strangely addictive.


21 posted on 12/17/2008 7:57:40 AM PST by dilvish
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To: VRWCmember

“Santa Baby” makes me want to stick an icepick into my head.

I have no idea who sings it, but she sounds like Carol Channing, whom I cannot stand.


22 posted on 12/17/2008 7:58:10 AM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: VRWCmember

How could you possibly omit “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” from your list??

(Doubly irritating since many radio stations, for reasons I’ve yet to fathom, feel obligated to play it at least twice an hour....)


23 posted on 12/17/2008 7:58:44 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I jus' sets.........)
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To: VRWCmember

Jingle Bell Rock. I get that da*m thing in my head and I can’t get rid of it.

(So -— thanks a lot! It’s in my head right now! AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!)


24 posted on 12/17/2008 7:58:45 AM PST by Exit148 (Giants versus Jets? How 'bout a tie.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

You MUST hear Kenny Rogers and Wynona Judd’s version!!! The WORDS are spine tingling!


25 posted on 12/17/2008 7:58:57 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: woollyone

Add Bruce Springstein “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” to the two Beatles songs. 12 Pains of Christmas is funny. I like the Archie Bunker character.


26 posted on 12/17/2008 7:59:15 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Uncle Ike

A coworker had that for her cell phone ring. By the end of the first day we all wanted to choke her with it.


27 posted on 12/17/2008 7:59:42 AM PST by retrokitten (I want to rock your gypsy soul, just like way back in the days of old- Into the Mystic)
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To: VRWCmember

Never heard of him....any link??


28 posted on 12/17/2008 7:59:48 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: VRWCmember

worst...
do they know its Christmas time at all

as for the best...
Trans Siberian orchestra comes to mind


29 posted on 12/17/2008 7:59:52 AM PST by OL Hickory (Where is the America I knew as a boy?)
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To: Joann37
My favorites are those that are Christ-centered. I really don’t see the significance in anything that is not.

I agree that the best carols are the Christ-centered songs. On the other hand, I still enjoy and am tremendously cheered by songs like White Christmas, The Christmas Song, Silver Bells, and a few other "secular" Christmas songs -- especially when performed by the artists that made them classics (Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, etc.)

30 posted on 12/17/2008 7:59:52 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Xenalyte

Santa Baby is Eartha Kitt.


31 posted on 12/17/2008 8:00:39 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: VRWCmember
2. Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney

That song is so bad it gave me cancer...

32 posted on 12/17/2008 8:00:41 AM PST by skikvt (Palin 2012)
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To: VRWCmember

Barbara Streisand “Jingle Bells”-for that alone, she should be taken out and shot against the nearest wall.


33 posted on 12/17/2008 8:00:43 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: VRWCmember

Who doesn’t love Three French Toasts, Two Turtlenecks, and a Beer?


34 posted on 12/17/2008 8:00:58 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: VRWCmember
  1. Christmas In Sarajevo by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It is overplayed and sounds like the prelude to an airborne assault in Vietnam.
  2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Bruce Springsteen. Again, way overplayed and besides, The Boss is passé now.
  3. Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms. Helms has the same problem that Springsteen does. Someone tried to take a commercialized song and call it a Christmas classic. Didn't work.
  4. Christmas Shoes by NewSong. It's depressing.
  5. Any version of Santa Baby.

35 posted on 12/17/2008 8:01:01 AM PST by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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To: VRWCmember; Jersey Republican Biker Chick

One of my fav Christmas songs: Elvis Presley’s Hava hava hava Bllllluuuuuuueeeee Christmas.

My most annoying song: Grandma got rund over by a raindeer. Joisey!


36 posted on 12/17/2008 8:02:06 AM PST by hoe_cake (" 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us." Ronald Reagan)
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To: VRWCmember

I tell people that if I hear Feliz Navidad again my head will explode.

I cannot change the radio station fast enough if that song comes on. I absolutely HATE IT!


37 posted on 12/17/2008 8:03:13 AM PST by copaliscrossing (Progressives are Socialists)
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To: Xenalyte

Off topic, but did you happen to notice the name of the woman who won the Amazing Race?

Starr Spangler.


38 posted on 12/17/2008 8:03:24 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

And some parts for my mustang GT.


39 posted on 12/17/2008 8:03:29 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: woollyone

Add Bruce Springstein “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” to the two Beatles songs. 12 Pains of Christmas is funny. I like the Archie Bunker character.


40 posted on 12/17/2008 8:03:41 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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