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
1. The Little Drummer Boy...by anyone
2. The 12 days of Christmas...also by anyone.
If I never hear any of these songs again I'd be thrilled.
Jingle Bell Rock, Feliz Navidad
Co-worker...within ear shot...
Plays Freddie Fender rendition of Feliz Navidad.
has to be 15+ times each day that song comes on.
grrrrrrr
...bad enough she never speaks English while at work.
Sounds like a turd world country here some days.
I totally agree with this list with the addition of "The Christmas Shoes", Elvis' "Blue Christmas", that song by Springstein, and some of the others listed. I would add a really annoying song by either Gloria Estefan or the Miami Sound Machine. I think it's the "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" song. The music is absolutely awful. It sounds like really bad synthetic karaoke music from the early 80's. Makes my ears bleed.
The John Lennon tune ("So This is Christmas") represents one of the worst trends in popular music: the adoption of a political "cause" and then promoting it in the most maudlin and cloying way possible. Of course, the late Mr. Lennon's former business partner Paul McCartney has also been guilty of politicization on occasion. In this instance however ("Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time") he chose merely to heave up a true musical abomination.
Given Paul's past productivity, one must ask "why?", as well as "why me?", especially after having been exposed to the repeated seasonal playing of a song whose substance makes cotton candy seem like a lead weight by comparison. I don't know. Perhaps he did it for the purpose of adding to a trust fund for his next ex-wife.
As for Madonna, her cover treatment of the song originally performed by Eartha Kitt is just creepy. Perhaps it's the sound of a dessicated 50-year old female pop star crooning to St. Nick in a boop-bee-doo little girl voice that made my skin crawl. Or maybe it's the thought of what she'd like to be doing with the old geezer, the mental image of which was like accidentally walking in on your parents, in flagrante.
"Feliz Navidad" = #2.
Springsteem - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Don’t mind the song so much but it was a piss-take when they originally did it...unfortunately it was recorded and released and all the people who think Broooce is hip think this version should be played ad infinitum.
Couldn’t agree with your list more. I would also add little drummer boy (could you imagine just getting a kid to sleep and have someone come up with a drum?) and one they play here for whatever reason “I Want a Hippopotomus for Christmas”.