Posted on 12/18/2010 2:15:02 PM PST by JoeProBono
For many people, Christmas is a time for celebration. It is a time of parties, gift giving, reunions, food and vacationing.
Christmas is also a time of music, and there are countless songs that people enjoy during the holiday season. The music of the holiday season is something that unites people, as both religious and popular songs are enjoyed by a wide variety of people.
Of course, not all Christmas songs are universally enjoyed. Some tend to be a little more annoying than others and some are flat-out painful.
This may be due to the song itself, or it may be because it has simply been overplayed for so long that no one wants to hear it anymore. With that in mind, here are a few of the most annoying Christmas songs and why they are difficult to hear during the season.
Annoying Christmas Song No. 5: I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
(He also wrote the only Easter song I can think of).
>>Little Drummer Boy<<
I love the “Living Voices” version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_qip6f7gCM&feature=related
But it is what I grew up with...
"Twelve days of Christmas" in an abomination and "The Little Drummer Boy" should be removed from the planet.
Those bloody barking dogs singing "Jingle Bells" come to mind immediately . . .
Without a doubt, “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”. (Shudder) “Jingle Bell Rock” is kind of annoying, too.
>>Loads of great stuff at the Internet Archive.<<
OMG!!
It isn’t bad enough that I have FR to waste time with, now I have whole NEW place to waste time!
(LOL)
I think the ball was picked up by Stan Borenson a while back. He and Doug Setterborg out of Seattle did a whole bunch of Yorgie’s stuff, including “Yingle Bells.” My favorite is the Lutefisk Song sung to “O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree.” Of course there’s “Walking in my Winter Underwear,” sung to the tune of “Winter Wonderland.” Borenson has a website and I ordered a couple of CDs. Pretty funny stuff, in a Norwegian/Swedish kind of way. Oh yes, how could I forget, “I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas.”
That one drives me mad!
My high school choir sang this song and I haven’t heard it (or seen the lyrics) since......and it’s a long, long time ago! thank you for a great trip down memory lane.
And I LIKE the hippo song AND the 12 Days of Christmas. :pPeople forget "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" was cooked up on behalf of a fundraising drive to bring a new young hippo to the local zoo where Gayla Peevey lived. It was an unexpected hit record.
As for "The Twelve Days of Christmas" . . .
Nobody has ever given me twelve drummers drumming (even Ginger Baker's Air Force only had three drummers at maximum), eleven pipers piping (not on Christmas, anyway, you have to wait until St. Patty's Day for those), ten lords a-leaping (not even when I saw the execrable The Lords of Flatbush---they were a quartet---though who knows what happens when you shock a session of the House of Lords), nine ladies dancing (I'm a one-woman man, thank you very much), eight maids a-milking (I wasn't a farm boy, dairy or otherwise), seven swans a-swimming (the most I've ever seen in one sighting is four), six geese a-laying (*honk* no comment), five golden rings (well, I once got a sticker with the Olympics symbol in gold, but that was just a sticker), four mockingbirds (I've only ever had one canary), three French hens (does watching Julie & Julia and seeing some of the scenes around the Cordon Bleu count?), two turtle doves, or a partridge, in a pear tree, a family, or otherwise.
However, here's my favourite rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" . . .
They weren’t singing - they were barking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGDo1Jybs_I
Best Christmas song, especially with the usurper in office....
The problem with this list is that it stops at 5. The vast majority of Christmas songs are simply atrocious. And made worse by the fact that most of the time the singers are just doing them because their agent or label said they should, so they put no effort into it. Bad music, bad TV specials and bad movies were the triumvirate that made me hate Christmas through most of my childhood. Once I hit adulthood and got my life to the point where I could mostly avoid Christmas themed stuff the whole thing became much more enjoyable.
God, I loved her as Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove!
If the Word was like FALLEN humanity, how could its death be efficacious sacrifice?
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
I lost my best friend on Christmas 21 years ago this year. HATE this song, and it seems like it’s the only song I EVER hear at Christmastime.
They weren’t singing - they were barfing.Fixed! ;)
Wonderful Christmas Time.....
worst....song.....ever.... Arrrrrghhhhhhhh!
Ah...I used to listen to Shep’s radio show and I bought a few CDs of the shows a few years back. He was a real treasure. It was on a NY station (WNBC or WOR??) and I had to sneak my old Silvertone radio under the covers so my parents wouldn’t know I was listening to the radio late on school nights.
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