5 Christmas Songs No One Should Ever Sing Again

The Federalist ^ | 12/14/16 | Amelia Hamilton

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yeah, 1987’s Lethal Weapon played that terrible song as a dark joke to a suicidal Martin Riggs (played by Mel Gibson). That’s where that song should’ve just faded away.

[Zuriel]

**I have a problem with the sleigh ride song where they flog the heck out of the horse...**

Lol! That’s because most folks don’t know that when you have a well trained horse, and know how to crack the whip, no contact is needed.

[mfish13]

John Lennon??

[xkaydet65]

Agree wholeheartedly. And a Christmas song inspired, not only by a great comic strip character, but by a real event, The Christmas Truce.

[ealgeone]

The one I can’t stand is Paul McCartney “And so this is Christmas” yuck

The single most depressing Christmas song ever.

[sparklite2]

I got fuzzy monkey. Samee same.

[AppyPappy]

Christmas Shoes was based on a spam email that went around in the Internet’s beginnings.

[mkleesma]

Lighten up, Francis!

:-)

[mfish13]

That is why I listen to Yogi Jogesen’s “I Yust go Nuts at Christmas” and “Yingle Bells.”

[Yaelle]

I LOVE that Video. My son’s favorite band too!

[daler]

I know I'm a nitpicker, but I've come to dislike the idea of "seasonal" music referred to as "Christmas" music, even though they have nothing whatsoever to do with the birth of our Saviour.

"Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Let It Snow", "Winter Wonderland", et. al.

[xrmusn]

Or wasn’t allowed to eat Christmas Snow?

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Isn’t that supposed to say ‘don’t eat the yellow snow’?

I am in a small town and at the very first twinge of Christmas (I am NOT a Happy Holidays guy) I set MY standard by loudly declaring ‘Bah Humbug’ and I am pretty much ‘left’ alone for the period from pre Thanksgiving to mid January (the new ‘Commercial Christmas’).

I am at the point in life where I don’t speak unless spoken to so I have been making it clear for the past few years that whenever a clerk says ‘happy holidays’, I LOUDLY PROCLAIM...If you mean Merry Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas and let it go from there.

[Albion Wilde]

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.

That one sets my Barf-o-meter on Stuned every time.

[Exit148]

Tell me how you really feel. Don’t hold back!

[dfwgator]

It's a South Park reference....

Cartman: Hey! What are you doing? Jewish people can't eat Christmas snow.
Kyle: We can too!
Stan: No, I think it's against the law, dude.
Kyle: Officer Barbrady!
Officer Barbrady: [while stopping a car] What?
Kyle: Is it illegal for Jews to eat Christmas snow?
Officer Barbrady: Yes.
Kyle: Dammit!

[Savage Beast]

6. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

7. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

[Redwood71]

What does the birth of Christ have to do with any of these songs? Anyone can write songs like these and call them carols. Doesn’t make them so. Just makes money.

rwood

[MD Expat in PA]

I agree with the five on the list except for Rudolph - I prefer the Burl Ives version but there's some decent covers out there.

I love Rudolph. But I have to admit this is my favorite version. I remember my mom had this and all the Fred Waring and The Pennsylvania albums, my brother and I used to ask my mom to play the “Funny Rudolph” song.

And that tradition as lived on long after my mom passed, as my now adult niece’s and nephew’s kids love it and call it “Funny Rudolph”.

Fred Waring Rudolph

[reagandemocrat]

I can identify with alot in that video. Cracks me up every time.

[Albion Wilde]

...and that song was written to help starving kids in a Communist country (Ethiopia). I thought that the New York Times told me that things like that did not happen under such governments.

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