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‘All I Want For Christmas' tops most annoying song poll, still tops Billboard's Holiday 100
Cox Media via WPXI ^ | December 4, 2019 | Natalie Dreier

Posted on 12/04/2019 6:16:56 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

“I don’t want a lot for Christmas” but for some, the one thing they do want is to hear the song again!

A poll across the UK has found that the most annoying Christmas song out there isn’t “Jingle Bells” or “Dominick the Donkey” or even “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” but rather Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You," Variety reported.

Huawei, a mobile phone company, conducted the survey.

The Carey Christmas Classic may be the number one most annoying, but some other songs you hear on constant rotation on the radio also made the list, Variety reported.

1. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey

2. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band-Aid

3. “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday,” by Wizzard

4. “Merry Xmas Everybody” by Slade

5. “Last Christmas” by Wham!


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: annoying; christmas; songs
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To: Cecily
The one I dislike is Bruce Springsteen rasping his way through Santa Claus is Coming To Town.

One of these years Springsteen is going to finally pass that stone.

61 posted on 12/04/2019 7:26:14 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
One of my favorites: Leon Redbone - No Place Like Home For The Holidays


62 posted on 12/04/2019 7:30:08 AM PST by FXRP (Cogito, ergo Spam!)
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To: daler

I gather you don’t like the song” Jingle Bells” as well?


63 posted on 12/04/2019 7:34:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: dfwgator
But Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is even worse.

At least Lennon's has a nice chord progression and melody. One just has to ignore the words. It's like "Imagine" in that respect.

64 posted on 12/04/2019 7:38:52 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: x

Never heard of those in the list.

However I do smile when hearing the “two front teeth” one.

Our kiddo lost her two front teeth in one of those weird mama intuition moments with me running out to say don’t do that but was too late by a split second. Blood was everywhere but what she cried about was the Tooth Fairy wouldn’t come because the teeth were lost at the bottom of the river. That happened during the summer and there was no sign of new teeth at Christmas break. One evening, she visited Santa and told him she wanted her two front teeth for Christmas. The next morning both new front teeth were halfway in.


65 posted on 12/04/2019 7:39:58 AM PST by bgill
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To: babble-on

On my list too.


66 posted on 12/04/2019 7:41:08 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Bah, humbug!


67 posted on 12/04/2019 7:46:58 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: All

Last night an elf came into my room
Last night an elf came jumping to my room
She said I’ve got tinsel you’ll love
and Christmas lights for above

In the midnight hour she hung more, more ,more
With her elf hands hung more,more,more
In the midnight hour she hung more,more,more
More,more,more

She don’t like plain trees with no lights
they need tinsel and lights to make it right
She put an angel on the top
I couldn’t make her ever stop

In the midnight hour she hung more, more ,more
With her elf hands hung more,more,more
In the midnight hour she hung more,more,more
More,more,more


68 posted on 12/04/2019 7:49:12 AM PST by BipolarBob (No border walls. No voter IDs. No Electoral College. You figured it out yet?)
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To: BipolarBob

apologies to Billy Idol


69 posted on 12/04/2019 7:54:06 AM PST by BipolarBob (No border walls. No voter IDs. No Electoral College. You figured it out yet?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I would also add McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" to the list.

Me too. I keep getting into this argument with devout Beatles fans, but IMHO the Lads totally started mailing it in after their sojurn getting stoned in India.


70 posted on 12/04/2019 8:01:57 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Spruce

One of my wife’s favorites...


71 posted on 12/04/2019 8:24:05 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I would also add McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" to the list.

And that annoying "So this is Christmas" by that wife beater and child abuser commie, john lennon.

72 posted on 12/04/2019 8:25:54 AM PST by pfflier
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To: smvoice

My wife’s GBC got universal praise at Thanksgiving and was the only serving dish scraped clean at the table :D


73 posted on 12/04/2019 8:27:32 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: mmichaels1970
Trans Siberian Orchestra...ugh.

Their version of Silent Night reminds me too much of a Christmas spent in Pleiku. That was the loneliest time I ever felt in my life.

74 posted on 12/04/2019 8:30:37 AM PST by pfflier
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To: ExGeeEye

Our family loves GBC. My wife uses cream of onion instead of cream of mushroom though.


75 posted on 12/04/2019 8:39:37 AM PST by BipolarBob (No border walls. No voter IDs. No Electoral College. You figured it out yet?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Agreed. Every "Christmas" song by a former Beatle is crap.

I absolutely loath every variant of "Last Christmas" too but somehow every single time I get in my car in the last week and scan through radio stations at least one of the Christmas themed stations is playing it.

I do not understand why they push hard on the worst and most obnoxious songs that just happen to have the word Christmas in them instead of playing the good Christmas music. It seems like almost every musician or band does a Christmas album at some point, and while the vast majority is trash there must be enough decent stuff to play days and days without repeating. So why do they play same tired songs over and over that were never good to begin with?

76 posted on 12/04/2019 8:43:00 AM PST by Data Miner
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hair metal on my phone and a set of headphones is how I survive venturing out into retail space at this time of year.


77 posted on 12/04/2019 9:07:29 AM PST by Edward Teach
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To: nuconvert
I hate “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

I like Allan Sherman's version: "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a Japanese transistor radio."

78 posted on 12/04/2019 9:40:20 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned any song by Mannheim Steamroller.


79 posted on 12/04/2019 10:01:00 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

1. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey

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Just because Mariah can screech out a High C; doesn’t mean she should. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.


80 posted on 12/04/2019 10:06:31 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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