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WORST HOLIDAY SONGS (Streisand at #4, just behind the "Jingle Bells" dogs)
NY Post ^
| December 7, 2004
| JOHN MAINELLI
Posted on 12/08/2004 8:50:15 AM PST by presidio9
EVER been driven up the chimney by a Christmas song that you really, really hate? New Jersey researchers have named the six worst Christmas songs of all time, as picked by holiday-music fans who were asked to rate more than 600 yule tunes.
The biggest lump of coal goes to "O Holy Night" as sung by the foul-mouthed Cartman from "South Park," according to Edison Media Research.
Close behind are Seymour Swine & the Squealers' butchered "Blue Christmas," "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs and, separately, Barbra Streisand and "12 Days of Guido Christmas" by the Ha Ya Doin' Boys.
"We play very lightly the Barbra Streisand version of 'Jingle Bells' because she's got a following in New York," says Jim Ryan, programmer of top-rated Lite FM (WLTW/106.7).
"People tend not to like it because it's a really fast, up-tempo version of 'Jingle Bells' almost like she did it as a goof," Ryan told The Post.
WPLJ (95.5 FM) music director Tony Mascaro says his research turned up a sixth song that listeners can't stand: Elmo & Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: barbrastreisand; christmascarols; music; thewaitresses; topten
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Comment #161 Removed by Moderator
To: Tanniker Smith
She's only making them because there are idiots who will buy them.
162
posted on
12/08/2004 10:10:58 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
Comment #163 Removed by Moderator
To: presidio9
Thanks guys, thanks to this thread, I'm now humming non-stop "Simply Havin' A Wonderful Christmas Time".
164
posted on
12/08/2004 10:11:41 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie.)
To: presidio9
I always thought the Dogs were better than the Nose.
165
posted on
12/08/2004 10:13:37 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(I'm from North Dakota and I'm all FOR Global Warming! Bring it ON!)
To: Tanniker Smith
Song list from "A Christmas Album," by B. Streisand.
1. Jingle Bells Listen Listen
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
3. Christmas Song
4. White Christmas
5. My Favorite Things
6. Best Gift Listen
7. Sleep in Heavenly in Peace (Silent Night)
8. Gounod's Ave Maria
9. O Little Town of Bethlehem
10. I Wonder as I Wander
11. Lord's Prayer Listen
(the Lord's Prayer? You have GOT to be kidding me!)
166
posted on
12/08/2004 10:13:50 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: VRWCmember
Why did you have to mention that awful, awful song?!?!?!? Now I've got it running in my head. ARRRRGGGGG!!!!
To: Alouette
This is something I posted over at the canteen. Hope it's appropriate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1296647/posts?page=269#269
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posted on
12/08/2004 10:14:54 AM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: JCEccles
Now all that's left is the profane and silly stuff lest our quiet, dignified cultural celebration offend atheists and other Christophobe liberals. Personally, I don't give a hoot if I offend any of them, but I do understand what you are saying.
I am by far not so naive as to not see it happening, but am fortunate in that so far it seems to have totally missed this small corner of the world I call home. There are nativity scenes all over, not just on private property and church property but on town and county properties as well. People wish others Merry Christmas and the towns hold Christmas parades. And there is still carolling in the town "squares."
169
posted on
12/08/2004 10:15:14 AM PST
by
Gabz
170
posted on
12/08/2004 10:16:13 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: presidio9
I'll one-up you: Madonna's version of Santa Baby. I can't better that one.
171
posted on
12/08/2004 10:16:53 AM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: FrankWild
"Mariah Carey can really screw up a song with her oversinging."
Oversinging and overinterpretation is a real occupational hazard for singers. My old hero Eric Burdon (The Animals) started out with a terse, meat-and-potatoes delivery, puncuated with his brilliant shouts and exclamations. Then he gradually became a "song stylist" (e.g., "baby" becomes "bay-bee-uh"), and now he's terrible in my opinion.
To: fritzz
173
posted on
12/08/2004 10:19:26 AM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: presidio9
I'd have to vote "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Wierd Al Yankovick my favorite humorous Christmas song.
When it comes to serious stuff, give me Handel's Messiah over just about anything else written in the last 300 years.
174
posted on
12/08/2004 10:20:09 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(Santorum in '08)
To: presidio9
The biggest lump of coal goes to "O Holy Night" as sung by the foul-mouthed Cartman from "South Park," according to Edison Media ResearchHEY! That's one of my favorites. Especially where Garrison says "now we'll do the French words."
175
posted on
12/08/2004 10:22:06 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
To: FrankWild
Sir Paul has had many lousy whoppers- Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Why Don't We Do It In the Road?, Fixing a Hole, Silly Love Songs, Let 'em In, The Dog Face Girl is Mine (with the Earth's favorite child molester, Michael Jackson), Ebony and Ivory (with Little Stevie Wonder), and that dreadful Christmas song already mentioned. Frankly, I hate Let it Be, Michelle, and The Long and Winding Road too but I'm sure I'm in a minority.
Ain't it the truth. For every "Maybe I'm Amazed," there were three "C-Moons."
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posted on
12/08/2004 10:22:31 AM PST
by
Antoninus
(Santorum in '08)
To: Zack Nguyen; retrokitten
Another line in that song..."Do they know it's Christmas time at all?"
Hmm...Probably not since the little starving Ethiopian childern are largely NOT Christian. Worst. Song. Ever.
To: Recovering Hermit
One of the funniest! Actually, that whole album is pretty funny. Isn't "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator" on that?
To: presidio9
The worst by far is that one song that has all those 80's singers in it. I cannot think of the name, but every time I hear it.... It gives me a head ache and makes me want to barf. It is such a touchy, feelie, cat loving, bed wetting tune. Oh gosh I hate it. I believe Michael Jackson, Sting, and the Boss are some of the singers. I know you know what I am talking about. They are all singing together in a chorus. Boy I cannot stand that song.
To: Hoodlum91; Recovering Hermit
The following is from "I AM SANTA CLAUS" by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio.
Teddy the red-nosed senator
Had a very shiny car
And if you ever saw it
You were probably at a bar.
All of the other senators
Wondered how he got his dames
They thought he drank too many
To play in any bedroom games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say:
"Teddy with your nose so red,
Won't you help me guide my sled?"
That's how the police found them
Wrapped around a maple tree
Teddy the red-nosed senator
He's a drunken S.O.B.
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