[Antoninus]

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.

[from occupied ga]

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

HEY! That's one of my favorites. Especially where Garrison says "now we'll do the French words."

[Sprite518]

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.

[Billthedrill]

Thank you so much. I'd managed to grow scar tissue over the synapses that held the Madonna abomination and the Chipmunks desecration, and have managed to avoid "Grandma Got Run Over" this year. Now the stuff is ringing through my head like rocks in a beercan.

It's repetition that does it, I think. There was a year when just one more version of "Little Drummer Boy" would have put me over the edge, but this year it's "Jingle Bell Rock" that has me reaching for my semiautomatic bazooka. If there's a mass mall slaying in northern Idaho I don't think any jury would convict me.

[Revolting cat!]

Since we're kvetching, it's gotten to be such a cash cow for the poor suffering recording industry (losing $7 billion per year to criminal downloaders!) that brand new pop stars (now often called 'country singers' for some odd reason), put out an Xmas album the first year they're (the pop singers) come out of the assembly line and are introduced to the gullible public. And the old stars record their second and third Xmas albums as if they hadn't tortured us enough by their first record. Hurry hurry, get your Xmas albums by Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich before they're dumped to the cutout bin!

Incidentally, Chris Isaak has his first Christmas album out this year, which is receiving positive reviews, and on which he returns to channeling Roy Orbison(Pretty Paper) and the King (Bloo Xmas).

[Drawsing]

Has anyone mentioned "Leroy the red-necked reindeer?"

[evets]

I love Bing Crosby

but if I ever hear the "Litle Drummer Boy" duet again...
pa-rum-pa-pa-pum!

[television is just wrong]

Grandma got run over by a reindeer, is cute. I find it humorous, but I can see why some people don't like it.

[GreenLanternCorps]

190+ posts and nobody has yet mentioned Red Sobine (sp?)

He reads to music the worlds most depressing Christmas story.

Synopsis: A very poor child from a broken home, who has been constanly told how worthless he is, tells Santa his story, asks Santa to ask Jesus if the boy can look in to heaven. And then the boy dies in Santa's lap...

[Lijahsbubbe]

I nominate Stresand for worst song. Her Jingle Bells is absolutely manic. I still think our military should use it for breaking down the enemy. Could be worse than underwear.

[Libertina]

I think it is obvious that the songs are not to blame, but once again the people who sing them. Personally, I love Oh Holy Night.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

BTTP

[Awestruck]

The worst Christmas song I ever heard was about a little kid wanting to buy his dying mother red shoes for Christmas, but he can't because she dies first... I think the writer and singer should be strung up! I hate those "Little Match Girl" type stories that make you wanna jump off a bridge.. Christmas is supposed to be happy!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

It's not the SONGS that are the problem, it's the PERFORMERS' RENDITIONS of them that are awful!

[Dont Mention the War]

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.

This is a MUCH BETTER South Park Christmas song..

[Tuxedo]

Mega gags also have to include Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town... just nasty. Also, add in any version of 12 Days of Christmas, Santa Baby, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, and the Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting). And the grand honor to the Carpenters Merry Christmas Darling... so overplayed I need a barf bag.

[tang-soo]

I know it's not a song, but I've always enjoyed Hudson and Landry's "Frontier Christmas". One station here in COlumbus, Ohio still has the nerve to play it.

[SaveTheChief]

But Cartman's "Come Sail Away" is brilliant!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Over 300 replies, and NO ONE has made mention of...

Dominick the Donkey!

(Everybody now)

Eee-ahh, eee-ahh, Dominick the Donkey

La la la, la la le luddy de da...

They just don't write em' like that anymore, sniff.

[SamAdams76]

I'm not going to read all 300+ replies to see if it's been mentioned already but that Adam Sandler "Chanukah" song is one of the most tired. It was funny the first 700 times I heard it but now it's time to give it a rest.

The lead singer of Trans-Siberian Orchestra is like nails across a blackboard for me. Pity too because the TSO albums have some good music in them. But many songs are ruined by that overwrought lead singer, who sounds like a cross between Meatloaf and Michael Bolton.

Finally, a note to rap artists: Rap and Christmas songs don't mix. It doesn't work. Give it up.