Posted on 12/24/2015 10:12:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Jingle Bells
Shotgun Shells
Granny got away
Oh what fun it is to ride
In her shot up Chevrolet
I have found that song--in which Simon and Garfunkel sing "Silent Night" while a reporter broadcasts the news in the background--to be not so much bad, but weird. The news broadcast is from around August 3, 1966, but I don't believe that all of the events mentioned occurred on the same day--and I'm pretty sure the broadcast wasn't delivered by a real newscaster.
The one sung by Elvis, or written by Miles Davis? The local jazz station played the Miles version last week. Apparently, Columbia Records asked him to contribute a song for a Christmas jazz album, and he came up with Blue Christmas (To Whom It May Concern).
Most pathetic, depressing, & hateful song about Christmas I've ever heard. It's what you'd expect from any of today's BLM crowd, i.e., written by an angry black man. Google the lyrics if you want your blood to boil.
2, 4, 8, 9, and 10 absolutely do not belong on this list, but “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” could fill every single one of those slots in the top 10. That song is demeaning and patronizing and I absolutely despise it. Who the heck wants a little Christmas?
“Little Drummer Boyâ€. arrrgh!
Haha! I totally agree! It’s soooo repititious and slow!
My brother coined it ‘Little bummer boy’;)
I love “Santa Baby”!
Step away from the eggnog, that song is awesome. Never gets old.
Exactly!
Christmas Wrapping has one of the coolest bass lines of any Christmas song.
Merry Christmas!
I love “Santa Babyâ€!
One time on Mash they had this playing in the background being sung by a Vietnamese girl. I’ve tried to find that recording for years, I love it.
Thank goodness somebody mentioned “Jingle Bell Rock”! Hated it since oh, 1960 when it came out.
“Holly Jolly Christmas” has been superseded by “Have a Rama-Hannu-Kwanzaa-mas, it’s the P.C. Time of Year”.
At the opposite end, for me at least, is “O Holy Night”.
Crash Test Dummies: The First Noel
And as a result of searching for it, I came across this beautiful carol that I'd never heard before:
Huron Carol Crash Test Dummies
The problem with many radio stations this time of year is that they play the same songs over and over and over again. There is a lot of great Christmas music both religious and secular, but they keep playing the same ones by the same artists over and over and whether good or bad, most of us get sick of hearing them.
Were there any subliminal messages, like some weird people used to say about Louie Louie by the Kingsmen?
The chipmunks sound like they are sucking helium...
How about Spiralig combining Do You See What I see and Baba Oriley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Vu93EUxZ8
I’ve always passionately hated “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, but Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time” is even more loathsome.
I agree with ALL of the list and most of the others nominated by fellow FReepers.
Merry Christmas All!
That song is played at our house as a tradition.
A few years after my grandparent immigrated to USA in 1950, grandpa won a 45rpm record. They didn't have a record player so he took Christmas money and bought a record player. He played that record all the time. Drove my grandma crazy!!!! He passed away in 1970.
In his memory we play that same record every Christmas. :-)
Merry Christmas
I hope you have a white one, but for me, it's blue
Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
Blue Xmas, when you're blue at Christmastime you see right through,
All the waste, all the sham, all the haste and plain old bad taste
Sidewalk Santy Clauses are much, much, much too thin
They're wearing fancy rented costumes, false beards and big fat phony grins
And nearly everybody's standing round holding out their empty hand or tin cup
Gimme gimme gimme gimme, gimme gimme gimme
Fill my stocking up
All the way up
It's a time when the greedy give a dime to the needy
Blue Christmas, all the paper, tinsel and the fal-de-ral
Blue Xmas, people trading gifts that matter not at all
What I call
Fal-de-ral
Bitter gall.......Fal-de-ral
Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyards
While you're very, very busy addressing twenty zillion Christmas cards
Now, Yuletide is the season to receive and oh, to give and ahh, to share
But all you December do-gooders rush around and rant and rave and loudly blare
Merry Christmas
I hope yours is a bright one, but for me, it bleeds
Except it's a total lie.
If there had been an obnoxious drummer boy at the manger, one of the wise-men would have beheaded him, just to preserve the "Peace on Earth".
Hey, I feel a song coming on.
Chrissy the Christmas Mouse. If this doesn’t induce vomiting, nothing will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-oEDlPdZo
Although I never considered it a controversial song I'm realizing today that some people,including you,seem to take strong exception to it.I was warned about those folks in Post #67.
I'm afraid you haven't change my opinion in the slightest.
If that makes me an atheist heathen I'll just have to live with that.
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