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List of "Tired" Christmas Music (That Should Be Retired)
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Posted on 11/27/2001 4:59:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
The Christmas season is upon us once again and the sounds of holiday music can be heard in shopping malls, restaurants, and other public places. Radio stations are already slipping the occasional Christmas song into their playlists and by mid-December, it will be wall-to-wall Christmas music.
Now that is not a bad thing. I like Christmas music. I collect Christmas music. Later in the Christmas season, I will post a vanity on my favorite Christmas music and that post promises to be much longer than this one.
But why is it that so many tired and really annoying Christmas songs seem to get the most airplay? Is it just me or does it seem like the radio stations play the same few Christmas songs 90% of the time?
On this thread, I will list some of my least favorite or more accurately, the most tired Christmas songs of alltime and will seek your input. I put a lot of thought into putting this list together. You are welcome to disagree with me and/or list a few really tired Christmas songs of your own.
Surely there are worse Christmas songs out there than the ones I am about to list. But I kept my list to songs that are familiar and that get a lot of airplay. The emphasis here on on "tired" rather than "bad." Also, to make my list, the song must have been out for at least five years. These songs have established some longevity of being really tired. I am listing the ones that have been "in our face" year after year. Without so much great material out there (I'll have a separate post on that closer to Christmas), there is no excuse for radio stations not to pursue fresher material.
So in no particular order, here goes...the most "tired" Christmas songs of alltime.
- Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Now I'm not normally a violent person. But if somebody was to shoot the person who wrote this song, it would be okay by me. This has got to be absolutely the most annoying Christmas Song I have ever heard. It stopped being funny sometime around 1984. Yet year after year, radio stations seem to play it at least once every hour. Many a Christmas compilation album has been ruined for me by the inclusion of this tired ditty.
- Adam Sandler - The Chanukah Song. Okay, maybe it was funny the first 232 times I heard it. But this song has really run its course and it should be retired. And to add insult to injury, Sandler released a "sequel" version of this song a few years ago but it already seems like 20 years ago. It's just not "funakah" to hear this anymore.
- The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping. Many, many years ago, back when Ronald Reagan used to refer to Russia as the "Evil Empire," it was cool to play this record at Christmas. It was cutting edge and having this song in your Christmas collection separated you from the Perry Como and Bing Crosby crowd. Well it's not cutting edge, cool or "New Wave" anymore. It's as mainstream as Garth Brooks and as dull as Peter Jennings. Give this record a rest, please.
- Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad. Must be a "PC" thing because the song itself is lame. Okay, okay, so it's politically correct to be "diverse" and know "Merry Christmas" in 17 different languages. So Buon Natale to you then, I am putting a contract out on this record. I am going to have it inserted into a block of wet cement and send it to the bottom of Boston Harbor. At least the Italians know what to do when something becomes tired and no longer "useful." Time for some new Christmas material from Mexico, and fast.
- Cheech & Chong - Santa And His Old Lady. Cheech: "Like I PLAYED with that dude, man." Chong: "Whoa, like Santa Claus ain't no musician, man!" Cheech: "I'm hip, man, like that dude couldn't play for beans, man!" Well I'm hip to Cheech & Chong. They can't play for beans and they aren't funny anymore to boot. Were these guys EVER funny? Must have been a 70s thing.
- Band-Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? Not only was this song a blatant rip-off of "We Are The World" (or maybe it was vice versa) but the question the song poses is ridiculous. Of course they don't know it's Christmas, and they probably couldn't give a shit either. Until this year, did we ever know it was Ramadan over there? And that "Feed The World" chorus, well, here it is 15 years later and the people are still starving over there. Guess it makes liberals feel good to sing the song though. Like the next one on my list...
- John & Yoko - Happy Xmas (War Is Over). Maybe it's the spelling of Christmas that irks me most about this record. Didn't this song start the whole loathsome "Xmas" thing? Anyway, you can be sure that this song will get even heavier airplay this Christmas season in light of the current war situation. But I'm so tired of this song already!
- Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Okay, I like Bruce Springsteen. But I still think he could have picked a better Christmas song to cover. Or even have done an original. Anyway, I was already tired of this song by 1979.
I could think of a few more but I'm going to let my fellow Freepers get a crack at adding to the list of "tired" Christmas music.
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To: Utah Girl
I'll have to watch Letterman for this. I cannot imagine Cher singing 'O Holy Night.' It doesn't even compute.It's probably your natural defense mechanisms kicking in making it impossible for you to imagine something that horrible.
To: SamAdams76
"Silver Bells" should be banned from Walmart!
To: bootless
Once, before Christmas, I was travelling in my car with my dog. The dogs barking Jingle Bells came on the radio. It drove my dog nuts. She barked and barked back. It was hillarious. Now, I still like to hear the doggies barking Jingle Bells.
To: SamAdams76
Is it "only in Canada" that we get that tiring "Six White Boomers" by some Aussie, played ad nauseum as Christmas approaches - it's requested by every 6-year old in our city, I think.
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posted on
11/27/2001 6:34:36 PM PST
by
Ryle
To: SamAdams76; KentuckyWoman
As long as I do not hear Elvis, sounding not unlike a Cow caught in a Hail Storm, singing "I'll Have a Blue Christmas" - - It's a VERY GOOD Christmas !! !! !!
To: SamAdams76
Back in 1975, when I was 14 years old, I heard a Christmas song that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I would love to find a copy of it. It's called,
I Found the Brain of Santa Claus...The lyrics go something like this:
I Found the Brain of Santa Claus
I found the brain of Santa Claus
underneath my bed.
I found the brain of Santa Claus
I wonder if he's dead?
Oh, he'll still have the same red suit
And that fluffy white beard,
But without that gray stuff in his head,
He'll start to act pretty weird.
Yes, I found the brain of Santa Claus,
Underneath my bed.
I found the brain of Santa Claus,
I wonder if he's dead? ...
It just brings tears to my eyes. If anyone knows anything about this song, please let me know.
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posted on
11/27/2001 6:35:23 PM PST
by
PMCarey
To: SamAdams76
"I saw Grandma Kissing Santa Claus". What schlock.
On the good side, I like a very old French carole called "Come bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" (the French have had to do something worthwhile sometime) and that very ancient "Gagliarda" that Mannheim Steamroller did a number of years back.
To: TexanaRED
Title "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" Someone else mentioned the M. Etheridge (sp?) redid it, but I've never heard that version (don't listen to much radio). Bite the bullet, get the original
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posted on
11/27/2001 6:36:44 PM PST
by
BamaFan
To: SamAdams76
I personally just love Celine Dion's Christmas album. Especially her rendition of 'Ave Maria'.
To: Tony in Hawaii
"Will somebody more patient than I am please explain the X in "Xmas"? " Pure laziness!
To: Miss Marple
I just did list it, but I thought it was Grandma kissing Santa Claus! What a hoot. I hate the song so much that I can't stand to listen to it enough to remember the words!
To: retrokitten
Ok, I don't get this. Why does she even have a Christmas Album? She is Jewish!! SO is Neil Diamond and he has one, too!! You've never seen "Fiddler on the Roof", and the song "Money, Money, Money"?
To: retrokitten
My useless knowledge is more geared towards pointless TV trivia, but I did a quick google search (I know that is probably cheating but I have never heard that song) and found this, "He spotted it as the name of a chicken-and-egg dish in a Chinese restaurant, and knew he had to use it in a song."
No such thing as cheating in the pointless trivia biz. Neatly done.
I'll supply the lyric in question as a courtesy to the viewing audience at home:
Mother And Child Reunion
No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, little darling of mine
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again
No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, little darling of mine
I just can't believe it's so
Though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again
But I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a moment away
To: Scott from the Left Coast
I hate the song so much that I can't stand to listen to it enough to remember the words!The worst version has to be the John Mellencamp one with his child singing at the end. I don't think there is a more iratating version.
To: SamAdams76
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posted on
11/27/2001 6:44:55 PM PST
by
oldvike
To: Interesting Times
Now then. Let's sing the "Gilligan's Island" theme song together... Did you know that you can sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the theme song for "Gilligan's Island"?
To: BamaFan
I like alot of stuff M. Ethridge does, but the version I am thinking of is a guy singing solo. Doesn't sound like Lennon, but I'm not sure I even know what Lennon sounds like anymore, so could sure be him.
Geez, I don't know if I can make myself fork over however many $$$ to buy something by those two! But, then again, this is the first year in about 15 that I haven't been Ms. Bah Humbug, so I might just break down and buy the dang thing.
To: katnip
My favorite Christmas song is "Have You Seen the Light".
To: connectthedots; Interesting Times
Looks like we found another one! LOL! The theme to "Bonanza" has lyrics, also.
To: TexanaRED
ding! "You've got mail"
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posted on
11/27/2001 6:51:37 PM PST
by
BamaFan
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