What is your LEAST favorite Christmas song?

[Bicoastal]

Mine is definitely "Silent Night." It's an annoying song as it is, but people have a tendancy to sing it incredibly s l o w l y, which means that any performance of it goes on for centuries. Plus, because of the "simple" melody, people love to have their children perform it, but the opening note is a hard tone for the kiddies to come in on, so they invariably sing the entire thing off-key in addition to the plodding tempo.

Silent indeed; whenever I hear that first agonizing syllable ("Siiiiiiiiiiiii..."), I literally want to stab my eardrums out with an icicle. Oh, and everything by Mannheim Steamroller sucks as well.

[unpossibles]

1. I'll agree with the Steamroller bit, and add anything by

Celine Dion or that Trans-Siberian Orchestra (they are basically the Dream Theatre of the Christmas music circuit).

What do those bands (MS & T-SO) do all year? Do they do any non-Christmas music?

[redqueen]

2. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

The way they shout "Hark!"

It just rubs me the wrong way right off the bat.

[ThoughtCriminal]

34. Now that you mention it...

Isn't that the tune that his daughter is playing when George Bailey "Snaps"?

But I like it anyway.

[flvegan]

3. That fuckin "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" thing.

First few times you heard it, amusing I suppose. Christ, it's like the "Stairway to Heaven" of the Christmas songs.

[RubyDuby in GA]

12. That damn song makes my eye twitch!

I don't know how people don't just snap and mow down the entire food court area at the mall every time this asshole song comes on.
I hate it and I hate anyone who likes it...and that includes my own mother.

[TommyO]

19. BINGO!

I consider it a successful Christmas if I manage not to hear it. It's becoming easier since I generally listen to Howard Stern on Sirius, Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy, via podcast, or holiday music I have on my iPod!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. My second choice.

Stupid song.

[enigmatic]

41. yep

[mwooldri]

43. I hate it for very personal reasons.

My gran got run over on Christmas eve back in 84. Enough said.

[mwooldri]

44. But as for Stairway to Heaven...

once you have heard Rolf Harris sing it, complete with wobbleboard and didgeridoo, then well... what more is there to say?

Here's one I found on Youtube... yes he absolutely murders the song but heck what a great way for the song to go down..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot8KBcPzAsw

[MorningGlow]

4. "Christmas Shoes"

Hands down. Also any version of "Frosty the Snowman". That one seems to go on forever for me too. Oh--and the animated Frosty specials--both of them. "Happy Birthday!" GUUUUHHHHHH. May I borrow that icicle?

[Missy Vixen]

25. I HATE that song

Oh, yeah. Mommy's going to meet Jesus, and she needs NEW SHOES?

I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
Julie

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. That's my number one...

In case you want to assault your ears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11EBSibsgk

[jakefrep]

31. Until "Christmas Shoes"...

I did not think it was remotely possible to come up with a shittier Christmas song than "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."

[Deep13]

5. Toss-up.

Which do I detest more? The intensely annoying faux-coolness of Jinglebell Rock or the mind-numbing vapidity of that Paul McCartny abortion "Simply having a wonderful CHristmas time." Sorry SIR Paul, but repeating that line 800 million times won't make the song any better.

There are others that are more skin-peelingly sickening, but those two play all the time.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. The sad thing about the McCartney song

is that, as bad as it sucks, it was better than anything else he was recording at the time, like that disco shit song "Don't Say Goodnight Tonight" or that other disco shit song "Coming Up (Like a Flower)"

[Deep13]

11. true

I feel like Lennon had most of the creativity while McCartney had most of the technical skill. While Lennon hit a few out of the park in the 1970s, most of what he wrote was pretty bizarre. On the other hand, McCartney made superficially good songs, but they lacked much imagination.

[deucemagnet]

6. Let me preface this by saying that I hate all Christmas music,

but Little Drummer Boy is the worst. Every version of that song ever recorded is intolerable.

[soleiri]

7. simp...ly hav...ing a wonderful Christmas time

simp...ly hav...ing a wonderful Christmas time
simp...ly hav...ing a wonderful Christmas time
simp...ly hav...ing a wonderful Christmas time
simp...ly hav...ing a wonderful Christmas time
simp...ly hav...ing a wonderful Christmas time

[Deep13]

14. Who's he trying to convince? nt

[Throd]

8. I want to stab The Little Drummer Boy in the neck

[LeftinOH]

9. Santa Baby.....n/t

[Deep13]

13. We have a winnah!

The only reason that one is not at the top of my list is because the two I mentioned earlier are played everywhere.

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. That freakin' Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time piece of Paul McCartney shit is a close secon

to Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer.....I swear whoever came up with that damn song needs to be beaten with the Festivus Pole.

[Tektonik]

16. JINGLE BELLS JINGLE BELLS JING JANGLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNSX5YzDSs

[Ediacara]

22. Actually this version makes me laugh uncontrollably

It's so absurd.

[annabanana]

17. I spent 23 hours in labor on Dec. 24th in 1986.

The Hospital had crappy Christmas music on a loop, playing over the PA System.

There is very little Christmas Music that doesn't give me cramps...

[hobbit709]

18. ANY Christmas song by the time I've heard 1857 times at any store.

[Ediacara]

20. "12 Days of Christmas" for the fact it never ends, but the worst is "Happy Holidays"

Unbelievably bad lyrics, awful music, hammy performance, and unfortunately a really catchy tune that will be stuck in your head for months.

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/christmas_songs_lyric...

ON EDIT: To add that most performances of "O, Holy Night," which is a decent sounding song are ruined in that it ends up being screamed by professionals.

[XemaSab]

21. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

We had to sing that in chorus, and it sucked.

Every time I hear it I go searching for the scotch.

[Bossy Monkey]

23. Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is the only proof I've encountered that there's

a hell. It will be what is playing there if such exists and I end up there, that's for sure.

[tigereye]

27. Do They Know it's Christmas (I think that's the title) comes to mind

as much as I admire what they were trying to do, and respect Bob Geldof...


it's so culturally offensive and vapid...

[Iggo]

40. I hate hate hate that song.

[sniffa]

28. Chimpmunks of course

[mitchum]

29. "The Horst Wessel Song"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. "The Little Drummer Boy."

I don't know what it is, but something about that song just makes me crazy!

[sarge43]

32. Little Drummer Boy

That piece of shit is the principal reason I'm a ground pounder in the War Against Christmas.

[supernova]

35. I agree

LDB can go suck it!

I like most carols but that one makes me want to gnaw through the floor boards.

David Bowie makes it marginally tolerable.

[Connonym]

42. it's definitely the most annoying

my ears bleed when I hear it

[ThoughtCriminal]

33. I really get sick of all the generic "Log on the fire" songs

Every popular singer of the last 50 years seems obligated to create a whole album of these sappy "Isn't wonderful to be sitting by the fire this time of year" tunes.

[MilesColtrane]

36. "Little Drummer Boy" in a landslide.

[pokerfan]

37. "White" Christmas

A racist little ditty by Irving Berlin.

[LeftyMom]

38. Any played over a store loudspeaker. Too many years of working retail. nt

[Zomby Woof]

39. Christmas In America

A wretched piece of colonic flotsam by Pat Benatar.

Google the lyrics or YouTube it if you dare.

[Mad_Dem_X]

46. That song SUCKS!

I couldn't believe that was Pat Benatar doing that. How the mighty have fallen.

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. Three Words:

THE CHRISTMAS SHOES.

I'd rather have a root canal without anesthesia than listen to that shit.

[graywarrior]

47. All. Of. Them.

Jan 2...I'm begging you to get here...NOW....PLEASE!

[ThomCat]

48. Any Damned One Of Them once I've heard it 100 times this year.

Enough already!