Link goes to video of “The Christmas Shoes.” It’s spoilered not because it’s nsfw, but because I’m not a monster.
How is Panis Angelicus a Christmas song? 
My favorite is this version of “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
I like the contemplative ones (don’t have to be religious, secular is fine) and the festive celebrational ones, barf at the contrived gooey ones and the hard commercial/childish candy-cane crap.
I tend to prefer the ones that don’t get a lot of airplay, the ones you don’t hear so often, more than the same-old played-999-times carols.
Some of the GOOD
There’s a Song in the Air
Wexford Carol
I Wonder as I Wander
Good King Winceslas
Gaudete Christus Natus Est
Carol of the Bells
Patapan
Coventry Carol
The Wassail Song
Duermete Nino Lindo
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Masters in the Hall
Birthday of the King
Sing We All Noel
This Great Day (March of the Kings)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
In dulci jubilo
Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming
GOOD Despite Overplay
Silent Night
The First Noel
Angels We Have Heard on High
O Holy Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Come All Ye Faithful
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Not so Good BECAUSE of Overplay
The Holly and the Ivy
Joy to the World
The Christmas Song
We Three Kings of Orient
Deck the Halls
(& several others of that ilk)
Wasn’t Ever Good / Skip that Track!
Twelve Days of Christmas
Jingle Bells
Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer
Last Christmas
Christmas Shoes
Up On the Housetop
etc
The hell you say :dubious:
That dreck deserves every bit of scorn ever heaped upon it. A pox on the Christmas shoes!
And now, it’s only fair that I reciprocate. Good lord, even the litte arsehole’s name irritates me: Gayla Peevey:smack:
I was just stuck listening to a full rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. By the Lords-a-leaping I was ready to chew my leg off to get out of that trap. So that one.
“The Little Drummer Boy” gets dishonorable mention for the stupidest concept. Let’s see, mom is exhausted from just squeezing out Baby Jesus. She finally gets the Holy Rugrat to sleep, a kid shows up offering to perform a drum solo, and she says yes?
The Elvis version of Blue Christmas is a terrible terrible piece of music. Those back-up singers…
I’m very fond of “I Heard the Bells” in the Waltham version, which is what I grew up hearing. I didn’t hear the newer Johnny Marks melody until 8 years ago, and it felt horribly wrong — but I’ve never given it a fair chance to grow on me.
The version you linked to sounds a lot like “Found Out About You” by the Gin Blossoms.
And if anyone is interested, here’s Longfellow’s original poem, supposedly written on Xmas day, 1863. (His wife had died from a fire two years earlier, and his oldest son had been seriously injured in combat in November 1863.)
I’m presuming the poem is out of copyright.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;
“For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.”
I like Harry Belafonte’s version of that ^^^^
Best: Carol of the Bells
Worst: Twelve Days of Christmas
The song itself isn’t bad, and Elvis isn’t bad, but those backup vocals—yeah, they’re bad.
My son ruined that one for me when he came back from second grade one day singing, “Ding fires are done, Ding fries are done…”
If parodies are allowed, I’m going with Sled Zeppelin, with honorable mention to Toy Sack. I like both of these better than any real Christmas song.
I only hear it around Christmas.
I’m not the one who posted it, but I also think of it as a Christmas song, probably because it is on Pavarotti’s Christmas album. It is about the body of Christ, so I guess it ought to be at least as Christmassy as, say, silver bells and shoes and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. 
Ho! Ho! Hoey!
The worst rendition of a Christmas song by a commercial “singer” has to be Deck the Halls/Jingle Bells by Michael McDonald.
Good
Santa Claus is coming to town - Bruce Springsteen
Really Good
**Father Christmas **- The Kinks
Best
Fuck Christmas - FEAR
I just heard **Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer **while giving blood and I have to say…Santa’s Reindeer are a bunch of dicks. They ostracize him until he can be useful to them and then they love him. Bastards!!
I saw Bing Crosby and David Bowie perform Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy when it first aired. I forgot about it for a while, but it has grown on me over the years. It’s not great Art, but it is good craftsmanship.
Fun fact: hippopotamuses kill more human beings per year than any other animal in Africa. When I am in a cranky mood, I often find myself hoping that the girl’s parents
get her what she wants.