Heh. This is a new monedegreen at the -99 household.
Puh-leeze knock it off,
Puh-leeze knock it off…
I started this thread, and it is my own damned fault…here I was, blessed at never having heard this piece of crap, and wow…amazingly enough, the comments on YouTube were all raves!
Once was too much for me. The only surprise is that the last chorus didn’t have the singer go to the house and watch mama open the package, see the shoes, kiss her son, die and then get buried wearing the shoes…and a Merry Christmas to ya’ll.
Best (and most underplayed by far) Christmas Must Be Tonight by The Band.
Also good- O Holy Night, but only when sung by a male.
Worst-
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (is that a man or woman singing?) What an annoying voice.
O Holy Night, when sung by a female.
No way am I clicking that link! Aside from the fact that youtube takes forever on dial-up, once heard it cannot be unheard and I prefer to main blissfully unaware until some day when I am rickrolled by it.
AC has a CD that features a version sung by some English dude. That’s just plain wrong!
My all time favorite christmas song is “Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth” by Bing Crosby and David Bowie.
I can’t think of a worst right now but I have “Now That’s What I call Christmas” in the car and I’m sure it’s on there.
p.s. This version of “Little Drummer Boy” is possibly one of my favorite songs ever regardless of genre.
Best: I dunno, I got a lot of favorites. “Good King Wenceslas” by Loreena McKennitt is great, as is “Little Drummer Boy” by Low.
Worst: I got you all beat, hands down, no question. The worst Christmas song ever is “I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek” by The Go Gos (not the Belinda Carlisle band, a British pop group from the 60s). Listen for yourselves. From the original stupid idea, to the grating Dalek voice, to the horrible lyrics, to the cutesy “Cwismas” pronunciation by the female singer…it’s just awful beyond description.
One nobody has mentioned yet that I’ve always liked is this little tune by Jethro Tull.
I am very fond of this one. And O Holy NIght goes without saying.
And Jose Feliciano should be punched once for every time he repeats the lines in Feliz Navidad.
Regards,
Shodan
Worst: The Little Drummer Boy. It just sucks in all kinds of ways. I keep hoping there’ll be a verse about baby Jeebus killing the Little Drummer Boy with a holy bolt of lightning for being so fucking pretentious.
Best: Jingle Bell Rock. Cause it rocks.
Best (or at least My Favorite Christmas Albums)
Tennessee Ernie Ford’s O HOLY NIGHT & O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
Julie Andrews’ WHAT CHILD IS THIS?
The Ray Conniff Singers LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (great mix of old favorites everyone knows and of more obscure songs or of foreign songs [e.g. Jeanette Isabella] in English, and great medleys.
Oy to the World- Christmas classics done by a klezmer band
Worst: Any upbeat versions of O Holy Night or Little Town of Bethlehem
Harry Connick Jr.- I don’t know why, I like his voice okay, but can’t stand his Christmas songs
He’s not going to make it home. 
Emo. I know.
Best: O Holy Night or I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Worst: Silver Bells is the worst Christmas song ever. Nothing is even close.
Mel Smith and Kim Wilde did a version of this for the Comic Relief charity in about '87/'88, is this the version you’re talking about?
There are just so many awful Christmas songs:
Christmas Shoes
Grandma, Reindeer, etc.
Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Shotgun Shells on the Christmas Tree (though I can at least understand where this is coming from)
I like Adeste Fideles, among the classics. Among the ones you’re not likely to hear in Parts Too Abroad, I get periodic earworms of hacia Belén va una mula, aka la chocolatera (“a mule goes to Bethlehem” aka “the chocolate jar”), at any time during the year.
Can’t stand the freaking drummer boy, specially because the Spanish version by Raphael seems to be the only song he ever recorded and gets trotted out every. Single. Year. To exhaustion.
Agreed. I haven’t heard it this year, yet and if I’m lucky I won’t. Runners up for the worst Christmas song is anything by Alvin and the chipmunks.
Personally I like Carol of the bells for my favorite best christmas song.
:D:D
They’ve been singing Feliz Navidad at my daughter’s school, because there are a lot of bilingual kids there. She doesn’t speak Spanish, so the only words she understands/remembers are the title words. This has resulted in her going around the house singing, “Feliz Navidad! Feliz Navidad!” Of course, always at top volume, and just repeating those 4 words over and over. Fun.
Come to think of it, it doesn’t sound THAT much different from the actual recording.
IIRC, and could be wrong, it’s credited to “The Platinum Strings Orchestra”.
When we did a thread like this last year, I mentioned “The Cat Carol” by Meryn Cadell makes you want to put a bullet through your head!
Lyrics here.