I don’t even know who sings this, but the office radio just played the song with the chorus:
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart/The very next day/You gave it away”
Is this a song about organ donation? Satanic rituals involving human organs? What the monkey is this song about? It’s bloody horrible.
I’m also gonna vote for Madonna’s version of “Santa Baby” from the first Very Special Christmas album. Like fingernails on a chalkboard, that one.
To Whitney Houston’s cover of “Do you hear what I hear”, I can only respond “Well, if you hear yourself, trying to hit every possible note in the history of sound in the course of this Christmas classic, then the answer is yes, I hear what you hear. I also smell the dumpster in the alley, see the abandoned warehouse across the street, and taste the Philly cheesesteak I had for lunch today.”
C’mon, Teeming Millions, don’t let me down. Mods, feel free to move this to the Pit if it’s more appropriate. I’m counting on Uke Ike to have some Very Special Christmas Atrocities for us, though.
Oooh, I’ve got one! Bob Seger’s cover of “The Little Drummer Boy”! God, that’s horrible! A sandy, scratchy voice grating away in the wrong key! Gives me nightmares just thinking about it.
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*Originally posted by magdalene *
**I don’t even know who sings this, but the office radio just played the song with the chorus:
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart/The very next day/You gave it away”
Is this a song about organ donation? Satanic rituals involving human organs? What the monkey is this song about? It’s bloody horrible.
i’m not sure if it’s wham or not, but that’s definitely george michael singing.
i have a couple that make me want to jump in front of a train. i don’t know who sings this one, but its the woman going on and on about her day, and the chorus is something like, “merry xmas, merry xmas, but i think i’ll miss this one this year.” i have no idea who this beast is, but her voice makes me want to jam a pair of scissors in my ears.
i wish mariah carey would stop singing altogether, especially during the holidays. it would be a great gift to the entire world. “all i want for christmas” is for her to stuff a sock in it and go far,far,far away for a long long time.
and although i laughed the first few times i heard it, i’ve really had enough of the hannaukah [sorry, i can’t spell] song. both versions.
Gadzooks! That’s the very first song that I thought of when I saw the title of this thread.
Y’know the worst part about this putrid ditty? Apart from the first line, it has virtually nothing to do with Christmas! Not a legitimate holiday song, IMO.
I HATE the Wings Christmas song. “Sim~ply ha~ving a wonderful Christ~mas~time!” GAH! Paul McCartney, what happened to you?
My mother would kill me for saying this, but I have no fondness for the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of “Little Drummer Boy.” Mom acquired this last year on a CD-ROM enhanced CD and was enraptured by it for a week, playing it on a constant loop on our computer. I steered clear of it whenever possible, gah.
The Very Special Christmas series of albums, which have a variety of artists performing a WIDE variety of songs, have some gems but some things that are absolutely horrendous. I can’t seem to find the collection that it’s on, but one of the VSC albums my parents own has an all-star rap carol, which is really… what’s the word… ah, yes. Craptastic. The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Christmastime” is another deserving of this title. I LOVE SP, don’t get me wrong, but Billy Corgan’s nasal whine is not suited to Christmas cheer. The collection this song comes from is pretty awful in general. And I get to hear it all when I go home on the 20th. Hooray. :rolleyes:
Okay, I must say that the barking dogs singing “Jingle Bells” has purely been annoying to me for years.
On the other hand, though, it’s also kind of funny; which shows me once again that most things that annoy me are usually, on second glance, pretty funny too.
I heard Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer and All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth (complete with the inevitable “Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year!”) twice while waiting in a bookstore for a date to show up. When she arrived, she commented on the pale, ashen complexion and the shaking fits I seemed to posess.
Now that Creaky has mentioned Barking Dogs Jingle Bells, I may now express my confused approval of that one. My dog has the most puzzled ear-raises while the “song” is playing. She’s very cute.
I base that comment mainly on my experience sitting in the Student Union around Christmas years ago. Someone put Jingle Bell Rock on the jukebox (it was many years ago)–you never saw a room empty so fast!
That would of course be The Waitress’s immortal “Christmas Wrappings”.
I remember when they played that contantly- and I never minded it that much, but mostly because I knew every minute I was listening to it was a minute I was not listening to “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”.
Oh, and isn’t it possible for us to reach out to the poor and destitute of the world without the creation of such things as “Feed the World (Let them Know it’s Christmastime”. Good cause (well, I hope it ended up doing some good, beyond making Bob Geldolf a knight) very bad song.
I LOVE The Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping.” <sniffle> Ah, well, one man’s beloved Christmas song is another man’s aural torture. In that spirit, may I nominate a sthe Ultimate Putrid Christmas Tunes
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
“Jingle Bell Rock”
The Singing Dogs barking “Jingle Bells”
Any song sung by off-key children
