I need bad Christmas songs.

Is there any other kind?

Oh, all right. “I Believe in Father Christmas” by ELP (Greg Lake really), which he released as a single every year for about a decade.

I mentioned these in another thread but:
Denis Leary - Merry Fucking Christmas
Weird Al - The Night Santa Went Crazy

Rockin’ around t.he Christmas tree

Jingle Bell Rock

Absolutely the worst Christmas songs that have ever been written or ever will be written.

There’s no crap like Hung For The Holidays. The “Hung” is not a sexual reference – it’s the surname of William of American Idol notoriety. Give any of the samples on the linked page a listen, and you’ll be adding this masterpiece – er, make that disasterpiece – to your collection. Perfect for nudging those last few stragglers out the door at the end of your holiday get-together!

Ooh, I’d forgotten about that version of “O Holy Night,” Batsinma. It brings a tear to my ear.

(Thanks for all your contributions, guys - I’m sending out an email list of the mp3’s I can find of these songs to my friends and family to get them in the holiday spirit. :smiley: )

That performance of “O Holy Night” been posted a number of times and I keep losing the link, so I’m glad to see it posted again. It’s priceless. Plus it makes me feel better about my own singing. It really is almost brilliant the way it manages to keep getting worse and worse (and better and better).

Did REM ever do any songs for any of those cds?

I don’t have a link handy, but nobody mentioned South Park Christmas stuff yet?

“Christmas Time is Here Again” by the Beatles of one of their Christmas albums. So annoyingly repetitive.

I mentioned it in the other thread, (with link to snippets on Amazon). It’s one of my favorites!

These are great! Did William Shatner do a Christmas album? Maybe it was some other actor who had no business trying to sing, but it was deffinately a Christmas song or album. And I think somebody posted it on here a couple of years ago.

Amazing! How did Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey escape notice for so long?

Granted, I’m not that old, and the song is from the 60’s I imagine, but I never heard this song once in my life until I worked in a retail store that played 24/7 Christmas music as soon as a local station provided it. Mein Gott, is that song annoying.

“Jiggity-jig
Eee-Ah! Ee-Ah!
Dominic the Donkey!”

If you want to add some kitschy folk to the mix, there are some gems on Christmas With The New Christy Minstrels… an album that, God help me, I actually mostly enjoy. I would most recommend “Sing Along with Santa”… some (approximate) sample lyrics, from the female vocal part:

Ladies, treat your husbands well
And do the best you can
And if you have no husband,
Ask Santa for a man
!!

Not to mention a lot of tra la la la la folkiness, as one might expect from a song called “Sing Along with Santa”.

Okay, that’s just weird. “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is playing on the radio right now.

From the immortal Ricky Martin… Ay yi yi It’s Christmas. Worst song ever recorded.

Followed closely by *The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle * written by Burt Bacharach. This is the reason why he didn’t write more Christmas music.

Very interesting. Tom Doyle at WROR in Boston does parody songs, too, and they’ve released a couple of volumes of his “Townie Tunes”. He, too, as a recording of “Walking 'Round in Women’s Underwear”, with completely different lyrics.

Two, I believe, have not yet been mentioned, and they are notably bad.

First, there is “Hooray for Santa Claus” (Santa pronounced “Santy”) from the unbelievably terrible movie “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” parodied by Mystery Science Theater 3000, and available on DVD.

Then there is one that I’ll bet no one has ever heard of, “Mixie Pixie,” of which I still possess the original 45 (early 1960’s), and while unbearable at that speed, is fun to listen to at 78.

The lyrics go:

Mixie Pixie is Santa’s helper,
High up in the Milky Way.
She makes sure the stars shine brightly,
So that Santa Claus can find his way.

Even Rudolph needs Mixie Pixie,
Just before he leads the sleigh…
(and I don’t recall the rest of that verse, but then there’s the chorus)

[Chorus]
That is why on Christmas Eve,
Santa never lost his way!
Delivering gifts and wonders to believe,
For you to find on Christmas day!

And I ask, who the hell was this Mixie Pixie? Why had I never heard of her before, or ever have since? The world is a very strange place.

Oooo Ooooo! Barking Dogs! The Jingle Bells barking dogs! Og I hate the barking dogs.

Woof woof woof,
Woof woof woof,
Woof yip woof woof arf woof!

Fuckers! Get out of my head! Arrrrghhhh!

Did I mention I hate the barking dogs? :smiley:

“The Chimney Song.” This is another from Bob Rivers. Here are the lyrics. It’s the tale of Santa getting stuck in a chimney and dying, with a small child singing. As time goes on he begins to smell, the dog trys to get at the body, and so on. But the line that always gets me is towards the end: “I’ve been waiting up for Santa like I did last year, but my brother says, ‘He’s already here.’”

Not that I recall, or that I can find through Googling. Actually it looks like the paper, Flagpole, may not even do the annual Christmas album anymore. That’s a shame; they were always fun.

No hate for Chris de Burgh? * A Spaceman Came Travelling * is oficially the worst Christmas song ever made.

Cartman’s verson of “O Holy Night” is one of the best Christmas songs.