FINE! YOU’RE SO SMART, YOU RIG UP THE LIGHTS! 
Bob Rivers keeps me sane during the holidays. I play Twisted Christmas, More Twisted Christmas, and I Am Santa Claus in very heavy rotation this time of year.
Along with “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo.”
R.E.M. did do some Christmas songs, but they were only released as singles for the fan club. I’ve got a few of them. Nothing horrible enough to merit inclusion here, though.
if you want streaming music from the internet for Xmas, I LOVE http://soma.fm
Their Xmas in Frisko has included such favorites as “Who put the Dick on the Snowman,” to “All I want for Christmas is my 2 Front Teeth,” to “Jingle Cats.” The sound quality is very good too.
Cheers,
Y.
I present you with, possibly, the worst version of 'O Holy Night
Dude, did you even read my OP? :dubious:
Here is an interesting book for you.
“Do They Know It’s Christmas”?"
Is there a worse song? Truly?
The Tractors’ “Santa Claus is Coming like a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train”.
John Barry is my favorite film composer, so it pains me to report that his “Do You Know How Christmas Trees are Grown?”–from the soundtrack of the Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service–is one of the worst Christmas songs ever perpetrated. It’s sung by some Julie Andrews wanna-be and a chorus of children. For the sake of your sanity, never listen to it. Trust me on this.
Elmo–of “Granma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” fame–did a great little ditty back in '98, called “Kenneth Starr is Coming to Town.”
BUY ME SOMETHING!
When I was a wee lass, I had an album called Shirley and Squirrelly’s Christmas Songs (And Melvin, too!). And gods help us all, it looks like it was re-released in '95 on CD.
If you can find a copy of it, I recommend “Christmas Haunted House” as the worst of a bad lot. Even when I was a kid it didn’t make any sense; it’s creepy Halloween music, but they’re singing about Santa Claus, and the girl squirrel sounds like the Wicked Witch of the West on helium.
Oopsie I actually meant to post this in another thread on Christmas songs…I’ll slink away right now and hide under my rock till Christmas is over
:smack:
For inspiration you can check out the “Xmas in Frisco” stream at http://somafm.com/ : they only have it up a month a year, thank heavens, because while some of the stuff is nice, some is astonishingly bad or in bad taste.
Damn, I should read closer before posting! What yeeter said.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you thesequel to Grandma got run over by a reindeer…
And on the same LP as Grandma Got Run Over. . . there’s Percy the Puny Poinsetta (as pronounced). I think it’s fun, but it is definitely Hokey with a capital Ho.
The lyrics. The signing. The cheesy music. It’s all bad.
And then Jimmy Eat World covered it. It’s better than the original, but only marginally.
If you’re going to cover something like “Last Christmas” by Wham!, you pretty much have to go full fromage or not even bother with it.
I gotta tell ya that Wing is one of the worst singers out there. The link goes to a site where you can listen to samples of her music. The bad news is that she has a Christmas album. You can’t listen to any of the Christmas music unless you become a member, and I’m frightened to try. But by all means, give the freebies a try.
Let’s not forget “Hurray for Santy Claus,” the theme song from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time, if I may humbly opine.)
My brother had to analyze the “O Holy Night” linked in the OP for his voice class. He made me listen to it the other day. OW.