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I’m with you Dante, on Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town.”
Can’t stand it.
Ditto “The Christmas Shoes.” Whoever wrote that piece of glurge should be shot.
The one I hate the most though, is “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” By any artist, but especially if it’s by an adult trying to sound like a little kid.
JFTR, I love Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad.”
“Jingle Bell Rock” and “Rocking around the Christmas Tree”, simply because they get played ad nauseum every year. Every radio station plays them all the time (around here anyways).
How do you feel about “Grandpa got run over by a beer truck”, the parody? Because “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” really needed a parody.
Not even Petter Griffin’s version?
I have these gifts for you
They’re up in my bum!
Also his version of SIlver Bells is nice:
Ahh silver bells, blah silver bells,
Holy crap here come Jesus!
Holy crap here comes Jesus!
Am I the only one who thinks Seth McFarlane really should make Peter Griffon X-Mas album?
Oh, and I despise 99% of all Christmas music. The Muppets holiday album is OK, but everything else? Crap. But Do You Hear What I Hear is, by far, not only the worst x-mas song ever, but possibly the worst song in existance.
Add to the list all of the versions of “Jingle Bells” arfed, clucked, meowed,etc.
Oh, and Stevie Nicks’ “Silent Night”,too.
“Last Christmas” by Wham. Apart from the mention of Christmas presents, it has practically nothing to do with the season. Why does this song still find its way onto Christmas albums, for pity’s sake?
“Mary’s Boy Child”. I have no idea who sings the version I loathe. It’s a woman and a lot of synthesizers. It sounds like a lame karaoke tune.
The one I hate the most is The Twelve Days of Christmas. And especially any variant thereof.
I came in here to add my vote for “The Little Drummer Boy,” but now I’m weeping because “Last Christmas” will be stuck in my head through January. Curse you, JThunder.
“Jingle Bell Rock.” I despise this song, and will turn it off if I’m able any time I hear it.
I also hate “Little Saint Nick” by the Beach Boys. It always struck me as a cheap attempt to rip off their own music to make a quick Christmas buck.
Bleah.
I hate The Christmas Song (Chestnits Roasting on an Open Fire), particularly when sung by Nat King Cole. He just sounds so smarmy.
mmm…roasted chestnits…mmm… :o
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The Christmas Guest by Reba McEntire. Although, it shouldn’t really count as a song, since she doesn’t sing the ‘lyrics’.
Unfortunately, my mother loves Reba, and I would chew hot coals for my mother, and so I put up with the ‘song’ every year.
I can’t think of the titles, but here are snippets of the verses:
“lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you” (I hate the horse-neighing sound at the end and the whip-cracking throughout)
and
“up on the rooftop, click, click, click” (just annoying)
And of course, “Do they know it’s Christmas?” (Simply the worst)
The version performed by John Denver and the Muppets is pretty funny.
BA-DUM-DUM-DUM!!!
AmericanMaid, the only version of “Mary’s Boy Child” I even know is by the German reggae group Boney M. And it can’t be the one you hate because it’s inconceivable that anyone can possibly hate anything by Boney M.
My two have already been mentioned. The Christmas Shoes is just universally hateable. It’s like email glurge set to music. And Mary Did You Know is #2 for me, again, any version. But Clay Aiken’s is particularly gruesome, just for being by Clay Aiken.
Gah! German calypso group. Not reggae.