I confess myself a fan of Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime”, as well as anything by Wham! (“And now you tell me that you’re having my baby/I’ll tell you that I’m happy if you want me to!” Remind me again how we didn’t all know that this man was completely non-heterosexual?). Incidentally, through some iTunes explorations, I have found out that the immortal anthem “Last Christmas” has also been covered by such illustrious personalities as Hilary Duff, the Cheetah Girls, and Kidz Bop.
My personal vote for most-hated Christmas song is, along with many others, “The Little Drummer Boy.” Performed by anyone.
I actually like most traditional Christmas music. However the one that’s been bugging the crap out of me lately is “Here Comes Santa Claue”, in particular the line “there’s Vixen, Blitzen and all his reindeer pulling on the reigns.” The reason I hate it is because I always hear Nixon instead of Vixen and I don’t really like the mental picture I keep getting.
The only thing worse than these non-Christmas songs getting stuck in the Christmas lineup is people calling in to request them as though they were Christmas songs. Don’t encourage it, people!
Oh, thank you very much. Now I’ve got the “Ther choir of children sing their song” earworm. Thank you so much, O great and wonderful lyricist, for managing to stress all the wrong syllables, and only them. Stand Macca next to Ive’s exhumed corpse while I go strap on my special pair of boots, +2, +5 versus 'nads…
I’m Gettin’ Nuttin’ Fer Christmas --I dont’ know who it’s by and I don’t want to know. It’s on a compilation CD we have and we all run to skip it.
Lil Drummer Boy–drum this.
I’ve gotten used to grandma and the killer reindeer one–it grows on you (sadly enough).
I was sitting at the orthodontist’s and heard 3 different versions of Ave Maria–oy, ve.
I also heard something bout a Christmas donkey, but mercifully, my short term memory is not that good…
Do you mean chingety ching ee-haw-ee-haw it’s Dominick the donkey? Chingety ching ee-haw-ee-haw the Italian Christmas donkey? That one? That gets stuck in your head for weeks and weeks and weeks until you try to swallow an entire string of Christmas lights just for something else to do?
Ya know, I consider myself lucky that there’s a few songs mentioned that I have never heard. Thankfully, this is one I’ve never heard, I think if I had it would really get my Italian up.
Mr. Crosby was born in Tacoma and raised in Spokane, Washington, both which recieve snow every winter. He was also an avid snow skier for many years.
My vote goes to any of the Carpenter’s Christmas songs. I performed feats of amazing agility for a fat bastard to hit a radio power switch the other day so I didn’t have to listen to one.
I hate all Christmas songs. Not because they are sucky - well, I guess I should really say not JUST because they are sucky - but because they are everywhere. They’re on the radio, they’re on the PA in the grocery store, every friggin’ commercial on TV has them. You can’t escape them.
But…
The people responsible for writing, recording, producing, selling or otherwise inflicting “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” and “Jingle Bell Rock” all deserve to be taken out on a summer day in west Texas and staked out naked next to a fireant mound, with honey smeared on their genitals. And then we poke the mound with a stick.
Hmm, no votes for *I Wonder as I Wander * yet?
A.) It has the word “ornery” in it;
B.) A sample of the brilliant lyrics: "When Mary birthed Jesus, ‘twas in a cow’s stall, With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all;
C.) The version I’m familiar with is from my parents’ Christmas album, and is sung by Barbra Streisand, who (in addition to being such a profound mismatch for an Appalachian Christmas carol with the word “ornery” in it) so overdramatizes it, you think she’s going to pop a blood vessel or something.
FTR, I love the Carol of the Bells (a/k/a Shchedryk), and just found out some interesting stuff about its origins (it didn’t start as a Christmas song at all).
