The Absolute Worst Christmas Song, Bar None

[Thudlow_Boink]

@bump

a 200 person armpit farting concerto

I’d listen to that!

[kaylasdad99]

@Andy_L

The original post names the song (once, near the end).

The song is pretty bad - for one thing, the Christmas story makes it pretty clear that Mary did know (an angel told her, in enough detail to answer most of the questions in the song)

Maybe it’s a really blasphemous song, and it’s talking to a different Mary.

[nearwildheaven]

When I lived in my old town, I was involved in a Christmas project for needy families, and was there wrapping presents with a lot of other people, including a group of teenage boys. The director put on this HORRIBLE CD of hard-rock Christmas carols, and when I heard the people at the next table say, “I’m going to leave if they don’t change the music,” something I was actually thinking about doing myself, I told her, and she agreed that she really didn’t like it either and did change it. She put it on because she had two young-adult sons herself and thought the kids there might have liked it.

Sorry, bad music is bad music, no matter the genre.

[Superdude]

@Gatopescado

I will not click on that which goes unnamed. Rant is rendered null.

Anyway, we all know the worst is ‘Christmas Shoes’.

But it’s almost worth it existing just to justify Patton Oswalt’s scathing takedown of it.

[Odesio]

@nearwildheaven

When I lived in my old town, I was involved in a Christmas project for needy families, and was there wrapping presents with a lot of other people, including a group of teenage boys. The director put on this HORRIBLE CD of hard-rock Christmas carols, and when I heard the people at the next table say, “I’m going to leave if they don’t change the music,” something I was actually thinking about doing myself, I told her, and she agreed that she really didn’t like it either and did change it. She put it on because she had two young-adult sons herself and thought the kids there might have liked it.

Might it have been A Twisted Christmas by Twisted Sister?

[nearwildheaven]

No, it wasn’t. Now, THAT might have at least been fun the first time.

[Skywatcher]

@Trinopus

I’ve always hated the little drummer boy…the music is dull and annoyingly repetitious, and the story is dumb. Yeah, let’s soothe the newborn with a drum solo . Why not bagpipes while you’re at it?

Like this?

[Gorsnak]

OP is on drugs or something. The absolute worst Christmas song, bar none is Do They Know It’s Christmas?

I mean, you gather up a who’s who of 80’s pop stars for the noble cause of raising money to assist in the relief of one of the most devastating famines in living memory, and you record that?!?

[nearwildheaven]

(Who would think anyone would be interested almost 40 years later, especially after it was revealed that the African “aid” caused more problems than it solved?)

[Senegoid]

@Cervaise

In the Discourse preview, sometimes I got the little Youtube preview rectangle along with the link, and sometimes I didn’t. I jiggered with it a bit, got it to where it seemed to be working, and clicked Post.

And then… no preview. Just a silent link.

Possible (speculative?) explanation: YouTube and perhaps other sites may have been having problems yesterday. I noticed yesterday that I wasn’t able to view any YouTube videos – no error message or anything, the videos simply wouldn’t load. It’s working today.

I spoke to a friend today, and this topic came up. He asked me if I got my internet service through AT&T. (I do. Do you, @Cervaise?) My friend said he heard scuttlebutt to the effect that AT&T service was affected because of that AT&T facility that got damaged in the Nashville explosion.

[Senegoid]

My nomination for the most annoying Xmas music (at least that I know) is “Christmas Don’t Be Late”, and specifically when sung by the Chipmunks. (As is, of course, anything sung by the Chipmunks.)

[Cervaise]

I’m in Europe, so no.

I suspect it’s just that I don’t yet grasp the subtleties of Discourse.

[Cervaise]

@bump

you do realize that Christmas is a Christian religious holiday, don’t you?

You do realize that you quoted an excerpt from my post that explicitly includes the phrase “hanging onto the vestiges of the season’s original religious purpose,” don’t you?

[Senegoid]

@Cervaise

I suspect it’s just that I don’t yet grasp the subtleties of Discourse.

Okay, I see the problem with your link. You used the wrong format. You had:

[text](URL)

which displays text as a link to URL. This can be used even in the midst of a line or paragraph of other text

To get the “OneBox” format, where it shows a preview of the linked page, you must put the URL alone on a line, with no [text] part and no parentheses around the URL and nothing else at all on the same line.

[Cervaise]

Thanks. I tried that version, and the Discourse draft viewer on the right showed only the thumbnail image published by youtube, not the video preview.

I think I need to send a bunch of test messages to myself before trying anything complicated.

[Senegoid]

@Cervaise

Thanks. I tried that version, and the Discourse draft viewer on the right showed only the thumbnail image published by youtube, not the video preview.

As I noted in the Trump Martial Law thread also, I was having problems with YouTube yesterday. So, independently of your experience above, maybe there was something going on there. So yeah, try some experiments with it now and see what happens. Like this:

Mary, Did You Know?

ETA: And yeah, I think I see what you’re talking about now too. The preview shows the picture, but no clickable link to actually play the video in the preview. Once actually posted, it looks like it works.

[kaylasdad99]

@Gorsnak

OP is on drugs or something. The absolute worst Christmas song, bar none is Do They Know It’s Christmas?

I mean, you gather up a who’s who of 80’s pop stars for the noble cause of raising money to assist in the relief of one of the most devastating famines in living memory, and you record that?!?

”Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of you!”

[Cervaise]

@Senegoid

Once actually posted, it looks like it works.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I wanted to happen.

When I saw how the actual post was rendered, I grumbled, and shrugged it off. Had I known that the Official SDMB Judges’ Panel would climb up my asshole because this key piece of information was inaccessibly locked inside the fortress of a two-second click, I would have taken another crack at it.

[Die_Capacitrix]

@Cervaise

fortress of a two-second click

I don’t know about you, but most YouTube videos mean ads, and I’ve had enough of those.

My burning hate is reserved for “The Christmas Song”, also know as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”. I will not provide a link because I might hear it. Even just typing the title puts the song in m head.

ARGH!

[Borborygmi]

Cervaise didn’t know
That his YouTube link
Would get this much attention
Cervaise didn’t know
That his YouTube link
Would lead to such dissention
Didn’t know that his YouTube link
Wouldn’t suit Discourse’s whim
The video he linked to was then re-linked for him