Loved it!
Thank you!
Suspicious!
My version:
Said the cat to the people everywhere
Do you see what I have?
Underneath my tail everyone
Do you see what I have?
It’s pink, it’s pink
And it doesn’t stink
Cause I wash it with my-y tongue!
Cause I wash it with my-y tongue.
Elvis’s version of Blue Christmas. It’s the background singers.
Every year, I hope I can get through the season without hearing “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” Once or twice I actually succeeded. Not this year, though.
And this comes in second. A distant second, but still far ahead of the rest of the pack.
Forgot that one, mainly because I haven’t heard it in years. If I’m lucky, I never will again.
I’ve always heard the John & Yoko original before; this year I’ve heard a sanitized cover version that eliminates that commie “War is over” stuff.
That would be all of them. I get so incredibly sick and tired of hearing christmas music everywhere that I almost wish I had a cabin in the woods that I could hole up in until January.
And whoever wrote Jingle Bell Rock and Rocking Around The Christmas Tree should be taken out and horsewhipped. If he’s dead, he should be dug up and horsewhipped.
I hate Michael McDonald singing “Deck The Halls/Jingle Bells.” I suppose he’s trying to be all soulful or something, but he just sounds like a drunken skid-row bum. (Oh, and he ruined the Doobie Brothers!)
It’s bad enough being seasonally hectored by John and Yoko, now you’re telling me there’s a cheery Longines Symphonette version? Yeeeesh.
Ava Maria they play it every Christmas. Yuck.
I usually turn the volume off until it’s over. It’s like the singer is getting poked with a hot iron.
Four pages in, and I can’t believe I am the first one (AFAIK) to nominate “The Christmas Song” alias “Chestnuts Roasting Over An Open Fire”. This has got to be the king daddy of the most overplayed, most covered pablum EVER. Back when I actually used to listen to the seasonal stations on XM (via DirecTV when they carried it) and Music Choice, I swore that “The Christmas Song” received airplay at least four-five times an hour. And if I’m doing my math right, that was over 100-200 different versions of Chestnuts I heard before I finally wised up and relied upon my own personal crap-free (at least to me 
) holiday playlist for my seasonal fix.
My other nomination, and another one I am amazed hasn’t been said yet, is “My Grown-Up Christmas List”. Said stations played it to the point of nausea too, and it’s got to be one of the most damn preachy things I’ve ever heard…who on Earth wants to hear anything remotely ‘preachy’, at least in their music, at Christmas? I almost wonder if Alan Alda may have wrote it…it certainly sounds like something he would have written, especially and particularly with the ‘No more war!’ lines in it.
I also have to close with another vote for “Christmas Shoes”…which honestly should be the de facto ‘winner’ of this thread. I’ve been quite thankful to have been spared of this utter tripe, even when I listened to those stations. But my curiosity was piqued thanks to all of the talk about “Christmas Shoes” a couple of years ago PLUS seeing/hearing the Patton Oswalt bit about the tune…so against my better judgement, I found a copy and listened to one minute of the dreaded Shoes…that’s one minute of my life I’ll never get back. o_O
And songs like that one and the above two make me have to say it…how can anyone, ANYONE listen to Christmas music, and most especially tunes like those, year round?! The only holiday music that is alright for year round listening is the entire Vince Guaraldi Peanuts/Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack (with the exception of the vocal version of “Christmas Time Is Here”, but the instrumental version is completely fine), Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite, John Coltrane’s takes on “Greensleeves” and “My Favorite Things”, and the Heath Brothers’ “Our Little Town” (an interpretation of “O Little Town Of Bethlehem” that stretches the overall structure to the point that no one will realize you’re listening to what is supposed to be Christmas music)…and nothing else.
all those gag kid songs that people thought was funny in the 50s to mid 60s like the hippo song I aint getting nothing for xmas ect …I saw mommy kissing santa… can just die
funny thing the grandma guy ended up hating the song for years and even wrote a song on how he didn’t wanna hear that damn reindeer song but then he softened as it became a kids song …
Mary, did you know?
I liked that song 25 years ago. I hate it now. All versions.
I would just like to add that any Christmas song that refers to Rudolph as “Rudy” should automatically be removed from airplay… and this needs to apply going forward for any wannabe songwriters of the future.
Quoted for truth! That song is right up there with Santa Baby and The Little Drummer Boy for me in terms of songs I hate.
I didn’t think I had anything to contribute, but then someone started playing “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” in the background. That song, plus the annoying little kid behind the voice, can DIAF.
I’ve decided to blame you for the fact that my cat suddenly decided to wash his unstinky pink thing just as I read this.
I made the mistake of listening to a version that had been “corrected” to the actual recording speed…creepy. huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuula hoooooooooooooooooop
Apparently the first two verses of Do You Hear What I Hear were meant to evoke images of nuclear war. Nice.
That hippo song has been everywhere this year. Ugh.
I could do without Blue Christmas and Baby It’s Cold Outside, the former for sounding awful and the latter for not aging well at all.
all of them. this is rapidly becoming my least favorite time of the year.