no, I win the thread: 
grandma got run over by a reindeer by Elmo ‘n’ Patsy, followed by any christmas song ever written that willie nelson gets anywhere near with his vocal chords - what there are of them. ghastly. :eek::eek::eek:
for the most part, all christmas music should never be sung by country music artists. ever.
:::the queen now runs for cover to avoid the missles aimed her way for that comment::: 
Aretha Franklin did such a horrendously bad version of “Angels We Have Heard on High” that I erased it from my iPod. It was included in one of the free iPod samplers. I was looking forward to hearing it because I love Aretha, but this version was cringe-worthy.
Concur with Madonna’s “Santa Baby”. That Betty Boop voice is grating on this song. I can tolerate Kylie’s version, but the gold-plated classic is, of course, Eartha.
Also, Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”.
And “The Christmas Shoes”, in any version. Pure musical glurge.
I worked at a supermarket when I was in sixth form, so I had to suffer through a deluge of Christmas songs from November onwards, and they didn’t have enough for them not to be repeated in the space of one shift.
I think the song that truly made me want to gouge my eardrums out was I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, sung by some obnoxious child. I would maintain my sanity by imagining the song to be the catalyst for a massive family row where the mother is revealed to be having an affair with her white-bearded father in law.
Not the ideal song for putting me in the Christmas spirit, in other words.
Every time I hear the Jackson 5 version of this, when they come to the line, “What a laugh it would have been, if Daddy had only seen”, my first thought is “Yeah, Joe would probably knock her around a little for cheating on him!”
gods, but i can so relate to that. i worked one - just one - season at our local walmart. never again. not only will hell freeze over first, the cubs will have to win the world series.
you the shopper are generally in the store for an hour or two at most. try putting up with looped music like **double foolscap **described for 12 hours or more. bad bad bad christmas carol looped music so bad that ‘grandma got run over by a reindeer’ was almost a reprieve.
probably where my lack of love for anything willie nelson originated from. thank og i can’t remember which christmas song it was that he assassinated, but it was horrendous. totally, mind-bogglingly horrendous.
that and the automated card machine from hell. i can still hear that thing 16 years later:
knock, knock, knock (knuckles on glass sfx). ‘psst! hey you! wanna make a card?’
i worked in the dry goods section, which was directly adjacent to the party supplies section where the card machine from hell held sway. minute by minute, hour by hour that thing would repeat itself and the volume was only just under the horror emanating from the pa system speakers.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!
within weeks of working there, i wanted to go over to sporting goods, break out a double-barreled shotgun, load it with double-ought, and blow away the pa system immediately if not sooner – promptly followed by that damn card machine from hell.
Santa Baby. I hate it so much.
Sorry js, but I really liked it… Not the flashing lights, just the arrangement. Quality musicians, also.
Maybe we can be friends later?
Only one mention of Alvin and the Chipmunks, and that took over 35 posts to be mentioned? Something is seriously wrong here, people.
Also, I mega-loathe “Up on the Rooftop” by Jackson 5 and any Christmas song Christina Aguilera has ever done (read: butchered).
Was going to concur with he numerous votes for Springsteen’s Santa Claus is comin’ to Town (note: I like Springsteen, just don’t think he has any business doing xmas songs)
But then i remembered The Chimney Song by bob Rivers Comedy Corp…
There’s something stuck up in the chimney
And I don’t know what it is,
But it’s been there all month long.
Well, it’s jammed up tight above the fireplace
Now the house smells funny, such a big disgrace.
That there’s something in the chimney
And it doesn’t talk at all,
And it’s been there since last Christmas.
Ack!:eek:
That’s a jewel! Bob Rivers is delightfully twisted. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Bob Rivers Christmas song I didn’t like…Walkin’ Round In Women’s Underwear, The Twelve Pains of Christmas, The Chimney Song, There’s A Santa Who Looks A Lot Like Elvis…it’s all great!
Well, all I know is every blasted time I hear it starts a headworm going 'round up there that won’t quit.:mad: Sometimes I have to resort to playing old Bing Crosby xmas songs at window-rattling volume to make it go away…
I wanted to comment, but don’t want to get dragged into the muck, so this is what I would say to the fine folks on YouTube:
If I were dying at Christmastime, I’d rather have my kid by my side than out buying me a pair of shoes she can’t afford and that I’m not even going to be alive to enjoy anyway. Her company is more important. Just sayin’.
I’ve never liked “Do they know it’s Christmas.”
It’s tied with “The Christmas Shoes” for the worst song on my list.
Happy Christmas, War is Over…by Celine Dion. It’s awful. A song that should be sung by nobody other than John Lennon.
Then again, I feel this way about anything sung by Celine Dion.
Now I’m daydreaming of Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen teaming up to sing a jazz version of “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas”.
I heard one I want to add on the way to work this morning. There’s a version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that’s entirely instrumental and very…I guess I’d call it “rinky-tink”. It’s very plodding, actually…it’s almost like old-school computer-generated music. Very regular, no real emotion, pizzicato all the way through (staccato, anyway…I haven’t determined the instruments). I have no idea who does it, but I haaaaaate it!