Definitely my choice. Could this song be any creepier? My skin crawls when I hear it.
Now as for Christmas Shoes (and the not-previously-mentioned-in-this-thread I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas), it’s just so bad it’s good. How can anyone listen to Christmas Shoes without laughing?
On the other hand, there’s always Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas with its subversive lyrics…
3 pages, 122 posts, and the only mention of “all i want for christmas is my two front teeth” came from thailand?
you take that song and crossbreed it with the chipmunks and you have arguably the most potent auditory weapon known to man.
Didn’t it pretty much go away on its own? I haven’t heard that song once in twenty years. (A circumstance for which I am appropriately grateful.)
3 pages, 122 posts, and the only mention of “all i want for christmas is my two front teeth” came from thailand?
you take that song and crossbreed it with the chipmunks and you have arguably the most potent auditory weapon known to man.
Ahem. I kinda like the chipmunks… :o
This is my runner up, but I gotta go with Christmas Shoes which makes me want to stick a candy cane in my ear as far as it will go.
Hey! I don’t sing that bad!
I came in to post this. It really says something when the writer of the song hates it.
This song premiered in the musical MAME, as a quiet one to be sung in a reflective manner. It should NEVER be sung in a rabble rousing hot-to-trot way.
And, believe it or not, it has three verses.
For we need a little music
Need a little laughter
Need a little singing
Ringing through the rafter
And we need a little snappy
Happy ever after
Need a little Christmas now.
While Christmas Shoes is without question the worst Christmas song ever, since I haven’t listened to Christmas radio and spend almost zero times in stores this season, I haven’t been exposed to a barrage of Christmas music in years.
My choice for elimination is Silver Bells. I probably play in/sing in 5-10 different holiday-related events, and Silver Bells is on everybody’s short list of holiday songs and carols, and it is the most laconic, awkwardly phrased song to sing in a group of unrehearsed people. Doubly so when it’s an a capella situation.
If I never have to try and direct people through that song again I’ll die a happy man.
I actually heard this on the horrible Chris…sorry, Xmas Musak at my store, and I was both shocked and delighted. This is probably the only Christmas song I am not thoroughly sick of.
I still want to take a hair dryer to Frosty, though.
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime and that damned Springsteen one. Ooh, also Santa Baby. Can I please get rid of all three?
Besides ALL of them, and Christmas Shoes, the absolute WORST to me is that stupid Waitresses song “Christmas Wrapping”!
“You mean you forgot cranberries too?” Yes, ugly bitch, I forgot the fucking cranberries. So sorry you can’t keep your favorite guy in line 'cause of his poor car, busy schedule, and PLEASE… call Eminem for rapping lessons.
:mad:
“The Little Drummer Boy”-that song drives me nuts!
Question: Has anyone ever been able to work zombies into a Christmas story?
That would be really charming!
If I ruled the world, no one would ever hear “Grandma Got run Over by a Reindeer” again. I loathe that song
Just about every secular Christmas song known to man, with the exception of Carol of the Bells.
This also includes The Christmas Shoes, Grownup Christmas List, and any other song like it. I hate sappy, guilt-ridden, people-are-suffering-even-though-it’s-CHRISTMAS songs. People are suffering every day. Christmas ain’t got nothing to do with it.
First I’d like to unthank The Dope. Somehow I have managed to get this far without ever hearing Christmas Shoes. Could I leave well enough alone and just trust my fellow Dopers? Of course not. I had to go look it up and now I’m scarred for life.
I love Little Drummer Boy. Why all the hate? I especially like the Bruce Springsteen version. The Crash Test Dummies version of Silent Night is also pretty good.
My votes for permalimination go to Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer (I always want to break and punch things when I hear this), anything by Jessica Simpson, Madonna, or any country artist. I haven’t seen it mentioned yet but Father Christmas always seems to piss me off when I hear it.
This is really funny. When my chorus began rehearsing Christmas Shoes, *I commented that it was the “Thomas Kinkade of Christmas music.”
*You don’t know what absolute torture is, until you have to spend weeks memorizing that song.