Most feared "Christmas Classic"?

[CanuckAmok]

You know they're going to start everywhere, starting November 1.

So let's get used to it. What one do you dread the most.

[Beer Snob-50]

1. Jingle bell rock is the god awful worse!!! nt

[hfojvt]

11. especially since they do not have near enough drums and bass guitar

to justify using the word 'rock'. Until AC/DC, metallica, or Guns 'n Roses do a remake of it - it is a tanjed 'swing' song and it should be called jingle bell swing.
I also hate 'Rockin' around the Christmas tree' for the same two reasons, and melakelekey maka or however you spell it, and my sister looooves that song.

[Beer Snob-50]

14. I never thought of GNR doing those songs

I love the idea.

[Shell Beau]

27. Oh! I love that one!

[Left Is Write]

53. So do I. I'm a sappy sentimentalist, and I love to hear that one.

I also love to hear Frank and Bing singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and so many other Christmas songs by Frank, Bing, Dean, and more.

I immerse myself in that stuff (but not in November!). What I DON'T like are Christmas songs - especially oldies and standards - performed by contemporary popsters.

[Trigger Hippie]

2. The Wings one.

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time....

:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:

[CanuckAmok]

3. oh, yeah... I forgot about that one.

Maybe I should do a part II, with that one, and the Kinks.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. I have to disagree. "Father Christmas" is an awesome song.

Very cutting and sarcastic.

[CanuckAmok]

8. wait... that's not the one I was thinking of.

What's the one with

Oh, wait, it's the Chris DeBurgh one... what's that called?

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Hmm. Chris DeBurgh...Kinks...Chris DeBurgh...Kinks...

You feeling okay? :D

[hfojvt]

52. well Chris D used to be played on the metal stations

with "Don't pay the ferryman" before he made it bigger with "Lady in Red" just like Michael Bolton started with "Everybody's Crazy" before he re-did Percy Sledge.
Father Christmas and The Twelve Pains of Christmas are my two favorites.

[Aristus]

34. "A Spaceman Came Travelling" by Chris De Burgh, is the one

you may be thinking of. I think it's a terrific song. He has recorded and re-recorded it several times, but the best version is still the original, from his album "Spanish Train And Other Stories".

A spaceman came travelling
On his ship from afar
'Twas light-years of time
Since his mission did start
And over a village
He halted his craft
And it hung in the sky like a star
Just like a star

He followed a light and
Came down to a shed
Where a mother and child were
Lying there on a bed
A bright light of silver
Shone around his head
And he had the face of an angel
And they were afraid

Then the stranger spoke
He said: "Do not fear,
I come from a planet
A long way from here
And I bring a message
For mankind to hear"
And suddenly the sweetest music
Filled the air

And it went: La-la-la-la........

Peace and Goodwill to all men,
And love for the child

This lovely music went
Trembling through the ground
And many were wakened
On hearing that sound
And travellers on the road
The village they found
By the light of that ship in the sky
Which shone all around

And just before dawn,
At the paling of the sky
The stranger returned and said:
"Now I must fly
When two thousand years of
Your time has gone by
This song will begin once again
To a baby's cry...."

And it went: La-la-la-la......

Peae and Goodwill to all men,
And love for the child

Oh, the whole world is waiting...
Waiting to hear that sound again
There are thousands standing
On the edge of the world
And a star is moving somewhere
And the time is nearly here:
This song will begin once again
To a baby's cry........

[CanuckAmok]

45. Damn, that's not it, either.

And it's not that Greg lake one.

I give up.

[Chovexani]

18. OMG I hate that song!

Ye gods it feels like someone took a jackhammer to my ear when I hear that aural abortion of a song.

I'm not normally a violent person but whoever wrote it really ought to be beaten in the street.

[Trigger Hippie]

24. Yes, I want to commit violence when I hear that one.

And of course it's the one I hear most often. :grr:

[sundog]

29. you win

i hate that fucking thing :nuke:

[Enraged_Ape]

31. UGGGHHH. I forgot about that one.

It only proves that John "Happy Christmas" Lennon did not have the monopoly on stupid, barfy Christmas music.

[no name no slogan]

40. A-FREAKIN-MEN

If I hear that one, somebody's gonna get "yule log" in their stocking, if you know what I mean

[Trigger Hippie]

48. It's already traveling through my head

as an evil, evil earworm... :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

4. Brenda Lee's "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree"

Can't stand her voice.

[Beer Snob-50]

6. this is number two on my list!!

other than that, i love christmas music!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

28. AHHHHH!!!!

That song must DIE!
Worked at a Pizza Hut in the early 90's, and right before Thanksgiving, the manager would have the vending company put a few seasonal songs in the jukebox.
Guess which song was played the most often? (Usually I heard it 4 or 5 times in a 5 hour shift)

[Shell Beau]

35. I love it! It reminds me of the first Home Alone.

And I love her voice. It is different.

[LaraMN]

7. "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus."

The mostest uncleverest song ever.

[HughBeaumont]

20. I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus by Kip Adotta

blows that one away by a mile.

[LaraMN]

23. I'm going to have to check that one out!

:rofl:

[alarcojon]

9. The Hall and Oates one

but the Boss is a close second. As is the Wings one.

[ComerPerro]

10. My mom owns an album she likes to break out to torture us:

Kathy Lee Gifford's Christmas album.

She had it on cassette when my brother and I were young, and would make us listen to it in the car every year.

Dad had this uncanny ability to block it out. So he would just laugh and laugh at my brother and I the whole time.

About seven years ago, she lost the tape.

But, a few Christmas' ago, dad had a special suprise for her as an early gift.

That same album, on CD.

:scared:

[Fox Mulder]

12. I like the classic Christmas music.

The songs I don't like are the ones by modern artists.

Those are god-awful.

[djeseru]

15. This is going to be the most unpopular answer...BUT...

...I can't stand the dog barking out "Jingle Bells."

After working an entire Christmas season in a record store, just about all of these are guaranteed to turn my spine to glass...:scared:

[bigwillq]

16. I love Mariah's XMAS CD

I think it's rather good.

[Chovexani]

17. All of the above

I hate Christmas kitsch with a passion.

FYI, it's started already here. Macy's has their Xmas crap up already, and has for a few weeks now.

[HughBeaumont]

19. This is going to be one UNPOPULAR answer . . . but . . .

. . . I'm sorry, but I fucking HATE Happy Christmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Choke-oh Ono. GOD that song is fingernails on a blackboard grating, plus it's SUCH a damned downer.

From that list - Broooooooooce's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town". Hate that one too.

[Enraged_Ape]

25. No flames from me

I want to rip the stereo out of the dash and throw it onto the highway when that travesty comes on. It really is almost unbearable. Joke-O Ohno couldn't carry a tune in the back of a Ford F350 pickup.

[HughBeaumont]

30. Yoke-Oh + high-pitched kids chorus = aural disaster.

You gotta love the two ex-Beatles and the one dumbfounding thing they share in common - having their tin-eared and musically untalented wives share their stage.

The ultimate worst is her performance with Dirty Mac on Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus. Worst. Vocals. Ever.

[Enraged_Ape]

36. See Post #2

Mega-DU-dittoes on the Beatles' no-talent wives. I think Paul and Linda came pretty close to John and Yoko on creating the worst Christmas song ever. The McCartneys might even have surpassed them.

Why did Paul McCartney and John Lennon hate Christmas so much?

[HughBeaumont]

38. "WCT" SUPER sucks, but not as bad as Happy Christmas.

What studio tricks did he use to make her shit-lousy vocals seem palatable?

[Enraged_Ape]

41. You mean "palatable" in the wailing banshee sense?

As opposed to just nails on a chalkboard?

[HughBeaumont]

43. "Wailing Banshee" would be Joke-Oh.

Linda sounds more like an out-of-tune tenor. Sometimes live, they would turn Linda's crappy vocals up in the mix and Paul would have a hissy fit. Then there's the soundboard bootleg of her. OUCH.

I don't think ANY studio trickery could save Ho-Ko "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss, Kiss Me Love" Oh-No's shrill-a-thon.

[Earth_First]

21. KISS Saves Santa!

[NYYFan]

32. LOL !!

[CanuckAmok]

33. "Everyone knows pterodactyls can't stand the sound of electrical guitars!

[jojog]

22. White Christmas

with Bing Crosby and David Bowie

[In_The_Wind]

26. I had to do it ...

can you guess which one I picked ...

[Danmel]

37. "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"

I can't stand that song- it's stupid and twangy- a lethal combination. Plus they play it like 70,000 times during the ever expanding "Christmas season". Can't escape it anywhere but home.

[terrya]

39. I hate that goddamned "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"

It's a stupid, annoying piece of shit. :grr:

[In_The_Wind]

44. Really ...

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4203042&mesg_id=4203311

[terrya]

47. Ack!

:scared:

[Bridget Burke]

42. Pah Rum Pah Pah Pum!

Anybody's version....

[stanwyck]

56. Bridget!

I loathe that song. And now you've put it in my head. That horrid little drummer boy is rum pum pumming away.
Damn you.

[AllegroRondo]

46. I hate 24 hour Christmas radio stations

especially when they start in October.

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. "THE #$%^ING CHRISTMAS SHOES"!!!!!!!!!

Worst. Christmas song. Ever, ever, EVER! :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Enraged_Ape]

50. Is that the one about the kid...

who's trying to buy his dying mom some shoes?

I love how the singer pitches in for the ~$30 shoes and acts like he's just cured cancer or thrown himself on a live grenade or something. That's Freeper philanthropy for ya.

I laugh out loud at that song, which is why I can't rank it as high (or low) as the McCartney and Lennon songs.

[Lavender Brown]

54. I'm with you on that

:argh:

[Metta]

51. The barking dogs and anything played out of a loudspeaker.

The meowing cats is right up there, too.

[DanCa]

55. No snoppy and the red baron christmas (nt)