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Post by nondescript spice on Dec 18, 2013 20:59:15 GMT -5
I dislike anything country and everything new that I've heard. yeah, me too. except where i work, that's ALL i hear. there is a song...i don't know which guy did it, but it's with the chipmunks! it makes my head spin around. actually, i hate to admit it, but i've grown to kind of like the country christmas music because it's a break from the regular just country music. most hated anything with singing rodents or barking dogs grandma got run over by a reindeer - honestly, that song should have been a one hit wonder and DIED after it's first year - i've always hated it 12 days of christmas rockin' around the christmas treeand crowschmo - i totally get what you mean about baby it's cold outside. what's in this drink? seriously? wow - the basic theme of the song seems to be - you can either freeze to death or get horizontal, baby. pfft. oh, and frosty the snowman. not a frosty fan. and ANYTHING, bloody ANYTHING by spike jones. NOOOO!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Dec 19, 2013 20:00:11 GMT -5
Almost all Christmas songs recorded after the 1960s qualifies for me. I'm with Sky on this one. Give me just about any 1940s, 50s or 60s artist doing Christmas songs. I'm also in the hate for Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You." That's not a Christmas song, that's just Mariah being alone for 10 minutes. Of the older songs I've never liked Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child." I've always felt like it's a song that has a few too many versus. And the chorus just never worked for me.
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Post by Crowfan on Dec 20, 2013 6:27:56 GMT -5
You know, other than like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and the classic Christmas songs, I've come to hate it all. Spice, I totally agree on "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". That should have died even before it came out. And they made a Christmas special of it, too....
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Post by Satchmo on Dec 20, 2013 14:19:29 GMT -5
There are precious few good Christmas songs. Nat King Cole gets a pass, because he's too classy for his own good. A lot of the jazz guys like Vince Guraldi get a pass since they actually try to do something novel with the music. I like the unorthodox Christmas songs like Jonathan Coulton's "Chiron Beta Prime" or Tim Minchin's "Woody Allen Jesus". The Barenaked Ladies's Christmas album is pretty good. That's really it.
As for the absolute worst, it's a toss up between "The Christmas Shoes" and anything with Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 26, 2013 19:46:20 GMT -5
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is another ear bleeder. Absolutely hate it. Hate the Jackson Five version with Michael saying, "But I DID, I DID see mommy kissing Santa Claus!" UGHHH!
The only version of that I DO like is John Mellencamp's version (minus the kids singing at the end).
The only songs, really, that I don't get sick of hearing are Elton John's "Step Into Christmas" and Billy Squire's "Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You". Oh, and any GOOD version of "Oh, Holy Night", like Celtic Woman or Johnny Mathis or someone who isn't moaning it.
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Post by nondescript spice on Dec 26, 2013 21:14:18 GMT -5
i am so with you on step into christmas. love that one.
one song i can't stomach is jimmy durante singing frosty the snowman. i don't know who that kid is with him, adding commentary, but it drives me nuts. a little boy. and when jimmy gets to the part where he goes, "and he only paused a moment when he heard him holler stop" - and the kid goes, "no!!" and somehow manages to sound like judy garland. it kills me.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 11, 2014 18:08:55 GMT -5
Winter is a Marshmallow World
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Post by Waverly on Dec 11, 2014 19:27:22 GMT -5
Sleigh Ride. Any version.
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Post by foreign object on Dec 11, 2014 19:35:53 GMT -5
Gotta agree with spice, "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" is an abomination to Christmas and mankind. The CIA could've used this as a threat in their interrogations.
Oh yeah, this season I can also do without "Santa Baby". Yuck.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Dec 11, 2014 20:21:32 GMT -5
Gotta agree with spice, "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" is an abomination to Christmas and mankind. The CIA could've used this as a threat in their interrogations. Oh yeah, this season I can also do without "Santa Baby". Yuck. I do like Eartha Kitt's version but the rest...yeah...ugh. Except for Doris Day's version of Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow I dislike most Christmas songs that are about romance or are too cynical for my taste. That's why Mariah Carey recorded my most hated Christmas song and why I don't like most Christmas songs recorded after 1970. I admit that religious Christmas songs are my favorites. I've never heard a bad version of Do You Hear What I Hear? You can sense the Cuban Missile crises fear in that song that makes it overpowering.
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Post by foreign object on Dec 11, 2014 21:49:58 GMT -5
Have you heard this afriendlychicken?
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Post by afriendlychicken on Dec 11, 2014 22:03:28 GMT -5
Have you heard this afriendlychicken? I'd never heard that before. I'm speechless and in stitches. So that's someone named Bob Francis. If Dr. Demento releases another Christmas cd, this should be on it.
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Post by nondescript spice on Dec 12, 2014 10:10:55 GMT -5
"...i dig thee, lord jesus." LOVE this. frankie baby can sing anything.
i thought of this thread when i heard christmas shoes the other day, here at work. that and the song i think alan jackson did with the chipmunks. wtf, man.
i found a christmas jazz and reggae christmas channel on my roku this year that have kept me pretty satisfied. but if anyone plays 12 days of christmas, i'm outta here.
...that little cat, jesus, asleep on the hay. that is awesome.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 13, 2014 19:34:30 GMT -5
But that little trooper never flipped his lid?
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Post by nondescript spice on Dec 14, 2014 12:44:46 GMT -5
that's what makes that little cat so swingin.' just heard a song i keep forgetting to add here - dominick the italian christmas donkey. is anyone else familiar with this one?? i could maybe tune it out if it wasn't for the guy making the donkey sounds.
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