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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI think I might have stumbled on the worst Christmas song of all time.
No it's not Dominick the Donkey. No it's not the Hippopotamus Song. No it's not Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. I give you - Feliz Navidad, sung by William Shatner:
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)unblock
(52,317 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)yonder
(9,674 posts)....that sounds just like the captain himself sings. I suspect intentional. Well done!
underpants
(182,877 posts)House of Roberts
(5,182 posts)there's no intelligent life in this quadrant."
MustLoveBeagles
(11,634 posts)SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)Someone didn't do sufficient market research, and found out very quickly that 'Shatner Panties' was never going to be a big seller.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)At 2am...on Xmas eve....
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)yonder
(9,674 posts)If he were serious, it would be another thing altogether.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You're wrong.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Meh, I've heard worse than that. But I acknowledge there can be many candidates for the worst Christmas song.
And I'm about to hear them all.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)He won an Emmy and a Golden Globe award for his role on "Boston Legal"
(He's still working at age 87)
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912gdm
(959 posts)LOL
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)That he said "Mr Tambourine Man" as if he were trying to summon an inattentive waiter.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)The rest of the album is just as crazy!
underpants
(182,877 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I might have to have this.
Some friends might need it too!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and no, I'm not joking...it makes Shatner's XMas music seem like Caruso...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I would scream out in pain the year I worked retail at christmas every time that song came on.
Initech
(100,102 posts)I was at my dentist office today and it was constant Christmas music being played. And of course when I'm in the waiting room, what song plays? Wonderful Christmas Time!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)No thank you sir! I want Christmas to be on one date and that's 12/25. No more, no less!
Harker
(14,034 posts)I'd sooner listen to silly love songs than thematic atrocities.
Owl
(3,643 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Don't say you didn't bring this on yourself.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Poop on you for reminding me.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)that makes me want to rip the radio out of the dashboard and throw it out the window.
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Initech
(100,102 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)Makes you want to stab your eardrums with icepicks!!!
Harker
(14,034 posts)What bent toward self punishment leads me to hit the carat?
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)I'd rather hear the Shatner song than this maudlin, hokey, sanctimonious, annoying pile of noise crap. And I don't know what's worse, the song itself or the practical demand that we all just fall down and worship it. UGH.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Jesus equals shoes? Or shopping for shoes? Or Rob Lowe paying for shoes?
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Is this a fuck you eddie?
Initech
(100,102 posts)Yes I'm a member of the Garmy as well. EDDIE!!!!! Is wrong!
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)Not sure that I would listen to it more than once, but it is art.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)I wonder if he was deliberately trying to make it sound campy and bad for just that reason?
Paladin
(28,272 posts)The description alone has the potential to fuck up a perfectly good day.
Congrats on the nasty discovery, nonetheless.
packman
(16,296 posts)Harker
(14,034 posts)That's quite evident.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,406 posts)I made the mistake of buying tickets to his Madison Square Garden recitation. I believe it was about 1980.
Equally bad was the stuff Nemoy recorded.
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)Adam West was up there too.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)... better than Grandma got run over by a reindeer. (because my Nan got killed Dec 24th in evening many years ago).
marble falls
(57,204 posts)KT2000
(20,587 posts)ly awful. Why oh why??
marble falls
(57,204 posts)including videos of lip synche-ers and other trying to sing in a similar fashion.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)O Holy Night is a perfectly good Christmas song and, while this singer styled it in a manner you or I may not enjoy, there isn't really anything wrong with this rendition.
The worst Christmas songs, regardless of singer:
1. The Christmas Shoes. The existence of this horrific disaster set to maudlin music has increased the end-of-year suicide rate by at least five percent. If there really is a God he will reveal himself to the world by calling artillery in on the next concert hall NewSong plays in retaliation for this...this thing.
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside. A celebration of date rape in all its glory.
3. Santa Baby. One can easily imagine South Park's Eric Cartman singing this paean to unbridled greed.
4. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas...which is grossly annoying if you don't know what hippos are really like, and borderline psychotic if you do.
5. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth. Fortunately, they don't play this one very much.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)marble falls
(57,204 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)than the Christmas Shoes song, LOL.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)The worst is that rape song that gets played non-stop on TV and in malls. How has nobody listened to the lyrics??
LudwigPastorius
(9,170 posts)That time should have been somewhere around the 1980s.
kaotikross
(246 posts)this is truly the Donald Trump of Xmas songs.
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...talking on their CB radios to a little boy named Teddy?
krispos42
(49,445 posts)(Skip ahead to the 1:00 mark)
From "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"?
(Yes, it's a real movie)
jb5150
(1,183 posts)my vote for the worst is "Hung for the holidays" a Christmas album sung by William Hung of American Idol fame (or infamy if you prefer).