Most Annoying Christmas Song Ever

[FloridaJudy]

It starts earlier every year; every store and supermarket playing the most saccharine, nausea-inducing tunes imaginable. It's already been here for two weeks. Which ones do you really hate?

My #1 has to be "Little Drummer Boy". By mid-December I'm ready to grab a can of cranberry sauce and fling it at the nearest speaker screaming "Rah Tum Ta Tum Tum, my ass!"

Second most annoying? "White Christmas". Bah, Humbug.

Also anything featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Oddly enough, I enjoy those old Gospel numbers; they're joyous and heart-warming. It's the relatively recent crap that makes me want to stock up on Xanax and dramamine...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. ALL OF THEM...EVERY LAST FRIGGIN ONE OF THEM!

I HATE holiday music with a passion! I'm already suffering!

[Maple]

9. I agree absolutely!

All of them! Every last friggen, overplayed, one of them!!

[mlawson]

47. Yeah, ALL OF THEM!!!!!

If I am in a store, I often stop my ears when that crap comes on.

That reminds me: If I am going to a mall soon, I need to go, before they have all the f-----g decorations up!!!

[7th_Sephiroth]

45. the chipmunks

christmas

[Sting]

2. I'd have to disagree...

I don't like those old gospel songs for christmas...they annoy me as much as those damn chipmunks and the song "pretty paper." :puke:
Sting

[NightTrain]

3. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

As far as Christmas music goes, I only ever listen to the two CDs I made myself: "Christmas Rocks!" and "The Soul of Christmas." Now that's holiday music I can get into!

[kmla]

33. Second that....

....it is my goal each year to try to get through the holiday season without hearing that damn song.

Makes me wanna puke.

:puke:

[eileen_d]

41. Motion carried!

That song needs to be purged from the airwaves. Do any of the Democratic candidates have an official position on that song? I would donate to any anti-Elmo-and-Patsy candidate today...

[LoneStarLiberal]

4. Anything Warped By Mannheim Steamroller

Which would be their entire catalog.

I think I'd rather hear tone-deaf carolers sing "Sweet Home Alabama."

[proud patriot]

5. I love all Christmas Music , even the Chipmunks

:D

[pasadenaboy]

6. Here come the bells, ringing the bells

etc etc

I hate that song.

I love the old Christmas hymms, however. I love signing them at midnight mass!!

[glarius]

7. I hate "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus!"......Uuugghhh.....

[glarius]

8. I

[CanuckAmok]

10. Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"

Oh, fuck, how I loathe that version.

[ronzo]

12. Even though Clarence gets a new sax?

Heartless...

[CanuckAmok]

14. I'm glad he got a new sax, but...

...if he's going to play that song, I wish he'd point it away from me.

[Dr Fate]

11. I get in the mood for it- except for "Grandma"

I especially like Elvis Christmas tunes...

[cally]

42. The Elvis Christmas tape

is my favorite also.

I love many of the Christmas carols. I loathe Mommy kissing santa claus, grandma gor run over by a reindeer, and Frosty the Snowman. Uggh.

[RandomUser]

13. Chipmunk songs

I once had a cassette of christmas songs when I was little -- the songs were christmas songs as sung by "alvin and the chipmunks." You don't know what horror is until you've listened to christmas songs mangled by the high-pitched squeaking voices of fictional animal cartoon characters. :scared:

[Cadfael]

38. I have the original vinyl of "Alvin and the Chipmunks"

Gawd, I'm OLD!
:singing-christmas, christmas, don't be late....:

[DieboldMustDie]

15. The Twelve Days of Christmas:

The original consumerist carol.

[bif]

34. I hate that one too!

n/t

[noonwitch]

43. I hate that song, too, but I like the Bob and Doug MacKenzie version

It's funny

[Melsky]

16. I hate them all

it's like being force fed corn syrup. But you are right, little drummer boy is the very worst one. Christmas music is the most hideous combination of mindless consumerism and cutesy-poo crap.

[Bossy Monkey]

17. SLEIGHRIDE & that *$#@%* Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Actual carols, I'm very fond of, in spite of my thoroughgoing agnosticism.

[regnaD kciN]

24. "Sleigh Ride" with LYRICS...

:puke:

(That piece was originally composed by Leroy Anderson as a purely instrumental work for the Boston Pops Christmas concerts. Later, someone decided that it could "sell" as a song, and so wrote the most cringe-inducing, 50s-TV-variety-show quality words imaginable.)

[mark0rama]

29. Also, Carol of the Bells with lyrics

You know the one:

Hark how the bells,
sweet silver bells,
all seem to say,
throw cares away

Come to think of it, I'm not so wild about that one as an instrumental either.

[MissMillie]

35. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

gets my vote

[BlueJazz]

18. I've always thought "Rockin' around the Christmas tree"......

sucked the big one....

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

22. GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

I worked at a Pizza Hut over ten years ago, and in the middle of November, the manager would switch over about a thrid of the songs in the jukebox to Christmas songs.
That one was played three times an hour.
Every hour.
Until after Christmas.
Just the thought of "Rockin'..." makes me wanna break things.
:evilgrin:

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Substitute these words the next time you hear Little Drummer Boy

The Little War Drummer Boy

Cheney told me
Pa rum pum pum pum
Take oil from Iraqis
Pa rum pum pum pum
Both Shock and Awe we bring
Pa rum pum pum pum
We must have everything
Pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum
Their children's blood for oil
Pa rum pum pum pum
When we come

Ugly moustache
Pa rum pum pum pum
And he wears French berets
Pa rum pum pum pum
We want our weapons back
Pa rum pum pum pum
Not least our fine anthrax
Pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum
Shall I play for you
Pa rum pum pum pum
My war drums

We won't investigate
Pa rum pum pum pum
We only obfuscate
Pa rum pum pum pum
"Osama Who?" we say
Pa rum pum pum pum
UN does what we say
Pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum
We'll trade their blood for oil
Pa rum pum pum pum
Beating war drums

JMD
February 21, 2003

[Digger]

20. I hate 'em all

"White Christmas" is at the top of the list. Every time I hear it I think of Perry Como and all that traditional bullshit that has been foisted on us.

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. woof woof woof - woof woof woof- woof woof arf arf arf

woof woof woof- woowoof woof woof woo-woo-woo-woo arf arf arf

repeat as nauseum

[mykpart]

53. Yeah! Dogs barking Jingle Bells tops the list.

How about when the radio stations play parodies of Xmas songs? There's one called "The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen." The last 2 lines are "Now I have two black eyes and a high heel up my behind. Now I can't sit in comfort and joy, comfort and joy, now I'll never sit in comfort and joy!"

There's another one to the tune of "Winter Wonderland" called "Walkin 'Round in Women's Underwear."

[burr]

23. Have a smurfee christmas?

jinglebell rock drove me nuts...even when it first came out!!

And what about rudoph, the most annoying version!

he had a very shiny nose (like a light bulb)
and if you ever saw it...
you would even say it glows (like a light bulb)
all of the other raindeer (like blitzen)
used to laugh and call him names (like pinnocio)
they never let poor rudoph join in any raindeer games (like monopoly)
then one foggy christmas eve santa came to say...(HO ho ho!)
rudoph with you nose so bright,
will you guide my slay tonight...
then all the raindeer loved him, (like a valentine!)
and shouted out with glee (yipeee!)
rudoph the red nose raindeer
you'll go down in history (like aaron burr!)
:freak:

[mark0rama]

30. That version of Rudolph good for one thing:

Annoying the bejeezus out of music teachers!

[regnaD kciN]

25. You should hear "Drummer Boy" in Spanish...

It's strange, because I've always understood that it was written by a Hollywood songwriter in the 50s, but I can't help wondering if he actually "borrowed" a Spanish song. My wife knows the Spanish version, and it's stunning. Not only are the lyrics totally different (far less "rum-pum-pum-pum"ing), but they seem to fit the tune better as well. I can imagine the Spanish being original, and a hack songwriter butchering the words in churning out an English-language version, but I can't imagine a Spanish translator taking the English version, and coming up with a rendition in that language that so improves on it.

[CandyCrim21]

26. I really don't care for any of them!

Especially at work. I waitress right now while I'm in school and thats all I hear from about the second week in November till like Janurary. I REALLY REALLY hate We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. THey all suck. To make a long story short.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

27. Paranoid Nightmare - Santa Claus is coming to town.

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows when you 've been bad or good

AaaaaHHH! That is creepy.

[mark0rama]

40. As Calvin once said in Calvin and Hobbes,

"Santa Claus: Jolly old elf or CIA spook?"

[RobinA]

28. I Love All Christmas Music

with the exception of the dogs barking, the Chipmonks, and Springsteen's "Santa Clause is Coming to Town." I am a huge Springsteen fan, but that song has got to go.

[bif]

31. 12 days of Christmas

For me is the absolute worst. I hate that song--the endless repeating of each verse drives me nutso. I also hate the poem "Twas the night before Christmas".

[morningglory]

32. Definitely "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"

since the tv ads.

[supernova]

36. The Dogs barking Jingle Bells

irks me and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree has gotten on my nerves the past several years. And John Mellencamp's "I saw Mommy Kissin' Santa Claus" can take a hike too. :crazy:

Most of the other stuff I can stand. I like the Nutcracker. I like the Carol of the Bells and I even like Manheim Steamroller, but only this time of year. I got a couple of Trans-Siberian Orchestra CDs to try this year too.

For "12 Days of Christmas" nausea, I recommend Bob River's "The 12 Pains of Christmas". His Twisted Tunes song parodies are not to be missed.

Here's a list of Xmas specials, some new some old, courtesy of Bob Rivers:

http://www.twistedradio.com/show/twistedtunes/xmas.asp

[CO Liberal]

37. "I Wanna See Santa" by the Beach Boys

Brian Wilson must have been having a REALLY bad day when he wrote this turkey.......

[supernova]

39. Twisted Tunes - The antedote to sappy holiday music

Choice songs include:

50 Plates to Feed My Brother

Twisted Chipmunk Song

Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire

Oh Come, All Ye Grateful Deadheads

We Wish You Weren't Living With Us

Carol of the Bartenders (cleverly done PSA)

Joy to the World (Hendrix-like instrumental)

Oh Little Town of Bethlehem (done to "House of the Rising Sun")

Smells Like The Night Before Christmas


Many, Many more.....

http://www.twistedradio.com/show/twistedtunes/xmas.asp

edit: couldn't resist adding to the list. :evilgrin:

[dreissig]

44. Handel's "Messiah"

This thing is played to death. And it's so pompous to begin with.

The one good thing about Christmas music is that it stops on December 26th. What a relief! I think to myself, There is a God!

[geniph]

46. F***ING SILVER BELLS. I F***ING HATE SILVER BELLS!

I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT IT IS AN EVIL EARWORM THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!

Okay, I'll stop channeling Skittles now. But I really really HATE that fucking song.

[Padraig18]

48. "Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer"

:puke:

[VOX]

49. "Jingle Bell Rock"

That one has true emetic powers --

:puke:

[Dogmudgeon]

50. The Christmas Shoes

Possibly the most annoying song in ANY genre, ever.

I wanna buy some shoes
For my Momma's feet
So she can look beautiful
When Momma meets Jesus tonight

As narrarated by a smug, rich, white, Born-Again Christian pop star.

God and Bush must love the poor, because They made so many of them.

--bkl

[hlthe2b]

51. Sick of them all & tune out: but Bruce Cockburn did a CD

of old and "atypical" carols a few years ago. I still like to listen to that. Check it out, you might like it too....

[shimmergal]

52. The one about All I want for Christmas is a hippopotamus.