Comments on: Most annoying Christmas record

By: erind

erind — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:49:00 +0000

The worst, worst xmas song ever has to be that Beach Boys song. I mean, “Christmas comes this time each year?” come on! The second worst is “Christmas Island.” Both of these songs play about every four hours where I work.

By: erind

erind — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:48:48 +0000

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:44:21 +0000

“Percy the puny poinsettia sitting alone on a shelf even a plant with no Uncle or Aunt shouldn’t spend christmas eve by himself”

By: frosty

frosty — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:01:30 +0000

My top 3 most annoying Xmas songs: Chipmunk Song Santa Baby Wonderful Xmas Time (McCartney)

By: julia

julia — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:45:57 +0000

a hard-fought tie between Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul “the bud is my friend” McCartney and the version of Silent Night that Stevie Nicks managed to force through her nose without mentioning god once, just kept repeating the sleep in heavenly peace chorus over and over and over… Madonna’s Santa Baby is an abomination before the lord, but I expect Eartha Kitt will eventually make her pay so I’m not worried about it. Imagine Betty Boop starring in Guys and Dolls. yik.

By: apostropher

apostropher — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:52:52 +0000

pchuck, Wow. Three in a row? I’ve heard it at least three times already 9 days into December. Do you spend your Christmases with the Amish?

By: pchuck

pchuck — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:47:17 +0000

Actually, it is going on three in a row. Don’t jinx me.

By: apostropher

apostropher — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:37:26 +0000

I call it a successful and joyous Christmas if I can avoid hearing Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”. You don’t get many successful and joyous Christmases, do you?

By: Don Coffin

Don Coffin — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:02:56 +0000

“The Little Drummer Boy” is not only incredibly annoying, it is, at least in the US, all but ubiquitous.

By: Jeff Cooper

Jeff Cooper — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:28:32 +0000

I have to vote for the McCartney song, if only because the man has actual talent. What did it take to write that crap, all of five minutes? And maybe fifteen more to record it. It does have the dubious distinction (I believe) of being the final record Wings released.

By: pchuck

pchuck — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:20:33 +0000

I call it a successful and joyous Christmas if I can avoid hearing Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:42:03 +0000

Um … anything on the Barbra Streisand and Mannheim Steamroller (is that their name?) Christmas albums that certain members of my family play over and over again. Me—I think the Barbra is the worst. I seem to be in a minority, though, ‘cause I like Christmas music after the first of Advent. My favourite local radio station tend not to play shite Christmas songs, though—they play “Father Christmas” (Kinks); that Cheech and Chong Christmas story; a nice little song called “Merry Christmas from the family” (nice if you have been to dysfunctional but generally happy holiday memories); “The Christians and the Pagans”; and a little number by the Corey Band called “Stop the Cavalry.” Oh—and stuff from the Chieftains album and all of the “Very Merry Christmas” albums. In other words, nothing sickly sweet.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 02:51:08 +0000

When I was a small boy I watched an episode of the Smurfs where a minstral sang to the king the following song to the tune of “What child is this?” It was a dark and gloomy day when the farmer’s house burnt down His chickens died and his child fell in and all of his crops turned brown. Now that’s all I can think of when I hear the tune.

By: JS

JS — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 22:14:58 +0000

Do intentionally bad Christmas songs count? If so, “Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer,” by Elmo & Pastsy, is, to my ears, the most annoying Christmas song ever, and is second only to “Macarena” in the open category.

By: harry

harry — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 21:08:02 +0000

Chris, you’ll be pleased to know that when my daughter was in reception in England all the kids knew a humourously but scatologically rude version of Walking in the Air. My younger daughter (nearly 3) now sings only those words to the tune. I now can’t hear the tune without laughing. BUT it is still annoying, proof perhaps that it is the tune and performance, not the words.