I second "Santa Baby", but I'll add "This Christmas"! Good God, that's overplayed every year.
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1) There was one hideously depressing one we had to do in high school chorus. The chorus teacher that year wanted desperately to marry this composer/arranger guy; consequently we did *everything* he wrote. So here we'd be, doing a holiday concert at a retirement home, with this horrible thing about "it doesn't seem like Christmas without a Christmas tree ... without stockings hung by fireside ... without little ones to see...". And these poor old folks parked in this rest home would be weeping. Bimbo chorus teacher thought it was wonderful how *moving* it all was.
2) Anything with a sucky alto line. The first & second sopranos get the bouncy fun part. We get: "Ding, ding." "Hey." (*pause*) "Hee-hee-hee." "Ding, ding" "Right." Name that tune, anyone? Y'all know it!
Had to switch the radio station at work because they had peppered in Christmas songs with their normal playlist. Let me add "Snoopy's Christmas", the follow-up to "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron", by the Royal Guardsmen.
Let me also add the instrumental (original) version of "Sleigh Ride" where they make musical instruments sound like horse trotting (and the bit at the end where they imitate a horse neighing). I hate that.
Let me also also add "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". I'll spare you the gigantic rant I made about it on Facebook, but suffice it to say that if you really think about it, it's creepy and not cute (like I assume it was intended).
I guess what I'm saying is, I really don't like Christmas songs much.
I hate any song I've heard for the 10th time in a week on the same radio station. That pretty much covers every Christmas song except for the good stuff; Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole.
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Frown and the world laughs at you." -Me.
When you are not in a Christmas mood, all these songs can be grating and just make you feel all the worse.
I really don't like the demanding ones, that want you to be happy or ELSE. Like, "We need a little Christmas, right this very minute" and "Bring us some figgy pudding and bring it right now!"
That Paul McCartney song always makes me shake my head at how absurdly happy it is. It's just so ....corny!!
I didn't think anything could be worse than that Paul McCarthy Christmas song until I heard about Barbara Streisand's version of Jingle Bells: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2lRSk0MWAY
Originally posted by cranlsnMy wife insists that I'm evil for hating it, but the "Christmas Shoes" song about the kid buying shoes for his dying Mama makes me want to hang myself.
I know he's the "reason for the season" but a song about some kid's Mom going to meet him just doesn't seem very festive. Sue me.
If you're down on "Christmas Shoes", you will probably appreciate comedian Patton Oswalt's take on same (warning, NSFW):
Good god, even a comedian's spoken description of the song depresses me. Forget the actual song. Yeeeow.
That Oswalt bit was fantastic. A belated thank you for that.
(edited by samoflange on 2.12.10 1721) Lloyd: When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her. Harry: That's a special feeling.
I totally forgot to add anything by Mannheim Steamroller. I wish for that band to be eternally hit with EMPs anytime they attempt to play their "music".
It's good to know that I'm not the only one who hates the 'Christmas Shoes' song.
My real peeve with Christmas songs is not the songs themselves, but the stations that play them. Locally, there are at least three FM stations that change their format as early as before Thanksgiving to play the same 30-40 holiday songs over and over and over again 24/7. It's one of the reasons why I got XM radio. So what happens? They do the same thing and remove the big band and love channels for holiday songs. I don't get that; they have to have a channel or two that isn't being used, why turn over an active channel?
It's not that I'm not in a festive mood. I like to listen to holiday songs once in a while. Repeat: ONCE IN A WHILE. Not every minute of every hour of every day for nearly a month and half straight. I like to think I'm not being a grinch and am not the only one who gets annoyed by this kind of thing every year.
Originally posted by Mr. BoffoLet me also also add "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". I'll spare you the gigantic rant I made about it on Facebook, but suffice it to say that if you really think about it, it's creepy and not cute (like I assume it was intended).
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