What is the WORST Christmas Song? – IOTW Report

What is the WORST Christmas Song?

Friday, 29 December 2023, 15:15 BFH Uncategorized 60

Here is one nominee.

Here is one of the best. And it has No Lyrics.

Here is one With Lyrics.

60 Comments on What is the WORST Christmas Song?

  15. My biggest problem with radio stations that go all Christmas music after Thanksgiving is that there isn’t THAT much good Christmas music.

    For bad Christmas tunes, I am leaving out crap such as Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

    https://youtu.be/oZ5cmrz-mrU?si=OXQZ9xjbVTH2fLX_ always make me cringe.

    https://youtu.be/PB5c-KmxqQw?si=mf2sgTpU6NeWLzlg makes me look for the nearest bridge.

    But on the good side, there is https://youtu.be/7touuAVGtL0?si=KRfm-bJn_Xm0voVt (the 1946 is better once you get used to it).

    Of the traditional tunes, I like The First Noel, no particular version.

    Feliz Navidad has grown on me over the years.

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  19. So many to choose from – but one of the criteria should be how many times it gets played during the endless Christmas music season.

    I have to agree that Wonderful Christmastime is the absolute worst – can you imagine how this song gets on the air if it doesn’t have Sir Paul’s name on it? Total rubbish.

    btw – I love that story in Love Actually with Bill Nighy and the Christmas remake of “Love is All Around Us” – was that a dig at Sir Paul?

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  25. Hey! Hey! Hey, Guys, for cryin’ out loud!!! It’s December 29!

    BUT! You brought me back to jazz Washington DC when I played (not sexually….Geez!) with exceptional jazz musicians back in the early 60’s!

    Always warmed up with this before even playing a few hours on the piana. This, to me was Heaven, and getting paid along with meeting many “old-timer” America-lovers, and heroes, who just so happened to play jazz while serving during, and after, WW-II.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAh4gYZdDUg

    LOVE IT.
    Thanks, for bringing me back!

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  30. I submit for your consideration, from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the ultimate in Christmas cheesiness while being mildly sinister and thoroughly sacrilegious.

    Christmas In Heaven performed by Graham Chapman
    <spoken>
    Good evening, ladies and gentlemen
    It’s truly a real honourable experience to be here this evening
    A very wonderful and warm and emotional moment for all of us
    And I’d like to sing a song for all of you
    </spoken>

    It’s Christmas in heaven
    All the children sing
    It’s Christmas in heaven
    Hark, hark, those church bells ring

    It’s Christmas in heaven
    The snow falls from the sky
    But it’s nice and warm, and everyone
    Looks smart and wears a tie

    It’s Christmas in heaven
    There’s great films on TV
    ‘The Sound of Music’ twice an hour
    And ‘Jaws I’, ‘II’ and ‘III’

    There’s gifts for all the family
    There’s toiletries and trains
    There’s Sony Walkman Headphone sets
    And the latest video games

    It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas in heaven
    Hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hooray!
    Every single day is Christmas day

    It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas in heaven
    Hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hooray!
    Every single day is Christmas day

    It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas
    It’s Christmas in heaven
    Hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hooray!
    Every single day, yeah, is Christmas day, yeah

    It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas
    It’s Christmas in heaven
    Hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hooray!
    Every single day, yeah, is Christmas day, yeah
    Yeah

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  37. Reference to previous above from Pianamusic:

    40 – 50 YEARS LATER, after jazz, DC life:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzJnZDz70tq-Sn4rCnTVykQ

    NOTE: Since it is free on You Tube, To get all 12 albums and singles. But, you have to Search for: “The Synthonic Orchestra, Band & Choir” and go from there. There is more, and all the albums are available, Just need to show interest with You Tube to get to listen to further albums/singles, one after another.

    Otherwise, you will be swamped from all the Classical recordings that appeared after these albums became International after some time in 2013.

    Please Note: that if you get the Muss Org Sky, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, the last album track was distorted on YouTube. Many Russians, it has been claimed, own copies of my original “glass” recording of my “enhanced and interpreted” version.

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  47. The queer George Michael has a pretty queer Christmas song, or at least what he considers a Christmas song. You can even make out the lisp when he sings the word “special”. It sounds like “thpethel” to me.

    I turn down the sound of it whenever it comes up on the car radio. That song is the worst.

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  48. There are many versions of “Carol of the Bells”. Most of them are outstanding.

    There is a version written by Leonard Bernstein which is very interesting IMO because it sounds frightening. Given that the carol is Ukranian in origin and Bernstein was Jewish, I have a theory as to why his version is kind of scary.

    The Cossacks from Ukraine and Russia liked to go into Jewish villages in the 19th and early 20th century and kill all the inhabitants in what are called “pogroms”. When I listen to Bernstein’s version, I get a vision of Cossacks on horseback, sabers drawn, ready to ride into a peaceful Jewish village in eastern Europe and kill the innocent people.

    I’m sorry if that offends anyone, but listen to it and see if you get a similar vision and feeling about it.

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  50. I really like Andy Williams, but I detest his “Happy Holiday”. It sounds boozy and cheesy. Call me Grinch, but when I hear it, I can almost smell the spilled bourbon and stale cigarette smoke at a mid-20th century office Christmas party.

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  55. Jethro, my South Carolina grandma married a Baltimore man. He died in ‘44, and shecremarried to another Baltimore man. Over the years, her southern drawl morphed into this weird thing which was much like the “Transatlantic Accent” which was used by actors in the thirties and forties. My Southern mom said she was “putting on airs” talking like that.

    I spent many a Summer in Baltimore as a kid, and that 98 Rock song takes me back, too. The kids I hung out with in Baltimore used to rib me about my Southern accent, but I just had to bite my tongue about their accents—and my “aunt Mildred’s”—lol

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  59. Anything Beatles, but especially Lennon, Drummer Boy (gag!), Have Yourself A Merry Little.

    Merry Christmas, Darling was ‘Nam’s I’ll Be Home for Christmas. Don’t knock it.

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  60. @form

    Merry Christmas, Darling is a beautiful song by Karen Carpenter.

    Perfect to listen to late on a quiet Christmas Eve before you go to sleep. And a WWII vet told me that “I’ll be home for Christmas” was every American soldier’s hope during the last half of 1944.

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