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Topic: Annoying Christmas songs - which ones drive you crazy?

Well, I love dogs as much as the next person but those yapping mutts barking to the tune of Jingle Bells just don’t cut it for me. 

As a grandmother I am beyond offended at the thought of Grandma getting run over by a reindeer. 

Frankly, it is all I can do to put up with the forced gaiety and frivolity of 12 hours of Christmas, the thought of 12 days of it makes me want to tear my hair out. 

And you?

I'm sure someone has mentioned this one already....Last Christmas by Wham.  It gets stuck in my head for days...and I really only know 2 lines from it, so it's like they're on constant repeat in my brain.  I want to scream!

Though I kind of secretly like the song....but of course I'd never admit that. ;)

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I've noticed that particular song seems to be played more frequently than some of the others. As far as I'm concerned, once is too often! //ltv

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Posted by: DING
Date posted: Fri Dec 19 9:34:49 2008
Message:

12 days of Xmas gets my vote for the MOST IRRITATING XMAS SONG EVER. Ugh.

I like Christmas music, but not as much as I used to. The past few years I've been very into Transiberian Orchestra.

Enjoy!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4J8yBf6vg&feature=PlayList&p=2D58DA706F7B0325&playnext=1&index=18

 

(The Christmas Attic is my favorite!)

 

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No argument from me regarding the 12 days! //ltv

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Posted by: Bonk5
Date posted: Fri Dec 19 1:23:28 2008
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so at work we have on KBAY that since Thanksgiving is all Holiday music. Doesn't anyone make any new holiday songs, LOL

By Xmas I have heard, Frosty, Rudolph, White Christmas, O Holy Night done a million different ways.

But one I can not stand, I think is from the 50's, kind of country sound. I don't know name need to look it up on website.

Something about *theres a man down in Tennesse, trying to get home,,,,,bleh, bleh, bleh!! LOL

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here is the song I found it *Home for the Holidays* see inside:

I don't mind that one so much, particularly the Perry Como or The Carpenters' versions. //ltv

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Posted by: susienews
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 22:47:25 2008
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This is the one that gets me a little weepy (in a good way) every year.  I recorded a version of it with my brother accompanying me on piano, but I could never do it the justice Nat "King" Cole does....  Listen!!! 

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I don't think I've ever heard that before - very pretty. I love Nat King Cole's voice! //ltv

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Posted by: susienews
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 22:42:36 2008
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Anything by Johnny Mathis.  Seriously.  I just can't stomach that man's voice!!!  Oh, and Manheim Steamroller is icky, too.  I have only heard the barking dogs once this year and I've been listening to Christmas music in my car and at work since Thanksgiving weekend ended. 

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Johnny doesn't do anything for me one way or the other. //ltv

OMG! - I love M-Steamroller! - Theyr'e awesome (IMPO). But NOT as awesome as Transiberia Orchestra. LOVE them! ~DING

I am SOOOO with you, susienews, on this one. I can not stomach Johnny Mathis (he sounds too sissified to me) and everyone around me knows I can't stand him. My family knows it and they tease me at work about him on the radio. LOL. He just grosses me out! ~Kathy from Maryland

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Posted by: misspm
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 21:49:33 2008
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I don't like anything silly or cutsey-just regular Christmas songs, like Silent Night, Away in a Manger, Have yourself a Merry Little Chistmas, Joy to the World etc.

I'm passed being interested in Frosty and his band of children following him through the town, or Rudolph leading the way by his red nose, Mommy tickling Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe or his beard so snowy white, or that the Chipmunks want Christmas to hurry and don't be late or that all they want are their two front teeth.

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Well just wait until you get kids! I prefer carols & old standards, but ya know........cc

Me too, misspm. //ltv

Oh believe me, with all the years in the classroom, I did them with the kids, taught them, did pageants... you name it...guess I'm only on a break until I have kids around again then, LOL! ~~misspm

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Posted by: Catrin
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 20:24:01 2008
Message:

All of 'em mentioned by everyone else annoys me too.  I do love the traditional Christmas songs sung by a choir or good musicians, a few of whom put out nicely done Christmas albums.

Feliz Navidad, Jingle Bell Rock, Wonderful Christmastime, Santa Baby, all those just make me crazy. And the joke ones, Chipmunks, Porky Pig, the dogs barking or Grandma I can't even believe are still getting airplay.   Sorry, I just got back from some shopping and all this stuff was blasting in the stores.  Aaarrrgghh!!

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My favoriate radio station in St. Louis that started playing Christmas music only about a week before Thanksgiving. Now seriously, there are only so many Christmas songs and then you just have to play the same ones over and over. I was sick of Christmas songs by the first of December. Now I just listen to another station that plays oldies. //ltv

My oldies station sticks a Christmas song in about every five songs but I don't think they have very many so you hear the same ones over and over!!!!! Shriek!!!!!!!!!!!!! eom fuzzwuzz

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Posted by: SuzyB
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 19:29:18 2008
Message:
'Little Drummer Boy' - it just drags on and on with that slow ''pa rum pum pum pum''. I'm just like ''get to the end already''!

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You took the words right out of my mouth. I just hate that song! It's so slow and repetitive, it just gets on my nerves. ~i&b

LOL, read my response to Tizzy below. I'm not particularly fond of the song but for obvious reasons I love the title. //ltv

LOL! Even my dog hated that song! We used to sing it to him, and he'd *growl* at us. Editrix

Awww that was my moms favorite. so when i hear it i think of her! :( ~~Bonk

editrix........LOL about the dog! cc

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Posted by: tizzy
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 19:28:20 2008
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I hate when any rock star sings Christmas songs. It just sounds so wrong. I hate feliz Natividad,and Grandma got run over by a raindeer, and Rockin around the Christmas tree, and Jingle Bells. On the other hand I love The LIttle Drummer Boy, sung by Bing Crosby and David Bowie, and just about anyone else that sings it.

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Well obviously Little Drummer Boy is a huge hit at our house :-) //ltv

I sometimes like putting on the rock version of Christmas songs, but many of them really should have been left alone. I prefer traditional. cc

Tizzy, listen to this and tell me if you hate it! LOL (Inside for link). It's one of my favorites to play at Christmas time! (Ignore the soft porn-like scenes in the video HAHA). :o) eom Tukey

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Posted by: MeMe
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 18:04:12 2008
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LTV, I was laughing at your grandma getting run over by a reindeer song. The version I am  used to is: Grandma Got Run'ed Over By a Reindeer...She didn't get run over or ran over.....

It's no wonder people think Southerners are all rednecks or hillbillies.......LOL

I don't care much for the novelty songs either. Just give me songs like: White Christmas, Oh Holy Night, Silent Night and Blue Christmas.

Here is a pretty version of Oh Holy Night by Celtic Women

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-8jYpa1-o

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Oh my gosh, I LOVE Celtic Woman. I literally get goose bumps listening to them. //ltv

I don't have time to listen right now, but will check it out. I love Celtic music. cc

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Posted by: Chewbacca
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 17:53:17 2008
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The Christmas Shoes ---it's emo, holiday style. The last thing I want to hear this time of year is a song about a kid's mom dying on Christmas Eve. Jesus can at least wait until New Year's to take her.

Any Christmas song sung by Beyonce---she oversings and drags out notes so her songs end up being 18 minutes long. She must like to hear herself wail, but I don't. Same goes for any Christmas song Jessica Simpson sings.

Barbra Streisand's version of Jingle Bells---she sings it like she's desperately trying to find a bathroom.

James Brown's version of Sleigh Ride---picture some cokehead trying to sing this song but adding his own lyrics and forgetting everything else, and you've got this song. His whole Christmas album is a mess.

 

 

 

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Chewy your descriptions crack me up! I'm with you Beyonce - in a word: UGH. //ltv

You know...I thought I was the ONLY person who dreaded that Christmas Shoes song. It is just too depressing to me...but it was the most requested song on the radio here last year. ~~misspm

If 'The Christmas Shoes' was the most requested song last year, then there are a lot more sadists out there than I thought. Chewbacca

You're crackin' me up too, but I don't think I know any of those songs. cc

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Posted by: Kat
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 17:47:40 2008
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I'm not listening to any that drive me nuts. However, listen to this~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI&feature=related

Makes me weep. Maybe mom is with him and she is listening to him sing now in heaven?

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Bless your heart, Kat.....Let's just think your Mom, MacMac and capp are friends and they are watching over us Doolies.....Love, MeMe

Awesome. You just can't go wrong with the classics. //ltv

I love Ave Maria. cc

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Posted by: Editrix
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 17:20:55 2008
Message:
I love Paul McCartney, but "Wonderful Christmastime" drives me batty. Can't stand it!

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Don't even get me started on that song! Could he have gotten any less imaginative? He just repeats the same line over and over. What a sell-out! ~i&b

Another one for the 'banned from the airwaves' list! //ltv

Sadly, Sir Paul sold out a long time ago music-wise, IMO. Most of the stuff he did with 'Wings' for instance. JMHO./Catrin

Good Lawd I hate that one too. It sickens me that this is the same guy that wrote most of the Beatles songs. He must have been smoking the drapes when he wrote it, or channeling John Tesh.//Anne

Uggg....hate that one... I worked at Nordstrom in the 80s when it came out.. and they had it on a loop.... I was a crazy lady by the end of the day!!....Suz

Yep, I can live without that one. cc

Ohhh I agree! (HC)

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Posted by: Mitch
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 17:13:33 2008
Message:

I dislike pretty much all the novelty songs, the Chipmunks, Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, any Jingle Bells version sung (woofed?) by dogs or meowed by cats.

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And let us not forget Yorgi Yorgensen's alltime classic, ''I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas''...eom...Mitch

I am like you, Mitch......too many nutty songs...MeMe

About the only cutesy one I can tolerate (and then only with limited playings) is the one about the hippo. //ltv

Yes, we like the hippo one at this house. cc

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Posted by: Jennifer
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 17:09:07 2008
Message:

I like most Christmas music, but I get SO SICK of Last Christmas by Wham!  It's a good song in small measures but for some reason it gets extremely overplayed. 

I also hate the one that rambles on about some kid wanting to buy shoes for his sick mother.

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I'm not a fan of either of those. Would you believe I've only heard the one about the shoes once this year?! //ltv

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Posted by: fuzzwuzz
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 15:05:04 2008
Message:
Pretty much all of them!  I hate that they stick in my head and go 'round and 'round until I could just scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh I like the hymns like Silent Night and Oh Little Town of Bethlehem and even some of the songs like Silver Bells but some ought to be banned from the airwaves, LOL.

fuzzwuzz, just for you.......

fuzzwuzz, just for you.......

Trying one more time...fuzzwuzz, just for you.......SILVER BELLS, SILVER BELLLLS, IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE CITY. RING A LINGGGGG, HEAR THEM RINGGG, SOON IT WILL BE CHRISTMAS DAY. Now you have something to sing the rest of the day...Don't worry about the bug spray man and the snow covered swimming pool......Just sing and be happy.....Just funning around as they say down South.....MeMe

D@MN, quote marks. The jokes on me.....LOL......MeMe

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Posted by: HockeyChick
Date posted: Thu Dec 18 14:52:26 2008
Message:
LOL!!!
The Chipmunks -- please, please make them stop!
Santa Baby -- I hate, hate, hate the way it's sung all *cute* and *sexy*... gives me the creeps. Blech!
The jazzed up version of Jingle Bells -- *JA JA JA Jingle Bells*... oh just sing it the regular way. LOL.
Brenda Lee's Jingle Bell Rock - her voice just irritates me.
Gee thanks, now I sound like a humbug! LOL.

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Oh I'm with you on the Chipmunks!

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