Favourtie/Most hated Christmas song

[tomswift2002]

I just remembered one Christmas CD that is a definite DO NOT BUY: Disney's Family Christmas Holiday 2006. The whole CD has a very flat, monotonous sound to it. It's almost like the producers told the singers not yo sing with any feeling or emotion in their voice, while only using a MIDI music machine to record the tracks. The cover features Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Pluto, Donald Duck, Daisy, Huey, Dewey & Louis and I was expecting to hear their voices on the tracks as well (just like on the excellent 1978? Disney's Christmas Favorites, and 1991 Disney The Twelve Days Of Christmas), but you don't hear any of the characters.

 

[the G-man]

http://youtu.be/A1YVehEGG6E

Mojo Nixon's version of Mr. Grinch.

 

[urbandefault]

Two favorites:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE[/yt]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjdfjrtf1Q[/yt]

 

[auntiehill]

I love this one
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeShHAZk3to[/yt]

 

[Mr Pointy Ears]

the new version of do they know it Christmas.

 

[auntiehill]

One I haven't heard in AGES, but always liked, for some reason.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dekHPlFNMIc[/yt]

 

[Trekker4747]

Bizarre to me so many would dislike "The Little Drummer Boy" the song is harmless and what could possibly be annoying about it? For a great version of it check out the acapella version by Pentatonix. TLD is my favorite Christmas song.

Least? Pretty much any modernized version of classic songs, particularly ones done by R&B groups that muck the song's sound up with the genre's sound.

 

[the G-man]

The Chipmunk Song done right:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJdAoX60Uk[/yt]

 

[Orac Zen]

If I never, ever hear "Silent Night" again as long as I live, I'll be more thankful than I can possibly describe.

How such a mournful, dirge-like piece of crap is considered Christmassy is beyond my ken.

 

[the G-man]

I like the Elvis version of silent night. He has just enough gospel inflection that he takes it above the typical medieval dirge.

 

[Keith1701]

Worst: Honey, It's cold outside. It seems it must many differant artists that have song this song and was on the radio more than I can count.

 

[the G-man]

Worst: Honey, It's cold outside. It seems it must many differant artists that have song this song and was on the radio more than I can count.

The only real version of the song that works, IMO, is the Dean Martin one. It plays well into his "drunken lothario/rat packer" persona.

As much as I normally love Willie Nelson, the version he did with Norah Jones is just creepy, when you realize their age differences, etc. It's the closest thing to a real life version of the "Bill Cosby/Taylor Swift" version from "South Park."