No, that's Bob and Doug McKenzie's "12 days of Christmas".
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I don't like any of the newer stuff, as in the Pop remixes. I remember getting one of those NOW or WOW or whatever Xmas albums, and gave away the first CD.
Most annoying Christmas songs
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Baba is now dead to me.
I don't like any of the newer stuff, as in the Pop remixes. I remember getting one of those NOW or WOW or whatever Xmas albums, and gave away the first CD.
I enjoy many of the most reviled songs here. As a Paul/Beatles fan, "Wonderful Christmastime" is a longtime favorite; "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" is parody, people; and the Singing Dogs are just fun, nostalgic cheese. We only roll this stuff out one month a year.
As for songs I don't like...well, I've heard plenty of horrible Christmas songs that I couldn't stand and didn't have the time of day for. For example, I was once the recipient of a couple of volumes of an Internet acquaintance's Christmas rock song anthologies that were, IIRC, the ninth and tenth in a series. I imagine that he started out with two or three volumes of really good material. But by Vols. 9 & 10, he was really scraping the bottom of the barrell--crappy punk renditions and such that did nothing to evoke the holiday spirit for me. I gave them one listen over a decade ago and I can't imagine ever putting them on again. I also once bought one of those five-disc sets at Costco where each CD only has 30 or so minutes on it, so you're not really getting as much of a bargain as you think. It had a couple of things that I wanted on it, but much of it was filler that I couldn't stand.
So I'll have to single out songs that I've actually heard a lot in prior years....
"The Christmas Shoes"--My god, what saccharine crap. Glad I'm not alone on this one.
"Last Christmas" by Wham!--*blech*. This once held over six minutes of good space on my personal three-CD anthology (now an iTunes playlist) because it was a favorite of my adult ex-stepdaughter. Last Christmas, with the divorce in progress, I happily removed it from the playlist.
"I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake is so self-indulgently cynical that it ruins the holiday spirit for me.
"Do They Know Its Christmas?" by Band Aid tries my patience, but I have a very, very small sliver of fondness for it.
If I'm listening to an a station that's playing all holiday music, nothing will make me change the dial more quickly than Celine Dion...except maybe "The Christmas Shoes".
As for songs I don't like...well, I've heard plenty of horrible Christmas songs that I couldn't stand and didn't have the time of day for. For example, I was once the recipient of a couple of volumes of an Internet acquaintance's Christmas rock song anthologies that were, IIRC, the ninth and tenth in a series. I imagine that he started out with two or three volumes of really good material. But by Vols. 9 & 10, he was really scraping the bottom of the barrell--crappy punk renditions and such that did nothing to evoke the holiday spirit for me. I gave them one listen over a decade ago and I can't imagine ever putting them on again. I also once bought one of those five-disc sets at Costco where each CD only has 30 or so minutes on it, so you're not really getting as much of a bargain as you think. It had a couple of things that I wanted on it, but much of it was filler that I couldn't stand.
So I'll have to single out songs that I've actually heard a lot in prior years....
"The Christmas Shoes"--My god, what saccharine crap. Glad I'm not alone on this one.
"Last Christmas" by Wham!--*blech*. This once held over six minutes of good space on my personal three-CD anthology (now an iTunes playlist) because it was a favorite of my adult ex-stepdaughter. Last Christmas, with the divorce in progress, I happily removed it from the playlist.
"I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake is so self-indulgently cynical that it ruins the holiday spirit for me.
"Do They Know Its Christmas?" by Band Aid tries my patience, but I have a very, very small sliver of fondness for it.
If I'm listening to an a station that's playing all holiday music, nothing will make me change the dial more quickly than Celine Dion...except maybe "The Christmas Shoes".
Pretty much the lot for me. I think the only ones I like is the Kevin "Bloody" Wilson song "Hey Santa" and the Vestibules classic "Christmas on Acid" 
Yeah, that one can get on my nerves too. It might be the Yoko in it.
I think it's been said a couple of times, but Wonderful Christmas Time makes me want to inflict pain on myself or others when I hear it.
How about the Chipmunks one? The Hula-Hoop?
Esp. when it is slowed down so the voice of the "chipmunks" sounds like adult men (probably the actual actors who're recording the song.)
Esp. when it is slowed down so the voice of the "chipmunks" sounds like adult men (probably the actual actors who're recording the song.)
You're getting warmer. (I'm watching him right now, by chance)
Also, extra props for a sig from my fav saint.
I forgot to mention "The Chipmunk Song"--A childhood favorite of my sister's and mine, it actually makes me misty-eyed with nostalgia to hear it. None shall speak ill of it.
Another one which might just be a bit of a regional thing because I live in the same hometown as its creator (in fact, he even substituted for a few of my classes when I was high school and so darned likeable that I kinda feel bad for finding his creation so irritating), but...
Christopher the Christmas Tree.
It's gotten national and international exposure, but far as I can tell, it's never really caught on quite even half as well as other Christmas novelty songs and movies.
It apparently started out as only a song but eventually was made into an animated short with more songs, which is when I was first exposed to it. Somewhere I've got a VHS and coloring book that came with a record that my father bought at the guy's actual tree farm but never let me color because he was convinced it would be worth something someday.
At 10/11 years old, I thought the whole thing was a little too puerile for my tastes and found the songs downright grating. Unfortunately for me, the school system here loves it due to the hometown connection. I had to sit through it almost every Christmas season, straight through 12th grade. In fact, I even had the French translation forced on me courtesy my French teacher, who prolonged my "joy" by breaking it into sections over several days so that she could quiz us on our comprehension. The foreign language didn't make it any more palatable.
This year, my hometown actually decided to celebrate it by making it into the theme of the official lighting of our local courthouse. They (rather poorly) decorated a tree to be Christopher and screened the film. They've also announced that the creator has recently signed a deal to extend the film to 90 minutes and be given the CGI treatment. Oh, goody.
Christopher the Christmas Tree.
It's gotten national and international exposure, but far as I can tell, it's never really caught on quite even half as well as other Christmas novelty songs and movies.
It apparently started out as only a song but eventually was made into an animated short with more songs, which is when I was first exposed to it. Somewhere I've got a VHS and coloring book that came with a record that my father bought at the guy's actual tree farm but never let me color because he was convinced it would be worth something someday.
At 10/11 years old, I thought the whole thing was a little too puerile for my tastes and found the songs downright grating. Unfortunately for me, the school system here loves it due to the hometown connection. I had to sit through it almost every Christmas season, straight through 12th grade. In fact, I even had the French translation forced on me courtesy my French teacher, who prolonged my "joy" by breaking it into sections over several days so that she could quiz us on our comprehension. The foreign language didn't make it any more palatable.
This year, my hometown actually decided to celebrate it by making it into the theme of the official lighting of our local courthouse. They (rather poorly) decorated a tree to be Christopher and screened the film. They've also announced that the creator has recently signed a deal to extend the film to 90 minutes and be given the CGI treatment. Oh, goody.
Hmm..I'm not sure..Wonderful Christmastime song gets under my skin..as well as Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer(even though I laugh my ass off every time it comes on the radio!) And the sort of redneck version of the twelve days of Christmas.
OH! There was one song on the radio one year that got me laughing so HARD..at first I thought it was dogs barking to Jingle Bells, but it was actually men BELCHING to Jingle bells. It was so disgusting that I couldn't stop laughing(and it got annoying after a while)
OH! There was one song on the radio one year that got me laughing so HARD..at first I thought it was dogs barking to Jingle Bells, but it was actually men BELCHING to Jingle bells. It was so disgusting that I couldn't stop laughing(and it got annoying after a while)
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