"War is over....if you want it."
Posted on 12/21/2014 11:36:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We asked you what you thought of Christmas music and while most of you love it – early appearances not withstanding – there are a few songs that just get under your skin.
Here are the tunes that iVillage.ca readers voted as the worst (read: most annoying) Christmas songs ever.
10. Run, Rudolph, Run
This rockabilly jingle is a bluesy take on Christmas.
“Run, run, Rudolph, whizzin’ like a merry-go-round,” croons Chuck Berry, as we imagine frenzied shoppers running in all directions to satisfy Christmas desires.
9. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
This song might be perceived as being modern, because we rarely hear the original version: it’s from 1953! Jimmy Boyd’s child voice sings earnestly and clearly in a southern twang, “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night. She didn’t see me creep down the stairs to have a peek!”
There is a worrisome part in the lyrics where the little boy mentions he saw Mommy taking Santa’s clothes off, but then humour steps in when he says Daddy would’ve had a laugh over that one (wait, what?!).
8. Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey
This classically kitchy Christmas song by Lou Monte is one of those things that divides people. Love it, or hate it, some of us just don’t understand it.
7. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Any way you slice it, this song is slightly offensive. The tune tells of grandma, who drank too much eggnog and went for a drunken walk. Santa and his elves were also moving askew Christmas Eve and so ran her over. The next day, everyone wore black to mourn grandma’s death except for grandpa, who didn’t seem to care. He drank beer and watched TV. Definitely the least heart-warming song on the list.
6. Christmas Don’t Be Late (aka the Chipmunks Christmas Song)
Two people voted the cute little rodents in for most annoying Christmas music. How could they?!
“Christmas, Christmas, time is here, time for love, and time for cheer”. Oh, wait, we get it now.
5. All I Want For Christmas is You (Mariah Carey version)
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more annoying…Justin Bieber recently sang a duet of this song with Carey. “What more can I doooooo? Oh baby, all I want for Christmas, IS YOU!” Jingle jingle.
4. Santa Baby
Most of us know Madonna or Mariah Carey (and most recently, Taylor Swift’s) version of this song, and agree they’re annoying. But have you heard Eartha Kitt’s slow-paced, staccato and authentically sultry version before? Singers today don’t hold a Christmas candle to her.
3. Wonderful Christmastime
Here’s a gem that has never died. I heard it just yesterday while eating lunch at a grocery store café, and it somehow made me want to wolf my sandwich down faster and skedaddle! Although the synthesizing beats and promise of a wawa pedal speak to greater possibilities, the chanting refrain of “Simply having a wonderful Christmastime” takes over. Repeat.
2. Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Those of us who had the pleasure of growing up in the 1980s remember the Live Aid movement well. “Feed the world; let them know its Christmastime!” The sentiment and donations the movement spurred is commendable; but the overplayed song is slightly annoying decades later.
1. Christmas Shoes
Christian country rockers Newsong are responsible for this ballad. The song is about a man in line whilst shopping, and a little fidgety boy in line in front of him. He has a pair of ladies shoes that he wants to buy, and a pocketful of change that won’t do. So the man in line helps the child out, and the boy buys his dying mama a pair of nice shoes so she can look her best when she goes to heaven. Heartfelt, sad and yet…annoying.
What’s your least-favourite Christmas song? Let us know in the comments.
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All of the above plus “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas”.
THAT ^^ silly song needs to be banned, everywhere ;-)
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The group I sing with has this in our set and one of us dresses up like a hippo for each show. The kids and the folks at rest home seem to like it... :-)
Yes, and take Obama with you!!!
Regarding “The Boss’s” version of Santa Clause is Coming To Town” I 100% agree!!!!!!!!
Still haven't recovered.
For those of you that don't understand TORTURE:
My favorite has to be “Let There Be a Christmas” by Alan Jackson. Put that one on replay!!!
I’m with you on that one. Worst song ever.
How did the abominable rendition of “Jingle Bells” by the feculant Babs Streisand not make the list? That is too cruel to play to terrorists.
One of my first jobs out of high school was a night stocker at a Kmart. They still had the old tape loop that played the same 10 Christmas songs beginning the day after Thanksgiving. That horrid song played every hour. We would get in trouble by the store manager if he found out we would leave the announcement handset off the hook because it over rode the taped music. He said there could be an emergency announcement (at 3am when the store is closed and that same manager wasn’t on shift until 9am?) but I think he just wanted to torture us.
No, I like that song as well.
It’s really nice.
John Lennon’s opening line “ So this is Christmas and what have you done “ from ‘ Happy Xmas War is Over ‘ enrages me on so many levels.
From the smug, self satisfied, preachy tone to the attitude that led to our abandonment of South Vietnam I despise this song.
I swear this is a litmus test for any potential wife - you like this song? Fine - hit the bricks, dingbat.
Guess you don't like "Radar Love", neither.
“Wonderful Christmastime” is my #1.
I hate, I mean HATE with a pure HATRED the disgustingly stupid song Last Christmas. Did you know there are at least 15 versions of that sickening tune? Me neither till my kids downloaded them all onto a CD and tied me to a chair last Christmas and forced me to hear them all.
I should pay them back this year, but alas, I’m too nice.
I must be getting real old. I am surprised no one has mentioned the oh-so-precious “Silent Night/7 O’Clock News”. I guess we can thank the Good Lord that this one has been forgotten.
I thought it was “Police Nab Me Dad.”
"War is over....if you want it."
? Never heard of it.
It was a song by Golden Earring from the 70s that had the line, “The radio’s playin’ some forgetten song/Brenda Lee’s ‘Comin’ on Strong’....”
Yeah, thanks leftists.
The antiwar movement from the 1970s has an immense amount of blood on their hands.
There is a Vietnamese restaurant in Boston I frequent all the time. Get any of those people on this subject ( even the ones in their 20’s ) and they get crazy. One I know who is in her 40’s got hysterical talking about what the communists did in the South.
John Lennon can rot in hell for all I care.
And we’re concerned about the Christmas and musical preferences of Canadians why?
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