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List of "Tired" Christmas Music (That Should Be Retired)
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Posted on 11/27/2001 4:59:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
The Christmas season is upon us once again and the sounds of holiday music can be heard in shopping malls, restaurants, and other public places. Radio stations are already slipping the occasional Christmas song into their playlists and by mid-December, it will be wall-to-wall Christmas music.
Now that is not a bad thing. I like Christmas music. I collect Christmas music. Later in the Christmas season, I will post a vanity on my favorite Christmas music and that post promises to be much longer than this one.
But why is it that so many tired and really annoying Christmas songs seem to get the most airplay? Is it just me or does it seem like the radio stations play the same few Christmas songs 90% of the time?
On this thread, I will list some of my least favorite or more accurately, the most tired Christmas songs of alltime and will seek your input. I put a lot of thought into putting this list together. You are welcome to disagree with me and/or list a few really tired Christmas songs of your own.
Surely there are worse Christmas songs out there than the ones I am about to list. But I kept my list to songs that are familiar and that get a lot of airplay. The emphasis here on on "tired" rather than "bad." Also, to make my list, the song must have been out for at least five years. These songs have established some longevity of being really tired. I am listing the ones that have been "in our face" year after year. Without so much great material out there (I'll have a separate post on that closer to Christmas), there is no excuse for radio stations not to pursue fresher material.
So in no particular order, here goes...the most "tired" Christmas songs of alltime.
- Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Now I'm not normally a violent person. But if somebody was to shoot the person who wrote this song, it would be okay by me. This has got to be absolutely the most annoying Christmas Song I have ever heard. It stopped being funny sometime around 1984. Yet year after year, radio stations seem to play it at least once every hour. Many a Christmas compilation album has been ruined for me by the inclusion of this tired ditty.
- Adam Sandler - The Chanukah Song. Okay, maybe it was funny the first 232 times I heard it. But this song has really run its course and it should be retired. And to add insult to injury, Sandler released a "sequel" version of this song a few years ago but it already seems like 20 years ago. It's just not "funakah" to hear this anymore.
- The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping. Many, many years ago, back when Ronald Reagan used to refer to Russia as the "Evil Empire," it was cool to play this record at Christmas. It was cutting edge and having this song in your Christmas collection separated you from the Perry Como and Bing Crosby crowd. Well it's not cutting edge, cool or "New Wave" anymore. It's as mainstream as Garth Brooks and as dull as Peter Jennings. Give this record a rest, please.
- Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad. Must be a "PC" thing because the song itself is lame. Okay, okay, so it's politically correct to be "diverse" and know "Merry Christmas" in 17 different languages. So Buon Natale to you then, I am putting a contract out on this record. I am going to have it inserted into a block of wet cement and send it to the bottom of Boston Harbor. At least the Italians know what to do when something becomes tired and no longer "useful." Time for some new Christmas material from Mexico, and fast.
- Cheech & Chong - Santa And His Old Lady. Cheech: "Like I PLAYED with that dude, man." Chong: "Whoa, like Santa Claus ain't no musician, man!" Cheech: "I'm hip, man, like that dude couldn't play for beans, man!" Well I'm hip to Cheech & Chong. They can't play for beans and they aren't funny anymore to boot. Were these guys EVER funny? Must have been a 70s thing.
- Band-Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? Not only was this song a blatant rip-off of "We Are The World" (or maybe it was vice versa) but the question the song poses is ridiculous. Of course they don't know it's Christmas, and they probably couldn't give a shit either. Until this year, did we ever know it was Ramadan over there? And that "Feed The World" chorus, well, here it is 15 years later and the people are still starving over there. Guess it makes liberals feel good to sing the song though. Like the next one on my list...
- John & Yoko - Happy Xmas (War Is Over). Maybe it's the spelling of Christmas that irks me most about this record. Didn't this song start the whole loathsome "Xmas" thing? Anyway, you can be sure that this song will get even heavier airplay this Christmas season in light of the current war situation. But I'm so tired of this song already!
- Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Okay, I like Bruce Springsteen. But I still think he could have picked a better Christmas song to cover. Or even have done an original. Anyway, I was already tired of this song by 1979.
I could think of a few more but I'm going to let my fellow Freepers get a crack at adding to the list of "tired" Christmas music.
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To: SamAdams76
Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad. Oh yeaaaaaahhhh! This one for sure. Actually it's usually the artist more than the song that needs to be retired. :)
To: SamAdams76
It's a hol-ly-jol-ly Christmas. And whatever that one is that's done by Paul McCartney. Yecccch.
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posted on
11/27/2001 5:05:51 PM PST
by
gumbo
To: SamAdams76
"JINGLE BELL ROCK." It must DIE! I practically run my car off the road when this comes on the radio. BAN JINGLE BELL ROCK!!
To: BunnySlippers
How about "The Twelve Days of Christmas" by those Canadian guys? You know, "...my true love gave to me - a beer".
To: SamAdams76
Bwahahahha @ Cheech and Chong.
"Let it snow"...I don't like snow.
To: SamAdams76
Add this one to the tired or banned list of Christmas songs and dittys:
"Alvin and the Chipmonks" singing anything about Christmas !
That chipmonk falsetto drove me nuts.
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posted on
11/27/2001 5:10:21 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: Nathan Jr.
I love that one. McKenzie Bros, eh? Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
To: gumbo
"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time"
Aaaaahhh!!! I can't get that awful song out of my head now!
To: Nathan Jr.
Ha! I think I listen to a different radio station. How about any Christmas song by Alvin and the Chipmunks?
To: SamAdams76
Have never heard most of the songs on your tired list. But then I mostly listen to talk radio. heh heh
To: SamAdams76
Have never heard most of the songs on your tired list. But then I mostly listen to talk radio. heh heh
To: ex-Texan
That chipmonk falsetto drove me nuts. Especially since you KNOW it is not really a chipmunk ... but high speed silliness. Now, if it had REALLY been a chipmunk ....
To: SamAdams76
Actually Melissa Etheridge's cover of John and Yoko's Happy Christmas is quite good (despite what one makes of her personal life.)
I remember your post from last year on the good Christmas tunes and agreed with your liking for Mannheim Steamroller, and Loreena Mckennit's Christmas album. I also enjoy the Pogues', "Fairytale of New York," and am somewhat reluctant to admit that Jewel has some decent cuts on her Christmas effort released last year...
To: SamAdams76
John & Yoko - Happy Xmas (War Is Over). BARF...
Slightly off topic, one of my favorite Christmas songs....
AC/DC - Mistress for Christmas.........
To: SamAdams76
That dang carol that has the dogs barking to Jingle Bells. Drives me NUTS! LOL
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posted on
11/27/2001 5:14:14 PM PST
by
Republic
To: gumbo
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives. Yeah, I know what you mean, it is kind of tired. But I like it and give it a few spins each year. How can you hear that song and NOT be in a good mood!
As for that McCartney song, how could I have missed it! I believe the title is "Wonderful Christmastime" and the chorus goes "Simply, having, a wonderful Christmastime" over and over again. McCartney's vocals are awful and there is practically nothing to this song except that repetitive chorus. Obviously this was a throwaway from one of the early "fan club" records that the Beatles used to put out.
To: Nathan Jr.
Aaaaahhh!!! I can't get that awful song out of my head now!Aaaaaahhh!!! Now I can't either! Why did you have to name it?!
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posted on
11/27/2001 5:14:29 PM PST
by
gumbo
To: SamAdams76
It's a vanity alright--but a cute one. At first when I read the title I thought, 'no way, all the songs are fun' but after reading your list I agree with you--ALL except the last one. I still kind of like that one. I guess I don't hear it as much as you do.
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posted on
11/27/2001 5:15:13 PM PST
by
Boxsford
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