but if I ever hear the "Litle Drummer Boy" duet again...
pa-rum-pa-pa-pum!
Posted on 12/08/2004 8:50:15 AM PST by presidio9
EVER been driven up the chimney by a Christmas song that you really, really hate? New Jersey researchers have named the six worst Christmas songs of all time, as picked by holiday-music fans who were asked to rate more than 600 yule tunes.
The biggest lump of coal goes to "O Holy Night" as sung by the foul-mouthed Cartman from "South Park," according to Edison Media Research.
Close behind are Seymour Swine & the Squealers' butchered "Blue Christmas," "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs and, separately, Barbra Streisand — and "12 Days of Guido Christmas" by the Ha Ya Doin' Boys.
"We play — very lightly — the Barbra Streisand version of 'Jingle Bells' because she's got a following in New York," says Jim Ryan, programmer of top-rated Lite FM (WLTW/106.7).
"People tend not to like it because it's a really fast, up-tempo version of 'Jingle Bells' — almost like she did it as a goof," Ryan told The Post.
WPLJ (95.5 FM) music director Tony Mascaro says his research turned up a sixth song that listeners can't stand: Elmo & Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."
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Ah, another classic. :)
XM Radio Channel 83 is playing all these cheesy songs.
Very Brady Christmas, followed by Bonanza cast Christmas, then a dog bark song, and cat song, and a bunch of other losers.
Some of them are funny though.
Perhaps, but you're not alone. I've never liked the Beatles, and never understood what all the hype was about. Maybe I'm just too young, but they've always sucked, IMHO.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
That one's on "More Twisted Christmas"....I need to go get that one.
That was Yoko?
I thought Paul McCartney had a leg cramp!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is hilarious.
It's repetition that does it, I think. There was a year when just one more version of "Little Drummer Boy" would have put me over the edge, but this year it's "Jingle Bell Rock" that has me reaching for my semiautomatic bazooka. If there's a mass mall slaying in northern Idaho I don't think any jury would convict me.
One of my favorite Christmas songs
I think you mean "We Are the World". I never associated that as being a Christmas song, but our non-stop Christmas radio station has has been playing it alot.
Awesome. I'll have to send it home to the kids.
No, I'm not a sadist, we never taught them the Santa scam. Ain't nobody but mom and dad responsible for Christmas in our house.
Incidentally, Chris Isaak has his first Christmas album out this year, which is receiving positive reviews, and on which he returns to channeling Roy Orbison(Pretty Paper) and the King (Bloo Xmas).
It's always a favorite in my parents' Massachusetts household!
Last year I downloaded every version of Sleigh Ride I could find and put them on the same CD.
Sadly, I was actually listening the other day and enjoying the different versions. Cool thing is that I put the disk on at a party and nobody notices that it's all the same song.
Here's one of the verses:
Carve the turkey turn the ball game on
Mix Margaritas when the eggnog's gone
Send somebody to the Quik-Pak store
We need some ice and an extension cord
A can of bean dip and some Diet Rite
A box of pampers , some Marlboro Lights
Hallelujah everybody say cheese
Merry Christmas from the family
Has anyone mentioned "Leroy the red-necked reindeer?"
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, is cute. I find it humorous, but I can see why some people don't like it.
190+ posts and nobody has yet mentioned Red Sobine (sp?)
He reads to music the worlds most depressing Christmas story.
Synopsis: A very poor child from a broken home, who has been constanly told how worthless he is, tells Santa his story, asks Santa to ask Jesus if the boy can look in to heaven. And then the boy dies in Santa's lap...
No that's not it. That is another barf song. It goes something like "time of the year... we want you to join us...." I can't remember the rest. I was in a Toys R US the other day, and when I heard this song. I was just getting tortured. Oh it was painful..
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