Posted on 12/21/2011 8:08:46 AM PST by Libloather
VOTE: What are the best and worst Christmas songs of all time?
Last Updated: 10:11 AM, December 20, 2011
Can't stand "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"? Do you listen to "Santa Baby" on repeat? Vote for what you think are the best and most annoying Christmas songs below, and see the results in an upcoming Post story.
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Best (non religious) Cowboy Christmas Ball by The Killers
The worst (not on the list) is Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire--unless I can think of one that's even worse.
Last year there was an article where Geldoff admitted it may be the worst song ever recorded. He has nightmares about carolers come by the house singing it. Serves him right for writing it.
The music is nice because it was stolen from the excellent Lieutenant Kijé Troika melody by Prokofiev.
It’s no surprise to me that a music thief would trash the magical wonder of Christmas.
“Worst — that Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart song.”
Indeed. About as un-Christmas as can get. Hate that song. Putting the word “Christmas” in a song doesn’t make it a Christmas song.
“Santa Baby” gives me the creeps. But I do love that Emerson, Lake, & Palmer “I Believe in Father Christmas” ... that’s a gorgeous song. I’ll listen to that in July.
A good one.... Silent Night:Temptations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFc7STuQF0U
One of the most depressing/bad songs... Christmas Shoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PZHAOliwJs
Insipid, awful, annoying. I want to claw out someones eyes. Damn song gets stuck in my head and I hate it vehemently!
"Feed the WOOORRRLLLD, Let them know it's Christmas time again" (sung 20 times in a row)
Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/christmas-songs-2/mary-did-you-know-14398.html
Mary Did You Know is my favorite. There are many versions of it.
Best - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Merry Christmas from the family!!! A Texas Christmas song
Wow! I never knew that about the Prokofiev/Troika thing. As soon as I you posted that, I went right to Youtube and found it, and you’re right, it’s not even sampled, it’s pretty much just lifted (at least in parts.) I’m listening to it now, and it’s really cool.
Amen to that!
Look on the bright side - we don’t hear “Silent Night, 7:00 News” anymore.
I was about to get a little defensive until I realized I was thinking of a different song. I was thinking of One Last Christmas by Matthew West. It's a somewhat sad but touching song about a family with a terminally ill boy who know he won't make it to the end of the year so they start celebrating Christmas (with the help of the neighbors) in September. Eventually the whole town gets in on it and he has a smile on his face to the last moment.
The Paul McCartney and John Lennon Christmas songs are insipid.
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Did you know
That your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know
That your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you’ve delivered
Will soon deliver you
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Did you know
That your baby boy will calm a storm with His hand?
Did you know
That your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when you kiss your little boy
You’ve kissed the face of God
Mary, did you know?
The blind will see
The deaf will hear
And the dead will live again
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of the Lamb
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Did you know
That your baby boy will one day rules the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy is heaven’s perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you’re holding
Is the Great I Am
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