Your most hated Christmas songs
 

Okay, so Tore is determined to get you all into the Christmas spirit, but I don't bring you peace and joy, I bring you woe and pestilence! Bah humbug! Post the Christmas songs that you HATE, that make you want to hang yourself from the Christmas tree and poke your eyes out with skewers. :D

This is mine. Don't even talk to me about it.

"Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney is the worst Christmas song I can think of. From the cheesy synthesizer to the lame lyrics, it has literally zero redeeming features. The single even has terrible cover art (see below). Apparently McCartney is embarrassed by this song these days, as he should be.

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All of them.

Seriously, I like The Pogues, John Lennon and thats about it.

I used to work in retail and as much as I like Christmas, I cannot stand Christmas music. I attribute my hatred to having the same songs played on a loop for the six weeks leading up to Christmas while attempting to work around demented shoopers, rush shoopers and old women fighting over the last turkey. And I mean a fist-fight.

This one has to be the most vile, putrid, loathsome thing I have ever heard though.

^ Same as above, I don't like Christmas music at all. It's playing everywhere this month and it's near impossible to get away from.

I work in a grocery store so I pretty much loathe all Christmas music.

I have a hard spot in my heart for the most awful of all Christmas songs, though.



Listen to it. Think a bout the words. It's about rape. And none of you can tell me differently.

All of them. I love Christmas but by god it's got the lamest music ever.

How about this?

Nope.

Nope, what?

Didn't like it. Christmas songs (both traditional and contemporary) just do nothing for me. I know it's Christmas time, I don't need "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" to remind me.

I remember when I worked in a shop and management decided to play Christmas music from the beginning of November up till New Years Eve.

Sadly they only had 2 Christmas albums and I had to listen to these albums anything from 8 to 13 hours a day 6 days a week for 2 months.

And Frosty the f*cking Snowman was on both albums meaning I heard it round about every 30 minutes throughout that whole 2 months.

And no i'm not posting a f*cking youtube video of it.

I'm not sure how this relates to the song I posted as it is neither traditional nor contemporary nor, for that matter, even really a Christmas song. :confused:

And on that note:



Now that's what I call the Christmas spirit.

Alright, it's not a song but hey if you hate CHristmas you gotta watch this.. if you've already seen it, sure have yerself a laugh anyway. :) And Jansz, big thumbs up on the McCartney song. God how I hate that!

Lol at those crappy metal bands thinking they're all alternative because they release poor music with the word 'Christmas' in the title used in a derogatory manner.
Think I'd rather listen to Cliff Richard.

To answer the original post, I'd have to go with The Pouges - Fairytale of New York.

Give me all the arguments about it not being a 'Christmas song' but fact is year after year it gets rolled out and it physically drains me with its sheer awfulness.
Also, you're not making some kind of anti-commercialism stand by listening to it, you're just putting yourself under unnecessary suffering.

Seriously I can relate to this. On that note, I will also not post YouTubes of a lot of the songs I can not stand during the season, including Celine Dion's annoying cover John Lennon's classic.

"Metal bands" plural? I've only seen one metal band posted in this thread so far.

This seriously is among the most annoying X-Mas blasts of wind ever. Paul and Synth with some of the most cliche lyrics committed to such a song. There have been worse, but this was possibly the very first holiday song I detested.

I couldn't disagree with you more. I've been overexposed to probably hundreds of Christmas songs, just like everyone else, and the only one I would say I 'like' is The Pogues.

Everything else can fuck off.

I'd personally rather listen to Nickelback than listen to a Christmas song.

On second thought...



I'd make an exception for TSO over anything.

I like that song a lot too. I'm not sure what Maanty's on about as far as it being some kind of "anti-commercialism stand". It's just a good song, it doesn't have any particular social or political meaning for me.

how could you hate Christmas Time For My Penis?


Christmas With The Vandals - Christmas Time For My Penis - YouTube


considering that a good portion of these songs are about jesus...whom i do not believe deserves such an amazing rap....most of the religious songs get on my nerves

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i despise this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE

I dislike The Pouges's song because of the nasally grunting vocals, the mindless self-indulgence of the record and of those who herald it as something special.
It's not.

For years, it's been seen as the 'Alternative Christmas Anthem' but how does appearing on every ****ty MTV countdown of 'greatest christmas tunes' and every Now That's What I Call Christmas compilation make it an alternative to anything.

People listen to it because it's not merry and it represents everything that the festive time isn't supposed to be. Err, Hello there's an upbeat jig half way through the song with lyrics which I find highly objectionable giving our modern society and how frequently the song is played.

It's really grating as a track. Some guy who can't sing (no doubt everyone will say his voice is just 'different' but this argument doesn't seem to suffice for Elvis Costello on this forum) singing about an era he can't recall being a part of. He was probably kicking about, as an intoxicated child, who knows I couldn't be bothered Googling it, that's how much time I have for this song; very little.

I do not like it. It sucks.

I fully agree. I hate this song with a passion, and the inordinate number of people who rate it as their top Christmas song is ridiculous. At its heart it's the tale of a feuding husband and wife arguing and cursing one another over the holiday season. I never rated McGowan (guy can't even take care of his teeth, ffs!) and the fact that Kirsty has passed on doesn't earn it any sympathy in my book.

Also, it's forever enshrined as the IRISH Christmas song! God save us!

You don't like it, I get it. That's fine. What's odd, though, is your judgement of why other people might like it. Personally I couldn't care less if the song is or isn't on some MTV list or if people in general consider it "alternative" or "not alternative". Seriously, who cares? I listen to it because it sounds good to me, not because it's "not merry". It's just a fictional narrative from the perspective of two drunken ne'er-do-wells from what I can tell, not sure I see any reason to take it particularly seriously. For that matter, I'm not sure why someone singing about some other era would be so objectionable either. It's kind of an ironic complaint in a conversation about Christmas music of all things.

Is it? That sucks that the IRISH Christmas song takes place in New York. :laughing:

I'd rather be represented by Shane McGowan at Christmas than this.....

If she's not penetrated or assaulted against her will how can it be rape?...it's just a guy trying to convince a girl to stay so he can enjoy her company on a cold night....and most likely get some tail....until she says NO DON'T PENETRATE or TOUCH me (and he forces himself on her anyway) then its not rape or date rape or anything like that....

Also this song was written in a time where you had to have a girl home by a certain time and if the neighbors saw a young girl leaving a single man's house in the morning it would be the scandal of the town for days(so I doubt they would imply anything more innocent than staying the night)...which is what the main point of the song...its scandalous for them even to just spend the night together but both of them want to. She wants to protect her honor and not have her parents worry but in the end she says she's gonna stay and she never says NO.

EDIT: But I think it's clear that he's talking her into staying the night to get some....warm fire, strong drink, cold weather, and he starts crying and begging...yeah as a man you never cry and beg for a woman to hang around just for her company...

Someone already mentioned it, but 'Grandmaw got run over by a reindeer' has to be the most campy, idiotic thing ever created.

Anything by Jessica Simpson. And anything by any other washed-up pop artists who think they can bask in the spotlight for 2 more seconds with a Christmas Album.

On another note, I love Christmas and need at least Christmas Eve and Christmas day to watch some of the classics and listen to some of the music.

Oh jeez, I hate Christmas music. Trans Siberian Orchestra is pretty much the exception. And also Merry Xmas by John Lennon. That one is good. I feel like I was overexposed to christmas music as a child though and that's why I don't like it - my mom had TONS of christmas cds and that is seriously all she would play in the house for a period of about two months. Plus hearing them on the radio. My most hated ones are...

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer - that one's just stupid
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - extremely annoying
the Paul McCartney one on the first page - Idk why, just annoys me
All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
Last Christmas by Wham
Christmas Lights by Coldplay
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas (whoever that's by)
It's the Most Wonderful Time of Year (again, not sure who sings it)
the list goes on.

...But the worst for me is the Justin Beiber christmas album. Some girls in my yearbook design class last year had it and my teacher let them play it every day during class for about a month. And my class was an hour and forty minutes long, so I'd usually hear each song multiple times before the class ended D:

Burl Ives was most famous for Holly Jolly Christmas...Don't know if Andy Williams or Johnny Mathis is most famous for Most Wonderful Time of the Year....

I still have a soft spot for some of these classics but that's only because I basically force myself to drop the synicism and be happy for 5 minutes out of the year and get in that 'mood', then just like that its gone again until next Dec.

Haha yeah for some reason although I can't stand Christmas music, I can survive Christmas movies. To get into the Christmas spirit for a day or two I'll watch something quotable like Elf or Christmas Vacation and then I'm good for the year...

Oh yeah, I forgot - the only thing worse than annoying Christmas music are those annoying singing Christmas wreaths. You know, the ones that burst into random song when you walk past them or open a door or something.. My family had one for the longest time and then our new dog was terrified of it so we finally just put it in the basement. And then my sister and I secretly sold it at a yard sale one year xD Hahah..

Barf receptacles at the ready...

...I'm still not quite sure why I actually clicked 'play' on that.

You win. That's the worst one yet :P

Thank you for clearing that up.

Oh and how is it self indulgent?

It's an alternative Christmas anthem? What are you basing that on?

Actually I don't listen to it, apart from at Christmas anyway. Even then, I might and I might not. If I was to listen to it though it wouldn't be for some kind of rebellious protest against Christmas and I really doubt this is "why people listen to it."

I don't even know what you mean by this. What 'era' is he singing about?

I dont know about you people, but I don't think this guy likes this song.

Yeah true, but then it is about emigrants too. But yeah, it's seen as that here. Bloody Pogues! :(

I know what the title of the thread is (I wrote it, after all) but just in case anyone thinks I'm a total Grinch...

I DO like "Silver bells", "Sleigh ride" (every time I write this --- and I've written it a lot, especially during my "25 Worst Christmas Albums" slot in my journal --- my fingers ALWAYS automatically type "slight ride". Don't know why) "Let it snow", a few others. I just hate the REALLY camp and overplayed ones. And "Fairytale of New York". ;)

It basks in itself, trying too hard to relate to too many people who may see Christmas and the due stress and financial woe it causes the same way the Pouges try to convey they view the festive season.

The fact it isn't a joyous merry song about Christmas Trees and following stars to Bethlehem. It's clearly geared in a way to highlight the negative aspects of the season through the eyes of a down-on-his-luck drunk.
It's picked up by people who think that it is the antithesis of what a traditional Christmas song should sound like.


1950's New York. I thought you liked the song.

I think that sums up that song.. Most of my friends who dislike Christmas music like it. For me it's as equally annoying - maybe even more so - than the overplayed mainstream songs.

I feel like I'm sounding like Scrooge here, but I did mention SOME Christmas music I like, so there. xP

Hey, here's another one I hate: "Back Door Santa" by Bon Jovi! Once again I submit a song that starts with a godawful cheesy keyboard, but it gets so, so much worse. For one thing, it's just a lame song with a boring beat and a crappy guitar solo. Beyond that, the sexually suggestive lyrics are bad to begin with, but the poor choice of words in this innuendo-filled tune also ends up making the song sound like it's about anal sex. Plus, the "I keep the little girls happy" line makes it sound like it's about a pedophile.

(And, yes, I realize they didn't write the song, theirs is just the version I'm most familiar with and it's extra, extra crappy.)