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OK, as a counterpoint to the other thread... What's your least favorite song of the season?

This could be one that is OK and has been played to death, one that is musically terrible, or one that you just absolutely hate. It could be a song that you enjoy otherwise, but a particular version just grates on your last freaking nerve.  These could be "standards", hymns/carols, or even "novelty" tunes.

Here's the start of my list:

  • Hymns- We Three Kings (such a freaking dirge), O Little Town of Bethlehem (just atrocious, musically)
  • Standards- 12 Days of Christmas (seriously, we get it. You like birds), Frosty the Snowman (saccharine bullshit)
  • Pop- All I Want For  Christmas Is You (perfectly fine, beat to death), Last Christmas (terrible when it was written, and now part of too many "ironic" holiday gatherings), Wonderful Christmastime (serious earworm, no thank you)
  • Novelty tunes- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (my grandmother was killed in a car wreck on Christmas day, so... yeah), Christmas Shoes (Patton Oswalt's take pretty much summarizes my thinking on this POS), The Chipmunk Song (I didn't mind this until Patton ruined it for me as well)

OK, Surly Scrooges... What have you?

EDIT:  I missed it in the OP's list.  It's so fucking awful though.

Edited by Al_4_ISU

While I'm on the Beatles kick, fuck this song in the ass too.  What a flaming piece of shit.  John Lennon meaningless hippy vagaries over a children's choir?  Get the fuck out of here.

1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

While I'm on the Beatles kick, fuck this song in the ass too.  What a flaming piece of shit.  John Lennon meaningless hippy vagaries over a children's choir?  Get the fuck out of here.

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10 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

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I hate Christmas and I think the Beatles are kind of overrated (I don't think the Beatles suck, I just don't love them as much as most people).

So what's wrong with me?  How long you got?

The silly songs are horrible. Toss up between the hippopotamus song and the one about grandma getting run over by a reindeer.

44 minutes ago, HouTex said:

The silly songs are horrible. Toss up between the hippopotamus song and the one about grandma getting run over by a reindeer.

I think the serious ones might actually be worse.  Mostly because they're being taken (somewhat) seriously.

1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

So what's wrong with me?  

The song is a "perfect cynical response to commercial Christmas" for the cynics among us (like you, and me).

When you hear Yoko screeching like a stuck pig - she is doing that for us. 

Most of the songs on the "best christmas song" thread qualify for this.  

Nothing against George Michael, but it's just awful. I know OP kind of covered it but I came here to post after seeing the thread title. I just had to listen to the first 10 seconds, so some of you fucks need to join me.

3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Nothing against George Michael, but it's just awful. I know OP kind of covered it but I came here to post after seeing the thread title. I just had to listen to the first 10 seconds, so some of you fucks need to join me.

 

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Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

The dogs barking to the tune of Jingle Bells. 

I think the serious ones might actually be worse.  Mostly because they're being taken (somewhat) seriously.

Taken seriously? You mean as in a celebration of the birth of Christ? Ok, Ebenezer.
1 minute ago, HouTex said:


Taken seriously? You mean as in a celebration of the birth of Christ? Ok, Ebenezer.

No.  As in they think they're trying to make something that's legitimately good music.

5 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

feliz navidad.  

Very racist.

 

58 minutes ago, deadshank said:

The dogs barking to the tune of Jingle Bells. 

How dare you.

7 hours ago, NWBuck said:

OK, as a counterpoint to the other thread... What's your least favorite song of the season?

This could be one that is OK and has been played to death, one that is musically terrible, or one that you just absolutely hate. It could be a song that you enjoy otherwise, but a particular version just grates on your last freaking nerve.  These could be "standards", hymns/carols, or even "novelty" tunes.

Here's the start of my list:

  • Hymns- We Three Kings (such a freaking dirge), O Little Town of Bethlehem (just atrocious, musically)
  • Standards- 12 Days of Christmas (seriously, we get it. You like birds), Frosty the Snowman (saccharine bullshit)
  • Pop- All I Want For  Christmas Is You (perfectly fine, beat to death), Last Christmas (terrible when it was written, and now part of too many "ironic" holiday gatherings), Wonderful Christmastime (serious earworm, no thank you)
  • Novelty tunes- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (my grandmother was killed in a car wreck on Christmas day, so... yeah), Christmas Shoes (Patton Oswalt's take pretty much summarizes my thinking on this POS), The Chipmunk Song (I didn't mind this until Patton ruined it for me as well)

OK, Surly Scrooges... What have you?

This sent me down a two hour Patton Oswalt rabbit hole. Pos rep. 

Edited by Bender Bending Rodriguez

Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

The dogs barking to the tune of Jingle Bells. 

I don't know but it probably appeared on the Christmas album Bob Dylan released a while back. That was awful. 

I'm a huge McCartney fan going way back, but Wonderful Christmastime does indeed suck some serious ass.

On 12/3/2020 at 12:17 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

EDIT:  I missed it in the OP's list.  It's so fucking awful though.

Lock thread. This is the answer. 

If you fucks are going to rage about Wham! then at least have the common decency to post the original music video where George and the boys are desperately trying not to fuck each other by playing grab-ass with their "girlfriends" in a Swiss Alps chalet. NTTAWWT:

 

 

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