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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan on Nov 27, 2016 12:53:56 GMT -5
"I'll Be Home For Christmas". It's just so slow and dismal. What's worse is I heard the sleepiest rendition of the song I heard just last night... Blaring over the sound system at work. That's gotta be one of the worst song ideas I've ever heard to play while everyone is working at their most exhausted level. I only heard it for about a minute and I instantly just wanted a nap.
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Nov 27, 2016 12:54:36 GMT -5
Warning! I only post the video as prof it exists. Don't watch it unless you want to rip out your own teeth and stab yourself in the ears with them, just sayin'
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 27, 2016 13:13:25 GMT -5
Do they know it's Christmas? That song can piss right off "And now here's some incredibly rich people to make you feel ashamed for not giving your 9-5 money to the poor." Exactly
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Post by fw91 on Nov 27, 2016 13:16:49 GMT -5
All of them. Especially, "It's the most wonderful time of the year"
Oh please, it's cold, get's dark early, right in the middle of the school year (I teach).
Someone should tell these people about June/July
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Post by Malcolm on Nov 27, 2016 13:30:50 GMT -5
All of them. Especially, "It's the most wonderful time of the year" Oh please, it's cold, get's dark early, right in the middle of the school year (I teach). Someone should tell these people about June/JulyNot when you live in a freaking Desert. Small trips to the store feel like a blistering eternity, I get extremely sweaty and as a result smelly, and trying to get any sleep is next to impossible thanks to the heat. And since I don't have school anymore, there's no break for me. I'll take shivering cold over sweaty heat any day.
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Post by Malibu Albino on Nov 27, 2016 13:57:21 GMT -5
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" always makes me want to stick a bullet in my head.
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Post by agent817 on Nov 27, 2016 14:11:48 GMT -5
Although I enjoy listening to Christmas music around this time, I will admit that there are some that I am not a fan of. I never cared for "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer." "My Two Front Teeth" from Spike Jones is grating. I also never cared for "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time."
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Post by willywonka666 on Nov 27, 2016 14:15:08 GMT -5
This thread is making Santa cry
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Post by edgestar on Nov 27, 2016 14:24:51 GMT -5
"Do they know it's Christmas" doesn't really bother me, but the line "tonight, thank God its them, instead of you", isn't exactly enlightening.
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Post by Jiren on Nov 27, 2016 14:43:22 GMT -5
This Man the next 3 weeks at work is gonna be a chore, to make matters worse I can't wear headphones.
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Post by Sephiroth on Nov 27, 2016 14:49:08 GMT -5
I used to like the Hawaiian chrusrtmss greeting song too, mainly because it accompanied they nude swimming scene from Christmas Vacation. Had a childhood crush on that woman every Christmas season for years. But again, hearing it over and over while working retail killed it for me.
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Post by Shy Guy on Nov 27, 2016 15:17:02 GMT -5
for me, it's really all christmas music. however, i am in my sixth holiday season of working retail, and this right here really takes the cake for the worst christmas song i have ever ever ever ever ever heard
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Post by zrowsdower on Nov 27, 2016 15:22:24 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure there is a Kidz Bop version of Christmas songs so I hate that.
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 27, 2016 15:24:59 GMT -5
OP is totally right about Madonna Santa Baby. Catwoman superior, Breathless Mahoney inferior.
Anything by Mariah Carey, That Song and otherwise, is overrated.
Christmas Shoes...thank goodness that seems to have faded away at least in my area.
Last Christmas is overplayed, I actually like Taylor Swift's more!
So is Do They Know...?
Hey Santa by Carnie Wilson, full stop.
Where Are You Christmas? by Faith Hill, triple full stop. Anything that reminds me of Jim Carrey Grinch gives me the chills. Plus A Baby Changes Everything is much better, Hill song-wise.
Any Grown Up Christmas List rendition.
Someday at Christmas by Stevie Wonder.
Happy Christmas (War is Over) is overplayed, so are its many inferior covers.
Normally, I have a bucket list of songs I want to hear for the first time on free radio...Anne Murray, Percy Faith, and especially Snoopy's Christmas. Dean Martin's Rudolph too. When I hear them, I switch to my iTunes where Anne, Percy, Peggy Lee, Loretta Lynn, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, and more are waiting.
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 27, 2016 15:27:17 GMT -5
And Baby It's Cold Outside gets a pass from me for reminding me of..
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 27, 2016 15:47:51 GMT -5
All the traditional X-mas songs. Really it would be easier to list the ones I do like.
Silent Night Deadly Night-The Browns,I prefer the acoustic version to the one off their second album. Merry X-mas I don't want to fight tonight-Ramones X-mas has been X'ed out-NOFX
For the traditional X-mas songs I do enjoy the X-mas album,full of nothing but traditional X-mas songs,that Bad Religion put out a few years ago. But that is more cause I find it kind of funny that a very anti religion band put out an album of X-mas songs. "Hey if Barry Manalow and Neil Diamond can put out X-mas albums why can't we?"
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Post by bibboid on Nov 27, 2016 15:49:11 GMT -5
Christmas Shoes. Just... Christmas Shoes. The instant I hear this on the radio, I change the station. Felix Navidad - 14 freaking words repeated over and over and over. It drives me out of my mind.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Nov 27, 2016 15:53:50 GMT -5
"Do they know it's Christmas" doesn't really bother me, but the line "tonight, thank God its them, instead of you", isn't exactly enlightening. Bono's over-singing of it aside, I think it's necessary. Bob Geldof said thet he was asked if he was sure about the line and he said something along the line of "yes and don't tell me you're not thinking you're grateful it's not you in their place". I don't really understand the hatred for the original version of this song. No one else was doing anything about it, so a bunch of stars got together and did what they thought was the best they could do. It hadn't really been done before and so it wasn't a case of people doing it to benefit their own career (which you could argue was the case for every charity ensemble song since). They recorded a song which sold in millions (it was the best-selling song of all-time in the UK until Diana died) and they actually took the food to the masses themselves, instead of going through the corrupt government who were one of the reasons the people were in the situation they were in the first place.
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Post by ERON on Nov 27, 2016 16:14:06 GMT -5
I love Christmas songs in general, but some versions of particular songs are better than others. Some of the vocal gymnastics a lot of modern singers throw in make me wince. I heard a version of Silver Bells where the guy managed to squeeze at least 11 syllables out of the word "bells."
Also, Linus & Lucy is not a Christmas song. Yes, they play it in the Charlie Brown Christmas special, but they also play it in just about every other Charlie Brown special. By that logic, the theme song to every TV show that ever had a special Christmas episode could be considered a Christmas song.
And I've never actually heard Christmas Shoes, but since it always seems to come up when this topic is raised, I decided to check out the lyrics. Yeah, whoever wrote that schmaltz can go jump in the lake.
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Post by edgestar on Nov 27, 2016 16:36:32 GMT -5
In the car with my mom, and everyone's favorite song just came on, aka Christmas Shoes
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