What's that Christmas/Holiday song that's your jam - and what's the song you must turn off?
Hey Lemmy!
What's that one song comes on the radio or party and you're filled with joy? Or perhaps it's a carol and it makes you feel alright. What is it?
Then there's the song that makes you flinch and cringe, and you've gotta shut that song down. What is it?
Your favorite and your despised!
New fave Christmas jam - Megan Trainor feat. Earth, Wind and Fire - Holidays
All time fave - Dominick the Donkey
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
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Mariah Carey has been so overdone she's now Pariah Carey.
Does anyone actually play Dominick the Donkey?
The only time I've ever heard it was whenever someone else says "What's Dominick the Donkey?" and someone finds it on YouTube.
On my personal playlist, along with "Nestor, the Long Ear Donkey".
Ballad of New York - The Pogues
Fairytale*
Avoid - last Christmas. It's not a Christmas song. It just happens to be at that time of year. It's depressing and whiney and over played (even if it wasn't irrelevant).
Avoid: The Christmas Shoes
Jam: Oi to the World by The Vandals
The whole Xmas With the Vandals album is great. Shoutout to the Angry Snowmans, too.
One of these years I'm going to make it to the Vandals Christmas Formal
I want to get a kindergarten class to sing “Grandpa’s Last Christmas”
White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchan (?) Everything else off
Everything else 😆
my favorites are Christmas Wrapping, Last Christmas (never got the hate!) and basically everything off of the Phil Spector and Mannheim Steamroller records. (edit: and Brian Setzer! how could i forget!) the only ones i really dislike are All I Want For Christmas Is You and any time someone covers and upbeat christmas song as an acoustic ballad- people think that's an easy way to make something emotional and meaningful but it actually takes a lot of skill to pull of, and i've yet to hear anyone pull it off with a Christmas song!
Favorites: Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka and The Drifters - White Christmas.
Least Favorite: I don't think i have one. Can even listen to Mariah once or twice. It is Christmas after all.
On: Xmas has been X’ed by NoFX Off: All others
I say that but, as far as holiday records go, the Ventures’ Christmas album is pretty stellar. https://youtu.be/dkeJiDwAnWc
A must-sing-along fav: Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Never again: that one about the boy buying shoes for his dying mother (not even gonna link)
Oh my goodness, Christmas Shoes is the worst.
There is a particular version of Carol of the Bells I quite like.
Also, the Trans Siberian Orchestra turned out a couple great tracks as well.
There are a few tracks by Frank Sinatra that sometimes get played as Christmas music which I won't tolerate. I've never heard a Sinatra song I don't physically hate.
The physical reaction to Sinatra 😆 Is the Carol of the Bells instrumental or vocal? Are you thinking of John Williams' version from Home Alone?
The Home Alone version is in the ballpark; the version I'm thinking of I'm pretty sure was on a CD of Christmas music my parents had. The Home Alone version sounds like it was sung by a children's choir. Then you get a lot of this version that is women plus instruments. The version I'm thinking of was choir only, ran a little faster, and had men in the choir. The sopranos still did most of the work but having some bass in the counter melody and chorus took the power up a notch.
I'm gonna see if I can find that CD today.
Favorite: Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Folgelberg
Worst: Dominic the Donkey
Hee Haw, Hee Haw!
...this dumbass song was in the holiday rotation at my old job. I didn't quit because of it, but the thought crossed my mind several times a shift.
Proper Crimbo by Bo Selecta is my jam.
The one to turn off is Feliz Navidad, I don’t know how it’s made its way to the UK lately. I don’t know anyone who likes it but I think it turns up on a lot of Spotify playlists when people search Christmas music.
A few favorites that don't get a ton of play:
A Soalin' by Peter Paul and Mary
Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand by Steve Winwood
Ding! Dong! Merrily on High by pretty much any choir is so festive
Edit: broke out my Tony Bennett Christmas vinyl this year and was happy to discover Christmasland, which feels like it deserves to be a classic.
Ding Dong! Merrily on High is such a good one! Gotta check out the others too, especially Mr. Bennett. Thanks!
Heat Miser - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Went to their concert a couple weeks ago. I've never heard anyone play that song in concert. I love that song & movie.
Had enough of "Feliz Navidad".
Merry Christmas!
Shipshewana? I just saw that show, too! My family watched The Year Without Santa Claus yesterday and the music was so great. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy did a great job, it was awesome
The concert was: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
Fav: War is over - John Lennon Least favourite: Meghan Trainor anything
I worked retail for a decade. I can't imagine intentionally listening to any Christmas song after that.
At my current job they played them through the whole shift today (luckily only today), and the two that really got to me were "All I want for Christmas is you" (don't know the actual title, but 3 different recordings of it played) and that one nasally bitch with the death wish.
I'm a big queen fan and I love Thank God it's Christmas. I also love Jona Lewie's Stop The Cavalry, which isn't really a Christmas song, but only gets played at Christmas. Bing Crosby's White Christmas is my favourite traditional recording. Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano needs to be binned forever.
It's got the word 'Christmas' in it, so it must be a Christmas song!
That Spirit of Christmas, by Ray Charles. Featured in the attic projector scene in Christmas Vacation
My must have is Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve Sarajevo
https://youtu.be/2LbmhneqBnE?si=DBS73IJvSW5zBQRC
It's easily overplayed, but if I can get away with hearing it 3 times through December, it's great!
Can't stand... Not going to link Maria Carey.
Edit, also not going to link (gagging) Christmas Shoes (vomits)
On: Chiron Beta Prime Off: The Mariah Carey song
I like "altfel de colind" and dislike the music that the Grinch complained about
ms parker by chance the rapper is so smooth... honestly people sleep on his christmas album...
and as someone that has worked at a store... you already know.
On: A Marshmallow World by Dean Martin. Off: Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer.
I've been saying it for years, the only good Christmas song is Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
Awaken - Dethklok
Edit: my turn off song is all I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey
Musta Krakish
I love Cassie and Maggie's Christmas album and their version of Star in the East. I don't like Baby It's Cold Outside because whatever the intent was it's creepy.
“Christmas Eve” - Tatsuro Yamashita
I like Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's version of Baby It's Cold Outside. I try to avoid most other Christmas songs, but especially Mariah Carey. I also worked in a department store for five years, so lots of bad memories of Christmas songs for months.
After growing up with a bunch of retail workers and hearing all their horror stories, I generally try to avoid all the "classic" Christmas tunes as long as possible - the only ones I ever seek out are Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic, and Straight No Chaser's album from 2009.
On: Dead,dead,dead - South Park
Last Christmas - Wham
Little Drummer boy - Traditional
Carol of the Bells - Traditional
Off: Screechy AI slop that appears when you put "Christmas music" in the Youtube search bar.
Silence on the train.
The fucking kid talking and crying nonstop on this train ride.
It's gonna be some looong 6h ffs.
I heard a new one this year (or new to me anyway) which basically has the word "joy" over and over. Googling is failing me, as the word joy is used for pretty much anything Xmas related.
Anyway, as it was new, I don't hate it yet.
There is only one, sadly does not make it on the radio.
Best of all time - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Annie Lennox
Any version of the Little Drummer Boy must be cleansed from the earth with fire and poison.
I like a lot of Christmas songs, but I'd probably just go for a good carol - Ding Dong Merrily On High, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Good King Wenceslas, that sort of thing.
Songs to turn off:
My jam: Santa Baby, by Haley Reinhart
Turn off: Baby It's Cold Outside