Comments on: Christmas Music

By: chris

chris — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:36:43 +0000

sum1 at my house has rosie odonnel and elmo…

By: Maddy

Maddy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:42:34 +0000

This made me think of John Lennon’s ‘Happy Xmas (War is Over)’.

I don’t think people really realise that the song . . . is not about Christmas.

By: plurdoc

plurdoc — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:22:07 +0000

mariah carey screeching out a 10 minute song that should only last about 2 minutes.

By: Dana_Gurl

Dana_Gurl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:42:44 +0000

The graph is wrong. Christmas music that sucks: 100%. Good Christmas music: 0%.

By: January

January — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:04:24 +0000

I don’t know… looking at the lyrics, I wouldn’t quite say date rape as she’s only saying that she SHOULD say no, as well as the fact that they don’t really do anything but a lot of kissing, but she stays long enough that more will be implied by others. However, it is definitely a sleazy song about pressuring a woman into more than she’d prefer to do and staying longer than she’d rather stay. Definitely not a song in keeping with the Christmas spirit.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:01:38 +0000

I swear I had this on a Christmas songs record when I was a kid, but I can’t remember what it was, or why I had it.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Seriously. Of course then I always thought the answer to the question of whether the starving kids knew it was Christmas depended to a large extent on whether or not their family practiced a Christian religion. If they do, then, yeah, they know it’s Christmas, even if it’s a sucky refugee camp Christmas; if they don’t, well then they probably don’t give a rat’s ass about your holiday.

By: Fer

Fer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:03:18 +0000

Tell me: why do they feel the need to put incessant jingly bells in every. single. Christmas. song. known to mankind? When I worked in retail many years ago I was stuck listening to “chingchingchingchingchingchingchingchingchingchingchingching” for ten hours straight because of a poor sound system (luckier areas got the whole song).

Cheesy off-key lyrics I can cope with, but not the bells… never the bells…

By: adam antichrist

adam antichrist — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:20:54 +0000

no. seriously. no good xmas songs. never ever.

By: -me

-me — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:13:54 +0000

He was a merry old soul, was he not?

By: The L

The L — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:10:46 +0000

That’s why I just pop in the old Peanuts Christmas tape I’ve had since I was four. I’ve heard it all a million times already, but it’s better than about 80% of Christmas music recorded during the past ten years, for sure.

By: The L

The L — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:09:03 +0000

Or Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime.” Seriously, Paul, what happened that year?

By: Jingles

Jingles — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:04:41 +0000

I was going to use that as an example of the fourth category needed, “Original Songs That Never Should Have Been Created”.

By: Selkhit

Selkhit — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:28:47 +0000

Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer singing “It’s Cold Outside”. Now THERE is a winter/Christmas song.

By: mamarosa

mamarosa — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:26:06 +0000

Note to Cold Play:

Just because a song exists doesn’t mean you should try to sing it.

File under the green category please.

By: mamarosa

mamarosa — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:11:42 +0000

How about:

Do they know it’s Christmastime?

Have another slice of Christmas guilt anyone?

By: Dexaan

Dexaan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:55:28 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMfcfYcIDbg — Hippopotamus for Christmas

By: KaBooM

KaBooM — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:29:35 +0000

Originals that suck ass is where on the chart? It needs to be bigger…

By: Party Pooper

Party Pooper — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:16:17 +0000

Back then, that was called “persistence.”

By: Hailey

Hailey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:51:27 +0000

Amen to that. And listening to the same ten songs sung by 12 different
people doesn’t help. Especially when you finally realize that
“It’s cold outside” is, in essence, a song more about date rape than
Christmas.

By: davew833

davew833 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:46:59 +0000

The green category could be expanded to include “Covers made by burned-out pop stars to fulfill contractual obligations when they’ve got no better ideas for albums.”

By: Party Pooper

Party Pooper — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:41:23 +0000

Found it.

Everyone, go listen to The Roches’s version of “Deck the Halls” and imagine yourself being yelled at by a disgruntled customer over early bird sales that ended two hours prior, 6 hours into your 10 hour shift. It makes me anxious from the memories, but relieved because I know I don’t have to put up with that ever again. I hope.

By: Party Pooper

Party Pooper — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:29:47 +0000

My bad. I have quite a few friends who would scold me for that. But in response to my groans about that song, all the managers responded, “But this is the Beatles!” I really want to find that version of Deck the Halls so I can know what the heck was up. It was so bad, I would have thought it was a joke if it weren’t being played in a store.

By: yarrow

yarrow — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:20:51 +0000

i agree completely!

By: Nina

Nina — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:11:34 +0000

What kills me is the cover of John Lennon’s “Happy XMas (War is Over)” wherein whoever did the cover takes out the words, “War is over if you want it” thereby ruining the whole meaning of the song.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:57:04 +0000

Or “Ay Ay Ay, It’s Christmas” by Ricky Martin, for an example! (Yes, it’s a real song. I linked to the video on YouTube…) I actually haven’t heard the one you mentioned.

By: Erziraphael

Erziraphael — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:48:04 +0000

What about “Last Christmas covers that never should have been created”?

By: faetal

faetal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:42:45 +0000

Dogs Barking “Jingle Bells” will make you homicidal, especially if you’re already working retail this “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”

By: riceking

riceking — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:42:08 +0000

Original Well Done Christmas songs is 90% “Grandma got ran over by a reindeer”

By: NEOmusings

NEOmusings — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:37:32 +0000

Don’t forget Nat King Cole!

By: medicat

medicat — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:36:57 +0000

lol – and should include Originals that never should have been created

By: medicat

medicat — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:35:39 +0000

The pie should be 100% green imo

By: NEOmusings

NEOmusings — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:33:50 +0000

Like Dixie Chicks and Rosie O’Donnell’s “Merry Christmas from the Family”? I like the Dixie Chicks, and I thought Rosie was cool till she went completely round the bend, but that song never should have made it past the studio door.

By: NEOmusings

NEOmusings — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:32:11 +0000

Yep . . . I’m with you. I change the station when that song comes on. Pass the insulin before I go into a sugar coma. (And a double dose of Prozac).

By: NEOmusings

NEOmusings — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:30:34 +0000

Actually, that was Paul McCartney doing “Wonderful Christmas Time” (anyone can have an off-day, I suppose). I’m with you, though — to this day, I cannot listen to Andy Williams singing “Happy Holidays” because I heard it way too many times during my time in retail (this was in the mid-1990s).

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:21:08 +0000

you also left out “37%: Chipmunks”

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:15:09 +0000

Well bad remakes are still better than “sad” Christmas music, you go from festive sleigh ride to some song about a kids mom dying and spending Christmas with Jesus.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:13:32 +0000

Left out a category: Original Christmas Songs that never should have been created.

By: Party Pooper

Party Pooper — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:11:02 +0000

I worked a department store for a few years, and I dreaded every Christmas not just because of the customers, but because of the horrible music being played. One of my least favorite was that Beatles song “A Wonderful Christmas Time,” or whatever, but the worst, hands-down, was this version of Deck the Halls sung by a group of weird, off-key women in an odd meter. Pure torture when that’s combined with mean people.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:24 +0000

Sadly, this graph is completely true. I wait through so much junk to hear the few Christmas songs I actually like on the radio. Also, “Sleigh Ride” is not supposed to be a slow song. ever.

By: fizzle

fizzle — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:06:20 +0000

I’ve actually never heard a remake or cover that never should have been created. Then again, my Christmas music consists of Bing Crosby, Elvis, and whoever else it is on my Dad’s Billboard Christmas CD. (Oh, and the Christmas Revels. =D)

By: Juliet

Juliet — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:05:33 +0000

This is so true!