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2012 List of Least Liked Christmas Songs

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer is a fun novelty song, IMO.

One of the hated IMO-is Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe." WHY is a teenage idol creeping onto AC? I shut it off every time KRWM plays that after Thanksgiving. Leave that to the CHR and Adult Top 40 stations as sprinkling, please!

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer is a fun novelty song, IMO.

One of the hated IMO-is Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe." WHY is a teenage idol creeping onto AC? I shut it off every time KRWM plays that after Thanksgiving. Leave that to the CHR and Adult Top 40 stations as sprinkling, please!

-crainbebo
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I used to like "Grandma Got Run Over..." but it's now an instant button-changer for me. I would say it's because of overplay, but I'll still listen to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and anything by the Carpenters, so I don't think it's as much that as since I lost my own grandmother to cancer seven years ago (who HATED that song while she was alive), I've started to find it rather offensive. I don't care if I never hear it again and think its place on the list is justified.

That said, I think I would rather hear most of the songs on that list (including the Singing Dogs) than Newsong's "The Christmas Shoes." That song makes me physically ill. Definitely MY least favorite. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" would be up there on my list as well were it not for Boy George, whose performance on that song makes it tolerable for me.

There aren't too many Christmas songs, other than those two, that I really personally dislike; most of the others I consider button-pushers are simply due to overplay, in particular "Last Christmas" (any version).

I will say that due to Andy Williams' passing this past year, as well as that of Whitney Houston (whose version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" I still find superior to all others even though she skipped one verse), Christmas music will have a somewhat bittersweet feel to it this year.
 
ChrisInMI said:
crainbebo said:
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer is a fun novelty song, IMO.

One of the hated IMO-is Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe." WHY is a teenage idol creeping onto AC? I shut it off every time KRWM plays that after Thanksgiving. Leave that to the CHR and Adult Top 40 stations as sprinkling, please!

-crainbebo
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I used to like "Grandma Got Run Over..." but it's now an instant button-changer for me. I would say it's because of overplay, but I'll still listen to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and anything by the Carpenters, so I don't think it's as much that as since I lost my own grandmother to cancer seven years ago (who HATED that song while she was alive), I've started to find it rather offensive. I don't care if I never hear it again and think its place on the list is justified.

That said, I think I would rather hear most of the songs on that list (including the Singing Dogs) than Newsong's "The Christmas Shoes." That song makes me physically ill. Definitely MY least favorite.

There aren't too many Christmas songs, other than those two, that I really personally dislike; most of the others I consider button-pushers are simply due to overplay, in particular "Last Christmas" (any version).
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ChrisInMI said:
I used to like "Grandma Got Run Over..." but it's now an instant button-changer for me. I would say it's because of overplay, but I'll still listen to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and anything by the Carpenters, so I don't think it's as much that as since I lost my own grandmother to cancer seven years ago (who HATED that song while she was alive), I've started to find it rather offensive. I don't care if I never hear it again and think its place on the list is justified.
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Mariah Carey or Vince Vance?
 
Pretty much anything written since 1960 I hate.

And any versions that sound like they were recorded after 1960.

Brenda Lee is cutting edge and borderline as far as I'm concerned.

I do like The Carpenters. Has anyone ever actually heard Richard sing?
 
Firepoint - in my post I was referring to Mariah, but I like the Vince Vance song too. The vocalist on that song, Lisa Layne, really turned in a powerful performance.
 
vchimp - I don't think I've ever heard Richard's voice on record, but I do recall VH1 taped a few seconds of him playing the piano and singing for their "Behind the Music" documentary on the Carpenters. Wasn't too bad. I think I read somewhere that he actually sang lead vocals on at least one track on the Carpenters' very first album, "Offering" (later retitled "Ticket to Ride") in 1969.

The one chart single Richard had post-Carpenters, "Something in Your Eyes" (#12 on the AC chart in 1987), was sung by Dusty Springfield.
 
I thought of one. "Sarajevo" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Anything synthesized by Mannheim Steamroller is way up there, especially the overdone "Deck the Halls", which I think I once liked.

Though one of my favorite versions of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is apparently theirs. Completely acoustic, 1800s style.
 
Anything post 1980 is not in my collection, except a rare few, such as, Mariah Carey..."All I Want...."

The John Lennon "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" song is a staple, but disliked since it's really sad. I can only hear that one maybe once a year, it's just too sad.
 
"vchimp - I don't think I've ever heard Richard's voice on record, but I do recall VH1 taped a few seconds of him playing the piano and singing for their "Behind the Music" documentary on the Carpenters. Wasn't too bad."
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=eAAEOCjKvV8 <-- Listen to the very beginning and at various points throughout.

I think he also sang backup or secondary vocal in a few cuts on "Christmas Portrait".
 
#11 - "Christmas in the Northwest" by that Brenda White girl, whoever she is.

"Take away the presents and you'd still have a tree", yes, and you'd have a completely ruined Christmas and some fussy kids to deal with! I'd rather not.
 
Darth_vader said:
"vchimp - I don't think I've ever heard Richard's voice on record, but I do recall VH1 taped a few seconds of him playing the piano and singing for their "Behind the Music" documentary on the Carpenters. Wasn't too bad."
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=eAAEOCjKvV8 <-- Listen to the very beginning and at various points throughout.

I think he also sang backup or secondary vocal in a few cuts on "Christmas Portrait".
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I can't listen here at home, and in response to your question, it is DSL, but when I asked they told me it was something like 156K. That's plenty for this site and Wikipedia and a message board site I go to. Whe the college library is closed and the nearest library is almost 10 miles away, the newspaper web sites that I have to go to every day are problematic. They need to learn not to put too much stuff on them for people who don't have all the fancy features.

I'd just as soon not have speakers as that's just something else to have problems dealing with. I avoid sound when I can because I get sound from sites I don't want sound from. My Lycos email has ads with sound and when I cplained they said i could pay for their email. Yeah, pay for email that is inferior when it's free. What proof do I have that everything's going to work if I pay? I actually don't have a single email address that works the way I want it to, but inbox.com comes closest.

Now back on topic. I think I heard Richard on one song, and this answers the question of why we never hear him sing.
 
I'm surprised "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" didn't make the list. It doesn't have anything directly to do with Christmas, yet AC stations play it CONSTANTLY every year just because it was in that "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" movie. And despite Thurl Ravencroft's incredible booming voice, some of the lyrics are really quite disgusting.

That Charlie Brown theme song is also massively overplayed.

However, I didn't hear that Porky Pig-soundalike song (with the DJs laughing in the background) played at all. Maybe stations now think it's in poor taste because it makes fun of people who stutter?

But as already mentioned, the morbid "Christmas Shoes" by Newsong definitely tops the list of Christmas songs I do NOT want to hear.
 
Surprised that "Dominic the Donkey," by Lou Monte, didn't make the list. Is it only played here in the Northeast, which has a sizable Italian-American population?

WDRC-FM Hartford tried going all-Christmas in December last year and included the stuttering Porky Pig "Blue Christmas" in the playlist, along with several other rarely heard titles. This year, they stuck with the normal classic hits format right up till Christmas Eve and kept the scattered seasonal songs familiar and safe.
 
"I'm surprised 'Dominic the Donkey' by Lou Monte didn't make the list. Is it only played here in the Northeast, which has a sizable Italian-American population?"
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I've heard it on KKCW and KKAD/KKOV at various points in the hazy past....
 
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