There are many good Christmas songs, and there are also many annoying Christmas songs as well. I cannot stand that "Underneath the Tree" song by Kelly Clarkson, and "Santa Baby" gets annoying after a while.
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Most Annoying Christmas Songs
- Thread starter fmradioguy
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Don't forget, Christmas formats are targeted at "born to shop" 25-54 females. What we "guys" -- in or out of radio -- think of the songs is unimportant to those who matter: the advertisers.
I can agree with Santa Baby but i haven't heard any really versions of it, expect for the performance of the song on the Disney celebration that aired on Thanksgiving night.
For a current, the Kelly Clarkson song is good, has a good vibe to it. As for Santa Baby, prefer the Kitt version over Madonna, but both can get old really fast.
That dumb barking dogs Jingle Bells and Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, can disappear for all I care.
Most stations have dropped the Singing Dogs, I'm pretty sure. Grandma seems to be here to stay, though.
Correct, most have dumped the Singing Dogs atrocity entirely. Not KARY Yakima. Last Sunday morning I turned on the radio in my car, and the first song I heard was the start of that song. BARK BARK BARK...BARK BARK BARK...BAR-*OFF*!
I've also mentioned it 453 times but Straight No Chaser has done some awesome stuff. Their 12 Days is funny. Their new song 'That's Why We Celebrate' represents the holiday very well. But 'Text Me Merry Christmas'...what in god-awful sake's is that?! With Kristen Bell of Frozen? I turn off the radio every time. It's their dumbest song ever.
I also shut off Christmas Shoes every time. Depressing song.
All I Want for Xmas is My 2 Front Teeth by Spike Jones - I'd rather stab my eyes out. Nat King Cole's is listenable. Because it's Nat King Cole. He makes any song better, even that novelty one.
And the worst version of 12 Days? The outright WORST version? SCTV Bob & Doug McKenzie. Don't bother listening to it, it's awful.
'Candy Cane Lane' Sia. Will never be a classic.
That's just a small number of songs I outright don't like, but I love 95% of the holiday music out there. Including songs that rarely or never get heard on mid/large-market radio, like the R&B holiday songs from Luther Vandross, Babyface, The Temptations (their Silent Night SHOULD be on every holiday station...amazing!), Four Tops...
I've also mentioned it 453 times but Straight No Chaser has done some awesome stuff. Their 12 Days is funny. Their new song 'That's Why We Celebrate' represents the holiday very well. But 'Text Me Merry Christmas'...what in god-awful sake's is that?! With Kristen Bell of Frozen? I turn off the radio every time. It's their dumbest song ever.
I also shut off Christmas Shoes every time. Depressing song.
All I Want for Xmas is My 2 Front Teeth by Spike Jones - I'd rather stab my eyes out. Nat King Cole's is listenable. Because it's Nat King Cole. He makes any song better, even that novelty one.
And the worst version of 12 Days? The outright WORST version? SCTV Bob & Doug McKenzie. Don't bother listening to it, it's awful.
'Candy Cane Lane' Sia. Will never be a classic.
That's just a small number of songs I outright don't like, but I love 95% of the holiday music out there. Including songs that rarely or never get heard on mid/large-market radio, like the R&B holiday songs from Luther Vandross, Babyface, The Temptations (their Silent Night SHOULD be on every holiday station...amazing!), Four Tops...
Last Christmas should have been buried with George Michael. At least on KEZ Phoenix it's far and away the most overplayed (non) Christmas song on their air right now, about once an hour if you include all the artists that recorded it. I honestly would rather hear Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.
At least they don't play any recording of My Favorite Things, another non-Christmas song that used to be played ad nauseum. At least I've managed to not hear it, and KEZ is on at my house 24/7 (not my doing!).
At least they don't play any recording of My Favorite Things, another non-Christmas song that used to be played ad nauseum. At least I've managed to not hear it, and KEZ is on at my house 24/7 (not my doing!).
That's pretty mean.
Here's something interesting about that song: There are more than two dozen cover versions of that song. All but two are by women. Women love that song.
Yeah, maybe. It should have been buried while he was still living. That song redefines "putrid."
Which is probably why it's played once an hour on KEZ. They're not just playing Wham's version that often.
The lyric where Kelly sings, "And then one day everything changed. You're all I need" for some reason reminds me of an obscure 1973 song by Ronnie Dyson called "One Man Band(Plays All Alone)."
How many of the complainers here are women? In the coveted 25-44 demographic? With "perfect, special" young children or "precious, adorable" nieces and nephews? With plenty of ideas for gifts to further spoil those rug rats with and plenty of available credit on the plastic in their pocketbooks? Who used to, or still do, display "precious cargo" or "baby on board" signs in the rear windows of their cars, and think those bumper stickers saying "born to shop" describe them to a T?
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That's what I thought. I think we have to face facts here. Complaints from the demo that populates this board aren't going to affect the thinking of anyone programming a commercial radio station, because they know that we don't matter to their November/December advertisers, aren't listening to their female-skewing AC stations in huge numbers anyway, and that the ones who are will be back after the Christmas music ends despite their curmudgeonly threats to find another station. I've just accepted Christmas formats and the music in them as one of life's great unponderables. Maybe we all should.
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That's what I thought. I think we have to face facts here. Complaints from the demo that populates this board aren't going to affect the thinking of anyone programming a commercial radio station, because they know that we don't matter to their November/December advertisers, aren't listening to their female-skewing AC stations in huge numbers anyway, and that the ones who are will be back after the Christmas music ends despite their curmudgeonly threats to find another station. I've just accepted Christmas formats and the music in them as one of life's great unponderables. Maybe we all should.
Who really gives a flying leap? That isn't the subject of this thread. Who cares WHY we dislike certain Christmas songs? We just do. If you want to trot out that "women love it," b.s., then start another thread for that. That isn't the subject matter here. Although I am sure that if you surveyed any individual women privately, apart from any focus group, they, too, would tell you that there are songs that they, too, are sick to death of hearing.
Ironically, I don't hear "Christmas Shoes" that often, myself. As long as the wall-to-wall Christmas muzak is limited to stations that I don't listen to, anyway, I can be fine with that. What irritated me is that for the last couple of years, one of the classic hits stations ALSO sold out to the "all Christmas, all the time" bandwagon. It must not have worked for them because they did not do it again this year. When too many stations sell out to "all-Christmas," the "benefit" to doing so is likewise limited somewhat. I blasted them on Facebook for going all-Christmas, but like I said, they didn't do it for a third straight year. Keep the "all-Christmas" formats on stations that mostly women listen to, anyway. Don't take over the other stations with it. This classic hits station still trots out the occasional Christmas song, but they aren't going wall-to-wall with it this year!
"The Little Drummer Boy"... any incarnation of it.
So monotonous and tedious.
Honorable mention goes to "Feliz Navidad" for the same reasons.
So monotonous and tedious.
Honorable mention goes to "Feliz Navidad" for the same reasons.
Pretty much everything that wasn't recorded before 1960 by someone. And most versions of the good songs when today's artists attempt them. In fact, even versions recorded as far back as the 60s.
I'll single out Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime". And of course Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Sarajevo".
I'll single out Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime". And of course Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Sarajevo".
How about Do You Hear What I Hear? which is not only annoying and overplayed, but is historically inaccurate (the King said what?!?!? Herod ordered Jesus to be killed).
Never really gave the lyrics any thought on that one, but now I can never unhear it.
Umm, thanks?
IMHO the only viable version is the one by Eartha Kitt. Play it after the kids go to sleep.
AGREE!
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