The Best and Worst Christmas tunes of all time..

[WPPCProductions]

Hi All. and happy holidays ,Ok here we have all the Christmas music formated stations playing non stop Christmas tunes 24/7 Now heres the time to chose the most favorite and the most annoying holiday tune.I will get the snow ball rolling my picks are :no special order.

The Best:
Mannheim Steamroller Deck The Halls and their other tunes
TSO Christmas Canon Love the piano and chior
Stevie Nicks Silent Night I know they change the words around ,but she does the best cover with the song.
Josh Groban Collection This guys voice is so beautiful.



The Worst :
Santababy any version .Madonna really killed it for me.
Dominic the Christmas Donkey It sound so retarded



I will add more later.

 

[imhomerjay]

The Donkey song is pretty annoying, but my vote for even more annoying is that Hippo for Christmas song. Just one listener's opinion, but it makes me nearly lunge for the dial the moment it begins. And speaking of not being able to turn the dial fast enough, Christmas Shoes...hate it. I know it reflects a reality many of us do face in some ways, but....just ugh. I just can't stomach that downer of a song.

 

[ddsparxx]

The "Santa Baby" song mentioned by WPPC, I hate it!

 

[WPPCProductions]

Add Rascal Flatts " I'll be home for Christmas" to the worst list.that guys high pitch annoying vocals can crack an iceberg and sink it.

 

[flytrap]

I reach for the knob when Santa Baby come on, its terrible. I hate most of the bad cover versions by pop stars. especially when they try to showboat (Mariah Carey)
I wish they would play more that one or two christmas songs by artists, Bing Crosby had a ton of songs out, but about all you hear anymore is White Christmas or Silver Bells in heavy rotation. If you hear his Jingle Bells or Santa Claus is coming to town, they don't play the Bing/andrew Sisters version, they play the comercial sounding knock-off version by Barry Manilow. which doesn't swing like Bing did. I'm tired of hearing the same songs over and over, there are literally thousands of Christmas record out their, but you hear the same couple of hundred records over and over. More like 50 in heavy rotation. thats why some people hate christmas music. Its really not the christmas "songs" we hate, it the irritating same bad over played christmas "records" they play.

BTW, Any radio station that plays Grandma Got run over by a Reindeer" should have its license revoked. that song wasn't that funny back in the 80's and its still not funny. leave grandma alone at Christmas.

 

[RyanHoward]

I would say that "All I Want For Christmas is You"(the one by Vince Vance, not Mariah Carey)
is one of the best Christmas songs of all time. As for the worst, it would be that Bob Rivers
song that features Richard Simmons which spoofs "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year."
(just replace Wonderful with Fattening for the title)

 

[satech]

The original 1953 Eartha Kitt version of "Santa Baby" is FAR superior to Madonna's "trashy school-girl" take on it, but is sadly rarely played anymore, even on "Oldies" stations.

 

[vchimpanzee]

"Sarajevo" is the worst.

All the songs mentioned in the first post are what I consider among the worst.

I'd like to put Gloria Estefan's "Silver Bells" and "This Christmas" in a box and send them back, because cCristmas music should not have a contemporary beat.

Anything by Bing, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, or The Boston Pops is among the best.

 

[johnbasalla]

To each his/her own! "... (Sarejevo)" by TSO is great to me. I can't get enough of "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee, "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms with the Anita Kerr Singers, and some others, especially the Fab Four's, Beatles-meet-Christmas where they play a Beatles classic and replace the original lyrics with one of the great Christmas carols... "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer" done to the tune of "I Saw Her Standing There".

I have to agree with the person who bemoaned the fact that instead of hearing the truly swinging version of "Jingle Bells" by Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters, were stuck with that weak remake. As strange as this may sound, Bing and the babes' version is far more hip.