What is the worst Christmas song of all time?

fryup

who remembers this tripe ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gryfllhhI

and kenny everett's p!ss take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72M_4GfvVLM

Venus In Furs

The covers of Do They Know It's Christmas. The 1989 and 2004 ones were abysmal. Haven't heard this year's one but I'm assuming it's woeful.
Listened to The Christmas Shoes just now - it's atrocious but I thought it'd be worse.

That Darkness song is great IMO - even if they were a piss-takey band. They were and they weren't - they did like all that poodle-hair rock stuff while also realising how silly it could be. Great catchy tunes I think.

razorblunt

Dep! wrote: »

"Stay Another Day" is definitely a Christmas song and a great one at that.

Wasn't it written about suicide?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7izlmp1OeA

How could anyone possibly be so desperate to be a popstar that they would agree to take part in something like this...

Omackeral

Venus In Furs wrote: »

The covers of Do They Know It's Christmas. The 1989 and 2004 ones were abysmal. Haven't heard this year's one but I'm assuming it's woeful.
Listened to The Christmas Shoes just now - it's atrocious but I thought it'd be worse.

That Darkness song is great IMO - even if they were a piss-takey band. They were and they weren't - they did like all that poodle-hair rock stuff while also realising how silly it could be. Great catchy tunes I think.

You assume correctly Sir/Miss. It's flipping awful. They change the words to the point where they hardly fit and it's just basically gick. Instead of the well known ''and tonight thank god it's them instead of you'' it's the uber pretentious ''Well, tonight we’re reaching out and touching you''.

Oh and Chris Martin rips off his shirt and shouts "AFRICAAAAAA!"

Puke.

Black_Knight

This... just this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAvJ-DGmqyc

O.A.P

Driving home for Christmass by Chris Rea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcbQyFtCqg

RobbingBandit

Poxy East 17 junkie song is the worst ever. that or Mr Blobby.

Lia_lia

Black_Knight wrote: »

This... just this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAvJ-DGmqyc

Lol. I'm from Killarney and that's the first time I have listened to that song

Candy_Girl

This years feed the world is ****.

gammygils

Anything by an Irish Country and Western artist

Nathan, Daniel, Big Tom etc.

sligojoek

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

This takes the title of sh!test song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkF7fpw-wI

I worked in an Irish pub in midland England in the late 80s. Every 8th of Dec. the boss would put a new 7inch single of that recording on the juke-box. It drove me and my co-workers beserk. It was guaranteed a play at least twice every half hour from 10.30 till 23.00 from December to mid January.

KungPao

I really, really hate the lame covers of classics, generally by some terrible, bland, kinda-country-pop-I-love-God types from the USA.

If you listen to the "holidays" station on Accuradio, you'll get what I mean.

They have an incredible blandtastic talent for sucking the life out of classics and traditional songs.

Awful stuff.

Ed Winchester

O.A.P wrote: »

Driving home for Christmass by Chris Rea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcbQyFtCqg

Nonsense, that's an absolute classic Christmas song.

suicide_circus

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time

Do the know it's Christmas


Fcuking travesties

donegal_man

Possibly a bit controversial here, but I have to be honest. I cannot stand "Do They Know It's Christmas"
Also I may be the only person in Ireland who can't hear "Fairytale Of New York" without wanting to throw up. A depressing dirge.

deafroadrunner

heard this the last day. made my ears hurt.

Dep!

O.A.P wrote: »

Driving home for Christmass by Chris Rea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcbQyFtCqg

No. Just no.

Defiler Of The Coffin

From the lad who won the first Big Brother:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxbP5o9DoE

iDave

Christmas in Liverpool

Mint Sauce

Am i the only one who really hates Miarah Carrey 'All I Want For Christmas'?

iDave

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Am i the only one who really hates Miarah Carrey 'All I Want For Christmas'?

Hate it too

kfallon

Candy_Girl wrote: »

This years feed the world is ****.

Every version bar the original has been awful!

Saralee4

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Am i the only one who really hates Miarah Carrey 'All I Want For Christmas'?

No your not the only one

parttime

If I could thank this post a thousand times I would. Forget about Christmas, its just a horrible song. Annoys me when I think how long its been around and how much cash Rea has made from it. Sure its only half a song at best. Actually have to leave a room when its on. Prick

BuilderPlumber

KungPao wrote: »

I really, really hate the lame covers of classics, generally by some terrible, bland, kinda-country-pop-I-love-God types from the USA.

If you listen to the "holidays" station on Accuradio, you'll get what I mean.

They have an incredible blandtastic talent for sucking the life out of classics and traditional songs.

Awful stuff.

This drivel that I discovered here sums up that although not a cover. Bad lame country-pop sh&t€ of the worst kind. And worth posting again as it is not only the worst Christmas song but one of the worst songs ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5LiIByv8s

BuilderPlumber

donegal_man wrote: »

Possibly a bit controversial here, but I have to be honest. I cannot stand "Do They Know It's Christmas"
Also I may be the only person in Ireland who can't hear "Fairytale Of New York" without wanting to throw up. A depressing dirge.

Fairytale of New York which I admit I like is not so much a Christmas song as a 'this is not how to do Christmas' song! Most likely based on a true story as well. If you want a happy cheery Christmas song, get out your Daniel or Cliff records but if you want to hear how some spend Christmas and be thankful you are not one of them, listen to FT of NY.

BuilderPlumber

parttime wrote: »

If I could thank this post a thousand times I would. Forget about Christmas, its just a horrible song. Annoys me when I think how long its been around and how much cash Rea has made from it. Sure its only half a song at best. Actually have to leave a room when its on. Prick

Mike Denver's version of Driving home for Christmas is the third worst Christmas song after only Happy Holidays to our troops and Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

Saralee4

I love David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing The Little Drummer Boy song but since I heard what an evil abusive father Bing Crosby was to his children I just don't enjoy the song anymore.

He has a kind of proudness and superiority in that video that leaves a bad taste in my mouth :-s

BuilderPlumber

Saralee4 wrote: »

I love David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing The Little Drummer Boy song but since I heard what an evil abusive father Bing Crosby was to his children I just don't enjoy the song anymore.

He has a kind of proudness and superiority in that video that leaves a bad taste in my mouth :-s

This is a tough call. I suppose one can like the song and the singing but not the person. Bing was both an abusive drunk and a very talented, versatile singer.

Saralee4

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

This is a tough call. I suppose one can like the song and the singing but not the person. Bing was both an abusive drunk and a very talented, versatile singer.

Oh yea of course sure millions of Michael Jackson fans prove that ....or are they just in denial? Haha

no I think it's just Bing Crosby pompous face in that video that ruins the song for me!

Panrich

Woshy wrote: »

Second vote here for Christmas Shoes. I'd actually never heard of it until I read about it in the Christmas forum. I looked it up then and at first thought it was a pisstake. It's horrific!


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJcPVB-we7g

Embedding YouTube not working for me

Agree. Sentimental Tosh of the highest order.

donegal_man

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Fairytale of New York which I admit I like is not so much a Christmas song as a 'this is not how to do Christmas' song! Most likely based on a true story as well. If you want a happy cheery Christmas song, get out your Daniel or Cliff records but if you want to hear how some spend Christmas and be thankful you are not one of them, listen to FT of NY.

You think it's a parable for our time, I think it's a depressing dirge. Plenty alternatives to Daniel or Cliff that don't leave you crying into your Christmas dinner.
Actually if want to be thankful for not being someone over Christmas check THIS

Ol' Donie

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Mike Denver's version of Driving home for Christmas

Ha, have to give that a listen!

Hang on till I flick on TG4.

Rjd2

Nearly sure this has not been posted and it should have been if not. Olivia Newton John and John Travolta.

Dare you to last the whole lot of this. :eek:

I don't like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNIDXUaVts

Tarzana2

Dep! wrote: »

We may have another contender!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhuoY5h2kE

No way, love this. A glorious pisstake.

"C'mon kids!"

Tarzana2

Saralee4 wrote: »

That is a great Christmas song! We've talked about it on another thread. It's one of the best modern ones.

It doesn't get the credit it deserves.

I totally agree, it's great.

The first postmodern Xmas song?

Tarzana2

Dep! wrote: »

I disagree. The Darkness were a parody band who were taking the p*ss and I think they'll admit to as much years from now.

I think they've already admitted that. I mean, this song is clearly a big pisstake. Doesn't take from its greatness!

Tarzana2

rsl1976 wrote: »

Saw an interview with Tony from E17 who wrote the song about his brother who died. The part of the song "I touch your face while you are sleeping" is actually about seeing his brother in the mortuary. Very sad song

Yeah, I love this song, it's so heartfelt. Don't really care if it's an Xmas song or not. In fact, with its subject matter, it's probably a song that many people can relate to at this time of year. His bro committed suicide too, which makes it even sadder.

Tarzana2

kfallon wrote: »

Every version bar the original has been awful!

No, even the original is awful, patronising muck.

Mongfinder General

It's probably this one. Never gets played anymore.

Evil, evil man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn06NJzYQc4

BuilderPlumber

Mongfinder General wrote: »

It's probably this one. Never gets played anymore.

Evil, evil man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn06NJzYQc4

I heard this in a lot of pubs and restaurants I was in recently in Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Kilkenny, Dublin, Leitrim, Tyrone and Galway. CDs probably 20 years old?

Dexter Bip

BadMoonRising wrote: »

'Last Christmas' by Wham makes me want to smash things everytime I hear it.

Last christmas I GEV you my heart. Used to drive my mother mad. Never noticed until she pointed it out. trouble is that once you notice it grates every time you hear it.
Apart from that. The inexpliciably popular Driving home for Christmas by Chris Rea.

Mongfinder General

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

I heard this in a lot of pubs and restaurants I was in recently in Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Kilkenny, Dublin, Leitrim, Tyrone and Galway. CDs probably 20 years old?

Jaysus. How can people be festive while listening to that. The guy is a beast.

Dexter Bip

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Mike Denver's version of Driving home for Christmas is the third worst Christmas song after only Happy Holidays to our troops and Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

Only reading through the thread. Why would anybody want to cover this awful song n

BuilderPlumber

Dexter Bip wrote: »

Only reading through the thread. Why would anybody want to cover this awful song n

Not everyone is Mike Denver!! Nothing against Chris Rea but Mike Denver mucks up everyone's songs!!

I actually couldnt think of a worst one ever. But I torrented a LOT of Christmas compilation albums this week and put them all on Shuffle on my Android.

And although its far from the WORST Xmas song ever - the fact that Wham! seems to be the one every producer of a compilation Xmas album ever goes to first - resulting in me having a shuffle album that played it 10 times in 2 hours - 3 of them back to back - is certainly modifying my emotions as per the original OP question.

And annoyingly out of 20+ Compilation albums "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" featured only ONCE. And Kevin Bloody Wilsons "Hey Santa Claus you C*** where is my F***ing Bike" not even once!!!!!

Its clearly cut throat in the compilation world. Or given the success of wham! in that world - deep throat.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Bruce Springsteens version of Santa Claus is coming to town has to be quest ever, he sounds like a constipated redneck and totally fcuked up a cheery Christmas song. I can't stand sbybof his songs/music, he's got the most grating voice ever, I hate him more than I hate twink.