Christmas Songs...love or hate any?

[laurat99]

Yes, it's only day two of the official Christmas season, and I'm sick of Christmas songs. Which ones do you love, and which ones do you absolutlly HATE?

Love: Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack


Hate: Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town;" someone needs to get The Boss a throat lozenge.

Wham's "Last Christmas."

[Presbygirl]

Love: "O Holy Night" sung by Kathleen Battle.
Love: "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer."

Hate: "Little Drummer Boy" sung by anyone.
Hate: "O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree."

[amyrose5]

If you already hate Wham's "Last Christmas", you should see the video in which the "heart" is symbolically represented by a diamond brooch. Even as young teens obsessed with Wham, my friend and I thought that was the corniest video ever and mocked it.

I HATE "The Christmas Shoes". Hate it. If you also hate it, watch this. If you don't hate it, you will see some of its absurdity anyway:

(language warning) Patton Oswalt on "Christmas Shoes":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY

[bean]

I really love a lot of the older hymns. O Holy Night, Silent Night, Oh come oh come Emmanuel..
"Mary did you know" is a great newer song.

Dislike-pop Christmas music that pumps though stores today.

[pastor's wife]

I love Christmas hymns especially, although there are some newer songs that I enjoy too. "Mary, Did You Know" is awesome. I like "Welcome to Our World" and Casting Crown's version of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."

Because I rarely listened to "pop" Christmas songs, I enjoyed them when I first heard them, and I guess for once a day they'd be fine. But I noticed that our local "lite radio station" which has been playing Christmas music since Nov. 1 (and which I avoid like a plague until after Thanksgiving), plays the same few over and over and over ad nauseum: "Do You See What I See", "Jingle Bell Rock", "Walking in a Winter Wonderland", etc. Nearly every artist EVER has put out a Christmas album - there are SO MANY choices out there, but this radio station plays the same few apparantly over and over again every half hour it seems. I don't bother listening to them at all; the repetitive glurge makes me want to puke.

So instead of listening to that horrible Christmas station playing the most trite music possible, I get out my CD of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - which includes a beautiful song called "Happy Birthday, Jesus!" sung by children. I also really, really like "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo".

[myotch]

Religious:

Little Drummer Boy - as sung by Bing Crosby and David Bowie
O' Holy Night - as sung by anybody who can handle the range reasonably well
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - by >gasp< Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlin - a little new with a little old wrapped with a touch of kitsch
O' Come, Emmanuel - Casting Crowns - strangely, hopeful, peacefully dark

Secular:
Baby it's Cold Outside - Zooey Deschanel and "somebody else"
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland
The Peanuts Song everybody knows but doesn't know the name
Elvis's Blue Christmas, as sung by Porky Pig

[JordanMaria]

(11-26-2011 12:43 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:  I HATE "The Christmas Shoes". Hate it. If you also hate it, watch this. If you don't hate it, you will see some of its absurdity anyway:

(language warning) Patton Oswalt on "Christmas Shoes":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY

I think you might be my long lost twin.

I also hate "Last Christmas" by anyone. Such a stupid, repetitive song.

I LOVE Josh Groban's "Silent Night"!

[Darrell]

There should be a law against the song "Christmas Shoes" with the punishment that anybody caught playing it or singing it should be forced to stand barefoot in the snow until they repent.

[amyrose5]

(11-26-2011 05:46 PM)Darrell Wrote:  There should be a law against the song "Christmas Shoes" with the punishment that anybody caught playing it or singing it should be forced to stand barefoot in the snow until they repent.

The first thing I thought the first time I ever heard it was that on witnessing an unkempt child too young to count money alone in the store at night, someone should have called child services!

[I'veHeardVersesMisquoted]

(11-26-2011 12:43 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:  I HATE "The Christmas Shoes".

I hate that song too. Also anything Christmas by the Jackson 5. And the comedians who sing their versions of Christmas songs...a lot of those variations are weird to me!

Love pretty much everything else. Especially love back-in-the-day singers, like Frank Sinatra or Bing, or Nat King Cole.