Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 <<Ooooof, "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas-Time"--AWFUL! And you can always count on the lite "rock" we-play-Christmas-music-every-day-from-Hallowee-n-'til-Returns-Day station to play that PIECE at least 4 times daily!>> That's it--you're officially on the naughty list! No presents for you! Your crime is two-fold: First, you refuse to acknowledge the uplifting power of "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time", and then you have the nerve to suggest that the stations start playing Christmas music too early! If I had my way, Christmas music would play all year 'round, only taking a break so that the radio stations can play Auld Lang Syne at the stroke of midnight, January first. I'm disgusted. :_(
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Sylvia's Mother - Dr. Hook<<< Ah, come on, I liked that one. Silly lyrics but a nice melody.
Originally Posted By jdub >> If I had my way, Christmas music would play all year 'round...<< I actually ALSO find that to be a legitimate format! My problem is the stations that PULL the music at noon on the 25th! WHAT!? C'mon, people, at least let us have until daybreak on the 26th! The problem is, most of the stations that make Christmas music a holiday staple play the junk, multiple times. I'm always best off relying on my constantly-growing CD collection.
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 I'm just the opposite--Christmas music is one of the only genres I don't buy CDs of. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the only time I listen to the radio.
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 And you're still in the doghouse, BTW. "Claiming" to suddenly like Christmas music when I've just put you on the naughty list does NOT get you off the hook.
Originally Posted By jdub No, you DO have me in the doghouse if you expect me to like the "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime" song, and also if you expect me to like the cheap dated range of holiday music most radio stations play. I have MORE songs, and BETTER ones, than these stations--and I never overplay them. (well, MAYBE I overplay my 2 Chipmunks Christmas albums, just a bit)
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Suuuuuuuuuzie wants a huuuuuuuuuula hoop! <<Last Time I Saw Him - Diana Ross>> Excuse me, mawnck, it's not like I think I'm the LP Typo Police or anything, but I just wanted to point out that you accidentally put this on your "bad songs" list.
Originally Posted By jdub "SUZIE?" Heinz, you need to put that in the "lines I misheard" thread! Alvin is saying, "ME, I want a hula hoop!" I am, quite frankly, SHOCKED!
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun - Ogden Edsel << That used to be part of my repertoire (back in the days when I had a repertoire). "One more time for Roman Hruska!"
Originally Posted By alexbook Oh, and the band's proper name was The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band. And yes, the missing "e" is intentional.
Originally Posted By MrDisneyGeek <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =p55YD8QhQ3o</a>
Originally Posted By sherrytodd My vote for the most depressing, kill your holiday cheer and head straight to the eggnog Christmas song... Christmas Shoes
Originally Posted By Dznygrl ^^^LOL, we had that conversation last Christmas. And will most likely have the conversation again this Christmas! The song IS dreadfully depressing and takes the "Happy" out of the holidays.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<"SUZIE?" Heinz, you need to put that in the "lines I misheard" thread! Alvin is saying, "ME, I want a hula hoop!" I am, quite frankly, SHOCKED!>> OMG! How could I have DONE that?! <-- sentences himself to one-half hour with the CD player set to auto-repeat and loaded only with the "Macarena Christmas" disc.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 (Oh, I mean the cheesy "Macarena Christmas" disc, of course. Not the good one.)
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I remember reading "Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs" a few years back and this thread reminded me of it. I googled it, so I could post a link and I noticed the song I picked was #3 on the list. lol A lot of the songs listed here made it, too. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Barry" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D ave_Barry</a>'s_Book_of_Bad_Songs
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 Was "Timothy" already mentioned here? That was on the list. The song that had three guys trapped and two of them had to resort to eating the afore mentioned Timothy? Big Yuck! I didn't know until now that it was written by Rupert Holmes (aka Rupert Murdoch the Pina Coloda guy.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^Yep... Timothy's in there... *LOL* Judy Garland did a version of "Purple People Eater"...?? *LMAO* And I love "Wonderful Christmastime"... Sorry, I just do and I make no apologies. "Christmas Shoes" should only be played by some illness charity to guilt us into donating. Heh heh heh... And I agree re: shutting down the Christmas music too early. I think it's 6 p.m. on our 'all Christmas after Thanksgiving' station. So the music quits while we're having dinner. Boo hiss!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Dave Barry's book (which is excellent) names MacArthur Park as worst ever, and it's hard for me to argue. It's got it all: the length factor, the pomposity factor, the disco factor (thanks to the later version), and of course the cake factor. To all who insist the cake is a metaphor, Barry points out "Yeah. But it's a STUPID metaphor." I still remember sitting in my college's student center the first time I heard the Donna Summer version. The never-ending original (by Richard Harris at his most scenery chewing no less) was bad enough. But then I heard Donna S. singing the first bars, slowly. I suddenly realized: OH MY GAWD!! In about 30 seconds, it's going to break into disco mode, I just know it! With that same damn four-bass-drums-on-each-beat thing that every freaking disco song has, and one of the worst songs ever will cross over into single worst ever! I just know it! And, of course, that's what happened. My horror was compounded by the knowledge that I'd be hearing it incessantly for the next several months. THE DISCO VERSION OF MACARTHUR PARK! The sheer awfulness was almost too much to contemplate. Other songs people have mentioned here that make my list would be "Wonderful Christmas Time" - somehow, a really sucky song just sucks so much worse when you know it came from someone responsible for some of the best songs ever, and yet here he is sucking out loud for what seems like an eternity of variations on that insipid chorus. Also, Timothy, I've Never Been To Me (just hand me the razor NOW, please), and We Built This City. A couple I haven't seen mentioned: Him by Rupert Holmes (who really should have his own wing in the Museum of Suckitude, shouldn't he?) and Hello by Lionel Ritchie - I don't mind being manipulated by pop music, but could you do it just a LITTLE less blatantly? I mean, throw me a bone here. Also, there's a piece of 70's pop pap that annoys me out of all proportion to anything: Undercover Angel by Alan O'Day. Remember this inspirational lyric? "I said, "What?" She said, "Ooh-ooh-ooh, whee." I said, "All right!" She said, "Love me, love me, love meeeee!" In the "kinda like 'em musically but what was the lyricist thinking?" category, I'd put Baby I'm A Want You (as Barry put it, "Baby, I'm-a too lazy to write lyrics that scan, so I'm-a just add an extra 'a' whenever I'm-a need a syllable") and A Horse With No Name. Immortal lyrics like There were plants and birds and rocks and things and The heat was hot Ahhh, memories!
Originally Posted By mawnck Float On - The Floaters Love Jones - Deeper Shade of Blackness Oh Julie - The Crescendos Dum Dum Diddle - Abba It Must Be Him - Vicky Carr I Can Never Go Home Anymore - The Shangri-Las
