Originally Posted By alexbook >>Bummed Out Christmas (Various Artists)<< I just listened to my copy again yesterday. I like it so much I sometimes play it even when it's not Christmastime. How can anyone resist Dan Hicks's "Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit"?
Originally Posted By mawnck All I want for Christmas is a Doodle-Li-Boop! A Doodle-Li-Boop! A Doodle-Li-Boop! All I want for Christmas is a Doodle-Li-Boop! Dump-daddli-yaaaa-daaa, Doodliboop! (A classic.) <-------likes the Cyndi Lauper Christmas CD. I'd forgotten that Christmas Shoes thing. It's pretty gosh-darn bad. I 'spect you already have a copy of "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus"?
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I have a version of "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" that is a really dirty version. I don't listen to it much but my favorite line is "Not that there's anything wrong with that."
Originally Posted By Dznygrl LMAO@DlandDug. I love how you got so worked up over Christmas Shoes. Thankfully I haven't heard the song yet this year, but I remember the year it came out it was ridiculously overplayed. And they kept having those recorded call-ins of people saying "Ohhhh could you PLEEEEEASE play Christmas Shoes? It's the BEST!" I think it was some kind of conspiracy. Like if they convinced the listening audience that so many people loved it and they played it once an hour it would become a Christmas classic. Ah...I think not.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>if they convinced the listening audience that so many people loved it and they played it once an hour it would become a Christmas classic. Ah...I think not.<< Ermmm . . . I think so. See: Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - Elmo and Patsy Mary's Boy Child - Boney M Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses Not hits when first released. Played to death and now look. Never underestimate the gullibility of the American public, especially when it comes to Christmas music. They actually convinced people that "My Favorite Things" is a Christmas song! Har har har har har har har!!! BTW, name another hit by those last two artists, if you can. (Europeans are ineligible for the Boney M portion of this challenge.) Oh, another one I hate, when they try to Christmas up a totally non-related song. Most recent example: From a Distance (which is one of the dumbest songs ever written to start with -- God is watching us *FROM A DISTANCE*? In whose religion is that? Is He on Mount Olympus or something?) Others in this genre: Macarena Christmas, Christmas Cool Jerk (Whaaaa?) and the amazing Circle of Life Christmas Mix by the Disney All-Stars.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Dlanddug and JB, you guys crack me up Well I first posted about "I ain't got 'nuttin for Christmas" but that was early in the season. A couple of days ago I finally heard "Christmas Shoes" eeeek! gag, gag, gag! It beat out the other one by a mile.. However, I've been re-introduced to what I think of as the worst Christmas song ever. It's played fairly often on our local "Christmas" station KOIT. "Christmas in San Francisco".............ugh, pure cheeze, no tune and I'm pretty sure a 3rd grader wrote it. If I knew how to make links I'd find it for you so you could be humming about the Golden Gate and leechy nuts (sp) too
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>O Holy Night by Mahalia Jackson;>> Different strokes for different folks. True story. When a friend of mine was dying from a long illness, she asked my friend Emily to go out and get her some converse hi-tops. I think it was a gesture of hope, and maybe trying to reassure us that she was going to get out of the hospital. Was getting those shoes for her our top priority? You bet. So the situation isn't as far-fetched to me as it would be to others. And no, I'm not a big fan of that song, but I haven't heard it at all this year so the local stations must have dropped it.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka The Waitresses also released a song called "I Know What Boys Like". It's worse than "Christmas Wrapping". A song that sometimes bothers me is "I'll Be Home For Christmas". It's not the song that annoys me, but sometimes people sing "And presents ON the tree" instead of "by the tree" or "'neath the tree". It bugs me. (Yeah, yeah, I know some people might hang small gifts on their tree.)
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Oh, another one I hate, when they try to Christmas up a totally non-related song. Most recent example: From a Distance (which is one of the dumbest songs ever written to start with -- God is watching us *FROM A DISTANCE*? In whose religion is that?> God is up the heavens watching us. Get it? From a distance....up in the heavens...watching us.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The Waitresses also released a song called "I Know What Boys Like". It's worse than "Christmas Wrapping".<< That's the one! They also did the theme from the sitcom "Square Pegs." And then they went away, never to be heard from again, until somebody discovered this weird little Christmas track stashed on an obscure new-wave compilation album . . . . . >>sometimes people sing "And presents ON the tree" instead of "by the tree" or "'neath the tree"<< IIRC, "on the tree" is the actual lyric. All those other people just found it as silly as you did. I always take perverse pleasure in hearing singers flub the tritone in "Jingle Bell Rock." It seems like such a simple, happy little song, but at one point it requires the singer to sing the interval of a tritone, a vocal jump rarely found in standard pop music. Nailing it requires either years of music theory and voice training, or a reasonable-sized helping of natural talent. A good many well-known singers just can't do it. It's at the end of the line "Now the jingle hop has begun." Listen closely this year, and see how many singers either miss the note on the word "begun" (like Hilary Duff), or cheat and sing something else (like Daryl Hall). Separates the real talents from the also-rans, it does. (Sorry, Hilary and Daryl.)
Originally Posted By mawnck >>God is up the heavens watching us. Get it? From a distance....up in the heavens...watching us.<< Now now, think about this for a second . . . is that REALLY what your religion teaches? A distant, non-intervening, disinterested spectator God?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Totally hear you on the botched notes, mawnck. So many pop artists are just pitchy as all get out. Beyonce comes to mind -- she just splatters the tone on 'Irreplaceable' And don't get me started on Madonna. These gals aren't singers in my opinion.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Now now, think about this for a second . . . is that REALLY what your religion teaches? A distant, non-intervening, disinterested spectator God?> Whether it's what my personal religion teaches or not, it's what the song is describing. Some people do beleive in an omniscient type of God.
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I love most all Christmas music, but I have to change the channel when Stevie Nicks starts singing "Silent Night". I don't like the way Gloria Estefan sings Christmas songs, either. Most of the Celine Dion versions get on my nerves, too. There's one of hers that's not bad, though, something about Christmas Eve. I don't flip the channel as fast when that one comes on.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Highlight each year is Paul Schaefer's version of Cher doing O' Holy Night. LMAO every year! I can't stand to hear Stevie "the human vibrator" sing anything let alone Silent Night.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan "Christmas in San Francisco".............ugh, pure cheeze<< LOL! Yeah, I hear that one on KOIT all the time. It has the same general sound as 'Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer'. There's a different one, 'Christmas by the Bay' that I like a lot by Tim Hockenberry (his name sounds like someone choking on a sprig of holly, but anyway...). It has a 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' flavor to it.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I have a song called "Evergreen Christmas" by a local artist. I sort of like it. I don't like "Christmas In the Northwest" however. Chorus: Christmas in the Northwest Is a gift that we can share Christmas in the Northwest Is a child's answered prayer (It's that last line that irks me. LOL)
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Yep cause each year I put on my Santa list... I'll take 1 Northwest and a couple SF's. ;>
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka What a coincidence! I happen to be giving away Northwests this year. LOL
