Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <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.> "Christmas Wrapping"? Never heard of it. <They actually convinced people that "My Favorite Things" is a Christmas song! Har har har har har har har!!!> Well, it does fit in with winter-time---in which Christmas occurs. ;-) (not to mention that line about the "brown packages tied up with string") <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?)> Well isn't Heaven supposed to indeed be from a distance? ;-) I saw a Bette interview the other night where she spoke of how wonderful it is that FAD can be fit in as a Christmas song. I think she had that horrendous wild red hat on too tight. ;-)
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <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.> That's always bugged me too. But I think it really is the original (albeit ridiculous IMO) lyric.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Now now, think about this for a second . . . is that REALLY what your religion teaches? A distant, non-intervening, disinterested spectator God?> I don't think it means emotionally distant. ;-) And I've discovered this year that I don't like to hear a woman sing "O Holy Night" (at least not the recordings I've heard). Nothin' against women, I just think that it's more effective hearing a good baritone deliver it in that musical range. But I do prefer to hear a woman sing "My Favorite Things" if that makes it any better. ;-)
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I just thought of another one that gets on my nerves, but I don't know the name of it, it's sung by Dan Fogelberg and it's about him going back to the place he grew up and running into some girl and they share a six pack in a cab. I have no idea why they play it all the time on the radio as a Christmas song. I think he mentions snow once. Maybe that's why...
Originally Posted By alexbook The Dan Fogelberg song is called "Same Old Lang Syne." It should only be played at New Year's (if ever).
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy It took me 12 days to realize that this is "What's your LEAST FAVORITE Chirstmas song?", and not *Christmas* song. So was this "The Twelve Days of Chirstmas"?
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 >>The Dan Fogelberg song is called "Same Old Lang Syne."<< Oh! So that's the tie in with the holidays! lol Now that you told me the name, I think I recall that being the last line of the song...I usually don't leave it on long enough to hear that line, though!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Well, it does fit in with winter-time---in which Christmas occurs. ;-) (not to mention that line about the "brown packages tied up with string")<< No no no no no! First of all, you do NOT put Christmas presents in "brown paper packages tied up with string." It's colorful packages tied up in ribbons! UNDER the tree, not on it! Secondly, the winter references in the song are way overstated. We've got the warm woolen mittens, the snowflakes that stay and the sleigh bells and the silver white winters but then they melt into springs and girls in white dresses ride cream colored ponies and eat crisp apple streudels and get bit by dogs and stung by bees and it's the Alps anyway so it's going to be a bit chilly and Where was I? Oh yeah. Not a Christmas song.
Originally Posted By Labuda "I have never heard "Don't they know it's Christmas time" but the title tells me how stupid it is. The majority of the world is NOT Christian in any form. How or better yet why would they care if it's Christmas time or not. It shows how presumptious we are to think that the rest of the world believes what we believe. It's also one of the things that makes us so popular on this planet." In defense of my beloved American musical acts, I feel the need to point out that the song you're talking about was a British thing - for once in our lifetimes, it was NOT America being religo-centric. (yeah, not a real word, but you get what I mean. *smile*)
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses Not hits when first released. Played to death and now look. >> <<The Waitresses also released a song called "I Know What Boys Like". It's worse than "Christmas Wrapping".>> *gasps* I love both those songs! (No throwing tomatoes please! LOL.) The Waitresses were very "80s" back in the "80s" (at least in Southern California where I was) and I have a very "80s" side to me so I have always liked them. I heard Christmas Wrapping when it was first released and it was hardly ever played so I haven't suffered the overdose that you have, mawnck. If it was overplayed where I was, I guess I was lucky enough to not have the radio on then. lol. I do agree though that any song played to death seriously increases its chances of becoming a "least" favorite so I totally get your point on that and would probably come to hate it too if it were overplayed where I am. In my opinion, Christmas Wrapping isn't so much a "Christmas" song per se as it is just a little story about two people running into each other at Christmas time. And I like the story. It has a good ending. It is definitely not a song I play to put myself in the Christmas mood though. Its kinda like Green Bean Casserole... I like to have it once a year or so but that's about it. If I had it any more than that it wouldn't be special and I wouldn't like it. TDG, here is the album: <a href="http://play.rhapsody.com/thewaitresses/bestofthewaitresses/christmaswrapping" target="_blank">http://play.rhapsody.com/thewa itresses/bestofthewaitresses/christmaswrapping</a> I'd post the lyrics here but I think mawnck and mele would probably be really annoyed with me if I did! (So I'll go post them in random singing so anyone can read the "story" in case that link doesn't work and you can't hear the song.) (Totally off topic but I loved watching Square Pegs on t.v. when I was a kid (the whopping ONE season it was on, lol.) And "No Guilt" is a good little song!)
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I did hear Feliz Navidad on the radio yesterday and some girl was singing it. Ugh.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Ok, OK, OK... so you wanna get "Feliz Navidad" out of your head? Here it is as if it were sung by Bette Davis: <a href="http://www.daveamason.com/april/mp3/Bette" target="_blank">http://www.daveamason.com/apri l/mp3/Bette</a>%5FNavidad%2Emp3
Originally Posted By chickendumpling ROFLMAO!! I just got to the end of the song. OMG Dug that is HIlarious! Thanks for that - I'm emailing it to some friends right now.
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 That was hysterical! Now I will always have that version in my head whenever I hear that song! Then, I will start laughing and everyone will think I am crazy...
Originally Posted By alexbook >>In defense of my beloved American musical acts, I feel the need to point out that the song you're talking about was a British thing - for once in our lifetimes, it was NOT America being religo-centric.<< Well, if you wanna get real technical about it, it was co-written by Midge Ure, who's Scottish, and Bob (don't call me "Sir Bob") Geldof, who's Irish.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Some Elvis impersonator was on a Boston show called "Good Morning Live" I'm monitoring, and what oh what song did he sing? "Blue Christmas". :-/ I fast forwarded through that'un'. ;-)
