worst xmas songs of all time

[hipipol]

Bizarre but I love it........

 

[Lurdan]

Bit of a "classic". Not just riding first class on the last train to Cringe City but an authentic expression of adolescent 'lad' culture 70s style. (Back before the discovery of such strategies as 'I'm only being ironic' or 'Don't look at me, look at that nonce' etc).

 

[DotCommunist]

Fairytale of New York is the worst because it never gets played without some massively original thinker in the room declaring that it's 'the best christmas song ever' and then crooning along without knowing half the words.

In particular the bit that goes, 'the boys from the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay' (ie the main refrain of the song) seems to be known by so few people you'd think it was in Icelandic or something.

I'll take that rather than any renditions of danny boy or rhinestone cowboy

 

[mango5]

 

[existentialist]

i'll start you off with this little gem

"Chris - ti - an rhyme" AAAAARGH!

 

[bluescreen]

The only tolerable recording of that is Harry Belafonte's, but that's on account of his voice, not the words.

Edit: referring to Mary's Boy Child, obvs.

 

[existentialist]

This is fucking shite:



I don't know what's worst, the awful plodding tune, the fact that the main lyric only scans if you put the emphasis on the wrong syllable of 'wonderful', the whiff of marketing-speak about the word 'simply', or McCartney's punchable face.

Yep, another nightmare gem. Let's face it, Christmas songs are never, ever, the pinnacle of the art, but when they're being done by superannuated "stars", there's something particularly awful about them.