Hey Lemmy!
What’s that one song comes on the radio or party and you’re filled with joy? Or perhaps it’s a carol and it makes you feel alright. What is it?
Then there’s the song that makes you flinch and cringe, and you’ve gotta shut that song down. What is it?
Your favorite and your despised!
New fave Christmas jam - Megan Trainor feat. Earth, Wind and Fire - Holidays
All time fave - Dominick the Donkey
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
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Does anyone actually play Dominick the Donkey?
The only time I’ve ever heard it was whenever someone else says “What’s Dominick the Donkey?” and someone finds it on YouTube.
On my personal playlist, along with “Nestor, the Long Ear Donkey”.
A must-sing-along fav: Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Never again: that one about the boy buying shoes for his dying mother (not even gonna link)
Oh my goodness, Christmas Shoes is the worst.
Favorites: Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka and The Drifters - White Christmas.
Least Favorite: I don’t think i have one. Can even listen to Mariah once or twice. It is Christmas after all.
Ballad of New York - The Pogues
Fairytale*
Avoid: The Christmas Shoes
Jam: Oi to the World by The Vandals
The whole Xmas With the Vandals album is great. Shoutout to the Angry Snowmans, too.
I’m a big queen fan and I love Thank God it’s Christmas. I also love Jona Lewie’s Stop The Cavalry, which isn’t really a Christmas song, but only gets played at Christmas. Bing Crosby’s White Christmas is my favourite traditional recording. Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano needs to be binned forever.
Heat Miser - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Went to their concert a couple weeks ago. I’ve never heard anyone play that song in concert. I love that song & movie.
Had enough of “Feliz Navidad”.
Merry Christmas!
Shipshewana? I just saw that show, too! My family watched The Year Without Santa Claus yesterday and the music was so great. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy did a great job, it was awesome
The concert was: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
I love Cassie and Maggie’s Christmas album and their version of Star in the East. I don’t like Baby It’s Cold Outside because whatever the intent was it’s creepy.
I’ve been saying it for years, the only good Christmas song is Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.
A few favorites that don’t get a ton of play:
A Soalin’ by Peter Paul and Mary
Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand by Steve Winwood
Ding! Dong! Merrily on High by pretty much any choir is so festive
Edit: broke out my Tony Bennett Christmas vinyl this year and was happy to discover Christmasland, which feels like it deserves to be a classic.
Ding Dong! Merrily on High is such a good one! Gotta check out the others too, especially Mr. Bennett. Thanks!
“Christmas Eve” - Tatsuro Yamashita
I like a lot of Christmas songs, but I’d probably just go for a good carol - Ding Dong Merrily On High, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Good King Wenceslas, that sort of thing.
Songs to turn off:
- Fairytale of New York
- Last Christmas
- 2000 Miles (The Pretenders)
- Do They Know It’s Christmas
- Stop the Cavalry
ms parker by chance the rapper is so smooth… honestly people sleep on his christmas album…
and as someone that has worked at a store… you already know.
I worked retail for a decade. I can’t imagine intentionally listening to any Christmas song after that.
At my current job they played them through the whole shift today (luckily only today), and the two that really got to me were “All I want for Christmas is you” (don’t know the actual title, but 3 different recordings of it played) and that one nasally bitch with the death wish.
I like Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett’s version of Baby It’s Cold Outside. I try to avoid most other Christmas songs, but especially Mariah Carey. I also worked in a department store for five years, so lots of bad memories of Christmas songs for months.