@blaineg I absolutely love Straight No Chaser’s 12 Days. I went to see them live, along with Postmodern Jukebox a few years ago. They’re both just ridiculously entertaining.
@nitac78 “Wonderful Christmastime” gets a lot of hate, but I give it points for actually having a festive sound. A few of the “classics” have a merry quality, but almost any time a pop artist attempts a new classic, they almost always go with a somber, if not downright bleak, tone. (“Christmas Shoes”, “Last Christmas”, “War is Over”, “Blue Christmas”, “River”, the list is endless). There are exceptions, sure, and some of the somber ones are still pretty good, but I will give McCartney credit for making one of the few songs that “sound like Christmas” , even if one is hearing it for the first time and disregarding the words.
I argue that “Wonderful Christmastime” is a bad McCartney song and a bad pop song (not something you listen to with undivided attention), but a pretty good Christmas song to play in the background while you are engaged in Christmas-y activities.
@nitac78 It’s definitely between this one & the Bruce Springsteen version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” which just makes my blood boil within the first 6 seconds…Shut the F up Bruce!!!
@nitac78@PocketBrain That tape delay/echo thing with the keyboards just ruins the whole song. Not sure if anyone else has covered the song w/o that effect, but I think I’d actually be ok with it.
10 Echo “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. The very next day, you gave it away. This year to save me some tears, I’ll give it to someone special.”
20 goto 10
@806D2701 I feel like it would be much more palatable if the word “Rock” was excised from the title and lyrics and substituted with something accurate.
One gets the feeling that country singer Bobby Helms envisioned a rock and roll version of Jingle Bells when he penned and recorded it, but it somehow managed to be less “rock” than the song written exactly 100 years earlier in 1857.
Really? No hate for “Dominic the Donkey”? Or “All I Want for Christmas”? “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”? And oh so many horrible "Santa Baby"s. Christmas invites the worst of bad pop music. (BUT I can listen to Vince Guaraldi and the first four Winters Solstice albums year round, so I’m not just some grinch)
@PocketBrain I’m not sure if I ever heard that version?
I’m curious though, are they actually whipping the horse? The only horse whip I had that made noise was for when I worked the horse from the ground. When it made whipping noises, it wasn’t touching the horse.
@RiotDemon
No, they don’t actually bring a horse into the orchestra pit; but when I hear the whip snap, I imagine it isn’t the horse’s favorite part of a sleigh ride.
Let’s not beat this topic to… n/m.
OTOH, the way you describe it, it is more like a clicker, a way to communicate. Maybe I’m letting my imagination get away from me.
/giphy correct
I still despise the 12 Days of Christmas.
@zachdecker Even this one?
@blaineg Yes!
Everyone makes change to this shitty song to try to somehow make it less shitty, and it still sucks.
@zachdecker
Five Golden Touques!
@blaineg I absolutely love Straight No Chaser’s 12 Days. I went to see them live, along with Postmodern Jukebox a few years ago. They’re both just ridiculously entertaining.
@blaineg @cinoclav
when they shift it to “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel” is only surpassed by the swing into Africa by Toto… That is classic!
@chienfou @cinoclav It shouldn’t work as well as it does.
@blaineg
but it DOES… and that’s the genius thing!
I loathe and detest The Little Drummer Boy, but The 12 Days is a close second.
/youtube alan sherman 12 days of christmas
My most abhorred Christmas song used to be Santa Baby, but my new most despicable song is Baby It’s Cold Outside. Too many versions. Ugh.
@katbyter The Key & Peele “Baby it’s cold outside” parody is hilarious though.
@katbyter the is only one baby it’s cold outside. Idk what this other garbage you’re referring too is
SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME
@nitac78 Why, Sir Paul? Why?
@nitac78 “Wonderful Christmastime” gets a lot of hate, but I give it points for actually having a festive sound. A few of the “classics” have a merry quality, but almost any time a pop artist attempts a new classic, they almost always go with a somber, if not downright bleak, tone. (“Christmas Shoes”, “Last Christmas”, “War is Over”, “Blue Christmas”, “River”, the list is endless). There are exceptions, sure, and some of the somber ones are still pretty good, but I will give McCartney credit for making one of the few songs that “sound like Christmas” , even if one is hearing it for the first time and disregarding the words.
I argue that “Wonderful Christmastime” is a bad McCartney song and a bad pop song (not something you listen to with undivided attention), but a pretty good Christmas song to play in the background while you are engaged in Christmas-y activities.
@nitac78 It’s definitely between this one & the Bruce Springsteen version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” which just makes my blood boil within the first 6 seconds…Shut the F up Bruce!!!
@nitac78 @tohar1
@nitac78 @PocketBrain That tape delay/echo thing with the keyboards just ruins the whole song. Not sure if anyone else has covered the song w/o that effect, but I think I’d actually be ok with it.
@nitac78 @PocketBrain
10 Echo “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. The very next day, you gave it away. This year to save me some tears, I’ll give it to someone special.”
20 goto 10
@Wookee Over, and Over, and Over, and Over, and ARRRRGGGGGHH!!!
Ok. So it’s a hate-athon. Fun fun!
I’m sure I’ll remember what I truly can’t stand after I next visit Walmart or some other chain store.
It might be the cheesiest song ever written.
so am i the only person who has never heard (that i know of) this “Christmas Shoes” song??
but Baby it’s cold out side… full body shiver wayyy too creepy in this day and age…
def. a product of it’s time that hasn’t aged well…
@earlyre I don’t (will didn’t until this thread) know of that song either.
I feel strongly that “Jingle Bell Rock” is the worst Christmas song.
@806D2701 I had a Jingle Bell Rock when I was a kid. We used it to prop open the back door so Santa could get in. We didn’t have a chimney.
@806D2701 I feel like it would be much more palatable if the word “Rock” was excised from the title and lyrics and substituted with something accurate.
One gets the feeling that country singer Bobby Helms envisioned a rock and roll version of Jingle Bells when he penned and recorded it, but it somehow managed to be less “rock” than the song written exactly 100 years earlier in 1857.
Really? No hate for “Dominic the Donkey”? Or “All I Want for Christmas”? “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”? And oh so many horrible "Santa Baby"s. Christmas invites the worst of bad pop music. (BUT I can listen to Vince Guaraldi and the first four Winters Solstice albums year round, so I’m not just some grinch)
Sleigh Ride, in which you can hear them repeatedly whipping the horse. Animal abuse doesn’t make the best festive Christmas music.
@PocketBrain I’m not sure if I ever heard that version?
I’m curious though, are they actually whipping the horse? The only horse whip I had that made noise was for when I worked the horse from the ground. When it made whipping noises, it wasn’t touching the horse.
@RiotDemon
No, they don’t actually bring a horse into the orchestra pit; but when I hear the whip snap, I imagine it isn’t the horse’s favorite part of a sleigh ride.
Let’s not beat this topic to… n/m.
OTOH, the way you describe it, it is more like a clicker, a way to communicate. Maybe I’m letting my imagination get away from me.