Because Apparently I Have Nothing Better To Do...

[bubonicplague]

...than listen to streaming Christmas music at 9:00 A.M., please resolve this argument. I surely cannot be the only one who thinks those "Winter Wonderland" sops sound as though they are being very, very pervy indeed with ol' Parson Brown, can I? I mean, I know they are allegedly having dumbassed gleeful fun and talking marriage, but it sounds as

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[eschatologies]

You've picked some awful ones. And in the process of trying to determine which is the most annoying, about three of them are NOW stuck in my head.

Thanks!

[cheezdanish]

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Christmas Time.

Ugh.

[bubonicplague]

Oh, fucking ouch. Good one.

[cheezdanish]

A sort of sorbet, to cleanse your 'annoying Christmas songs' palette. Because Wizards in Winter is fucking awesome.

[cornfields]

Ahaha, OMG YES! I don't know anyone, kid or chipmunk, who'd get that excited about a hula hoop.

[wisemack]

Hee! Nice list, and I actually had to vote for more than one option. Damn!

However, my personal pet peeve is ANY classic christmas carol being butchered by some annoyingly melismatic pop star. Ick! Just sing the damn notes, 'k? Some things don't need embellishment and Christmas ain't sponsored by American Idol. Sheesh.

This also explains why my Christmas music collection, begun when I was ten or thereabouts, is extremely light on the latest pop crap, and instead is heavy on music from English cathedrals and artists such as Jobn Rutter and Sir David Willcocks and Chanticleer and the Waverley Consort.

And yes, I'm eccentric. *g* Your point?

[bubonicplague]

Well, I say you win just for using a word like "melismatic" before noon. WTF.

[eruvadhril]

However, my personal pet peeve is ANY classic christmas carol being butchered by some annoyingly melismatic pop star. Ick! Just sing the damn notes, 'k? Some things don't need embellishment and Christmas ain't sponsored by American Idol. Sheesh.

IAWTC.

[cornfields]

I haaaaaaate the Beach Boys song where they sing, "Christmas comes this time each year!" WTF OF COURSE IT DOES. WHY POINT OUT THIS FACT OVER AND OVER AGAIN? UGH.

I also can't stand the sing-songy "I'm Gettin' Nothin' For Christmas," or "Dominic The Christmas Donkey." No, sorry, I don't care how it's Italy's answer to Rudolph, or how cute you think it is. It's super annoying with the accent and the crazy donkey braying all throughout the song.

I like the song itself, but Annie Lennox's version of Winter Wonderland is the absolute worst. So smarmy-smug sounding. I grind my teeth when it comes over the airwaves.

[bubonicplague]

I have never heard of this Christmas Donkey song. I think you made that shit up right there.

[cornfields]

If only. I've been hearing all about Dominick the Donkey, at least twice a day, since Thanksgiving.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_the_Donkey

It's kinda like "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas," in tone, only not nearly as cute.

[elisa0984]

O MY GOD IT IS AN ABOMINATION!

Bio teacher used to play it over and over again.

[meegat]

I HAD to go for the John Lennon/Bono/Live Aid shit because I absolutely bloody hate it. All that preachy "war is over" crap and "do they know it's christmas"...yuck, yuck, yuck.

Next up, there will be an environmental Save the Planet Xmas song. And I'll hate and despise that one even more.

Just call me Scrooge...

[bubonicplague]

I mean, there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime? I am thinking if there were assloads of snow in Africa this fucking Christmastime that would be a huge sign of something like, oh, nuclear fucking winter.

[meegat]

LMAO! Thank GOD I'm not the only one who thinks that every damn time our eardrums are forced to listen to that.

Um...and I LIKE Alvin and the Chipmunks...

[pikacharma]

Hahaha +1. The first time I heard that song, I was just like "wow, this song is really catchy, I love it!" The second time, it was like "Wait, this peppy upbeat little ditty is a giant guilt trip about how a bunch of children are suffering. GOOD TIMES." And then after that, it was just like "Wait. No snow in Africa is a GOOD THING. Those people don't even have food, let alone COATS, and we want it to snow on them?!"