The worst Christmas album ever?

[Jeff Westover]

All this review and expansion at Merry Christmas Radio has given us plenty of opportunity to hear some really BAD Christmas music.

Just wondering...who do you think has the worst Christmas album or song of all time?

[dominick]

It's got to be one of those super contemporary boy band type albums... I couldn't name them if I tried.

Two years ago I listened to a Johnny Cash Christmas album. As a big Johnny Cash fan I was severely disappointed.

[dvdguy]

So far id say Jessica Simpson

[dominick]

shudders

[dvdguy]

have you actually heard it?

[dominick]

No, and I have high hopes that I never will.

[Billy Battles]

I only heard the samples, but by far this:

www.amazon.com/Hung-Holidays-William/dp/B0002PUHSI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-5172459-8935039?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1191599224&sr=8-2

[dvdguy]

well that kid could never sing anyway. That was the whole point for some reason.

[Sanity Clause]

Cliff Richard. Ugh.

[joyfulheart]

My boys love the barking dogs stuff. It was cute the first few thousand times I heard it, now I just want to mow down the person who made that CD.

Luckilly, our copy got "lost" last year when we put away the Christmas stuff.

[xlizxfraserx]

My boys love the barking dogs stuff. It was cute the first few thousand times I heard it, now I just want to mow down the person who made that CD.

Luckilly, our copy got "lost" last year when we put away the Christmas stuff.


We have the cats one :(

[ChristmasSpirit76]

I'm not a big fan of the Twelve Days of Christmas but don't dislike it. I think having to sing it every year in school ruined it for me. I would have to say i dislike most of the contempory stuff by the "pop" bands. I'm more into the old classics although there are a few newer songs that i do like just not as many.cheesy

[Head Elf]

I love the classics and I'm not big on the "pop" stuff or most of the remakes. So, while I'm decorating I do the parody stuff by Bob Rivers and nearer to Christmas I put on the Classics. I think the worst album (CD) is the Redneck Christmas.

[EstherSmith]

I would by no means call this the WORST Christmas cd, but I was really disappointed with Johnny Mathis' latest Christmas cd. Johnny's voice still sounds great, but the production on the album was not very good. The orchestrations sound kind of cheesy and over-synthesized to me. I still listen to it occasionally, but it is inferior to all of Johnny's other Christmas cds.

Why does a smiley replace the word c-h-e-e-s-y in my post?

[dominick]

That's just how it's set up. I fixed it for you by disabling the "smilies" in that particular post, though.

[EstherSmith]

Thanks!

[Sunshine73]

Well, I don't know about Albums (although I've heard some pretty BAD Christmas music in my time) but I do know what gets my vote as the worst (and probably most overplayed) Christmas song of all time: Christmas Shoes.

For me Christmas is a time of joy, happiness, jingle bells and Holly Jolly Christmas stuff...and then the DJ plays that awful song and it all goes to..well, you know. Who writes a song like that at Christmas?? Who wants to listen to a Christmas song where the little kids mom is dying?? It's just way too sad and just makes me :(.

Oh, as a little side story. I had heard this song being played at work so everytime it would come on the radio station in the car, I would quickly change the station. Well, one day my DH was complaining that I always switched that song...he said he'd never heard it and he wanted to hear it. I tried to warn him about how sad it was but he said to leave it the next time it came on, so I did. It was Christmas Eve and we were driving to the in-laws, I started to change the station when the song came on but he asked me to leave it so he could hear it.

So, when the song was over, I looked over at him, his eyes were all puffy red from crying, tears streaming down his face.

I said "you're crying"

He said "OF COURSE I'M CRYING! What am I? Made of stone?"

[Billy Battles]

The Idea of Christmas Shoes is very sad yes. I have sad it on here before Christmas Shoes is a horribly written song.

[EstherSmith]

I listen to a lot of Christmas music, but I don't think that I know "Christmas Shoes." Who is the original artist? Is a country song? I don't listen to a lot of country music.

Funny story about the hubby! cheesy

I don't care for "Mary, Did You Know?" by Clay Aiken. Too sappy. Sorry, Clay!

[scooterbugs25]

Yes it is a country song i would say its like most country songs.

Someone is drunk, the wife left, We are going broke, I need love and the children are still sad. The dog wont stop barking so i had to have another beer!

Most of the country songs are sad and depressing :(

Here is a movie of that song now:

http://www.cbs.com/specials/christmas_shoes/index.shtml

[dominick]

I always change the station when I hear Christmas Shoes, Mary Did You Know, or Grownup Christmas List.


I'm surprised no one has mentioned Twisted Sister's Twisted Christmas yet.

[Billy Battles]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Twisted Sister's Twisted Christmas yet.


Probably because nobody heard it here. I know I haven't

[JOHNOR]

the worst christmas song i have heard to date is that mannheim steamroller song (can't think for the life of me what the song is called, but it's a classic) it is dreadful! heard it on merry christmas radio and couldn't stop laughing.

my favourite christmas song of all time is without a doubt "fairytale of new york"

[little miss icequeen]

I agree Johnor, "Fairytale of New York" is one of the best christmas songs.

Isn´t it Paul Mcartney who sings "A wonderful christmas time"?
Well, I don´t like that song.
I think that is one of the worst.

[Sunshine73]

I listen to a lot of Christmas music, but I don't think that I know "Christmas Shoes." Who is the original artist? Is a country song? I don't listen to a lot of country music.

Funny story about the hubby! cheesy

I don't care for "Mary, Did You Know?" by Clay Aiken. Too sappy. Sorry, Clay!

"Christmas shoes" is sung by the Christian group 'New Song'. It's about this little boy whose mother is dying on Christmas Eve and he's trying to buy her a new pair of shoes so she'll look pretty when she goes to heaven and sees Jesus. It's told from the perspective of a man in line at the store with him, who helps him pay for the shoes since it turns out he doesn't have enough money to buy the shoes for his mom.

You can listen to it by visiting their MySpace page

http://www.myspace.com/newsongonline

It's listed in their little playlist that loads on the page, but I warn you, be prepared to cry.

[JayIsh]

I've been mulling this one over for a while, trying to figure out what I thought was the worst and I've come up empty...I know I don't care much for the "Very Special Christmas" series after the second one, and I have several songs that I don't like (i.e. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, Domenick the Donkey...That crappy Britney Spears song on the second "Now That's What I call Christmas" series...) but I don't have a whole album I hate. I'd have an even harder time to tell you what my favorite one is though!

Jay

[officepro4u]

"Christmas shoes" is sung by the Christian group 'New Song'. It's about this little boy whose mother is dying on Christmas Eve and he's trying to buy her a new pair of shoes so she'll look pretty when she goes to heaven and sees Jesus. It's told from the perspective of a man in line at the store with him, who helps him pay for the shoes since it turns out he doesn't have enough money to buy the shoes for his mom.

You can listen to it by visiting their MySpace page

http://www.myspace.com/newsongonline

It's listed in their little playlist that loads on the page, but I warn you, be prepared to cry.

Christmas Shoes HAS to be one of my favorite Christmas songs! I still cry every single time I hear no matter how many times that is!! My kids and I always cry through it.

I also like the song Maria's Gift about a little girl who goes to goes to give a gift to Baby Jesus but is so poor she can only give him a bird. It turns out that the bird is a Nightengale (spelling?) and it sings beautifully. It's the basic message that she gave all she had and it was perfect!! My kids like that one too.

Diana

[dominick]

Isn´t it Paul Mcartney who sings "A wonderful christmas time"?
Well, I don´t like that song.
I think that is one of the worst.

Surely you jest.

...several songs that I don't like (i.e. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, Domenick the Donkey...

Oh, I loathe Grandma Got Run Over. There is something fundamentally wrong about singing about Grandma's demise on Christmas. Watch what you say about the donkey, though. :wink:

[JayIsh]

I knew I catch you on the Donkey comment...Actually, on your behalf, I took another listen to the song and I don't dislike it nearly as much as I thought...So I will defer to your judgement and remove this song from my list of dislikes!

jay

[dominick]

Thanks for the appeal.
8-)

[MarthaK]

I'm with Dominick on the Johnny Cash Christmas album. His version of "The Little Drummer Boy" is just WEIRD. I mean...Indian wardrums?

The next on my list is Madonna's remake of "Santa Baby." She takes a classic and performs it in a fake Betty-Boop style that gives me a headache.

I love Rosemary Clooney, but I can't pick up a single Christmas CD of hers that doesn't include "Suzy Snowflake." Gag me.

Oh, and if you folks think "The Christmas Shoes" is a downer, give a listen to Alan Jackson's "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)."

[act_as_if]

I agree with whoever said Jessica Simpson. I'll add on though, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Madonna, and any other pop female.

[miller4plusmore]

Is there really such a thing as a worst Christmas album? If I had to vote though, I tend to agree with "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" as being one of the worst. I never could get behind that one.cheesy

[act_as_if]

yeah, that is a weird song, but, I do know the words!

[whychristmas]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Twisted Sister's Twisted Christmas yet.

Probably because nobody heard it here. I know I haven't

over at podsafechristmas.com they played two of the twisted sister tracks last year:

http://podsafechristmas.blogspot.com/search/label/Twisted%20Sister

Well, they're different... I have to say that from my 'long hair head banging' days, I kinda like them!!!

I'm ashamed to admit that I have this cd in my collection: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Box-Banjo-Christmas-Accordion-Band/dp/B0000253LW (although it didn't make it onto the ipod!!!) the amazon review about sums it up, it's truly awful. All of the songs/carols sound exactly the same and are played at about 1,000mph, It actually tires you out just listening to it! It's only now put on to wind certain friends up!

If you really want to hear it, I'll do a few sample mp3s and stick them somewhere!

[EstherSmith]

You know, I used to hate Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, too. And then, I actually listened to the lyrics all the way through and realized that it is a song about believing in Santa! After that, I found it to be a funny (although twisted) song.

I don't like Back Door Santa by Bon Jovi from the Very Special Christmas cd. It's not really about anything Christmas at all. Just not a very good song. It's the only song on that cd that I don't like.

[clarebear]

I dont think ive come across a bad album, i only buy what i like.
Worst xmas songs would of been better. x

[RadioJonD]

Well, there's enough bad Christmas tunes/albums for this! - http://musicalfruitcake.com/

[Maebeary]

I don't know about bad Christmas albums and such. I have hundreds of albums, cds and tapes. I do know of a song that I think is the worst. I love the song "Silver Bells." It's always been my favorite Christmas song. It just tells a lot of what Christmas is about in the song. Well, I love country music and a few years ago, I bought Travis Tritt's Christmas album (on tape, I think) and I gagged when I heard his version. It's been a while since I've heard it....I really did not like it. I just bought the cd from eBay and I'll listen one more time when it comes. It may be the last time. I remember it being really bad. I'll add the other songs to my playlist on Yahoo jukebox.

[Amy]

Anything by John Denver

[Jeff Westover]

We have the cats one :(

We have barking spiders.

[whychristmas]

We have barking spiders.

That's gotta be 'ruff'!

[RadioJonD]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121302192_2.html

[RadioJonD]

Christmas Records: Annual Turkeys - http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/christmas_records/

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

I have the Barking Dogs of Kopenhagen on vinyl. Yip, I just admitted it. Although I don't have a turn-table so I haven't heard it. I picked it up at a yard sale four years ago - just because.

I don't listen to the radio very often, Christmas radio programs (year round) sure, but it seems like a missed out (or not) on the modern Christmas songs.

The album that sticks out in my mind as being the worst I heard was the one Neil Diamond did about five years ago. I didn't like it at all.

I worked in the gift shop of a truck stop after high school and they played lots of songs I didn't care for. I can't remember all of them (thankfully), but Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer and something about Santa being dead under the bed.

Gimme my Bing, Nat, Frank, Louis and Burl anytime!

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

Well, there's enough bad Christmas tunes/albums for this! - http://musicalfruitcake.com/

Sometimes a song can be so bad, it's good. Makes you laugh.

That's how I felt about Carolee Goodgold's "Boogaloo 'Round the Aluminum Christmas Tree".

:gift: Thanks for the link RJD.

[Mr Walker]

I always change the station when I hear
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Twisted Sister's Twisted Christmas yet.

Bro... Dee's duet with Lita Ford on "I'll Be Home For Christmas" is amazing!

[Mr Walker]

This one is really bad... so bad that it's good... but still really, really bad.
Do you have this one rodmonster?

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b2/22/fe61c060ada00aed0a6aa110._AA240_.L.jpg

[Mr Walker]

I'm with Dominick on the Johnny Cash Christmas album. His version of "The Little Drummer Boy" is just WEIRD. I mean...Indian wardrums?


I have an mp3 of Johnny & June Carter Cash doing 'The Little Drummer Boy' with Neil Young that is amazing... it gives me the chills every time I heard it!

[Faithmom6]

We have barking spiders.

FALLING OUT OF THE CHAIR ROFL....

[Faithmom6]

I cannot stand Karla Devito - Santa is coming to MY house...boo me
I don't care for Harry's - The Happy Elf either...
Nor McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime...ugh!
Do NOT care for Mariah or any of that either. I'd rather listen to Barking Spiders and such!!

I like 101 Strings, Ferrante & Teicsher (even though I can't spell it), and all the golden oldies - Frank, Bing, Burl, Nat, etc.

[joyful]

Playing now on Christmas radio is a song that I really don't like, in fact I turn off my volume when it is played.

"Christmas Day" by Squeeze

The music is awful, the singing is awful. I just don't like it.

[RadioJonD]

I'd rather listen to Barking Spiders and such!!

I like 101 Strings, Ferrante & Teicsher (even though I can't spell it), and all the golden oldies - Frank, Bing, Burl, Nat, etc.

HaHa, Barking Spiders! If I ever start a band....!

Enjoy Faithmom6! - Ferrante & Teicher "Adventures In Carols 1956 - http://falalalala.com/?p=6

R.I.P. Lou Teicher (1924-2008) - http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/heavenly-sounds.html

[Faithmom6]

Thanks so much for that link! How cool is that! I'm a little confused about exactly what to click on for it to download! Sorry I'm so blonde! cheesy

[MerryChristmasLydio]

We have barking spiders.

We have more than barking spiders at our house. JK! I'm just kidding.

[MerryChristmasLydio]

I cannot stand Karla Devito - Santa is coming to MY house...boo me
I don't care for Harry's - The Happy Elf either...
Nor McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime...ugh!
Do NOT care for Mariah or any of that either. I'd rather listen to Barking Spiders and such!!

I like 101 Strings, Ferrante & Teicsher (even though I can't spell it), and all the golden oldies - Frank, Bing, Burl, Nat, etc.

Okay I cannot stand Karla Devito's song that Christmas Day song by that one boy band that just makes it sound so wierd and not so much fun, and I CANNOT STAND that song about the parents getting drunk and the sister whose new boyfriend is a Mexican and he sang Feliz Navidad. Yeah, I don't get it much. LOL!

HOLD UP MOMMA! Don't be dissin ma happy song such as The Happy Elf, Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time, Mariah's All I Want For Christmas Is You, and Aly & Aj's Greatest Time of Year song.
Mom is ALWAYS complaining about Aly & Aj's Christmas music. LOL!

[MerryChristmasLydio]

Thanks so much for that link! How cool is that! I'm a little confused about exactly what to click on for it to download! Sorry I'm so blonde! cheesy

Wait a minute?! :shocked: You're blonde?! Since when?

[Faithmom6]

HaHa, Barking Spiders! If I ever start a band....!

Enjoy Faithmom6! - Ferrante & Teicher "Adventures In Carols 1956 - http://falalalala.com/?p=6

R.I.P. Lou Teicher (1924-2008) - http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/heavenly-sounds.html

OMG!! I cannot thank you enough for the link!!
Thank you a thousand times over!
I am in Heaven!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!

[JanaBanana]

I only heard the samples, but by far this:

www.amazon.com/Hung-Holidays-William/dp/B0002PUHSI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-5172459-8935039?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1191599224&sr=8-2 (http://www.amazon.com/Hung-Holidays-William/dp/B0002PUHSI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-5172459-8935039?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1191599224&sr=8-2)


Oh my gosh that is AWFUL in every sense of the word. Hung for the Holidays... the name alone is disgusting.

[JanaBanana]

Christmas Shoes HAS to be one of my favorite Christmas songs! I still cry every single time I hear no matter how many times that is!! My kids and I always cry through it.

I also like the song Maria's Gift about a little girl who goes to goes to give a gift to Baby Jesus but is so poor she can only give him a bird. It turns out that the bird is a Nightengale (spelling?) and it sings beautifully. It's the basic message that she gave all she had and it was perfect!! My kids like that one too.

Diana

Diana I love the song too! Plus the bird one, its also sung by Garth Brooks and its one of my favorites :)

[JanaBanana]

Those darn barking spiders! We have a ton of those in this house.. especially hear them at night when Im in bed with my hubs tryin to sleep :D

[rodmonster]

ALL the newer Boy Bands...
Yuck.....
Kills my Christmas Spirit!

[Courtney]

Alvin and the Chipmunks.

[trackrebel]

how can a band call themselves barking spiders? just hearing a name like that....makes me not like the band...haha....I hate big spiders

[rodmonster]

Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Aww - Come on now - Everyone needs a hula hoop and such!
=)

[trackrebel]

I love this Chipmunks song

[Santa's Helper]

Well, I don't know about Albums (although I've heard some pretty BAD Christmas music in my time) but I do know what gets my vote as the worst (and probably most overplayed) Christmas song of all time: Christmas Shoes.

For me Christmas is a time of joy, happiness, jingle bells and Holly Jolly Christmas stuff...and then the DJ plays that awful song and it all goes to..well, you know. Who writes a song like that at Christmas?? Who wants to listen to a Christmas song where the little kids mom is dying?? It's just way too sad and just makes me :(.

Oh, as a little side story. I had heard this song being played at work so everytime it would come on the radio station in the car, I would quickly change the station. Well, one day my DH was complaining that I always switched that song...he said he'd never heard it and he wanted to hear it. I tried to warn him about how sad it was but he said to leave it the next time it came on, so I did. It was Christmas Eve and we were driving to the in-laws, I started to change the station when the song came on but he asked me to leave it so he could hear it.

So, when the song was over, I looked over at him, his eyes were all puffy red from crying, tears streaming down his face.

I said "you're crying"

He said "OF COURSE I'M CRYING! What am I? Made of stone?"

I hate that Christmas Shoes song too! There's some other song that I hate as well although I can't think of the name. It's something about a poor girl named Maria who doesn't have anything to give to baby Jesus as a gift. She ends up setting her bird free as a gift. That song ticks me off for 2 reasons: 1. The person singing that song sings in the most annoying way. 2. I know it was for Jesus but, I don't approve of just opening a cage and letting your pet bird go! That gets me mad! Christmas should be jolly and happy. I don't want to listen to songs about people dying and domesticated animals being set free to fend for themselves!

[Santa's Helper]

This one is really bad... so bad that it's good... but still really, really bad.
Do you have this one rodmonster?

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b2/22/fe61c060ada00aed0a6aa110._AA240_.L.jpg

Poor Terry Bradshaw! Such a good quarterback, such a bad singer.

[Santa's Helper]

Diana I love the song too! Plus the bird one, its also sung by Garth Brooks and its one of my favorites :)

Hey, maybe if I heard a different version I'd like that Maria bird song! I just really can't stand that voice of the girl that sings on the version I usually hear on the radio. I still don't approve of letting birds go that you planned on keeping as a pet though! Ha,ha!

[Santa's Helper]

Ooooo, I just remembered a bad one I had bought. It's by SWV. That album was awful! I hate albums where there's talking instead of singing. Then when they sang that wasn't that great either!

[Aurora Cherie]

I don't like Christmas Auld Lang Syne because it makes me want to cry and I hate when people use their own name for a classic Christmas song.

[BritneyBug]

Songs I change the Channel on:
Christmas Shoes, Mary Did You Know, Grownup Christmas List, Santa Baby, Jessica Simpson's version of "Baby it's cold outside", FELIZ NAVIDAD (I cant stand it)

I do like Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You", it makes me want to dance. However that's the ONLY song I like by her.

I also for whatever reason love to sing along to "grandma got run over by a reindeer" randomly =)
I also like Garth Brooks' The Gift (about Maria and the Nightingale). I think the song has a lot more meaning when you listen to the lyrics.

2 songs my friends hate but I love are "Wonderful Christmastime" and "Last Christmas".

[dominick]

I like Feliz Navidad and can't stand Grandma Got Run Over, but aside from that, we're kindred Christmas musical spirits right down to my friends hating Wonderful Christmastime and Last Christmas.


Can't say I recall hearing the Brooks song, though.

[MerryChristmasLydio]

Yall wanna know what's REALLY bad? Those Redneck Christmas CDs and those other ones where gangster's are finging about getting high on Christmas and crap. It's just not that great. It's like the, " Kill me I hate everything!" kind of music.

[dominick]

I got burned out on that whole redneck thing about ten minutes after it became popular.