POLL: Which Christmas Song Are You Most Tired of?
Let us know which Christmas song you don't want to hear again.
It happens every year.
Christmas music starts cropping up around Thanksgiving and for a week or two we tolerate it -- and many of us actually like it. Then, we move closer to Christmas and each note of an Andy Williams or Mitch Miller song makes our blood pressure rise. There's only so much mirth one person can take!
Then there's the sappy song like Wham's tune or the corny songs from legends like The Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, Eartha Kitt or Dean Martin. And then, there's Feliz Navidad, 12 Days of Christmas and no list of painful Christmas music is complete without Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.
So, we want to know -- which Christmas song are you most tired of? If we don't have your choice in the poll, let us know in the comment section.
Aubry Bracco
11:02 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
"All I Want for Christmas is You" — So overdone!
Dorothy Malcolm
1:43 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Yeah Aubry, but it's SO upbeat. Overdone, yes, but it still puts a grin on my face and a restless pair of feet hankering to cut a Yuletide rug.
Concerned Momma
2:15 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Aubry, you are so right....that one got old real quick.
Kristin
3:30 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
That's my choice too! Every time I turn on WROR to listen to Christmas music while driving, THAT's the song that is on. I love Christmas music, but I like a variety... not the same song over and over and over...
Aubry Bracco
3:41 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sorry, but Mariah Carey jumped the shark with "Glitter."
Dorothy Malcolm
5:36 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Okay, now I'm really dating myself but what does "jumped the shark with 'Glitter'" mean. Think I'm caught in a 60s bubble.
Tim H.
12:05 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Dorothy: 'Glitter' was an unsuccessful movie Mariah Carey made, and 'Jumping the Shark' is an Internet-age catch phrase that essentially means "overstaying your welcome." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
Aubry Bracco
12:14 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Thanks, Tim H. :)
Anna Bucciarelli
7:44 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
What? Come on, be serious, it has so much meaning. I have not heard it once this year !! Except at the LifeLinks Holiday Party in early December, that is, and I have my radio on all day listening especially to 102.5 Country, where I think the song has always played most.
Laura Lamarre Anderson
10:53 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I agree with Aubry.
Krista Perry
11:08 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
I always found "Santa Baby" somewhat creepy.
Dorothy Malcolm
1:44 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Oh God, yes. Freaks me out.
Josh Turiel
11:17 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
As much as I love The Boss, I've gotten sick of the Springsteen version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
Fran McDougall
11:17 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
"Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" because my grandkids sing it with too much glee!
Michelle Bailey
11:19 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
So This is Christmas or Do They Know It's Christmas.? While these were for important causes they supported, they loose their impact played over and over.
Andrew Sylvia
11:21 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
All of them! I am ready for post-December holidays already, enough of this!
Jared Robinson
11:29 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Wonderful Christmas Time is a HORRIBLE song. Musically, it's absolutely HORRENDOUS. It's literally one not pressed on keyboard on a time with reverb and delay set way up and the LFO cranked all the way up...
Now compare that to Lennon's Merry Christmas song... and you'll see who the better Beatle really was :D
Jared Robinson
11:30 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sorry, "Happy Christmas" by Lennon.
Jared Robinson
11:52 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Here's a version of that song I can stomach.
http://www.asitecalledfred.com/holidayhavoc/venture_bros_henchmen_21_24-wonderful_christmastime.mp3
Aubry Bracco
1:39 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The best Beatle was and will always be the understated yet incredibly talented George! :)
Jared Robinson
1:47 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
but he didn't do a Christmas song :)
SD From T-Bury
3:02 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
True, but George did do a song for New Year's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEMNR3WNpg
Michael DeGregorio
4:40 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Oh, yeah? It's literally that, is it?
Haleigh Stanway
11:40 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
That "Christmas Shoes" song... it was nice the first time I heard it, but now it's just annoying!
Judith Culver
11:42 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Christmas Shoes is the most horrible song of all - maudlin and creepy
Jared Robinson
11:45 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Baby It's Cold Outside can be viewed as a happy date rape song too...
No means NO, buster!
Dorothy Malcolm
1:45 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
- LOL - Now there's a point, Jared.
Addylove88
12:19 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
I agree with Aubry. it's like Mariah is the only one who sings about X-mas!
William Laforme
12:22 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
All the Schlitz in the world can't bring back the two minutes I just spent listening to "The Christmas Shoes."
Bruce
1:22 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The list is a partial line-up of what's being played on WROR (and other 'Christmas' stations) in an endless loop these days. I think they're all tacky holiday songs, and can hardly stand to listen to them anymore.
southie
1:29 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
what does a donkey and a hippo have to do with christmas can't stand those two songs
AB
3:25 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Aww, come on....the kids LOVE I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! I'm sick of Bruce.
My favorite song hands down is the Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings: http://bit.ly/t6yLYZ
Dorothy Malcolm
1:40 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Everytime I hear "I'll Be Home for Christmas," I feel a lump in my throat for all the years I lived overseas and couldn't get home to be with my family. It's a lovely sentimental song---especially the Karen Carpenter version---but for me it's a tear-jerker, even to this day.
Diana LeBlanc
5:07 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
My parents always got sentimental with 'I'll Be Home for Christmas" big World War II song.
David Moisan
12:39 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I hate the frantic, forced, happiness of Christmas. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" is one of the few songs I like because it is melancholy without being too maudlin. (I'm referring to and hating all the glurge about dying cancer kids, dying Mom's and Dad's for one last Christmas, etc.)
I will be playing "I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas" with much glee on Christmas morning, as well as "Christmas At Ground Zero", in bad taste, yes, but hilarious. I want to laugh at 2 AM Christmas Day as Santa stumbles off the roof next door...
Jenni Schillizzi
1:59 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Only one song is worse than the "Christmas Shoes" song, and that's "Dominick the Donkey"! If I never hear that song again, I'll die a happy woman!!!
Bill Gilman
2:23 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
"Last Christmas" by Wham and let me tell you, it's not even close for sooooooo many reasons.
SD From T-Bury
3:00 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I can't STAND "Wonderful Christmastime!" I also can't stand that "Christmas Shoes" song. I don't listen to Christmas music to get depressed ;-)
Angie
4:52 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas" makes me want to smack someone...preferably Mariah Carey.
Dorothy Malcolm
5:33 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
- LOL - Good one, Angie. Seems I'm outdone with this tune! :-)
Aubry Bracco
12:19 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
You don't want her for your own, more than you could ever know? Make Mariah's wish come true -- all she wants for Christmas is for you to revive her career, bippity boppity boo! Sorry Dorothy -- on the bright side, if there is a chance to meet Mariah Carey on the North Shore, you'll be the one who gets the VIP seat! :)
whatmethinks
6:07 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Wonderful christmas time !!!!! So stupid
Doug Coonrod
6:13 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
"The Twelve Days of Christmas"- too much math.
David Moisan
12:42 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Oh, yes but it spawned so, so, so, many parodies! Most of them aren't appropriate even at home but....
Dorothy Malcolm
12:30 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Great, thanks Aubry, but if you give me a VIP ticket to see Ms. Carey, I'll just regift it to you. :-)
I'm not a MC fan but I just thought the tune was kind of upbeat. Going to bed now as I've jumped the shark on PATCH enough for one day. Good night and have yourself a merry little Christmas, Aubry.
Anna Bucciarelli
7:56 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Well, music or not, it really is a good time of year to appreciate family and friends and I don't mean just by gifting. So, friends, I wish you all the blessings of Christmas' with smiles to last you all throughout 2012
Anna Bucciarelli
7:59 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
P.S. ... I cannot stand "It's the most Wonderful Tie Of The Year" ... I always equate it with that car commercial (the most wonderful sale .....). Give me a break ... there are many wonderful times in every year, just think about it. :)
David Moisan
12:42 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Staples used that music for their back-to-school sales for years, and totally ruined it.
AB
3:28 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I agree with David. I now think of it as a Back to School song more than a Christmas song.
Peter Gorman
9:06 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Can't believe nobody has said Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" yet. Sooo tired of this one.
Melissa Bellavance
9:17 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
i can't stand Dominic the donkey. i really can't stand it
Jay Oza
10:52 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
"Here comes Santa Claus" and "Jingle Bell Rock"
*shudders*
myron
11:36 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I am so tired of the whole drawn out commerciak season. The music is just more bachground clutter like car ads.
Norcam Rob
11:45 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
That "I'm Gettin' Nothin' For Christmas" song, ughh, I'd rather get a filling at the dentist (except they'd probably play that in the lobby while I was waiting...)
David Moisan
12:43 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
"I've been nuttin' but Bad!"
Rick Spencer
2:52 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Jimmy Durante's version of "Frosty The Snowman" makes me scan the dial looking for a traffic report to listen to.
"Down tru da villigg, wid a broomstick in his hand...."
For openers, it's not even a Christmas song, and for crying out loud Jimmy, clear your throat.
Martha Crannell
11:24 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I don't like "Dominick the Donkey," but for truly awful it's got to be "12 Pains of Christmas." Way to get in the holiday spirit...NOT.
Les Masterson
6:03 am on Friday, December 23, 2011
Good call, Martha. I forgot about that one!