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Departments => Music => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 28, 2003, 12:42:19 PM
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For me, it "The Little Drummer Boy"
I mean, I appreciate the sentiment. whatever you can give is enough. However, couldn't be be a piper or something? Because no sane mother on the planet EVER is going to let some kid play a DRUM next to their new-born child.
On top of that, no one ever spot lights their drummer when they play the song. You have a song ABOUT A DRUMMER and half the time it's a guitarist who's the featured instrumentalist, if they don't just leave it to the vocalist with those lame "pa-rum-pum-pums" Why can't Neil Pert or Tito Puente do a version? That would at least SOUND cool.
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I totally agree. Thats about the only one that really makes me upset. I do like that pa-rum part though. I gave a Johnny Cash CD a try... oh man. That was bad. He sang in about 3 or 4 of the songs, and the rest he just talked. I don't see why he's so good.
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Assuming we're talking about actual carols and not just Christmas songs, then The Little Drummer Boy is a clost second to the worst song- Do you Hear What I Hear.
Apart from carols, the dogs barking Jingle Bells is the worst.
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See, that can't be it: because people recognize how evil that song is and hardly anyone sings it anymore. Drummer Boy, however, people think is good for some reason, and every idiot sings it, though no drummers play it.
and yeah, what's up with those barking dogs? the producer of that should be made sterile so as not to afflict the rest of us ever again.
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I thought of another one I hate- 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' ARRRGH. That song makes me puke.
As long as my husband doesn't make me listen to David Bowie singing Little Drummer Boy, I can take it. It's survivable even if I hate it.
Why doesn't anyone ever play the Christmas carols I sung in choirs for so many years? Candlelight Carol, or Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day? There are so many good Christmas songs written that we don't need to hear JingleBell Rock 50 times a day, no matter how catchy it is.
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"I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" because I hate snow. And I like the dogs barking "Jingle Bells". It's not like it's some ultra wonderful song in the first place, and I think it's funny.
I agree with fuzzy on traditional carols though. Songs like "'Lo How a Rose 'Ere Blooming" and "The Holly and the Ivy". I recommend Mannheim Steamroller, though most of their stuff is instrumental.
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Maggie Sansone or Kim Robertson and John Fahey also all do very good instrumental versions on their respective instruments. many of them of very old tunes. Another good one is Mason Williams. His Christmas album is way cool, but again, all instrumental.
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If you want really cool Christmas music, you should listen to Trans Siberian Orchestra. They are wonderful!
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Which Christmas carol do I really hate? How about ALL OF THEM.
Christmas music seriously annoys me, a lot. Especially since Christmas stopped being a celebration about peace and goodwill, and started to be about capitalism and making money. Which would be my whole life.
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no offense, but that's a fairly adolescent response. Christmas is only about what YOU celebrate it with. It's only commercial if YOU'RE commercial.
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Yeah!! Christmas is about family, Christmas is about having chilli at Grandma's the night before and being forced to stay in my room until a decent hour of the morning (7) because my dad is very scary. Christmas is about Grandma's amazing fudge and sugar cookies, and Christmas trees. And presents, and giving presents, and seeing a happy look on someone's face because you got them something they actually wanted.
And very good point Brenna.
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True. The trouble is, everyone around me IS commercial. But...well, you're right.
I still don't like Christmas music though.
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Wow, Izzy, you guys have chili at grandma's on Christmas Eve, too? So does my family. Chili and clam chowder (not in the same pot), then off to midnight mass at Grandma's Lutheran church a block down the street. Then back to grandma's to play Santa, stuff the stockings, etc. and stay up till 2 am giggling with my cousins. Then get woken up at 7 by the little kids who are clamoring to open presents. Though thankfully our Christmas mornings have become later and later in recent years as the grandkids grow up and the great-grandkids aren't old enough yet.
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My vote goes to Carol of the Bells.
Eeesh. Just thinking about it gives me shivers.
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Yep. She cooks it in an emense pot that sits over two burners. And there is grated cheese and chopped onions and soup crackers. And then there is usually Martinelles and sugar cookies and fudge and peanut brittle and the kids each get to open one present and it is much fun.
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Yeah but you have to stay in your room until 7??
You've got to be kidding me. Who wants to get up that early on Christmas morning- the presents will still be there at 9 or 10, and the rest of the family rarely shows up until then.
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That was when we were like 10. I don't think anyone gets up that early anymore.
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Ok, that makes me feel better then. I know too well that I must enjoy sleeping in on Christmas while I can until I have kids who get me up at who-knows-when.
Eric- when do you think your monsters daughters wake you up this year?
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Sarah will wake up the same time she does every morning. Like, 5 am
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*shakes head in disbelief*
Youth is wasted on the young.
So diverging slightly from the orginal topic of this thread, does anyone have any favorite Christmas songs? I'm thinking I should put together some Christmas cds/playlists to get me in the holiday mood.
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How has no one mentioned "The Twelve Days of Christmas"? The longest song ever written.
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I think one of my favorites is "Bell that Couldn't Jingle" by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. The entire Christmas Album is good.
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Eric this is the best possible idea for a thread because every time I go to a store I will hear a song that bothers me and can post it here.
Not a specific song, but I hate it when people try to do Christmas songs in their own 'original' way. Like the sucky "I'm a lounge singer" version of Jingle Bells they were playing in the mall. Just sing the freaking song, people, don't pretend like you're a superstar because you can add extra words, notes and syncopation where they don't belong.
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Amen!
Of course, this only applies to artists I don't like.
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The only version of the twelve days of x-mas that I like is when the Muppets do it. That is my favorite one.
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I think I hate all Christmas music...
Although I hate the first Noel more than any of them. In fact I was in the Disney Store the other day and they had it on, and no lie, it was a version that went on for 15 minutes. I particularly hated the 3 minute noel solo, where the singer just kept saying Noel.
10 minutes into the song I was muttering under my breath, "Buy the L, Buy the frigging L, Dear god why doesn't he buy the L"
My wife just stared at me, but it was as if the song was burning a hole in my brain. Kind of like when your forced to listen to Raffie or Kenny G for a minute too long, and then being tied down, beaten to a pulp and forced to listen to him for another 14 minutes.
Finally I got tired of looking for presents and just went out and waited for my wife.
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I like custom music.
Two of my favorite Christmas albums are by Jimmy Buffet and Elvis. Two people who can't do an album without making it their own.
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I didnt' really agree with Kije's assessment of "Carol of the Bells," though I think probably that was just because I don't hear it all that much. However, the radio played a commerical from a cell phone company about how they could help you be more productive and get things done; in the background they were singing Carol of the Bells with the words "Done Done Done Done"
And so help me, I nearly ripped the radio out of the wall and hurled it as hard as I could out my office window.
Also, a local station, WASH-ed up FM plays only CHristmas music starting about THanksgiving, and they advertise on other stations. They're commercials suck. THey got the worst jingle (I pray I'm right and it's not a sample from an actual song) which embodies everything everyone should hate about Christmas music. After hearing that commercial, If my wife ever turns the station to 97.1 when I am in the car I will divorce her.
(edit: moved this from the "cool lyrics" thread to here, where I meant it to be)
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There's a version of Carol of the Bells which I think is called "Ding, fries are done," and is quite funny. Not a Christmas song, though.
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I think Carol of the Bells is one of those songs that has to be sung very well to be enjoyable. The notes are quick, and should be precise, and the dynamics are important. I recommend the MoTab if anyone cares to hear it done well.
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Can we nominate our favorite Christmas songs? My new favorite is "Rockabye Jesus in the treetop," which my daughter sings at the top of her lungs every time she sees a picture of the baby Jesus.
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Is this one your daughter made up herself?
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Well, in that she replaced the word baby with Jesus, yes. Other than that, though, I haev to admit that my 2-year old is not the author of "Rockabye Baby."
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Well I'm sure it's very very cute.
My favorite Christmas song is probably Sussex Carol.
You know, "On Christmas night all Christians sing to hear the news the angels bring."
Whoever thought it was a good idea to use [ instead of < in what passes for HTML tags on here must have done it JUST to piss me off...
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actually, they did it so if you didn't close your tags properly it wouldn't muck up the entire thread.
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My favorite is "I want a Hippopotomus for Christmas".
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Oooooooh, I love that song so much. It's definitely Millie's favorite Christmas song, accompanied by much bouncing of course.
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And singing at the top of lungs, lisps included. :D
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ok, DC101, the station I usually listen to (mostly hard rock, some crossover to alternative and adult contemporary, but with nearly no rock-rap hibrids outside of Linkin' Park) gets really annoying at Christmas. They'll play abot 1 Christmas song an hour, but instead of going for people who've tried (really, you could do Tom Petty, U2, and about a million other artists who get played regularly) they try for something they must think is "funny." ALthough this would be some new definition for the word "funny" I'd never heard of.
For example, the drunken redneck singing "Dum-dum-dum-dum" to the "tune" of carol of the bells or "Cuz I got high" (I ate all gramma's fruit cake, cuz I got high, I didn't pick up my aunt from the airport, cuz I got high." Yeah, really creative). The most tolerable at all is Adam Sandler's "Hannuka Song" (yeah, stuck in my head... "Tell your friend Veronica! It's time to celebrate Hannuka, so put on your yamulke!").
But what I just heard has frightened me beyond belief. You know that song Madonna does? "Santa Baby?" I just heard what sounds like David Lee Roth singing it. It might almost be tolerable if it sounded like he was trying, but he doesn't.
I don't think the scars will ever fade.
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/me pat, pats Saint
I'm truly sorry. The one that really annoys me is Coldplay singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Not because he does a bad job, but because he tried to "modernize" the lyrics. You're freakin' British! There is nothing wrong with the word yule!!
Bare Naked Ladies and Sarah Mclaughlin singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"--love that one.
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The other day I heard a Christmas duet with, and I'm not making this up, Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Holy cow was it awful.
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O Come All Ye Faithful and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen are my favorites.
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Mustard - I know you're not making that one up. Little Drummer Boy, right? Horrible song to begin with, that version makes me want to kill people. Like my husband who has it on a CD.
There was, however, a really funny Saturday Night Live skit about that song, where it had the two of them singing the song, except halfway through, the lyrics changed to stuff like this.
Bowie: "Why am I singing/ With Bing Crosby?"
Crosby: "I don't know..."
Bowie: "This is messed up."
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Mustard - I know you're not making that one up. Little Drummer Boy, right? Horrible song to begin with, that version makes me want to kill people. Like my husband who has it on a CD.
See, this is why I don't have a husband
Also, the Cheech and Chong Christmas "song" (really an attempt at being funny but FAR from their best work) really does NOT need to be played twice daily. Once in a thousand years is too much.
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SE, you are a horrible person.
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He's a horrible person for not wanting a husband? I bet he has many reason that are much better than that to be classified as horrible.
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I agree that that song is not Cheech and Chong's high point, but it's one of the better things on that Dr Demento CD (which shows the kind of crap that's on there). Really, the only thing on there that I find consistently funny is the McKenzie Brother's thing.
By the way, because of the McKenzie Bros song, my wife and I have made it a tradition to celebrate the "three mystery days."
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hehe, the MacKenzie brothers rule. They haven't played that one though.
Although they did just play Sandler's update for the Hannuka song.
"It's not pronounced CHAW-nukka! The C is silent in Chanukka! So read your hooked on phonica!"
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I secretly get a chuckle out of that song even though I hate A Sandler.
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yeah, I like that particular track. Though the 3rd list uses the exact same jokes as number 2, so I wish he'd stop.