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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2003, 04:21:51 PM »
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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2003, 04:45:51 PM »
Is this one your daughter made up herself?
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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2003, 06:00:07 PM »
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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #33 on: December 06, 2003, 03:52:40 AM »
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."


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« Last Edit: December 06, 2003, 03:54:08 AM by fuzzyoctopus »
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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #34 on: December 06, 2003, 08:25:12 AM »
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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #35 on: December 08, 2003, 02:11:12 PM »
My favorite is "I want a Hippopotomus for Christmas".
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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #36 on: December 08, 2003, 10:41:55 PM »
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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #37 on: December 09, 2003, 12:58:10 PM »
And singing at the top of lungs, lisps included.  :D
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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2003, 12:12:19 PM »
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.

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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2003, 01:07:38 PM »
/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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2003, 06:53:51 PM »
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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2003, 06:58:54 PM »
O Come All Ye Faithful and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen are my favorites.

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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2003, 07:01:36 PM »
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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #43 on: December 18, 2003, 10:46:50 PM »
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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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Re: The Christmas Carol that Annoys You Most:
« Reply #44 on: December 18, 2003, 11:19:23 PM »
SE, you are a horrible person.
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