Hey Lemmy!
What’s that one song comes on the radio or party and you’re filled with joy? Or perhaps it’s a carol and it makes you feel alright. What is it?
Then there’s the song that makes you flinch and cringe, and you’ve gotta shut that song down. What is it?
Your favorite and your despised!
I love Cassie and Maggie’s Christmas album and their version of Star in the East. I don’t like Baby It’s Cold Outside because whatever the intent was it’s creepy.
On: Dead,dead,dead - South Park
Last Christmas - Wham
Little Drummer boy - Traditional
Carol of the Bells - Traditional
Off: Screechy AI slop that appears when you put “Christmas music” in the Youtube search bar.
Silence on the train.
The fucking kid talking and crying nonstop on this train ride.
It’s gonna be some looong 6h ffs.
Fav: War is over - John Lennon Least favourite: Meghan Trainor anything
I like “altfel de colind” and dislike the music that the Grinch complained about
New fave Christmas jam - Megan Trainor feat. Earth, Wind and Fire - Holidays
All time fave - Dominick the Donkey
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
😆
Mariah Carey has been so overdone she’s now Pariah Carey.
Does anyone actually play Dominick the Donkey?
The only time I’ve ever heard it was whenever someone else says “What’s Dominick the Donkey?” and someone finds it on YouTube.
On my personal playlist, along with “Nestor, the Long Ear Donkey”.
There is a particular version of Carol of the Bells I quite like.
Also, the Trans Siberian Orchestra turned out a couple great tracks as well.
There are a few tracks by Frank Sinatra that sometimes get played as Christmas music which I won’t tolerate. I’ve never heard a Sinatra song I don’t physically hate.
The physical reaction to Sinatra 😆 Is the Carol of the Bells instrumental or vocal? Are you thinking of John Williams’ version from Home Alone?
The Home Alone version is in the ballpark; the version I’m thinking of I’m pretty sure was on a CD of Christmas music my parents had. The Home Alone version sounds like it was sung by a children’s choir. Then you get a lot of this version that is women plus instruments. The version I’m thinking of was choir only, ran a little faster, and had men in the choir. The sopranos still did most of the work but having some bass in the counter melody and chorus took the power up a notch.
I’m gonna see if I can find that CD today.
After growing up with a bunch of retail workers and hearing all their horror stories, I generally try to avoid all the “classic” Christmas tunes as long as possible - the only ones I ever seek out are Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic, and Straight No Chaser’s album from 2009.
ms parker by chance the rapper is so smooth… honestly people sleep on his christmas album…
and as someone that has worked at a store… you already know.
On: Chiron Beta Prime Off: The Mariah Carey song
Avoid - last Christmas. It’s not a Christmas song. It just happens to be at that time of year. It’s depressing and whiney and over played (even if it wasn’t irrelevant).
Ballad of New York - The Pogues
Fairytale*
On: A Marshmallow World by Dean Martin. Off: Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer.
Avoid: The Christmas Shoes
Jam: Oi to the World by The Vandals
The whole Xmas With the Vandals album is great. Shoutout to the Angry Snowmans, too.
One of these years I’m going to make it to the Vandals Christmas Formal
I want to get a kindergarten class to sing “Grandpa’s Last Christmas”
A must-sing-along fav: Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Never again: that one about the boy buying shoes for his dying mother (not even gonna link)
Oh my goodness, Christmas Shoes is the worst.
