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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dandi on December 15, 2009, 09:14:34 PM
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Yes folks, it's that time of year again, when hundreds of millions of sane, well-adjusted people might discuss or participate in polls of what they're favorite Christmas carols are.
Not so in the land of the miserable, the maladjusted, and the misanthropic. At DU, the competition is to see who can hate the most, and usually over the most inconsequential of things.
gopiscrap (384 posts) Tue Dec-15-09 07:39 PM
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Poll question: MOST ANNOYING CHRISTMAS CAROL
Edited on Tue Dec-15-09 07:47 PM by gopiscrap
Yes it's that time of the year again when all you hear in the stores is Christmas crap..what is your most annoying carol?
Poll result (57 votes)
12 Days of Christmas (18 votes, 32%) Vote
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Underneath the Mistletoe (1 votes, 2%) Vote
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (1 votes, 2%) Vote
All I want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (3 votes, 5%) Vote
Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer (23 votes, 40%) Vote
Deck the Hall With Boughs of Holly (0 votes, 0%) Vote
Up On A House Top Reindeer Pause (0 votes, 0%) Vote
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1 votes, 2%) Vote
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (1 votes, 2%) Vote
Other (PLease share with us which one) (9 votes, 16%) Vote
Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 07:40 PM
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1. The Little Drummer Boy is by far and away the most annoying Christmas carol.
GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:03 PM
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27. +1
I detest that song.
WillyT (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:07 PM
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35. +100
tonysam (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:16 PM
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41. +1,000 n/t
Raster (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:17 PM
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42. +10,000
Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum. Me and my drum.
cordelia (398 posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:19 PM
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45. Not my favorite, but my dad despised it
"I hate that pa rum pum pum goddam pum song" and would leave the room.
Auggie (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:29 PM
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53. YES
stanwyck (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 09:08 PM
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75. Absolutely! I'm trying to get thru the holiday season without
hearing this wretched song one time. I loathe the song.
JimWis (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 09:10 PM
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76. Yes, Little Drummer Boy. I have hated that song ever since I first
heard it.
I get the feeling they don't like The Little Drummer Boy.
ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 07:42 PM
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3. All of them. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
I hate this silly season and cannot wait for it to disappear, until October of next year.
I'll bet this guy's a real blast to be around. I'll also bet his feet are parked under someone's table on 12/25, as he slurps up turkey and giblet gravy and takes advantage of their kind Christmas spirit.
valerief (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 07:57 PM
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21. Carol of the Bells. It's INSANELY annoying!!!!
Ah well, if there's anyone who would know about insanity...
Lyric (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:24 PM
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49. Jingle Bells. I hate that song.
Yep. Lots to hate there. Bells and sleighs and...stuff.
Hubert H. Hubert (187 posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:39 PM
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57. O Come All Ye Faithful
Chaps my atheist ass.
Funny, I would have bet it was your lack of personal hygiene.
saltpoint (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-15-09 08:57 PM
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67. I pretty much puke whenever they play "Away in the Manger."
The lyrics suck, in particular. The melody sucks as well.
Okay now, I've always thought of Away In A Manger as a children's song. It takes a special kind of rectum, a DU rectum, to hate that.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7235902
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I suppose there would be no point in pointing out to DU folk that "Carol of the Bells" is designed so that human voices are used to sound almost bell-like. Don't like "Adeste Fidelis"//"Oh Come All Ye Faithful"? Don't listen, don't come. Sheesh! The character who dislikes "Away In A Manger" didn't specify which of the common melodies aroused his/her ire; it's written simply, for children to be able to sing and understand ... not useful for an adult (?) who doesn't care to understand.
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Actually, some of the choices in the poll are pretty annoying. But I like the traditional Christmas carols even though I don't celebrate the holiday. DUmmies being DUmmies, as usual.
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"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" just doesn't tickle my funnybone like it used to. This poll is crap, but I'll cast my vote for Rudolph this time.
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Gotta agree with the DUmmies on that "Rump-a-Pump" song. It blows.
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Since the whole idea is to celebrate Jesus, these pukes hope there's really no God. Could get a little "touchy" at the Pearly Gates. Myself, I'd sure love to have a front row seat when they have to answer for their past discretion's. BTW, what do ya s'pose hell is like for DUmbasses?
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Since the whole idea is to celebrate Jesus, these pukes hope there's really no God. Could get a little "touchy" at the Pearly Gates. Myself, I'd sure love to have a front row seat when they have to answer for their past discretion's. BTW, what do ya s'pose hell is like for DUmbasses?
Living under Reagan, X100, and having a job, for eternity.... :rotf:
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There are three Christmas songs I don't like, none of them are on the list - probably because they are all modern and really aren't carols.
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
I think its the synthetic organ-like noise throughout the song that wrecks it.
Last Christmas
I don't know if its credited to Wham! or George Michael, but its just awful.
Christmas Shoes
A Christmas song shouldn't be wrist-slitting depressing.
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"Christmas Shoes." Hands down.
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The Little Drummer Boy holds special childhood memories for me, as a tiny girl listening to it while being with my dad in his workshop. So I cannot share the DUmmies' loathing. I have the good fortune to having never heard the Shoes song. I concur with Last Christmas. My husband heard it the other day and it pissed him off. How about ones you especially love?
Last year, there was medley that was popular, by the guy from Bare Naked Ladies and some chick. It started off with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, I think. I loved that song. Beautiful.
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I can get tired of some of the secular Christmas songs, but I never tire of good Christmas hymns. Apparently the dump dislikes a couple of my favorites, "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" and "Away In A Manger" "Silent Night" is another good one. My mother used to sing it beautifully. Thanks, for bringing up a very pleasant memory of my mother, DUmp. Does it kill you that you accidently spread a little joy?
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"Feliz Navidad" is an annoying earworm year around to me.
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The only time Christmas music irritates me is when some "artist" takes a classic and mangles it into something almost unrecognizeable.
My all time favorite, is "O holy night" sung by Colin Raye...AWESOME.
Oh, and the Barlow girls have a great version of "Carol of the Bells" out this year.
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Last year, there was medley that was popular, by the guy from Bare Naked Ladies and some chick. It started off with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, I think. I loved that song. Beautiful.
^5
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVNzgUxE-g[/youtube]
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Personally I like most more than not. S'pose it was all those years in choir, when we could sing them and not worry about offending anyone. We sang Hallelujah Chorus. In public school. Man.
I could go my whole life and never hear the Chipmunks again and be blissfully happy.
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I'd have to go with that "Merry Christmas (War Is Over)" by John Lennon. Anything that has Yoko Ono screeching in the backgorund is automatically off my list.
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Snoopy and the Red Baron is pretty awesome. Anyone else remember it?
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Snoopy and the Red Baron is pretty awesome. Anyone else remember it?
One of my favorites! And I'm not old enough to remember when it came out. :)
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The Little Drummer Boy holds special childhood memories for me, as a tiny girl listening to it while being with my dad in his workshop. So I cannot share the DUmmies' loathing. I have the good fortune to having never heard the Shoes song. I concur with Last Christmas. My husband heard it the other day and it pissed him off. How about ones you especially love?
Last year, there was medley that was popular, by the guy from Bare Naked Ladies and some chick. It started off with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, I think. I loved that song. Beautiful.
The first time I heard the Christmas Shoes song, I started crying. Very depressing song :-(
I'm not a fan of Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer either.
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The first time I heard the Christmas Shoes song, I started crying. Very depressing song :-(
I'm not a fan of Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer either. I enjoy most of the traditional, religious, Christmas Carols though.
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I like this! :-)[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st0M9GbcjSw[/youtube]
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Snoopy and the Red Baron is pretty awesome. Anyone else remember it?
I have the mp3 somewhere on this computer. :)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKHq5b3oLI[/youtube]
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Great find thundley!
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"Santa Baby" irks the hell out of me. Other then that, I like "The Little Drummer Boy" the best.
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Great find thundley!
I'll second that! And I still get choked up watching A Charlie Brown Christmas when Linus recites the Christmas story -- "that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
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I'll second that! And I still get choked up watching A Charlie Brown Christmas when Linus recites the Christmas story -- "that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
Watched that last night with my two year old, I tear up too!
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^5
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVNzgUxE-g[/youtube]
Thats awesome! HI5
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Christmas Shoes song sucks the big one...I mean come on--where else but in Appalachia are you going to find a kid like he describes in that song. It makes no sense for the current times. Had it been written 80 years ago: it would have made sense. Plus, what kid is in a shoe store when his mother is on her death bed? :thatsright:
Hate the John and Yoko song and that song they foist off as a christmas song about the two old loves coming together for a couple of drinks and discussing their lives to that point and then parting ways as the 'snow turns into rain' :whatever:
The Hippopotamus song annoys me.
I can live with Santa Baby, but not Madonna's version--it's way over the top campy and cheap sounding compared to the original.
Best...I like just about any but I love Josh Groban's voice on the Christmas songs and I really love this Silent Night version by Mercy Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30o_QZnVBjA
There are so many others. I love the ones that were sung by Bing, Nat King Cole, etc. Those are the ones we listened to most when I was a kid along with some Mormon Tabernacle and some more classical version of the carols.
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Gotta agree with the DUmmies on that "Rump-a-Pump" song. It blows.
I think it's kinda catchy, like those dumb freecreditreport.com commercials' songs.
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My personal least favorites are:
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Blue Christmas
Santa Baby
and a few other more secular Christmas songs.
BTW, I'm not in a very "Christmassy mood" this year.....
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I think it's kinda catchy, like those dumb freecreditreport.com commercials' songs.
It may be "kinda catchy," but it's in a flu-like way.
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It may be "kinda catchy," but it's in a flu-like way.
All I know is that since this post started, I've been hearing snatches of Little Drummer Boy in my head, same as I do whenever one of those freecreditreport.com commercials pop up.
Flu makes my body ache; these tunes make my brain ache. Not sure which is worse. :p
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I think we've all got that problem. Mine has been Santa Baby.
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Bing Crosby singing "I'll Be Home For Christmas" always brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it. Makes me think of those who due to military obligations cannot be home with their families.
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Bing Crosby singing "I'll Be Home For Christmas" always brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it. Makes me think of those who due to military obligations cannot be home with their families.
If I recall, that's exactly who it was written for - For members of our military serving overseas on Christmas during one of the World Wars.
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This one could make the Pope consider atheism.... :p
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxn7ixvD_5Q[/youtube]
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This one could make the Pope consider atheism.... :p
At least its not this....
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFZklIOFvg[/youtube]
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Bing Crosby singing "I'll Be Home For Christmas" always brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it. Makes me think of those who due to military obligations cannot be home with their families.
This one has always made me tear up.....it always made me think of my mother. Then when my son was in the Navy...it was doubly hard.
Christmas Shoes was either written for the movie The Christmas Shoes...or the movie was done from the song. The movie was a chick flick tear-jerker.
I have always liked The Little Drummer Boy....but it gets very tiresome by the end of the season. I've always thought my son "walked to a different drummer" than everyone else. Often pics of the Little Drummer Boy is of a little towhead....and makes me think of my son.
I like the tradional songs....O Holy Night and What Child is This? always give me shivers and make me tear up. As does O' Come 'O Come Emmanuel.
Santa Baby is a commercial....
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The Little Drummer Boy holds special childhood memories for me, as a tiny girl listening to it while being with my dad in his workshop. So I cannot share the DUmmies' loathing. I have the good fortune to having never heard the Shoes song. I concur with Last Christmas. My husband heard it the other day and it pissed him off. How about ones you especially love?
Last year, there was medley that was popular, by the guy from Bare Naked Ladies and some chick. It started off with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, I think. I loved that song. Beautiful.
I actually like most Christmas music since growing up in a Christian household afforded us exposure to a variety of Christmas music. One of my personal favorites however is "I Believe In Father Christmas" sung by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. The arrangement and Greg Lake's hallowing voice is inspirational. Of course songs of joy, hope, heterosexual family, and God's love of us all so great he GIFTED all of us with son to save our souls, is 110% abhorrent to DUmmys.
Obviously (c)Rap music idolizing murder, street drug use, welfare from "Da Man", and beating women-whores and ******s is THEIR prefered means of musical expression.
Be proud "Tools of Satan" DUmmys!
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These are some of my favorites
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSynDh_K0EE[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vawjF1_QnV0&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvZHHLQ8-c&feature=related[/youtube]
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The most annoying carols to me are: Anything by Alvin and the Chipmonks, and that one with the barking dogs doing Jingle Bells.
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I love most of the religious carols - "Joy to the World" being a particular favorite. I guess I'm a bit too traditional, as lot of the secular music leaves me sad, kind of like a comparison between regular coffee (the religious carols) and What's-the-point? (decaf, i.e. some of the secular music).
I-I-I-I still wa-a-a-nt a hu-u-u-ula hoooooop!
A-A-A-Alvi-i-i-in!
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Christmas Shoes was either written for the movie The Christmas Shoes...or the movie was done from the song. The movie was a chick flick tear-jerker.
BAsed on one of those passed along internet stories back in the 90's, a group or two found it and made a song, a writer took the ball and made a novella, and then a movie. Still a really bad song and maudlin imo.
Chick flick? So it was a comedy? :-)
I'm sorry, I know that's mean, I just think movies made for women are so transparent that they end up as maudlin as that song. It's almost insulting they think a woman's emotions can be manipulated so easily.
I'm like you deb with the actual carols. Those are usually very emotional for me--the ones that actually deal with the true reason for the Christmas.
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The most annoying carols to me are: Anything by Alvin and the Chipmonks, and that one with the barking dogs doing Jingle Bells.
No question. Hands down. I forgot about that stupid barking song.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LqRl7tqf4[/youtube]
I'll play one like this to drive our dog crazy. :)
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I love most of the religious carols - "Joy to the World" being a particular favorite. I guess I'm a bit too traditional, as lot of the secular music leaves me sad, kind of like a comparison between regular coffee (the religious carols) and What's-the-point? (decaf, i.e. some of the secular music).
Welcome, and thank you. My feelings exactly. I will never understand how anyone can tolerate the chipmunks, or the barking dogs, or that reprehensible Rump-a-Pump song
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:uhsure: Guess what Christmas music Sheriff Joe uses to serenade his charges? (http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/19/court-allows-toughest-sheriff-his-christmas-music/) :uhsure:
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:uhsure: Guess what Christmas music Sheriff Joe uses to serenade his charges? (http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/19/court-allows-toughest-sheriff-his-christmas-music/) :uhsure:
I love it! :evillaugh: :rotf: :lmao: :fuelfire:
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LqRl7tqf4[/youtube]
I'll play one like this to drive our dog crazy. :)
I liked Jingle Cats, the first time anyways heh
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I've always liked the song Little Drummer Boy. Of course I also like Blue Christmas. Both the version Elvis put out and the version Porky Pig put out.
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When I was in grade school, one of the sixth grade teachers lead a Christmas pageant every year, filled with every baby Jesus song ever written. No secular satan claws songs allowed. The teacher was the head singing guy at the local Mormon church, and I remember he sang hymns at my cousin's funeral (my cousin was a Mormon) when he was KIA in Vietnam. A couple of years later, I was in this teacher's class. The deal was, if you were in his class, you HAD to be in the choir. But the payoff was that everyone in the pageant got to take a day off school and go to Disneyland.
It was fun, and I didn't get turned into a "fundy nutbag" because of it. I doubt that kind of thing flies today.