Spinner has posted its opinion of the 12 worst Christmas songs ever made. Some of the songs are apparently so bad that the Modern Gal’s never heard of them. For example, did you know that Cyndi Lauper made a song called Christmas Congo in 1998? Neither did I. But I do agree with Whitney Matheson over at Pop Candy, who thinks Paul McCartney and his synthesizer are ranked way too low at No. 11 with “Wonderful Christmastime.” And they totally ripped the Boss’ “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” which is a big no no in my book.
Spinner’s 12 best Christmas songs are mostly crap too (Elvis excepted). I guess you shouldn’t expect much from a website which has the letters AOL plastered all over it, and I should thank the morons anyway for compelling me to create my own top Christmas song list.
My least favorite that I can think of off the top of my head are any version of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, the aforementioned “Wonderful Christmastime” and most current covers of classic holiday songs.
My Christmas soundtrack (I know the idea is to go with 12 in keeping with the 12 days of Christmas, but since there are 14 days to go, I’m going with 14, and the 12 days of Christmas are actually referring to the days which follow Christmas anyway):
1. “Celebrate Me Home” by Kenny Loggins
2. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” by Judy Garland
3. The “Barenaked for the Holidays” album in its entirety by the Barenaked Ladies
4. “The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole
5. “All I Want For Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey
6. “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby
7. “Blue Christmas” by Elvis
8. “Please Come Home for Christmas” by the Eagles
9. “O Holy Night” by Michael Crawford (aka the Phantom of the Opera)
10. “Winter Wonderland” by Ray Charles
11. “Christmas in Dixie” by Alabama
12. “Here Comes Santa Claus” by Gene Autry
13. “Frosty the Snowman” by Leon Redbone and Dr. John
14. “Merry Christmas Darling” by the Carpenters
Oy vey, now “siiiimply haaaving a wonderful Christmas time” is in my head again. On that note, what are your most/least fave holiday songs?
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee
“So This is Christmas” by John Lennon
“O Holy Night” by almost anybody
“I Pray on Christmas” and “It Must Have Been Old Santa” by Harry Connick Jr.
I can’t believe I omitted “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” I met Brenda Lee last year, and she is as cute as you would expect her to be. (and really short)
downloaded today: Carrie Underwood’s DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR…love it…
You know, I heard that the other day on the radio and it was pretty good. Carrie’s voice does justice to it.