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Post by jno on Nov 12, 2015 7:21:11 GMT
Christmas is coming, the queues are getting long ... please let's vote for the very worst song.  Suggested by: meNow around this time of year I often wonder exactly how many people out there think "oh dear oh lord, not this again!" as we head towards the 25th December. So this week's question is: Which Christmas songs do you hate so much you would erase them from history? Pick three!As it's Christmas, there are 25 options this week, based solely on those songs that perhaps get played a bit too often around Christmas in recent years. If you think there is another, please select: Other (mention below). Remember, you get to PICK THREE this week! Not included here are: - Father Abraphart and the Smurps - Lick A Smurp For Christmas (All Fall Down)
- Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby
- Gary Glitter - Another Rock'n'Roll Christmas
- Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys
- Michael Jackson - Earth Song
- X Factor Rubbish
because as far as most of us are concerned they have probably already been erased from the history books already for one reason or another.
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Post by jno on Nov 12, 2015 7:31:08 GMT
I can't believe some voted for others ahead of Cliff "Kitty Wig" Richard.  Personally I can't stand that Mariah Carey song. Then we have "Millennium Prayer" which is utter utter world class sh*te rip off of the century and Band Aid 20 with that rap, oh my good gawd ... save me, save me! If I had a fourth vote I would probably have gone for Elton John too, that is Christmas tripe only on a par with Father Abraphart and the Smurps.  |
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Post by daz on Nov 12, 2015 8:13:32 GMT
I never knew Renee and Renato was a Xmas song, terrible song though, but I always suspect it was a tongue in cheek song bought by people like my Mum. At least it was my Brother who was unlucky enough to have to purchase that one for her.
Back on topic, would have to go for a Cliff number, no reason required. CLiff should just have been entered by name only, all his songs are equally as bad.
For the record, my favourite is the Jona Lewie song.
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Post by KarinB on Nov 12, 2015 12:20:39 GMT
 What a topic ! I am an expert in this category and can pick three songs instantly. To explain, my weekend job is for a large department store that plays one Christmas CD across the store over and over from November and up to December 24th. Oh the joy we all feel when we work Boxing Day and it is back to radio songs. Some on the above list I have never heard but last year that 'Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas' song topped all the shop assistants' hate list.  I'll be back to weekend work next week so I haven't heard the 2015 Christmas CD yet but probably after next weekend I may have a new number one disliked Christmas song. The one plus was I learnt all the words to the 'Sleigh Ride' song last year without even realising it...   " Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, Let's go...let's look at the show, We're riding in a wonderland of snow. Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, It's grand...just holding your hand, We're riding along with a song Of a wintry fairy land."
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Post by gustav on Nov 12, 2015 12:52:02 GMT
Three votes are not enough here! However, my favourite Christmas song video - which my whole family always looks forward to the first sighting of - is Bing and Bowie. The awkward encounter when Dave knocks at the door to be met by a less than chuffed Bing, the stilted dialogue, "Do you like any modern singers" asks Bowie, "Oh yes some of them are really fine" says Bing. I never tire of it. We watch the endless diet of Mariah Carey/Sir Cliff/Macca/Band Aid etc just to watch this gem.
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Post by daz on Nov 12, 2015 18:53:25 GMT
The year after the St Winifreds School choir hit the charts with the grandma song, young Daz and his classmates had to sing it for an entire hall full of pensioners at a Xmas show. Thank goodness we didn't have smart phones and digital camera back then, I think the pensioners were more embarrassed than we were and that was saying something. The song is woeful, but it was a bunch of kids who did it, their 15 minutes of fame, so not going to bear a grudge.
Chris Rea did get a vote, after I read we had 3 to pick. A truly terrible song.
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Post by jno on Nov 12, 2015 20:18:44 GMT
Love those replies from Karin B and daz. |
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Post by larchlapriley on Nov 12, 2015 23:00:47 GMT
My three were:
St Winifred's School Choir - never liked this and after reading Daz's post how could anyone not vote for it!
East 17 - not a fan of their work
Cliff Richard (Misery and Whine) 'nuff said I think
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Post by garytomo on Nov 13, 2015 22:26:41 GMT
Love Christmas songs. Went for the two later releases of band aid and Richards Millenium prayer. Just to give you an idea what I looked like when I was kid everyone says I look like the kid playing the drum in the wizard Christmas every day video. Now I look more like Roy Wood!!
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Post by Terry on Nov 14, 2015 12:24:05 GMT
Cant by all means stand Mariah "Siren cant sing" Carey and of course get sick everytime Wham pops up in late August, so voted both of them off. Third in line is Queen, always good for a shiver of disgust with me  |
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Post by jno on Nov 14, 2015 13:52:02 GMT
The Queen song seems too simplistic to me and is not really a very good song by their standards - it's almost as if they knocked it out in half an hour. Nice to see some songs not getting any votes here and a future death match might be a choice between best songs but let's not discuss that now. I am a bit shocked to see that Greg Lake and Johnny Mathis have votes, I quite like those! Even "Saviour's Day" has a pro-Welsh lyric "Many have come from the valleys, many have come from the hills..." so I could never vote for that. |
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Post by daz on Nov 14, 2015 14:04:24 GMT
You may not believe this, but I had never heard of the Queen song. Just watched it on You Tube and have heard worse, far worse.
I'm with jno on the Greg Lake song also, shocking anyone could vote for that
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Post by Arch Stanton on Nov 15, 2015 8:54:11 GMT
My votes this week are as follows. Cliff Richard - The Millenium Prayer... Just **** off Kitty Wig you pious ***t! St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma... I absolutely hate anything with children singing in it! Foul just foul. Seriously if anything comes on the tele with singing children I have to turn it off! Other (mention below)... That Proper Crimbo song! Goodness me, I once had to leave a shop because this was being played loudly through the speakers! I then began to develop a twitch whilst exiting the shop. I spent the rest of Christmas sat in a rocking chair, cradling a shotgun, muttering "I am The Angel Of Death" repeatedly! This has to be the most annoying load of Christmas themed g*sh ever released!! It's so bad it even has children singing in it!!! |
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Post by jno on Nov 15, 2015 9:28:43 GMT
Some on the above list I have never heard but last year that 'Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas' song topped all the shop assistants' hate list. Still on your hate list Karin ? Jump to 38 seconds ... Oh how the might have fallen - this is without doubt the most dreadful video ever, even if it is for charity. Another DREADFUL Christmas tune is Bon Jovi's "Please Come Home For Christmas". |
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Post by Terry on Nov 15, 2015 15:53:56 GMT
@jno
Queen and their standards...what standards? I can't see what people find in them, they are nerveracking....Freiddies behaviour and looks added to their ever-the-same songs....yuuuck.
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Post by jno on Nov 16, 2015 8:31:15 GMT
Oh dear, clearly Terry won't be joining any Queen forums in near future tense then. |
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Post by KarinB on Nov 18, 2015 4:10:41 GMT
Some on the above list I have never heard but last year that 'Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas' song topped all the shop assistants' hate list. Still on your hate list Karin ? Jump to 38 seconds ... Oh how the might have fallen - this is without doubt the most dreadful video ever, even if it is for charity. Another DREADFUL Christmas tune is Bon Jovi's "Please Come Home For Christmas".  Nah Martin Shaw was never my favourite jno. Lewis Collins was 'my' man in The Professionals.  Why do actors do these vids ?  Thanks for posting it though as I will be showing that to a Pros fan ( a resident Austrian who you know) and I'm sure she will be happy to watch it. I would certainly NEVER have looked for it on ytub. I will advise her to mute the sound so as not to hear that dreadful song ! |
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Post by jno on Nov 19, 2015 21:33:23 GMT
Dedicated to all those who like a rubbish Christmas song ... as mentioned above by Jonathan King :
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Nov 20, 2015 9:01:11 GMT
The Wizzard and Paul McCartney ones drive me crackers when I hear them in the shops for the 1000th time at Xmas!
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Post by daz on Nov 20, 2015 9:49:36 GMT
As much as I am no fan of Elton this is not his worst crime against music. I think you are letting the wig factor cloud your judgement.  |
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Post by jno on Nov 20, 2015 13:17:01 GMT
Welcome to my Christmas song
I'd like to thank you for the year
So I'm sending you this Christmas card
To say it's nice to have you here
I'd like to sing about all the things
Your eyes and mind can see
So hop aboard the turntable
Oh step into Christmas with me
Step into Christmas
Let's join together
We can watch the snow fall forever and ever
Eat, drink and be merry
Come along with me
Step into Christmas
The admission's free
Take care in all you do next year
And keep smiling through the days
If we can help to entertain you
Oh we will find the ways
So merry Christmas one and all
There's no place I'd rather be
Than asking you if you'd oblige
Stepping into Christmas with me
+1 for Elton haters.
I love Wizzard - I could hear it a million times and never tire of it, such a well written and well performed tune full of lots of different instruments We used to play it in my old band - the inverted chords in it are a work of art from Roy Wood in my opinion. It's a lot better than Slade's effort I think.
I need some help here with another Xmas tune I like - Klark Kent's "Yo Ho Ho" ... what is 'the loop' in this story?
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If the doggies get the turkey
There will be no turkey soup
While Aunt Martha cooks the gravy
We can check out the loop
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Post by Portland Road on Nov 30, 2015 20:29:45 GMT
I like Showaddywaddy 'Hey Mr Christmas' which is under-rated. It is one of the best Showaddywaddy songs and one of the best Christmas songs. I also like 'Wombling Merry Christmas'. By contrast, don't know why Chris Rea's song gets so much airplay. It wasn't a big hit. Radio 2 and the 'Magic'-type stations re-writing history. |
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Post by plasticpenguin on Dec 3, 2015 4:19:24 GMT
Hate all of them except for the charity ones. The only possible exception is the Pogues and Kirsty 'Fairytale of New York'. Also quite like Bing and Bowie 'Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth'.
This is a good hoot. Oooo... still fancy Ms. Wilde.
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Post by jno on Dec 3, 2015 7:21:36 GMT
Oooo... still fancy Ms. Wilde. That's two of us then. How did we miss this? Barf bags ready folks. You will be retching within 20 seconds. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Dec 12, 2015 13:45:29 GMT
Dear me, that song has no redeeming values whatsoever. A completely unmemorable pile of dreck. The video is painful. I only bothered with just over a minute, I couldn't stand any more!
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Post by Arch Stanton on Dec 12, 2015 15:30:45 GMT
He needed shooting before it!
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Post by Arch Stanton on Dec 12, 2015 15:56:09 GMT
Oh yeah and where does Kitty Wig come on this wall..?
I tell ya There's too many of them that need a bullet.. We're gonna need a bigger bandoleer!
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Post by jno on Dec 12, 2015 16:13:52 GMT
Fair play, that Hucknall track is dreadful. I managed 30 seconds and gave up. I was also unfortunate enough to hear "Chris Brown - This Christmas" on MTV Music. A bout of Christmas man flu is better than the music on this thread. I think we need a 'Torture your with a forgettable waste of energy" thread and see how many seconds we can suffer before switching it orf! |
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Post by daz on Dec 12, 2015 18:23:39 GMT
Oooo... still fancy Ms. Wilde. That's two of us then. Make that three |
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Post by ltd on Dec 13, 2015 22:35:45 GMT
Saviour's Day - a diabolical piece of mock piousness by Cliff with video to match. Another candidate for burying in a landfill and then carpet bombing just to be on the safe side.
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What a topic ! I am an expert in this category and can pick three songs instantly. To explain, my weekend job is for a large department store that plays one Christmas CD across the store over and over from November and up to December 24th. Oh the joy we all feel when we work Boxing Day and it is back to radio songs. 
Nah Martin Shaw was never my favourite jno. Lewis Collins was 'my' man in The Professionals. 
Why do actors do these vids ? 
Thanks for posting it though as I will be showing that to a Pros fan ( a resident Austrian who you know) and I'm sure she will be happy to watch it. I would certainly NEVER have looked for it on ytub. 
