Joy to the World - Eliminate a Christmas song from existence!
 

Lifted directly from another forum I visit...

Here are the rules.

You can forever eliminate ONE Christmas/Holiday song from Existence. It can be the song or one artists version of the song. (You might not like Baby, Please Come Home at all, or you might not like U2's version of Baby, Please Come Home, be specific if it's a certain artists version, or you just hate the song in general)

Once that song is "killed" no one else needs to pile on. It's dead.

I can't find a YouTube video of mine, and I really like H.C. Jr, but I would kill/Eliminate...

Harry Connick Jr. - "The Happy Elf"

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Any and all versions of Santa Baby.

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I'm going to flip this on its head and say the only Christmas song I'd keep is the David Bowie/Bing Crosby version of Little Drummer Boy.

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"Christmas in Dixie". - if you happen to live in Dixie, they might as well have stations dedicated to just that one song.

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It's like the music they used to have at Space Mountain. :yack:

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End this game now... Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. God damn this is the worst Christmas song ever!

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Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon.

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I hate most Christmas songs -- in fact, if I had my druthers, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas would be the only Christmas song, and only with the original lyrics -- but if I had to pick just one to eliminate, it has to be Do They Know It's Christmas, which goes beyond the insipidness of most Christmas songs and becomes patently offensive. The song's about how horrible it is that so many people in Africa are so poor that they don't have the joy of Christmas, ignoring that 45% of Africans are Muslim.

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Another Hoffmanite! :up:

Mine is the same as Groucho's ("Wonderful Christmastime", which is truly wretched) but coming a DAMN close second is Dogs Barking Jingle Bells, or whatever it's called. Fucking Hell!! :mad:

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Good God, THIS.

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Yeah, that one is the worst.

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I'm going to virtually "bop" Chip Davis on the head if Mannheim Steamroller tries to do a version of this song for their next studio-recorded Christmas album.... http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/big_standart/nea.gif

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Goodbye, "Christmas Shoes."

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This x100000000000000000000000

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I almost killed any version on LDB, until I remembered this one...

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??

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Gloria Estefan's version of "Let It Snow". The horn breakdown she tacks on to the arrangement is completely out of place and completely sucks the sweetness and joy out of the song. Although by the time then come in, the cheesy jazz-setting-on-a-Casio-keyboard bassline has already doomed the song. Just a hideous version altogether.

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My choice wouldn't be "Wonderful Christmastime." I know it's awful, but there's something oddly charming about how bizarre it is. It's like the Plan Nine from Outer Space of Christmas songs. As long as I don't have to hear it too much, I'd keep it.

I think my choice would be "Santa Baby."

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Sorry. We did something similar on another forum.

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Springsteen's version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town is now 86'd.

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Mine was a live music forum...

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That version is great.

I'm also partial to the slow to start but rocky Whiteheart version.

I'd lose anything by Manheim Steamroller.

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I guess it's not really a Christmas song, but since I hear it way more around Christmas, I would like to nuke:

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No it isn't. Don't feel bad, a lot of people who don't like the song make that mistake.

The song is about how we at Christmastime should share goodwill and help the less fortunate, and not just think of ourselves. Those going hungry should know that we're thinking of them and helping them with food and aid.

Saying it ignores the fact that a great deal of Africans aren't Christian (as well as the fact that there's a bunch of rivers in Africa, and snow in the mountains) is disingenuous. Goodwill to others needs no religious motivation. If you don't like the song, that's fine, but there's no need to be misleading.