Synthoid Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I was thinking about this earlier this morning. There are many traditional holiday tunes most of us look forward to hearing, but others we simply detest. One song on my "yuck" list would have to be The Twelve Days of Christmas. It just goes on and on to boredom. I'm not fond of The Little Drummer Boy either, probably because my father couldn't stand it and passed that along to me. Anyway, what Christmas songs are on your do not play list? When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Davis Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Speaking as a choir director, I'd have to say 'O Holy Night.' It's not the song itself so much as the fact that over the years I've had to endure a lot of high note abuse from bad sopranos. That could be a band name, though, now that I think of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobadohshe Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Little Drummer Boy. Oh Holy Night is one of my favorites. Kawai C-60 Grand Piano : Hammond A-100 : Hammond SK2 : Yamaha CP4 : Yamaha Montage 7 : Moog Sub 37 My latest album: Funky organ, huge horn section https://bobbycressey.bandcamp.com/album/cali-native Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMcM Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I expect this will cause a stir, but 'Christmas Time Is Here' is not a favorite. Way to somber for me. Wm. David McMahan I Play, Therefore I Am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resigned Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 This is easy - "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer", followed closely by anything recorded by Alvin and The Chipmunks. Edit: worth noting that I have been tipped NOT to play "Blue Christmas" by military servicemen because they hear that song way too much when they are deployed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 all of them There is no luck - luck is simply the confluence of circumstance and co-incidence... Time is the final arbiter for all things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnchop Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 +1 to "O Holy Night" For me, add "Jingle Bell Rock." I make software noises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus64 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Santa Baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 This is easy - "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer", followed closely by anything recorded by Alvin and The Chipmunks. Yes, those as well... plus that Hawaiian song Bing Crosby sings. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Carol of the Bells, because it is maimed by advertisers this time of year with really stupid lyrics. "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus64 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Carol of the Bells, because it is maimed by advertisers this time of year with really stupid lyrics. Obligatory. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFQyib5ZQZY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITGITC Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 all of them I agree. I don't mean to sound like the Grinch, but although some of the old tunes were well-crafted, they've been over-played. There have been some new Christmas tunes composed in the past 50 years, but most just do not compare to the old standards. And they've been over-played too. I'm in sales, yet I don't like that everywhere I turn during the holiday season, everybody is trying to sell me something. It puts a lot of pressure on folks to Buy something! - anything - for whoever... whether you want to, (and can afford it) - or not. Grrrrrrrrr. C'est la vie... Doesn't mean I have to like it. OTOH, if, for whatever reason, you really, really enjoy all the things that the holidays have to offer, then go ahead and wallow in it. Who am I to judge? But that doesn't mean I have to listen to Christmas music. Ummmm, gotta go. It's about time for another Xanax. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resigned Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I like the holiday season. It usually means extra gigs - tree lighting ceremonies, private parties etc. Even if the songs are a little repetitious year after year at least they require very little practice. Many of those songs are public domain so you can cash in with with your own Christmas CD's, which also double as great (and cheap) gifts! But yeah, I don't get in the spirit until December 24th and it's usually gone by 10am the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossbandbob Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I love most of his stuff but Paul McCartney's "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" has to make my all time worst Christmas song list. Hammonds:1959 M3,1961 A-101,Vent, 2 Leslies,VB3/Axiom, Casio WK-7500,Yamaha P50m Module/DGX-300 Gig rig:Casio PX-5S/Roland VR-09/Spacestation V3 http://www.petty-larceny-band.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonksDream Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Little Drummer boy is one of the most puerile steaming turds ever dropped at Yuletide. Most Wonderful Time of the Year runs a close second. Instrumentation is meaningless - a song either stands on its own merit, or it requires bells and whistles to cover its lack of adequacy, much less quality. - kanker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Can you say "Awkward"? [video:youtube] Moe --- "I keep wanting to like it's sound, but every demo seems to demonstrate that it has the earth-shaking punch and peerless sonics of the Roland Gaia. " - Tusker http://www.hotrodmotm.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Was listening to Christmas music this morning and Little Drummer Boy came on. Thought about how much I hate the song, especially after having to play drums on it a few times, and planned to start a thread about it today. Scary. This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 12 Days of Christmas. Why would you give anyone a partridge in a pair tree 12 days is a row, and SING about it. The only version I can stand, and I actually like this version , is Straight No Chaser live version on the All I Want for Christmas CD. This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Heslop Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I actually love Xmas music (odd given I am Buddhist but w/e) I tend to not like modern ones or renditions by pop singers where 50 note are sung instead of one. That said I don't love 12 days, grandma got run over, or drummer boy either. I mostly like the traditional religious ones. Stage: Korg Krome 88. Home: Korg Kross 61, Yamaha reface CS, Korg SP250, Korg mono/poly Kawai ep 608, Korg m1, Yamaha KX-5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I am odd man out.. I can't think of any I dislike.. and the traditional are superior in terms of the writing. And McCartney's used to bug me, but I played it, and the annoyance backed off. You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzdoc52 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 We need a little christmas I want an elephant for Christmas All I want for Christmas is you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulceLabs.com Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Wham's "Last Christmas". If I was stuck on a bridge in traffic and that song came on.... and the radio was broken in such a way that I couldn't turn it off or change the station.... well you know where this is going. Merry Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aellison62 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I like O Holy night also. Least favorites, Grandma got runover by a reindeer and Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. Kurzweil Forte 7, Mojo 61, Yamaha P-125, Kronos X61, Nautilus 73 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawback Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Happy Xmas, War Is Over. ____________________________________Rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITGITC Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 OK. OK. Robert Earl Keene recorded this Christmas tune around 1994. Merry Christmas From The Family has gotten over 2,083,526 hits on YouTube. Because it's become one of his most-requested songs, he has had to invoke The Linen Rule. At concerts, they won't play the song as long as you can wear linen. So they start playing it around Labor Day and play it on through the holidays. I like it because it's so much fun to perform - especially to a toasted group of locals on a Saturday night at the Rack Time Bar in downtown Bellhaven, NC! I would like to take this opportunity to dedicate this song, and give a warm "Hello" to my uncle Hank, his wife Beulah-Belle, and their seventh child, Lester, from a previous marriage to a sweetheart cousin (two times removed) he met at a family reunion the year they both turned eighteen (well technically it was seventeen going on eighteen, but who's counting when you've got a bun in the oven and you've already started working on number two, right?) [video:youtube]P37xPiRz1sg "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16251 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Playing the 12 days of Christmas by request with no vocalist. AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgiles Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Rudolph the red-nose wino. or Clyde the brown-nose reindeer (he was directly behind Rudolph when Rudolph came to a short stop). Legend Exp,NC2x,Crumar Seven,KeyB Duo MK111,Nord C1,Nord C2D,Triton Classic,Fantom G7,Motif ES,SonicCell,BK7m,PA1x pro,VP770,TC Helicon,Leslie 3300,MS Pro145,EV SXA250(2),Traynor K4,PK7a,A70,DM10 Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Golly Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I absolutely detest "Blue Christmas". Hate to say it, but have a soft spot for Little Drummer Boy since I sang the Bing part at a gig with my Bowie tribute a decade ago as a tongue-in-cheek holiday gesture. I won't say whose tongue was in whose cheek. NSFW: [video:youtube] Merry F*#king Christmas, everyone! (Edit to add: I love this song, in much the same way Gas loves his redneck tune above... which I hadn't heard before, but totally dig! Thanks for posting it, Tom! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song80s Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Any Xmas tune sung by Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys They are overplayed at every retail store about every 15 minutes. Why fit in, when you were born to stand out ? My Soundcloud with many originals: [70's Songwriter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Have a Holly Jolly Christmas Rockin Around the Christmas Tree and all of similar ilk. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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