Hey Lemmy!
What’s that one song comes on the radio or party and you’re filled with joy? Or perhaps it’s a carol and it makes you feel alright. What is it?
Then there’s the song that makes you flinch and cringe, and you’ve gotta shut that song down. What is it?
Your favorite and your despised!
On: Dead,dead,dead - South Park
Last Christmas - Wham
Little Drummer boy - Traditional
Carol of the Bells - Traditional
Off: Screechy AI slop that appears when you put “Christmas music” in the Youtube search bar.
Silence on the train.
The fucking kid talking and crying nonstop on this train ride.
It’s gonna be some looong 6h ffs.
Favorite: Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Folgelberg
Worst: Dominic the Donkey
New fave Christmas jam - Megan Trainor feat. Earth, Wind and Fire - Holidays
All time fave - Dominick the Donkey
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
Please never again - Mariah Carey anything.
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Mariah Carey has been so overdone she’s now Pariah Carey.
Does anyone actually play Dominick the Donkey?
The only time I’ve ever heard it was whenever someone else says “What’s Dominick the Donkey?” and someone finds it on YouTube.
On my personal playlist, along with “Nestor, the Long Ear Donkey”.
After growing up with a bunch of retail workers and hearing all their horror stories, I generally try to avoid all the “classic” Christmas tunes as long as possible - the only ones I ever seek out are Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic, and Straight No Chaser’s album from 2009.
ms parker by chance the rapper is so smooth… honestly people sleep on his christmas album…
and as someone that has worked at a store… you already know.
On: Chiron Beta Prime Off: The Mariah Carey song
Avoid - last Christmas. It’s not a Christmas song. It just happens to be at that time of year. It’s depressing and whiney and over played (even if it wasn’t irrelevant).
Ballad of New York - The Pogues
On: A Marshmallow World by Dean Martin. Off: Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer.
Avoid: The Christmas Shoes
Jam: Oi to the World by The Vandals
The whole Xmas With the Vandals album is great. Shoutout to the Angry Snowmans, too.
One of these years I’m going to make it to the Vandals Christmas Formal
I want to get a kindergarten class to sing “Grandpa’s Last Christmas”
I like Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett’s version of Baby It’s Cold Outside. I try to avoid most other Christmas songs, but especially Mariah Carey. I also worked in a department store for five years, so lots of bad memories of Christmas songs for months.
A must-sing-along fav: Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Never again: that one about the boy buying shoes for his dying mother (not even gonna link)
Oh my goodness, Christmas Shoes is the worst.
My must have is Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve Sarajevo
https://youtu.be/2LbmhneqBnE?si=DBS73IJvSW5zBQRC
It’s easily overplayed, but if I can get away with hearing it 3 times through December, it’s great!
Can’t stand… Not going to link Maria Carey.
Edit, also not going to link (gagging) Christmas Shoes (vomits)
Proper Crimbo by Bo Selecta is my jam.
The one to turn off is Feliz Navidad, I don’t know how it’s made its way to the UK lately. I don’t know anyone who likes it but I think it turns up on a lot of Spotify playlists when people search Christmas music.
