Most Insufferable Holiday Hit.

[Fenian_Bastard]

It has to be "The Christmas Shoes."
Just when you think you can survive it, and you say to yourself, "What would make this really unbearable is a children's chorus right about now," in comes the children's chorus. Lennon's record has the same problem, but it's not as treacly.

 

[dixiehack]

 

[zeke12]

Feliz Navidad.

Shut this ****er down.

 

[JackS]

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

End. Of. Thread.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

Feliz Navidad.

Shut this ****er down.

I imagine that hell features this song on a continuous loop, with the two choruses going back and forth in perpetuity.

 

[ifilus]

Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say
On a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way
To say "Merry Christmas to you.

 

[Duane Postum]

Feliz Navidad.

Shut this ****er down.

I imagine that hell features this song on a continuous loop, with the two choruses going back and forth in perpetuity.

Strike three on this horrible piece of ****.

 

[Oz]

Feliz Navidad.

Shut this ****er down.

I love that song, never gets old. "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," however, got old quick.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Put me on the hate Feliz Navidad side.

 

[rico_the_redneck]

Wham's "Last Christmas."

They play it about 500 times a day here. It sucked in 1989 and it still sucks. Wish the local radio station could figure that out.

 

[writing irish]

"Feliz Navidad" and the "Grandma Got Run Over" song suck, big time. I have not heard the "Christmas Shoes" song, and it sounds like I should be glad for that minor mercy.

"Jingle Bell Rock" blows. "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" by Wings: garbage. Less prolific, but more horrible than any of the aforementioned tunes is "Little St. Nick" by the Beach Boys. DIE, DIE, DIE!

Traditional but semi-secular Christmas songs that need to be forgotten: "Here Comes Santa Claus" sucks vats of dong. "The Christmas Song" is pretty horribile, except when sung by Nat King Cole, who could make almost any bad song sound good.

Not to hate on my own religion, but out of the traditional carols, I do not at all dig "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and "Deck the Halls." They're not as anywhere close to as bad as those pop songs that have been identified in previous posts, however.

 

[Baloo]

Christmas shoes, Feliz Navidad (he couldn't come up with more than two lines of lyrics???) and, I'm not sure what it's called, but something about an old soldier's last christmas, not really a song so much as a rasping rant that wallows in schmaltziness. Can't stand it.

 

[heyabbott]

 

[audreyld]

Feliz Navidad is awful. Truly awful.

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

"Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney makes me want to burn things.

 

[slappy4428]

Put me on the hate Feliz Navidad side.

My hand is raised high in the air...

 

[Satchel Pooch]

I agree with Christmas Shoes, although Ringo's Christmas song from back in the day won't make anyone forget O Holy Night.

 

[tommyp]

That damn McCartney/Wings song. Now that it's already been mentioned, I can't get it out of my head, even though I have yet to hear it this season. Thanks.

 

[Rufino]

Wham's "Last Christmas."

They play it about 500 times a day here. It sucked in 1989 and it still sucks. Wish the local radio station could figure that out.

What I can't figure out is why stations are playing it like it's a Christmas song. It's not a happy song, it's not a traditional song, it's not a good song. It's about some dude who got dumped and happens to mention Christmas in the title. If someone writes a song about taking a giant dump Christmas morning, they'll probably put that in the heavy holiday rotation too.

 

[suburbanite]

As the horse-racing prognosticators say, Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer towers over the rest of this field for its sheer awfulness. Awful concept, awful voices, awful lyrics, awful music. Nothing redeeming at all.

For honorable mention, I agree with many of the selections already noted.
Last Christmas just sucks, and as Rufino said, it really shouldn't be a Christmas song.
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime blows, too. The 'ding-dong, ding-dong' parts are vomit-inducing.
I think Jose Feliciano meant well, but as Baloo said, more than two lines of lyrics would've been nice.

What pisses me off is that the local station that went to all-Christmas the Saturday before Thanksgiving just about NEVER plays any of the few good songs, such as The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping, Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas, The Pretenders' 2000 Miles, etc.