Horrible Seasonal Music: a trainwreck thread
 

you just can't escape this shit. I've worked in stores since I was 16 on and off. I think I have PTSD from some of the music played on loop back in the 80s at Chelsea Girl in Stockport. I took maybe 20 years off, but now I'm back in a store ......even though I have the speaker set to 0 in my office, I have this pile of crap stuck in my head. make it go away -EVEN IF IT'S WITH OTHER SHITMAS MUSIC.I think this make just be the most obnoxious Christmas track ever.

This was the only Christmas album in my house growing up, and we listened to it every year, including the little speech by Phil Spector at the end. I can still stand to listen to it, but this one is nails on a chalkboard:

But but but that's my FAVOURITE!

...

:( that's another one on your current torture list, but it's the Jackson 5 version. aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

...yup worked, you stuck that shit in my head.....

Clod, does Phil come over and threaten you with a gun if you don't play it?

I used to LOVE Christmas music...LOVE it. There are what? Thousands upon thousands of Xmas songs? Yet radio stations across the country play the same few hundred EVERY DAMN YEAR.

We went out to eat at a little local place last night before seeing Arrival. Their musical choices were Chrismasy but solid not the lame stuff. I was surprised and pleased.

I officially hate Last Christmas now...because it has been run into the ground by radio programmers. Thanks assholes!

Just (partly) listened to Last Christmas (by Wham?). Never heard it before. I hope to never hear it again.

Damn. It's by urrbody.

So many bad Christmas songs

here's another

The original is by Wham! (yes, there is an exclamation point in their name).

Alert, alert!! Soulless Ginger Alert!!!!

That's because half the people working in "little local places" are frustrated musicians. ;)

Place has a stage and an antique store so, yeah.
http://www.tiogatrailscafe.com/

Nice place, great menu, but the glasses at the bar are upside down. :lol:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

This is a weird cultural item: Black America™ has an entirely different list of Christmas songs, some of which White America™ is barely aware of. This song is the number one Christmas song in B. A. and it is not in the W. A. Christmas canon whatsoever:

Maybe we should swap lists for a while.

I have found that the feeling that all the songs are new and fresh lasts exactly one Christmas! And then it's.... oh no, this again.

And it seems that my generation, Gen X, has truly failed to add to the Christmas songs list. Mariah Carey? No all her Xmas songs were written in the 50s-60s when most of the Xmas songs were written. I believe there were only two songs added to the list by Gen X

"Let It Snow" by Boys II Men

and

"Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses.

...and arguably, the Waitresses are Baby Boomers who just appealed to Gen X; but we are so under-represented, as usual, that I'm going to have to allow it.

Plus that is the best Christmas song and never gets old; but I'm way biased, because I loved the band.

Bare Naked Ladies covered "Do They Know It's Christmas," which was written in 1984.

And now you made me look, dammit.

I don't know if any of these count, since none of them get any reasonable airplay. But c'mon, Everclear did "Santa Baby," that's got to count for something.

Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire

I got another one, but, you'll need to go over here for it. It's not safe for work, ya see.

I was thinking of stuff written and performed though. Er'body doing these old songs, but those aren't our songs.

But maybe we just get no new christmas songs ever. "Sorry, the official list is full."

Maybe that's the whole point. The ideal of Christmas was defined in the middle of last Century, and it isn't going to get any better, and it isn't going to change. Post war was the last time we were all united and joyous and getting together with our families and celebrating. It's all just a slow downhill for Christmas since then.

No more new traditional Christmas TV specials either. It's Rudolph and the Grinch for the rest of eternity. The only Gen X Christmas special I can recall is "Olive, The Other Reindeer", geez that never became a tradition... in fact has anyone seen it? Oh it's really sweet, Drew Barrymore plays a little dog, Ed Asner is Santa, Michael Stipe even plays a minor character.

I think the official Gen X Christmas movie is "Die Hard".

Well that's a fine new tradition, "Olive" followed by "Die Hard". That might make a fine Saturday night.

That's pretty good, for a Gen-X audience and that's probably what should count. Mr Squier himself is born in 1950, squarely Boomer.

Oh, for sure! Because all my older relatives gave me that special look reserved just for me when I recently mentioned Die Hard as an obvious Christmas movie/tradition. And Gen X doesn't do anything unless it irritates the Boomers.

Man, I miss Alan Rickman.

Here's our generations legacy

http://youtu.be/MgIwLeASnkw

True.

or, the original short

I have to give this one to the Jews. The current generation brought us this song :

http://youtu.be/qUCNAnp2QAI

And it's WAY better than our red neck representatives did for Christmas.

Gen xmas songs?

I want an alien for Christmas -Fountains of Wayne
Fairytale of new York -Pogues + Kirsty (almost Gen X ??)
Last Christmas -Wham

I think it might be a mistake to say the Gen X songs have to be performed by Gen X artists.

When you are 13 you are listening to artists who are 25-30.

The boomers listened to the Beatles and the Stones. A generation older than them. We listened to the Waitresses and J Giles band. A generation older than us.

13 year old kids today are listening to Taylor Swift, 26.

There is something amusing about "our music" that "we" identify with really being pedaled by the previous generation. It is nice to have deniability for the '80s though.

My favorite from "MY" generation.

Wow. Some of the faces in that Squier piece brought back some memories.

The Christmas song for 'our' generation?

"Please Come Home For Christmas", by The Eagles, gets my vote, though not horrible.

I just read that this tune is the first Eagles song to feature Timothy B Schmidt on bass.

I feel like Sycamore posted this one once...

Die Hard, totally the Christmas Movie. Also I like to watch True lies and the Bodyguard. Because they're snowy. Like I don't get enough of that shit.....

yes I've been here long enough to hate the snow. sprained a rib shoveling it this morning :( and then it snowed more.

(it fucking hurts)

I'm sorry you hurt yourself.

Love Actually also a christmas movie for the generation

Time for my annual rewatch of Love, Actually. I love when that girl does All I Want For Christmas. That is one of my more favorite recent Christmas songs. That and Barenaked ladies with Sarah Mclachlin doing God Rest Ye/We 3 Kings...google it, it's awesome. Id post it but...phone.

Is good.

Thanks Griff! :)

Love, Actually:

"There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?"
"Duh!"

Monster, I'm watching it right now and just saw that part. So funny. I love the cast.

Yoopers Christmas...

excellent!

You're just saying that because the eat lutefisk. :lol:

What do you mean, "the". I think you meant "we".

Ha!

Good stuff!

AAAGH! The neon! The quasi-Keith Haring art! The overwhelming assault of earworm music!!!

Whoever wrote that comic summed up about 1/3 of the 1980s in that cartoon. I suspect they were a teenager (or older) during that particularly messed-up era...

At least THAT wasn't the song they used at the end of Deadpool! :D

We all miss Alan Rickman! :mad:

The other classic Christmas movie in my household has already been requested as during-dinner viewing. We'll be watching Gremlins!

While I do love Bob Rivers, I don't have much of his stuff on CD or digital. What I do have is stuff like Merry Axemas (1 and 2) and A Southern Rock Christmas. I'd be glad to list some titles & artists just as soon as I can figure out how to reach the box they're in. It's on a top closet shelf and I've got teeny little T-Rex arms...I can't reach.