Christmas songs you shouldn't like but do

Odradek · 2014-12-04 22:43:55

"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"

"Baby It's Cold Outside"

"Wonderful Christmastime"

Imipolex G · 2014-12-04 22:55:28

that one that goes like

"last Christmas, you gave me your heart, but the very next day, I gave it away"

Tachyon · 2014-12-04 22:57:01

That's one of the better ones, imo.

It's really hard to pull off a song that's actually about Christmas, that one works because there's a story to it.

Also it's just catchy.

Princess Alice · 2014-12-04 22:59:45

"Baby It's Cold Outside" can go either way for me. Some versions just make the dude seem really skeevy, but others manage to make it sound like it's all playful banter between the two.

Seconding the others, though.

Also: "River", one of the few openly depressing Christmas songs.

Tachyon · 2014-12-04 23:05:22

Joni! Yes.

It's a sad song, but one of the best.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-12-04 23:29:33

'Fairytale of New York.'

SF_Sorrow · 2014-12-04 23:30:37

"River" is good, yeah

generally I like the more minor key carols - "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", "Coventry Carol" and such

PatchAwful · 2014-12-05 01:00:55

I actually like quite a few Christmas songs.

I remember one time (years ago) my family went to a restaurant and they were playing Christmas carols, and the staff ended up having to change it because we were singing along a little too loudly. Oops.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-05 01:05:40

"Bethlehem (Pennsylvania)"

probably out of misplaced state pride.

Tachyon · 2014-12-05 01:13:16

i like a lot of Christmas songs, but ones that i 'shouldn't like, but do'... hm.

Should i like the Calypso Carol? It probably falls under questionable appropriation, i guess.

That's the only one i can think of though.

Imipolex G · 2014-12-05 01:15:59

also, is there really any reason someone shouldn't like "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"?

MetaFour · 2014-12-05 01:16:13

I have absolutely zero reservations about the Christmas songs I like.

Princess Alice · 2014-12-05 02:08:06

On a tangentially related note, I wonder how many people know that "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is actually about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-12-05 02:15:47

'Do They Know It's Christmas' is godawful.

I don't like it.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-12-05 02:17:31

Like not even going it into musically, it's just a horribly colonialist message.

Who gives a fuck if it's Christmas? White people and everyone who has adopted or was forced to adopt white people practices.

And I love Christmas.

Princess Alice · 2014-12-05 02:18:38

it doesn't help that they fucking rerecord the damn song every 10 years with new people

Tachyon · 2014-12-05 02:20:57

i feel like that's a song i SHOULD like, but don't. It's for a good cause, but the lyrics are just so trite and so bland.

Whenever i've admitted to not liking it IRL, people have looked at me like i've just confessed to punching small children or something.

PatchAwful · 2014-12-05 02:25:22

In what was presumably an act of karma for the above, around this time last year I was woken up at 6am by someone in the building playing 'Do They Know Its Christmas' at top volume on repeat.

Yes I am now aware it is Christmas, thank you

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-05 02:45:37

speaking of charity christmas songs

the DJ Spinbad remix of "We Are The World"

WE ARE THE WOOOOORLD [poorly placed Amen Break drop]

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-05 02:46:58

anyway everyone knows what the best Christmas song is

Obā-san · 2014-12-05 02:47:26

kingCrackers said:
'Do They Know It's Christmas' is godawful.

I don't like it.

i had never heard of that song until last month

lee4hmz · 2014-12-05 02:48:46

Yeah, that's always bugged me about that song. I mean, even in 1985, something that paternalistic shouldn't have gone over that well.

Obā-san · 2014-12-05 02:49:37

and i still havent heard it, and i only know of it because of an article mentioning it being shitty and patronizing

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-05 02:50:20

you're not missing much

Obā-san · 2014-12-05 02:51:19

based on the title alone i was assuming as such

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-05 02:51:47

Magic Jane said:
anyway everyone knows what the best Christmas song is

u guys should listen to this though

Princess Alice · 2014-12-05 02:53:02

lee4hmz said:
Yeah, that's always bugged me about that song. I mean, even in 1985, something that paternalistic shouldn't have gone over that well.

I'm assuming it got a pass because nobody knows the words beyond "Feed the world, let them know it's Christmastime"

Section42L · 2014-12-05 02:56:11

lee4hmz said:
Yeah, that's always bugged me about that song. I mean, even in 1985, something that paternalistic shouldn't have gone over that well.

1985 was when Reagan was at his most popular, so you shouldn't be very surprised.

Anonus · 2014-12-05 02:58:24

The '80s always struck me as the Old People Decade

Buttwangs · 2014-12-05 02:59:05

'80s always struck me as the Trying Too Hard Decade

lee4hmz · 2014-12-05 03:07:34

I was little during the 1980s, so it never really struck me that way (though I do remember being extremely bored in 1988).

MetaFour · 2014-12-05 03:19:58

The Echoing Green did a really great, super upbeat trance cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas". The cognitive dissonance in their version is amazing. I don't know if they liked the original or were deliberately trying to make it ridiculous, and I think I'd rather not know.

Haha, it's on youtube.

Miss Miko Mayonegg · 2014-12-05 04:21:16

*cue uncle Rico reminiscing about his glory days on the field back in '82*

*miko cookie for whoever gets the reference*

Imipolex G · 2014-12-05 05:20:01

Napoleon Dynamite?

Miss Miko Mayonegg · 2014-12-05 05:20:26

Indeed. ^_^

Imipolex G · 2014-12-05 05:20:46

also, 1988 was a pretty decent year for me

Toolsie · 2014-12-05 10:07:28

My parents were in their twenties during the 80's, so they remember it... Not that fondly xD

As for Christmas songs, I've had several songs stuck in my head, constantly switching and looping. Help me.

Tre · 2014-12-05 17:32:15

I don't want a lot for Christmas, there's just one thing I need

Don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own, more than you would ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas iiiiiiiiiiiiiis yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou

Real talk, though, Mariah kills it on that song (at least, in the recorded versions; I dunno if she's capable of singing it live anymore).

I really want to hear Ariana Grande cover it, but eh.

Tre · 2014-12-05 17:33:07

addendum: holy shit she did it, I'll listen when I'm home

lee4hmz · 2014-12-05 22:15:53

Don't listen to the Glee version. It's an abomination. :P

Morven · 2014-12-05 23:43:17

That sounds like a general rule to live by, Lee!

lee4hmz · 2014-12-06 04:39:24

:D

Princess Alice · 2014-12-07 21:57:59

You know, when you think about it, the fact that there's a version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Idina Menzel doesn't make any sense

Because she's famous for saying that the cold never bothered her anyway

PatchAwful · 2014-12-07 22:01:19

Let [her] Go

Bee · 2014-12-07 22:50:51

Aliroz · 2014-12-07 22:55:54

Miko said:
*cue uncle Rico reminiscing about his glory days on the field back in '82*

*miko cookie for whoever gets the reference*

ohmygosh napoleon Dynamite!

I live not twenty minutes from where it was filmed.

You can see my house in that film. I know the background extras in that film, at least fifteen of them.

Obā-san · 2014-12-07 22:57:32

that's pretty nifty

Tre · 2014-12-07 23:04:43

that's actually really cool, al

legit, that's one of my favorite films

Imipolex G · 2014-12-07 23:05:38

I actually liked that movie, and I do not like many movies.

Aliroz · 2014-12-07 23:06:54

My cousin works at the restaurant in that movie.

That movie was filmed all in that one town, and I've been there often because it's twenty minutes away.

YOu know that scene where Napoleon asks for one of the "Vote for Summer" badges and throws it, accidentally hitting a girl?

Nobody was supposed to be hit during that scene. THe badge was supposed to hit a locker.

My brother knows that girl who was hit.

My cousin used to work at the restaurant in that movie.

Let's just say that that movie is huuuuuuge in my hometown, and even bigger in Preston, Idaho.

And yes, people DO raise Llamas in that area.

Imipolex G · 2014-12-07 23:07:56

that is cool.

in Pittsburgh they only film lame crap like The Dark Knight Rises

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