Christmas Songs That I'm Tired Of People Hating

Below is a list of Christmas songs that I'm sick and tired of people hating and bashing:

1. Paul Mc Cartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time"

2. Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

3. Wham's "Last Christmas"

Okay, so the list is pretty short, but still, I'm sick of the hatred that they're getting. Anybody else share my feelings?

Never heard any of them to my knowledge. I did hear Taylor Swift cover "Last Christmas" though, and it sounded all right, so I can't imagine Wham!'s version being any worse.

Honestly... I like the song. But only because it's so utterly devoid of any knowledge of Africa. And that seems to be the primary reason why people hate it. I mean, seriously...

With that one verse, I can't take the song seriously anymore... I listen to it(and sing along!) as a joke. But I can't say it's a "good" song, and worth listening to every Christmas...

That said, I enjoy every Christmas song... Some are overplayed for my tastes. But just because I don't wish to hear a certain song presently(like "Jingle Bell Rock"), it doesn't mean I hate the song...

edited 2nd Dec '12 6:22:36 PM by Swish

Taylor Swift's cover of "Last Christmas" is terrible. Now, the original? Eighties synth awesomeness.

I do not understand why anyone would hate "Wonderful Christmastime". It's a wonderfully fun song.

"Do They Know it's Christmas Time?", that one I can understand better, since it's a charity single (strike one), can appear very preachy and condescending (strike two), and assumes that Africans don't know what snow is (strike three, you're out!). But I like how it sounds, though, and its profits go to a good cause.

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I like The Echoing Green's techno cover version of "Do They Know It's Christmas". The sheer Lyrical Dissonance of that version nearly made my head explode the first time I heard it.

I didn't write any of that.

I've come to like "Wonderful Christmastime" on a So Bad, It's Good level - I don't know what the backing music sounded like to people in 1979, but now when I hear the song I imagine Paul singing it while playing a tiny battery operated toy keyboard.

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The Wham song is great. Especially with better covers.

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We can all agree that "Mistletoe" can rot in hell, right?

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

Never heard it. Embed plz?

edited 4th Dec '12 9:41:03 AM by 0dd1

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I get why people genuinely don't like "All I Want For Christmas Is You", but I think there's so many other songs to get pissed off at during the Christmas season. It's not Mariah's fault that she wrote one of the few endearing modern Christmas songs - she doesn't control radio oversaturation, not by a long shot. Not to mention that Michael Bublé's cover is pretty much perfection.

edited 4th Dec '12 10:52:49 AM by LargoQuagmire

Who doesn't like "All I Want For Christmas Is You"?

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I've honestly never heard it that I recall. However, there's an unrelated song of the same name by Vince Vance & the Valiants that I've always liked.

I love the Vince Vance version...I dunno if I've ever heard Mariah's, and I really don't care to find out.

edited 4th Dec '12 3:25:25 PM by Willbyr

Vince Vance and Mariah Carey are completely different songs.

The Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is pretty good as far as ubiquitous Christmas pop songs go - it's sort of a 60's R & B throwback, enough so that I used to assume she'd Covered Up some early 60's Girl Group.

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It's generally hated amongst people I know mostly because it's played about three times an hour on Christmas radio, all twenty four hours, every day. Again, it's because it's a damn good song that a lot of people request, but its oversaturation generally gets to people.

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edited 4th Dec '12 8:26:42 PM by 0dd1

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Mistletoe is Bieber. He released it in October 2011.

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Despite Todd in the Shadows' comments, I actually find Mistletoe to be one of Bieber's more tolerable songs. It's not overproduced, bombastic dance-pop. His balls have finally dropped, so he actually sounds at least somewhat committed to the song, instead of (as Todd put it) like a first grader asking his mommy to marry him.

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"Christmas Shoes". It's glurgy and hopelessly religious and implausible and misaimed and I agree with a lot of the jokes about how it can easily come across as a scam. In short, it is perfectly okay to hate this song and I will not disagree with anyone who does.

But I do have a problem with Patton Oswalt's theory, which claims that God specifically gave the kid's mother a lethal disease just to get the narrator to convert.

I simply cannot get that from the lyrics without reaching in a manner that is less Fridge Logic and more outright spite. If I make an attempt to take the song seriously, I can only conclude that the kid's mother is dying, and the narrator is being cynical, and God's contribution was to ensure that the two meet so that something "good" can come of it.

In short, "the song is awful on many levels" is fine, but "God is a dick in the song" is a stupid argument and I'm tired of hearing it.

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Yeah, "Christmas Shoes" and its blatant profiteering from exploiting disease is terrible, but the message of that song isn't... what Patton Oswalt said.

Oh yeah, that song. I think the only times I've ever heard it were in Todd's review of the song and Mues's review of the album it's from. Other than that, though, that song might as well not exist to me. I already forgot about it like a week after seeing those videos, so, yeah.

Heh, I was just talking to someone about that song today. I just hate how emotionally manipulative and hollow it is.

edited 5th Dec '12 6:43:18 PM by 0dd1

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I actually heard Mistletoe in a Ponderosa Steakhouse on Black Friday. Which led to my sister and me having a conversation on Bieber.

I love "All I Want For Christmas Is You", but by god I wish most of the classics would just die in a fire. Each year in my primary school we had to sing that shit until I felt like swallowing the business end of a gun and giving everyone something to sing about. Also, David Bowie/Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth" is, IMO, the biggest crock of shit I have heard related to Christmas. Sorry, but David Bowie just rapes Little Drummer Boy, and I tend to enjoy Bowie.

"Christmas Time" by The Darkness is pretty awesome; you guys prolly know it as the Robot Unicorn Attack christmas theme.

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I find most Christmas music to be pretty terrible. I think a large problem is that a small set of songs are over-played, and very few new ones are ever made.

Also people put way too much stock in Todd in the Shadow's opinions. Of course that is just my own opinion.

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