The Chris De Burgh and Boney M ones are great!

 

And re:DanChartFan, the lyrics are just absolutely awful! I have to agree with Suedehead that Cliff has some truly awful Xmas songs, but 21st Century Christmas just takes the cake! Thank god it didn't get to #1, that would have been about as bad as The Millennium Prayer.

 

I think out of the usual suspects that get downloaded every year, the worst would have to be Band Aid and Elton John. Don't really like either of them. Also, it's a shame that Kylie's version of Santa Baby seems to be getting more downloads than the Eartha Kitt version this year so far :mellow: Eartha's is one of the top 5 Xmas songs!! Kylie's version is just crap... and so is the Sugababes one too while we're on the subject!

Edited December 2, 201014 yr by superbossanova

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Bo Selecta's Proper Crimbo (although it is a guilty pleasure of mine :kink:)

 

Crazy Frog's verion of Last Christmas was dreadful :puke2: .

 

I can't remember for the life of my who sings it, but there is a track that goes 'I'd like to give you one for christmas out in 2004/05 can't remember now, and I'm at work atm so can't youtube it atm. Don't know if anyone else remembers it?

Edited December 2, 201014 yr by GAV

I can't remember for the life of my who sings it, but there is a track that goes 'I'd like to give you one for christmas out in 2004/05 can't remember now, and I'm at work atm so can't youtube it atm. Don't know if anyone else remembers it?

 

Hot Pantz!

Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

Hot Pantz!

Love that one hehe! :P

I think i could survive a Christmas without Wham song "Last Christmas" :lol:

There were Crazy Frog singles for two xmases, the other was Jingle Bells/U Can't Touch This!

 

 

Oh DEFINITELY Mariah. I just don't understand the appeal. Cliff Richard's Xmas songs are MAULED because of the cringe factor, but All I Want For Christmas Is You packs FAR more cheese in.

Here is the top ten most played christmas singles on radio and in shops in the last ten years according to today's (2/12) Sun (which I bought specially for the piece abt it).

10. Dean Martin - Let It Snow (x3) [And as if by magic... ]

9. Bing Crosby - White Christmas [Here's hoping...]

8. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry [As relevant now as ever, if not more so]

7. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas [Good luck with that plan if the snow keeps coming]

6. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? [poss a combination of the 3 versions? Not that Band Aid II get's played anywhere]

5. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Xmas Everyday [Not a womble in sight thankfully!]

4. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody [Merry xmas to you too Noddy!]

3. Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York [Now usually censored (f***ot) despite being OK for the first 20 years]

2. Wham! - Last Christmas [Wonder what happened to George's singing buddy on this?]

1. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You [And earache and cracked glasses from that high note... ]

 

The bits in [] are my thought, notes and attempts at wit.

 

For me it has to be the song 'This Christmas' it never used to bother me, till they started playing like 10 different versions of it at my job...now i despise this song, mostly because it seems like EVERYONE has covered this, and according to wikipedia over 45 different artists HAVE recorded it :puke2:

Can't stand - De Burgh's Spaceman (I can't stand CDB full stop. "Lady in Red" brings me out in a rash.

 

Most overplayed - Jonah Lewis's Stop the Cavalry. It really has nothing to do with Christmas, apart from the line "wish I was at home for Christmas."

I kind of find Slade's - "Merry Christmas Everybody", hard to bare. It just seems to bring something of the early 70's with it and I find it a bit depressing as a result.

Ugh, I hate how the TV channels insist on censoring 'f*****' and 'arse' in FONY. They're a part of the song, it's meant to mimic Christmas arguments, give the censoring a rest, they're not even particularly 'bad' words...

 

From what I remember R1 don't censor it though.