Banned Christmas Music- Page 2

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 3:37pm

Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby Doo!


Could they be referring to "A Christmas Carol"? (That Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come was pretty darn scary in my book)

That's what most people say when I mention that line, and it's definitely a reasonable answer.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 3:38pm

"Unless someone can explain to me the "scary ghost stories" line, let's get rid of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year."

It's a reference to the ghosts in A Christmas Carol. Marley, Past, Present, Future.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 3:49pm

How about the gay version of BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 4:04pm

Yes, Christmas Shoes. Please kill it.

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 4:16pm

Christmas Eve in Washington. They play it so much around here and I just can't stand it!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 4:19pm

Givesmevoice, the telling of ghost stories is actually a time-honored part of the Christmas season in England (and Canada, too, so I'm told).

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 4:23pm

Givesmevoice, the telling of ghost stories is actually a time-honored part of the Christmas season in England (and Canada, too, so I'm told).

The more you know! It can stay, then.

[sally1112]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 5:29pm

"Unless someone can explain to me the "scary ghost stories" line, let's get rid of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year."

Ok, this line has always bothered me too. I have made my peace with it all by assuming the writer is speaking of Halloween, Oct 31, as kicking of the winter season. The title refers to the most wonderful time, and I am taking that to mean from late Oct to Dec.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 5:42pm

Grown-Up Christmas List is on the same level as Christmas Shoes, IMO. I'm surprised Hallmark hasn't made a crapy movie about that song too.

I'm also sick of Winter Wonderland because everyone on the planet has done their own version, but it doesn't inspire the same blind rage as the above songs.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 5:51pm

"Grown-Up Christmas List is on the same level as Christmas Shoes, IMO."

The first time I heard it, I thought it was nice. The second time I heard it, I thought it had to go.

And look how many people have done a cover of it. (Barbra Streisand for god's sake!!)

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[tommyboy]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 6:08pm

WOSQ I am with you re: Burl Ives. Just what the hell is a "Holly Jolly Christmas" anyway?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 6:51pm

Halloween doesn't really enter into it; it was a Christmas tradition, particularly during Victorian times.

Jerome K. Jerome, for example, wrote "whenever five or six English-speaking people meet around a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories."

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:03pm

I hate Dominick the Donkey and Feliz Navidad. The first is not cute at all and is annoying. The second is repetative and annoying.

[tommyboy]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:26pm

Mar, I am with you on "Feliz", add on "Grandma...by a reindeer", and any Chipmunks.

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 9:14pm

"Carol of the Bells" would drive anyone to homicide or Bellevue. Ditto "The Little Drummer Boy".

The John Lennon and Paul McCartney Christmas songs whatever they are called. "And So This Is Christmas" is one of them.

I actually like "All I Want For Christmas Is You". But I'm sick of any version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas".

Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on An Open Fire).

"Silver Bells"

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[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 10:01pm

I really, really hate "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 10:03pm

"Ding-A-Ling, A Christmas Bell". Look it up.

Many of the covers annoy me but especially whoever is not John Lennon singing "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)".

"Christmastime" by Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan is not my kind of idea of holiday cheeriness.

Add Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", and I say this as somebody raised on Springsteen.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 10:23pm

I always thought "Baby it's Cold Outside" was kind of the date rape Christmas Carol

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 10:42pm

Everything we're singing in choir. Especially "Oh Holy Night" and "Silent Night" with five hundred extra verses that never end. And all of the other songs about praising Jesus that we have to sing. As an atheist, it really frustrates me that we have to sing all of these songs about praising Jesus, and we get away with it by doing one Jewish song mixed in with the twenty other songs in the concert. And, of course, all of these songs are also long and boring. I could basically do without all of the slow songs. Isn't the holiday season supposed to be bright and cheerful? You wouldn't get that from my school's holiday concert.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 10:57pm

Ah singing Christmas songs about praising Jesus just goes along with the inspiration for the art. Say what you will about Christianity but it inspired some of the world's most beautiful music and art over the years.
If you don't like singing the Christmas program then don't. No one is forcing you. I am devout Agnostic and enjoy religious themed art, be it Christmas Carols Classical works, paintings or sculpture.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 11:09pm

^ Agreed. And can't a parent write a note to the teacher, letting them know that they don't want you to do something if it is against your beliefs? A classmate of mine got out of singing "Away in a Manger" because of her family's religious beliefs.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 11:34pm

But there are so many wonderful versions of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." I'd hate to lose them all.

One of my faves is Red Skelton/Betty Garrett. The comedy between the two and the fact that they're in Florida just makes the song work on many levels.

Total date rape song.

I highly doubt Frank Loesser wrote a date rape song for his wife.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 11:43pm

Never know what fantasies Loesser and his wife indulged in.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 12/1/10 at 11:51pm

That song about wanting a hippopotamus. I only heard it once on the radio last year, but that was more than enough for me.

Any version of "Santa Baby" that's not sung by Eartha Kitt (though I did have a soft spot for Heidi Klum singing it in a Victoria's Secret commercial a few years ago).

There are a few classic pieces that I can no longer hear due to too many years of running A Christmas Carol in Cleveland. Though to be fair, while it ensured hatred of some of them, it reinforced the beauty of some others. We had a fantastic operatic baritone singing "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" during part of the Christmas Present sequence whom I never grew tired of listening to.

[singtopher]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:53am

Ya know, I had never even heard of The Christmas Shoes until this thread. I had to look it up.

I love "Baby, It's cold outside"

All versions of the peanuts "Christmas Time is Here" song that are not sung by a group of children slightly off pitch can go. I don't need anyone ruining that song with grace notes.