I can't stand the Beach Boys Christmas song "The Man with all the Toys"

[Darsa]

Wow! It's SO refreshing to know it wasn't just me being Grinchy about these songs that have been mentioned; there are certain ones this time of year that get changed as soon as I hear the first note, and they're all mentioned in this thread

 

[Mickey's Minion]

The song that makes me turn off the radio is Christmas Shoes- what a stupid song!

Such a happy song, a little boy losing his mommy on Christmas eve.

 

[Jennasis]

I'm with you guys. I hate:

The Christmas Shoes
I Want A Hippopotamus For Chritsmas
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
Another Auld Lang Syne (who doesn't love Christmas Eve infidelity)
So This Is Christmas (DEPRESSING!!)
Last Christmas (just another breakup song)
Do they Know It's Christmas? (I love famine with my Christmas)
That awful song about the chick spending Christmas alone and running out for cranberry sauce

 

[AlleyKat]

What?!? Nobody's got my back on "I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas"?!? Have you HEARD it?

I agree with Christmas Shoes, too. I feel like the whole goal of writing it was to making the sappiest, saddest song possible. Mission NOT accomplished. Cheesy!

I was made aware of "Hippopotamus" a few years ago. I like it and sing along with it in the same goofy voice as the singer.

It's SO vintagy/quirky, I can't help myself.

I also like Dominic the Donkey!

 

[AlleyKat]

I'm with you guys. I hate:

The Christmas Shoes
I Want A Hippopotamus For Chritsmas
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
Another Auld Lang Syne (who doesn't love Christmas Eve infidelity)
So This Is Christmas (DEPRESSING!!)
Last Christmas (just another breakup song)
Do they Know It's Christmas? (I love famine with my Christmas)
That awful song about the chick spending Christmas alone and running out for cranberry sauce

I've never heard the last song, not that I'm aware of!

I HATE the songs I bolded!

 

[paintnolish]

I was made aware of "Hippopotamus" a few years ago. I like it and sing along with it in the same goofy voice as the singer.

It's SO vintagy/quirky, I can't help myself.

I also like Dominic the Donkey!

How about Donde Esta Santa Claus? We have a little poncho and sombrero wearing guy that sings it! Dh bought it for me after an ill-fated semester in college level Spanish!

 

[MsLeFever]

I'm with you guys. I hate:


Last Christmas (just another breakup song)
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Oh - this is the one I can't stand....

"Last Christmas I gave you my heart;
but the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special"

OK - I didn't want your dang heart last year and I don't CARE what you do with it THIS year. Hey - here's a thought - maybe stop willy nilly giving your heart away as a Christmas gift! Try a lovely Hickory farms sampler!

 

[TriMom]

OK - I didn't want your dang heart last year and I don't CARE what you do with it THIS year. Hey - here's a thought - maybe stop willy nilly giving your heart away as a Christmas gift! Try a lovely Hickory farms sampler!

Thank you! I so needed a laugh this am!



I personally can't stand Christmas Shoes - so why is it that every SINGLE time I get in my car - that terrible song is on at least 1 station?

 

[jme829]

I can't stand the Beach boys...period.

\\ me either...

 

[AlleyKat]

How about Donde Esta Santa Claus? We have a little poncho and sombrero wearing guy that sings it! Dh bought it for me after an ill-fated semester in college level Spanish!

It's a fun song! I consider any song that makes me move(cha cha cha) a good one!

 

[Jennasis]

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=89 (the dang hippo song)

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=96 Grown up Christmas List (another super depressing song)

 

[ZephyrHawk]

The song that makes me turn off the radio is Christmas Shoes- what a stupid song!

 

[AlleyKat]

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=89 (the dang hippo song)

http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=96 Grown up Christmas List (another super depressing song)

Of course I had to play it and sing along.

Gayla Peevey was 10 yrs. old when she recorded it.

 

[puffkin]

Oh - this is the one I can't stand....

"Last Christmas I gave you my heart;
but the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special"

OK - I didn't want your dang heart last year and I don't CARE what you do with it THIS year. Hey - here's a thought - maybe stop willy nilly giving your heart away as a Christmas gift! Try a lovely Hickory farms sampler!

Omigosh, that is one of my favorites. We have a family tradition of very loudly shouting "special" at random points during the song....have you ever noticed how many times they say special? It is so stupid, but amuses us to no end....especially when we are at a store and it is on and my mom doesn't notice.....all of a sudden we are serenading her with "specials". Drives her crazy. BTW, I am 29 and still do this, yes I am a bit childish

I absolutely cannot stand the Christmas Shoes. That is the worst Christmas Song ever and the station gets changed immediately. I also hate the Auld Lang Syne song....cheating on your SO's in the grocery store parking lot with a 6 pack sure screams Christmas to me

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

What?!? Nobody's got my back on "I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas"?!? Have you HEARD it?

I agree with Christmas Shoes, too. I feel like the whole goal of writing it was to making the sappiest, saddest song possible. Mission NOT accomplished. Cheesy!

I've got your back on the Hippo song, but have you ever heard the flip side? It's even worse:



Are My Ears On Straight?


I'm a little doll who was dropped and broken
Falling off my mommy's knee
I'm a little doll who has just been mended
Now won't you tell me please.


Are My Ears On Straight, Is my nose in place
Have I got a cute expression on my face?
Are my blue eyes bright, Do I look all right?
To be taken home Christmas Day?


When I first came here, Just a month ago.
Brought in by a little girl who loved my so.
She began to cry, 'Til they told her I
Could be taken home Christmas Day.
Christmas Eve is drawing nearer, And I'm getting scared
Wish I could see in a mirror, How I've been repaired.
I'll be called for soon, But I'm worried so
Will she love me like she did a month ago.


Are My Ears On Straight? I can hardly wait.
To be taken home Christmas Day



Here are your Hippo lyrics, too, in case anyone wants to see how bad it is even without the nasal voice of the singer, Gayla Peevey:




I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Words and music by John Rox
as performed by Gayla Peevey (1953)



I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy


I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do


I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there


I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too


Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian


There's lots of room for him
in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there
and give him his massage


I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there


I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!

 

[Lindsay22]

Am I the only person that HATES Feliz Navidad?

 

[izzy]

The song that makes me turn off the radio is Christmas Shoes- what a stupid song!

If you think the song is bad, have you seen the movie they made about it? Absolutely horrible! I think it was on Lifetime last year, and it was the biggest downer.

 

[Jennasis]

Grr...I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that song about the girl who wants to spend Christmas alone, makes herself dinner and rrealizes she forgot the cranberry sauce, runs out to the store and bumps into a guy she likes and decides to spend Christmas with him. It has the most obnoxious horn section during the chorus. It's sung by a girl or a group of girls and is from the 80's I think.

Anyone??

 

[Jennasis]

Neverind!!

CHRISTMAS WRAPPING by The Waitresses....worst holiday song ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q

 

[AlleyKat]

Neverind!!

CHRISTMAS WRAPPING by The Waitresses....worst holiday song ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q

I thought that was sung by Debbie Harry.

File that under "What I learned today"!