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I’d start with Yellow Submarine. It’s the one everybody likes best

 

I work at a retail cellular store and we just started playing Christmas music. Some songs I didn’t recognize or know who the artist was so I’ve been shazaming them. Come to find out one was Oasis - Merry Xmas Everybody and I must say that it is the worst Christmas song I’ve ever heard (granted not an Oasis fan)

edit CC: @phaynes12

 

all christmas songs are bad

 

Your worst take yet

 

Pat’s right

 

It was an early dent in my teenage metalhead credentials, how much I liked Christmas songs.

 

Luther Vandross alone has made Christmas songs that are better than any Oasis song

 

This Christmas by Donny Hathaway >>>

 

Reuben - Christmas Is Awesome

 

Luther Vandross - "This Is Christmas"
The Pogues - "Fairytale of New York"
Donny Hathaway - "This Christmas"
John Lennon - "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)"
Greg Lake - "I Believe in Father Christmas"
Mike Mentz - "Christmas Don't Be Late"
Billy Squier - "Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You"
The Kinks - "Father Christmas"
Barenaked Ladies (feat. Sarah McLachlan) - "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
The Maine - "Ho Ho Hopefully"
Andy Williams - "O Holy Night"
Nat King Cole - "The Christmas Song"
Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Christmas Time Is Here"
Aretha Franklin - "Joy to the World"
Amy Grant - "O Come All Ye Faithful"
Darlene Love - "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
The Jackson 5 - "Santa Claus Is Coming to Time"
Bruce Springsteen - "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
Stevie Wonder - "What Christmas Means to Me"
Burl Ives - "Holly Jolly Christmas"
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra - "Once in Royal David's City"
Ray Conniff Singers - "Christmas Bride"
George Winston- "The Holly and the Ivy"
Pretenders - "2000 Miles"
Dwight Yoakam - "Come on Christmas"
Frank Sinatra - "The Christmas Waltz"
London Symphony Orchestra - "Deck the Halls"
Prince - "Another Lonely Christmas"
The Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping"
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Bells Are Ringing"
The Drifters - "White Christmas"

A long list of contrary examples to Pat's foolish point.

 

Vince Guaraldi Trio's entire A Charlie Brown Christmas album is counterpoint enough , but yes lots and lots of great examples.

To pull from my comment in the 1965 in Music thread:

2. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas

It is actually quite possible that I have heard A Charlie Brown Christmas more than any other album released pre-1991.

Also, SUPER shoutout to your "I Believe in Father Christmas" inclusion, @cshadows2887 . One of my faves, easily.

 

it’s disrespectful to jews to play christmas songs

 

don’t take that seriously. i just don’t like them and they rub me the wrong way lol.

 

Jews?

 

I would totally enjoy hearing Hanukkah songs in the wild.

 

I love that like a third of the big Christmas songs were written by Jewish people

 

you’re right, i don’t like myself

 

the last clairo album does the phoebe bridgers vibe better than either of phoebe’s albums

 

No Oasis fan truly likes themself.

I'm sorry, I'll walk myself out.

 

If the vibe is "boring and forgettable" then yeah I totally agree

 

By the end of this holiday season I’m gonna be tired of hearing Ben Gibbard singing Baby Please Come Home 15 times a day at work

also same for whatever Christmas song simple plan does. Just plain awful store music

 

More Christmas songs should be as melancholy as the Charlie Brown “Christmas Time is Here” song. No more happy shit