The most wonderful music of the year?

[trinityvixen]

Balloon Juice has a thread up calling for people to sound off on their least favorite Christmas songs. I don't have one. I have plenty of versions I don't like of this or that song, but no one song drives me crazy during this time of year. It is the aggregate of all of them being forced on me for hours at a time that bothers, not the songs in particular. When it's actually Christmas and I'm home with the family, I'll listen to anything, pretty much.

I have, however, found this thread immensely amusing and more than a little helpful. If my family does elect to go upstate for the holiday, we'll need some road music. I'm thinking I'll have to add a few of these numbers to my playlist. I will also say that, but for this thread, I wouldn't have heard Patton Oswalt's riff on what most likely is the worst Christmas song of all time:

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

This thread was the first I'd ever heard of "Christmas Shoes," and I'm so glad that the Oswalt clip is as close as I'll ever voluntarily get to it because that song is probably the incarnation of Satan on this Earth. Not surprising it should emerge from a Christian rock band.

I don't know "Baby's First Christmas," but I share your dislike of "So This Is Christmas" (or whatever that Lennon-Oko song is called). I grew up hearing "Dominic the Donkey" on the radio every Christmas and I kinda love it, though I admit it's a completely ridiculous thing.