Overplayed Christmas Songs and pre-ordering
There are great reasons to celebrate December 6th! My book is available for pre-order. 
Okay, really, people, humor me. My husband still thinks I’m a fruitcake for religiously checking Amazon to make sure I wasn’t dreaming that my book is for sale.
I resisted the urge to pre-order 400 copies. That’s good, isn’t it? (And, no, I did NOT order 399 copies. Shut up. I’ll tell you later how many copies I pre-ordered. Oh wait. My husband reads this blog. Really, honey, I was strong! I resisted the urge. Mostly. :banana:)
The children are nestled, all snug in their beds. No, I did not drug them. They wore themselves out arguing, fighting, whining about why their mother is a horrible person for not allowing them to have candy for supper. “But Mommy, Dad’s not home! We should have special treats for supper!”
And letting them have full access to a sugar-induced high is good because…..???
Right then. Back to our topic. I was listening to Christmas songs today and I was bemoaning the fact that they overplay so many of the same tunes. Really. There are a few songs that make me want to run screaming to change the radio station. So here are my Top 5 most Overplayed Christmas Songs and my Top 5 Fun Christmas songs.
Quick! Change the Channel Songs
1. “Feed the World/Do They Know it’s Christmas” (or whatever the true name of this song is–the Ethiopia Benefit concert song)–Okay, I’m just sick of George Michael. It’s a good song to hear…once in a while. Not every hour. Not every three songs. I feel the urge to drive ice picks into my eyeballs when I hear it.
2. “Blue Christmas” by Elvis Presley (Too much of the King)
3. “Christmas Shoes” (It’s too sad. I start bawling about the little boy whose mother is dying and he doesn’t have enough money to buy her a pair of pretty shoes when she goes off to meet Jesus. Christmas is a happy season! No death. No dying. None of that! Click.)
4. “Merry Christmas, Darling” by the Carpenters (Good song, just too much of it!)
5. “Feliz Navidad” (It gets stuck in my head all day!)
Christmas Songs I Like
1. Gabriel’s Message by Sting (I don’t hear it enough. It’s just a cool song. Kind of medieval in flavor. And of course, it’s Sting!)
2. Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire (it makes me laugh–and it’s sick. Sorry, Larissa.)
3. “Dominick the Donkey”–It’s such a goofy song.
4. O Holy Night (It’s my favorite song, when sung properly)
5. Do You Hear What I Hear (Bing Crosby)
6. The Christmas Song (the proper version, by Mel Torme)
7. The Little Drummer Boy
8. The Grinch song
How about you? What Christmas songs do you loathe and despise? Which ones do you love? 
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Bonnie Ferguson Says:
There are many that I love but two that immediately come to mind are Silver Bells and Winter Wonderland
Kelly Says:
I love Gabriel’s Song & LIttle Drummer Boy by Sting. I also like any of the South Park Christmas Songs. Nothing says Christmas like Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo. But if I hear any version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, I’m liable to tear my hear out. And the Grinch song is one of my all time faves.
Larissa Says:
Hmph. Number 2 should be outlawed. But then, Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer is pretty funny…but that’s because no cute little chipmunks get roasted. Priorities, baby. Priorities!
Melissa Says:
I love Elvis’ “Blue Christmas”! Love “White Christmas” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.” Not a big fan of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”
Emma Sinclair Says:
OMG, and I’m always in the car when the stupid Christmas Shoes song comes on and end up driving down the road with tears streaming down my face.
Awful, awful song!!
Tori Lennox Says:
I hate hate HATE that “Christmas Shoes” song!!! No. Sad. Songs!!!
I haven’t heard them this year, but I love all the parody songs.
But what I’d like to know is why songs like “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow” and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” are considered Christmas songs. They have absolutely nothing to do with the holidays! I want to play them all year long!
Leanna Ellis Says:
You can NEVER have too much of the king.
chris Keach Says:
Now see, where I am they don’t play Do They Know It’s Christmas enough. That is one of my favorites. I also like Where Are You Christmas? by Faith Hill (from the Grinch movie), Hippo for Christmas, the Twelve Pains of Christmas, the Hawaiian Christmas song (I can’t spell it).
I’m tired of Feliz Navidad. I like it, but they play it all the time. I know there are others, I just said so the other night, but I can’t think of them.
Robyn Says:
I’m so with you on the Christmas Shoes thing. Yeah, we’re gonna sing a little song about desperate poor kids about to be orphans cause their mothers are dying. Happy Holidays!:thumbsup:
Melissa Mc Says:
I cannot hear The Christmas Shoes without crying. I have to change stations whenever it comes on. There’s another song I heard last Christmas about two friends who had a falling out over a bicycle and years later the friend learns his childhood friend, who he never forgave is dead. Another bawler and station changer song.
I love O Holy Night. The kids love Rudolph the red nose reindeer.
Lis Says:
I have another one of those bawling songs, its by Garth Brooks. The one where the little girl takes the bird into the church to sing and then the little girl dies. Like anyone can get through that one without being teary!!
Least favorite ones, I’m tired of the Neil Diamond extravaganza on the christmas station here. And I don’t like the soul version of Merry, Merry Christmas