Christmas makes my ears bleed.

It is almost Christmas and as typical with the season we are inundated with holiday music. radio stations either switch over to completely seasonal fare or intermix the occasional song within their rotation. While there are other December holidays with their own music I'd like to focus on the one with the most, Christmas. Sorry Dreidel Song you will have to find someone else's blog for recognition.

Unfortunately there are some really bad and annoying Christmas songs. Anyone who works in retail will attest that after 8 hours straight of listening to bad music you are ready to strangle the nearest reindeer. Then again I've never heard good music in a Gap store and always want to strangle annoying kids in the mall. Maybe it's some evil plot for human population management? Let's start with my five most hated Christmas songs in reverse order:

#5 - For this one it's a huge tie and encompasses an entire genre of music. if I didn't lump these all together I'd need like a Top 100 list to have room for anything else. Any country music singer slaughtering an existing Christmas song or writing an original one falls in at #5. I really don't care what it would be like if Santa drove a red pickup truck or started off hunting reindeer, stay away from holidays, in fact stay away from music all together.

#4 - This song is probably one that came to mind while reading the fifth worst song. While it has a very country vibe to it I don't really think it is a country song. It still is awful though. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer:

#3 - This next "classic" Christmas song is probably one of the more creepy ones. It was written in the 50's so I'm sure it's innocent but for me it's still weird. This has been covered by many modern artists but Jimmy Boyd is the one who made it famous. For me his voice is kinda grating as well. Yes I said "his," this is a guy singing the song. Granted he is 11 at the time but he does sound like a woman. Another womanly man who sang this song is Dee Snyder of twisted Sister. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus:

#2 - This next song would have placed #4 or #5 if only done by the original singer Eartha Kitt but the string of covers make it worse and worse. There is something about this song that exudes annoying. Looking around the web I see this is on many people's lists as well for awful Christmas songs so I am not alone. I couldn't remember who sang the worst version of this song and listening to it over and over by other singers was bringing out the strangle reflex (see above) so I will concede the most annoying version to Madonna's. Santa Baby:

#1 - This last one is kind of an interesting one. I like the song alright but Frank Sinatra's version adds so many annoying parts to it that it completely ruins the song. Combining a spelling lesson with a holiday song is never a good idea. I want to open presents not learn something! On top of that this one play frequently on loops in malls, department stores, and other public places. Most songs get bad after multiple repetitions but this one get annoying at an exponential rate. It's sad too since the original song and its other iterations are some of my favorites. Jingle Bells as sung by Frank Sinatra:

There you have it my 5 most hated, annoying, obnoxious, awful, bad Christmas songs. I am aware that there are probably worse than these (someone pointed out Elton John's Christmas song) but I haven't heard of them as of yet and don't plan to listen to new bad songs just for the list. Instead these are the 5 that first come to mind and are forever stuck in my head. Honorable mention goes to a song I was just introduced to this year. Since it hasn't the same time to annoy me as the other 5 I can't count it for the list... yet. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas: