Not to directly piss you off, but I don't believe that I have ever HEARD Christmas Shoes.

And not to make it worse, but, despite the fact that I fully support your dislike of non-X-mas songs at X-mas, (having ALWAYS disliked the inclusion of Favorite Things just because it mentions brown paper packages) I must admit that I would rather hear any of those songs on your list than 75% of what I hear during the Season.

Anyone who wants to call me out on my spineless relativism can feel free to go right ahead as I have no defense. All I can say is that you need to spend more time in ice rinks and ski resorts.

So are you saying that I should be pissed off that you have been blessed to have never heard the worst song ever recorded? Like, you are saying that I would get angry that you have not suffered?!?!?

That's just weird.


Since I left a ??? on my list, I will take a moment to fill that one in with any version of O Holy Night where the singer substitutes an increase in volume for actually hitting the high note. It may fool the masses, but you're not getting that one by me...hacks!!!

Why don't you think of "You're a Mean one Mr. Grinch" as a Christmas song? It's from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!". If a song is from a Christmas show or movie, why shouldn't it be considered as such?

My wife and I were talking favorite Christmas songs the other day. Both of us like select Christmas music despite how a lot of people complain about it. She rightly pointed out to me that I tend to like secular Christmas music from the 50s and 60s (and probably the 40s). That's what having older parents will do to a guy, especially ones who liked Doris Day and Bing Crosby.

I also always dig this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'T...Straitjackets!

Put a Little Love in your Heart was in Scrooged, but nothing in the song makes it Christmasy.

You're a Mean One is just a song about a guy who is a colossal douche.

If AC/DC's Big Balls is played in Elf 2, would it suddenly be a Christmas song?

Both "Put a Little Love" and "Big Balls" were not written specifically for those movies. They have connotations elsewhere. "Pennies from Heaven" is on the Elf soundtrack, and it's not a Christmas song.

The Grinch song, however, was written specifically for the TV show, and is specifically about the anti-Christmas attributes of the protagonist, who goes through his character arc in a Christmas setting. So by the associative property of Rankin and Bass, it is technically a Christmas song.

My wife is a fan of that, too.

I'm partial to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August...leddin%27_Hill

Rankin Bass didn't do that one.

Therefore your entire point is invalidated.

Is Nightmare Before Christmas a Christmas movie?

What about:
Gremlins
Die Hard
Die Harder
Lethal Weapon

You forgot Batman Returns.

Rankin and Bass did not do that movie, but they did extensive research and developed the theory that evolved into a proof.

The Nightmare before Christmas is both a Halloween movie AND a Christmas movie. It's wonderful!

HAW!

Nice.

I just heard Linus and Lucy on an X-mas station and I'm wondering where you are on that one.

It's in both Great Pumpkin and Thanksgiving if I'm not mistaken, so is it really an X-mas song?

I used it in a Holiday Skating Program with an adorable little girl as Lucy and her brother as Linus with the official Charlie Brown tree on the ice with them and it was one of the best things ever.

But I still wondered about using the song.

Hmmm. Well, according to Wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_and_Lucy

"...it was released in 1964 on the Vince Guaraldi Trio's album Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown. A Charlie Brown Christmas introduced the song to a television audience of millions of children beginning in 1965."

So, it didn't start out as a Christmas song, but the biggest initial audience for the song was the Christmas special. So, it sounds like it can be Christmas song to me. It also sounds like it could be used for other things.