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UltrasheerRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 6:01pm
There are only two Christmas songs that encapsulate my holiday experience: “Fairytale of New York” and “Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis.”
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  Rachel Vorona CoteUltrasheer
  12/12/15 6:06pm
  BIG fan of “Fairytale of New York” myself. It’s pretty closely tied with Aimee.
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  ihatebrasUltrasheer
  12/12/15 6:16pm
  Fairytale of New York should be played and sung along with year round
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Bears for PresidentRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 5:56pm
The real question isn’t whether or not “Wonderful Christmastime” is the worst song McCartney ever wrote, it’s whether or not “Wonderful Christmastime” is the worst song anyone ever wrote.
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  imakeokaybeansBears for President
  12/12/15 6:00pm
  WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS SONG?!?
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  DrGlamimakeokaybeans
  12/12/15 6:35pm
  God only knows. It’s the Christmas song that most makes me want to poke a chopstick through my eardrums.
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NotFloridaManRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 5:52pm
There are only two Christmas songs: Christmas Rapping by the Waitresses and the Julian Casablancas cover of Horatio Sans’ Christmas Treat. Carry on.
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  collierLANotFloridaMan
  12/12/15 5:56pm
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  comeonpoppetNotFloridaMan
  12/12/15 6:05pm
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Agent ScullyRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 6:10pm
There is, in my opinion, only one song worth listening to at Christmas:

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  Kim Jong's AngstAgent Scully
  12/12/15 6:24pm
  I’m not sure it’s the BEST Christmas song, but it is pretty catchy in a non-annoying way. There is another song on this CD though, Footsteps, that I hate. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate that song.
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  Agent ScullyKim Jong's Angst
  12/12/15 6:35pm
  I hate that one too. I love me some BNL, but then they misstep, they misstep hard.
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goddessoftransitoryRachel Vorona Cote
12/13/15 1:37pm
My favorites are Tori Amos’ cover of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and Annie Lennox’s God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

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  Rachel Vorona Cotegoddessoftransitory
  12/13/15 2:12pm
  Oh man, thank you for sharing!! Can’t wait to listen to these; Tori is my personal goddess.
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talon party at your face's houseRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 6:08pm
This is my #1 Christmas jam, thank you Fiona Apple:

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  darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeenetalon party at your face's house
  12/14/15 9:35am
  HAVE YOU HEARD?!?!?!?!?!?!
  
  ZOMG I LOVE IT SOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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  talon party at your face's housedarleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeene
  12/14/15 11:19am
  YES! This is so good. She would make one hell of a Christmas record.
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Kim Jong's AngstRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 5:52pm
I worked at Victoria’s Secret for several years in college, and one year I remember just having the most depressing Christmas soundtrack for some reason. This song, Footprints by Barenaked Ladies made everyone want to slit their wrists by the third time they heard it in a shift.

Fortunately is was followed shortly by the only upbeat song on the whole track, Alien for Christmas by Fountains of Wayne. It KIND OF made up for it.

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  mathildadiehlKim Jong's Angst
  12/12/15 6:03pm
  I worked at Kohl’s for a while. One Christmas season (Christmas at Kohl’s is a complete nightmare, if you were wondering), I literally stopped at looked up at the speakers in disgust the first time I heard this:
  
  Please note that I love Christmas music, and even working retail during the 6 month long Christmas season couldn’t kill my joy. But this song came pretty close. The naked consumerism was just too much for me. I’ve never heard it anywhere else before or since, so I have no idea how it got on the Kohl’s playlist. I think that it might have been the same year that they stopped playing instrumental versions of Christmas hymns, which I thought of as my mental health breaks—I would literally try to hide in a fitting room or something for the length of the song and decompress for a minute. So given these pieces of evidence, I think the reason for the song selection change might be . . . SATAN.
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  WhatDaveThinksmathildadiehl
  12/12/15 6:11pm
  “The naked consumerism was just too much for me.”
  
  I think that’s the point of the song — to satirize the naked consumerism and personal greed that’s come to be associated with the holiday. I’m basing this on the following lyrics:
  
  “Just bring me things that I don’t need”
  
  “So don’t stop spending
  I want a million gifts, that’s right”
  
  “It’s Christmas and I want everything
  I just can’t wait
  It’s Christmas and I want everything now”
  
  That reads to me like intentional mocking of people that are overly concerned with what they’re getting for Christmas.
  
  Of course, that still makes it a terrible choice for a department store Christmas playlist.
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EldritchRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 5:53pm
At last, our long national nightmare is over.
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  thewicked.Eldritch
  12/12/15 6:08pm
  Oh, if only they played it exclusively in America, but us folks in the rest of the world are not immune. If they will genuinely defer first place to someone else over there, I am going to be legitimately jealous, because Mariah Carey has been haunting my holidays ever since I was a child. Take her back, she is the monster *you* have created!
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  figbashthewicked.
  12/15/15 3:58am
  At least you’re lucky enough to get the original Mariah Carey version. Try walking around when every commercial establishment is blaring K-pop covers of that and “Last Christmas.”
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Kris-the-Needlessly-DefiantRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 6:06pm
I picture Mariah hurling a champagne bottle at the wall in rage when she hears this news (I actually like Mariah, that just seems like something she’d do).
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  siryouleanblueKris-the-Needlessly-Defiant
  12/12/15 10:23pm
  Oh, she would most definitely do that.
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  PanchoVilleneuve STKris-the-Needlessly-Defiant
  12/13/15 11:01am
  Nah. She probably motioned to an underling and had them throw the bottle.
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PaintedTrollopRachel Vorona Cote
12/12/15 6:31pm
Don’t Shoot Me Santa

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  gerbilsoutofexilefinallyPaintedTrollop
  12/12/15 7:02pm
  That is fantastic!
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