This is a companion post to my definitive list of the best Christmas songs and the best versions of those song. In this list I don’t bother with versions because these songs are so execrable that figuring out degrees of awfulness doesn’t interest me. To get on the list, the songs must be from the modern era (not traditional), truly bad and yet, somehow still widely played along with the rest of the holiday canon.
5) The Little Drummer Boy
4) Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
3) Last Christmas I gave You My Heart
2) Santa Baby
1) Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
If you are a really glutton for punishment, check out this Esquire list of horrible holiday music that (thankfully) isn’t widely played.