Drayzen, you read my mind ... I agree (also with respect to our Spanish-speaking friends). I always "button push" to another station when I hear Jose' Feliciano sing Feliz Navidad. I'm not sure if it's his pitch or that the song is seriously overplayed each holiday season or what ... but it grates on me. Big time.

This list is missing "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That song is does not put me in the mood for the holidays whatsoever. Yuck.

(Mollee Francisco is a staff writer for the Chaska Herald. She can be reached at [email protected].)

Christmas Shoes is horribly annoying. Its overly earnest singer goes on way too long and trys way too hard to tug at the heart strings. I guess I'm just cold hearted, but I find the whole song so obviously schmultzy it's annoying.

I didn't vote it as the worst, but I know what steinie and Drayzen mean about Feliz Navidad. Especially with that song becoming the new jingle for the Taco Bell commercials. Maybe Jose Feliciano needs the money, but I'm gonna get real sick of that song real soon.

I actually own the Elmo & Patsy ALBUM with "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" on it. But, since I don't own a turntable, I can't listen to it over and over like I used to -- but I still know almost all the words and can sing it if someone asks nicely.

That same circle of vinyl also has another of my favorite worst songs: "Percy the Puny Poinsettia," which tells listeners that "If he had just been kept wetta, he'd be a house plant today."

It's actually very annoying, but I find myself singing it -- even now -- because it's very catchy!

I don't think anyone has mentioned the "Ding Fries Are Done" parody song to the tune of some traditional Christmas tune. That one is truly annoying.

I just heard Porky Pig singing "Blue Christmas." Enough said.

From Entertainment Weekly's list of "Christmas bummers:"

"Prince, ''Another Lonely Christmas''
Not only is his girlfriend gone, not only is she dead, but she died...on December 25! (Of pneumonia, or strep — he's not sure.) Of course, this being a Prince song, there's a verse devoted to fondly remembering her naked. "

Most annoying on your list? "Last Christmas" by Wham, by far.

(Karla Wennerstrom is the editor of the Eden Prairie News. She can be reached at [email protected].)

"New Shoes" is still the only Christmas song (that is played regularly enough) that will force me to get up walk over to the radio and change the channel. Other non-seasonal songs that make me do this are: "I Touch Myself" and "Greensleeves."

(Mollee Francisco is a staff writer for the Chaska Herald. She can be reached at [email protected].)

Good points. I don't know what the criteria are for Christmas songs, but that Dan Fogelberg song is an unfortunate addition. And I have no idea how "Favorite Things" got on the list. (Why not "The Lonely Goatherd"?)

There has been at least one good song added to the "Christmas" song list in the last few years -- "Baby it's cold outside," by Dean Martin.

I think it's inclusion is due to the movie "Elf." I don't know how a song featuring a guy conspiring to spend the evening with a date falls on a Christmas song list.

We don't have alot of choices for radio stations here in Rochester compared to the Twin Cities, and the one that plays Christmas music here literally must have a selection of only 50 songs. Since Thanksgiving day I swear I have heard all 50 of them at least 50 times. And I am getting tired of them all!