How did Paul McCartney end up making this horrible fucking Christmas song?

If Mark David Chapman hadn't killed John Lennon, this would have. I never thought I'd say this, but here's a song that could actually be improved upon by being performed by Yoko Ono.

Because he totally sucked OP.

I always liked that songs with my niece and nephew singing it at the top of their lungs in the backseat of my car.

Happy memories.

It beats the hell out of John's dull, lecturing borefest.

About five years ago I was driving with a friend and this song came on the radio. Not realizing this was a Paul MaCartney song she goes, "how about this one hit wonder??" It was funny. Yes this song is pretty cheesy.

I have a horrible feeling I'm not going to be able to get that fucking tune out of my head.

This might be a worse Christmas song.

Was Paul hurting for money when he made this?

Ugh, I cannot stand this shit song.

Bruce’s version of that song is cringe-inducing as well.

As John would say, it's one of Paul's "granny" songs.

He wrote it for his kids

You can see one of the original Pauls whose face and hands were ruined in a fire in that video. It’s not as cheery as it appears on the surface. Burn Victim Paul appears in the house at the piano and in the hallway and in the weird outdoor sequence at the keyboard. He’s missing teeth, too.

[quote] He wrote it for his kids

We'd rather have had lumps of coal in our stockings!

It was very obvious that John was more talented after The Beatles broke up and they all went solo. Solo George was also more talented than Paul. Paul was good at catchy tunes and simple phrases that stuck in people's heads. John had depth and soul, George had introspection, Paul had nursery rhymes.

It's in Paul's Shameless Hall of Fame--with Ebony & Ivory, My Love, Mull of Kintyre, and many others. If asked, we know what his answer would be: "Oh, those are nice little songs." It's the side of Paul that makes me want to SCREAM.

SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME

My mother was a miserable, unhappy, dissatisfied person who hated Christmas because I liked it (when I was younger). Always complaining about Christmas & having to spend money & be nice to people for one day of the year.

Out shopping with her one year when this song came on the overhead store speakers. Turned around & was about to say "I hate this song" when I saw my mother smiling, nodding her head and singing along. "Ding, dong, ding dong..."

I'd never seen her so happy.

Paul mccartney gave us a Christmas miracle

[quote] It was very obvious that John was more talented after The Beatles broke up and they all went solo. Solo George was also more talented than Paul. Paul was good at catchy tunes and simple phrases that stuck in people's heads. John had depth and soul, George had introspection, Paul had nursery rhymes.

And Ringo had the best connections in the animation industry. He was the first to do [italic]The Simpsons[/italic].

[quote] This might be a worse Christmas song.

THERE IS NO WORSE SONG THAN "WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME."

I blame that cunt Linda! Her rancid influence was probably all over this shitshow!

And screw you, OP! For putting this SHITTY song in my head now

I never knew that R18. I remember Paul and Linda doing an episode, George, too. But not Ringo. George was a big fan of Monty Python.

The Ding Dong, Ding Dong part is the absolute worst.

You want truly horrible fucking song?

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme sing Black Hole Sun and destroying my favorite song as a teen

Ringo was in the episode "Brush With Greatness" all the way back in 1991. Unlike Dustin Hoffman and Michael Jackson, they actually used his real name in the credits.

[quote]George was a big fan of Monty Python.

Not just a fan, he put up the money for [italic]Life of Brian[/italic].

Christmas songs can be very lucrative.

[quote] Christmas songs can be very lucrative.

Sim…ply

Wri…ting

A horrible Christmas song

Literally two hours ago, when this thread was posted but before I knew about it, I was microwaving my lunch and wondering why no one on DL had bitched about this song yet this year!

Because we were too busy bitching about LucyMAME and [italic]Funny Lady[/italic].

The funny thing is, the song is annoying but very catchy and he has probably earned more money in royalties off this one shitty song that he knocked out in a day or two than you have in your entire career.

Repetitive. Simply repetitive. Very repetitively repetitious.

A friend and I were stalked throughout New York City by this song one Christmas. It was terrifying.

[quote] A friend and I were stalked throughout New York City by this song one Christmas. It was terrifying.

You think that's terrifying, "Strangers in the Night" stole my wallet!

When asked on his deathbed what caused him to go on his murdering spree, Jeffrey Dahmer cited this song.

I like it. Not enough that I bought it, but I like it. It reminds me of better times. It reminds me of my mother for some reason, even though she died a couple of years before it came out.

It's so much better than that dreadful, suicide-inducing dirge by Lennon.

I've always said that the farther Paul got away from the Beatles and John's influence, the worse his music became. This Christmas song is Exhibit A. And I've often wondered if he did this just because John had a Christmas song.

There are so many worse Christmas songs. "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and "Holly, Jolly Christmas" make me want to open my veins and die quickly.

R38! NOPE! Wonderful Christmas Time is the absolute worst!

Those synthesizers sound like robot belches.

Holy shit! I was just talking about this yesterday. How this song is so horrible and repetitive and how Paul was busting John’s balls for his “Christmas song with a message” by saying “We’re Simply...Having...A Wonderful Christmas Time” and not preaching to you.

I thought I was the only one who hated this one. Unfortunately, it gets stuck in your head...

R25, Thanks, I remember now. Ringo answered a letter that Marge wrote to him when she was a teenager. That's back when The Simpson's was still good.

Dear lord in heaven!

[quote]Wonderful Christmas Time is the absolute worst!

Excuse me?

I like this song. Sure, it's no masterpiece and as with many of his songs it's a bit silly but it's pleasant enough. I take it for what it is.

Grotesque song!

And so happy Christmas for black and for white for yellow and red ones let's stop all the fight!

[quote] I've always said that the farther Paul got away from the Beatles and John's influence, the worse his music became.

I imagine you are right.

This might make some of your heads explode but he's earned $15 million from this song.

[quote]This might make some of your heads explode but he's earned $15 million from this song.

Not mine. It's one of the few elements of the November-to-January songschluss that doesn't make me want to throw either myself or the radio playing it off a tall building.

“Maybe I’m Amazed” is a good song.

“Band on the Run” is a good song.

“Live and Let Die” is a good song.

Even “Silly Love Songs” is better than this shit.

This sounds like a child banging on a synthesizer. The song struggles to build anything around its hook, and it just throws the most banal melody around equally banal and often unpleasant-sounding chord progressions like cheap tinsel around a plastic tree. The worst song on [italic]Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait[/italic] is better than this and at least is sung well.

This is more my idea of a Christmas song, and DataLounge taught it to me. Thanks, you guys!

The song I really hate is that Mariah atrocity that we are pummeled with every December.

You know the one...

[quote] This might make some of your heads explode but he's earned $15 million from this song.

Imagine no possessions, indeed!

I blame it on the outdated synthesizers, the Monkees have a much better version.

It's brilliant.

"I've got 4 kids now. One Christmas song can keep them set for life. Let's see... Christmas is wonderful... keep it simple ...bells ringing..., choirs singing...decorating trees ......warmth.... I've got it! 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas.' I'll throw in some jungle bells & a little synth to make it modern, since it's almost 1980."

R14, With the worse take of the week. Lennon's gibberish deep? Hahahaha

It's not like John did a good Christmas song himself, and at least Paul's wasn't so preachy and pompous (and didn't have Yoko).

While I love almost every song on every Gap In-Store Playlist, SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME is one of the few I hate, hate, hate.

And it was on SO MANY Gap In-Store Playlists!

DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG!!!!!!!!!!

We're here tonight - and that's enough!

Paul is a genius no matter what you think of this silly granny song.

THE CHOIR OF CHILDREN SING THEIR SONG

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

DING DONG!!!

It’s a great song that is very McCartney.

VILE song

I heard this song today while grocery shopping!

Along with waterboarding and sleep deprivation, I imagine that this song playing on an endless loop is another CIA tactic to coerce confessions at Guantanamo Bay.

I saw Paul in concert about 10 years ago. He went for 3 hours without a break. I’m a lot younger than he is and had to get up and stretch my legs.

This was the period when Paulie was obsessed with weird, grating synth textures. I'd still rather listen to it than that Mariah Carey abomination.

With all that fame & fortune, John Lennon couldn’t keep from being murdered, Paul McCartney couldn't stop the love if his life from dying & George Harrison couldn’t make it to 60. Very sad.

Meanwhile, Ringo spent much of his childhood in hospital. He thought he was sickly, but people who researched a bit felt he’d basically been abandoned in the hospital. His father ran off when he was a toddler & his mother couldn’t afford him. He went into the hospital for an operation and stayed for months. Then he fell and broke his arm, so he stayed in the hospital for more months. He mother had to work.

Oops, post got away from me before i could finish.

Ringo thought he was a sickly child, but he wasn’t. He turned out to be quite healthy.

I think he might be a little Alzheimer-ish, though. I saw him on tv and he didn’t really say much except “Peace & love, peace & love,” like he couldn’t remember anything else.

To each his own. I agree with R61. I love this song.

Paul and Linda were huge potheads. The man probably doesn’t have a functioning brain cell left.

[quote] Paul and Linda were huge potheads

Omg, no!

Why weren’t they arrested, jailed & forced into rehab? Why weren’t they under house arrest for years? This is catastrophic

[quote] The man probably doesn’t have a functioning brain cell left.

Well, let’s see. He routinely travels between London, Scotland, NYC, Amagansett, LA, Paris, South of France, Canada, Japan, Australia, EU, etc. I think he’s got more than enough brain cells left.

Kylie Minogue covered this song with Mika... and it's still terrible.

Yeah, r71, when I want a song improved, they're who I call.

It's a nice song.

Piss off, Ebeneezer!

As much as I hate this song, I STILL don't hate it as much as that overplayed, overrated piece of derivative drivel that Mariah Carey wrote.

I'm sorry I know this isn't what the thread is about, but I have to post this. And I must preface this by saying I'm not looking for sympathy about my situation, the reason I'm posting is because it seems like something that would only happen to one of us on DL.

On November 1, my vet discovered my beloved dog was in renal failure after routine bloodwork. It's been a waking nightmare since, not knowing yet how or if he'll recover enough to go on. I went into Tom Thumb grocery on Tuesday and the David Lee Roth song (This Must Be Just Like Livin' in) Paradise ' was playing and it has been on loop in my head every hour of every day since. Some of the darkest days of my life and every mental free moment that song is playing over and over and over. "This Must be just like livin in paradise! And I don't wanna go ho-ome!" And then David Lee Roth doing that wah screaming thing. Over and over.

Fuck. Me.

When he was good he was very very good . But when he was bad he was AWFUL.

I heard on the radio that Paul recorded a Christmas album, but it will never be released because he recorded it for his family and friends.

John's Christmas song is even worse.

Simply having sex with a bunch of guys

"If Mark David Chapman hadn't killed John Lennon, this would have."

Lennon was still alive when this was released in November of 1979.

Apparently, the Queen of All Things Musical, the LEGEND...Miss Ross...didn't hate this song since she recorded a version of it!!!

Oh, you think that's bad? This was No.3 in the UK charts at Christmas 1984 (behind Do They Know It's Christmas and Last Christmas).