You’re almost there.
and you stopped listening to Korn … because…?
Take A Look In The Mirror sucked
I definitely didn’t become less angsty
Somehow the song that would have been my #1 overall still hasn’t gone yet.
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I can rectify this situation if the people in the draft don’t mind a guest draft pick. I can’t fill in completely for the person that dropped out but I can get it started
Mendoza made a guest pick for chup. You two can team up if he agrees
Alright, no one officially tapped @superuberbob, but it’s been well over 14 hours since the last pick. (sorry I was swamped at work even though was able to pop in briefly).
I guess that means I’m on the clock with my final two picks, and Bob can go any time.
OK, for my penultimate pick, I’m going to take one I’m shocked is still on the board.
It’s not as directly offensive to the ears as some of my earlier picks, but it’s a nice bookend with my opener for “What the hell is this gratuitous violence doing here at Christmas?” That’s right folks, let’s sing a Christmas song about how a guy who shoots the neighborhood kids who pick on him doesn’t want to get shot by Santa and is begging for his life. While there are some parody and comedy songs featuring a violent Santa, if there’s a joke here, it’s definitely lost, nor is this even some sort of, like, twisted vigilante comeuppance for a psychotic mass shooter doled out by the man in red. No, our neighborhood child killer gets away at the end. Much like the AIDS song earlier, putting this out during the mass shooting epidemic is just disgusting and unwanted.
My #1 is still on the board, possibly a #2.
Well, Mendoza, having made a pick, is the owner of Chup’s slot. He owes some more, so if you want to work with him, send him a PM.
This song was one of many Christmas songs wriitten by The Killers that was written with the profits going to Bono’s charity.
Also, it’ll be a while before I pick. Got work in a half hour.
Yeah, I’m not sure when I’m going to make up my mind on my final pick. @spidercrab is free to pick!
This draft was deeper than I realized when I proposed it, but I still think 6 rounds was pretty reasonable. I’d rather wrap it up feeling like there was still some worthy stinkers out there.
Quite possibly the most depressing Christmas song ever
I like John Denver’s music but I’d rather crash an airplane than listen to this song.
There is a psychological heuristic called the peak-end rule, that suggests people recall an experience (either positive or negative, like a vacation or a dentist’s visit) based largely on two aspects:
- the peak (absolute best/worst) moment of that experience
- the end of that experience
So a below-average meal at a restaurant can be salvaged by a transcendent dessert, or even the host kindly helping you with your coat as you leave. (See, e.g., Kahneman, D., Fredrickson, B. L., Schreiber, C. A., & Redelmeier, D. A. (1993). When more pain is preferred to less: Adding a better end. Psychological Science, 4 (6), 401–405.)
As I face my last pick of the draft, I’m left with a choice. Do I want to pick the 30th or whatever entry on Buzzfeed’s “Worst Christmas Songs” list, and end up with a barely-replacement-level pick that we all semi-chuckle at and then move on? A mundane pick that, because of its role as the anchor, casts the overall draft with a chalky aftertaste? Or do I shoot for a more unexpected pick, one that ties a neat–if unconventional–bow on my collection of songs?
I choose the latter. For my final selection in the Worst Christmas Songs of All Time Draft, I choose the Scandinavian Christmas anthem Vår julskinka har rymt, by Werner & Werner - the epic ode of an escaped Christmas ham.
For those of you unfamiliar with this song, I think you need to both listen to it and read the translated lyrics (below).
Team spidercrab:
- Dominick the Donkey
- Feliz Navidad
- Illegals in My Yard
- Jingle Bells, by The Singing Dogs
- Must Be Santa, by Bob Dylan
- Vår julskinka har rymt
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Did I break the draft?
I am crippled by the uncertainty of how I want to close my draft and by excessive work. But any drafters are welcome to pick at this point. At noon PST tomorrow, rail birds are invited to pick songs that they think should have been drafted.
Been busy for the last 12 hours.
I’ll try to remember to make my final pick tomorrow morning before the game.
OK, I’m closing out with a mainstream aural assault that gets tons of play in stores and on corporate radio:
Sweet Christmas, does anyone actually want to listen to some humans sing horribly and then get autotuned to sound even worse? On top of that it’s embarrassingly materialistic and greedy.
Team Wookie:
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Wonderful Christmastime
Christmas Tree
Don’t Shoot Me Santa
The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)
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How in the everloving hell has Merry XMas(War is over) not been drafted yet?
It was on my short list, but I hated this one more. Do you hate the original the most, or one of the terrible remakes?