Raise your hand if you worked retail any time from the 80's on and have zero problem believing Paul McCartney makes that much money off the song every year.
Over here in Japan there are four awful Christmas pop songs on rotation at multiple retail stores nationwide and Wonderful Christmastime is one of them. I’m sure everyone can guess the other three.
Don't care what anyone says, "Wonderful Christmastime" is a nostalgic classic to me. Is it silly...yes. But it evokes a sense of lighthearted togetherness, which to me is what the holidays are all about. Fun with family and friends. I rarely disagree with the Professor, but today is one of those days.
Same here! It might be the only time I've disagreed with "the Professor of Rock" but if so then this is that one time! 'Wonderful Christmastime' is wonderful! Lighthearted, like you said. It's like, for once, let's just lighten up. Sweet & wonderful!
@@valap2 - You're right about 'Step Into Christmas'! That song has never done anything for me. Never particularly liked it at all. But 'Wonderful Christmastime' is sweet & wonderful as far as I'm concerned.
Came to say the same. I’ve been seeing the hate more and more and I don’t get it. lol. If you want to hear a bad song listen to Celine Dion’s cover of Happy Xmas (War is Over).
Yep .. I now hear Mariah say “darling” like she always said on American Idol every time she sings now. I think American Idol’s publicity actual hurt her a bit.
"Wonderful Christmastime" transports me back to Christmas 1979 when I was 13. What great memories! I can see how some might find it annoying (including a close friend of mine) but I love it.
It brings me back to the '70s as well. My mother would take myself and my two brothers to our aunt & uncle's house on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, we opened the presents and in the afternoon my mother brings out this feast, starting with an antipasto followed by Italian wedding soup (homemade), pasta and meatballs and then either a ham dinner or a turkey dinner. She then tops it off with her homemade Italian cream rolls for dessert. As if you couldn't tell, she enjoyed cooking during the holidays as well as the holidays themselves.
I like the song. I don't think it's a great song but it's happy and I like hearing it at Christmas time. My aunt absolutely hates the song. So I understand both sides.
Some people shouted to the four winds that it was a bad song and the sheeple thought that it was and went along with this belief for a long time. We Built This City was a huge hit... period! Like it or not! 😉
The guy who wrote about “silly love songs” also wrote about “simply having a wonderful Christmas time” and the latter is a bad song? I’d say they’re both kind of goofy and just what you expect from McCartney. Fun, goofy ear worms from a master!
sorry but "Wonderful Christmastime" always makes me smile and what is the point of music at Christmas if it doesn't (just don't ask that to George Michael)
Paul McCartney was trying to do two things when he wrote Wonderful Christmastime. 1. Write a timeless holiday classic and 2. Find out what all the knobs and switches on his synthesizer did. He accomplished one of those things.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Your opinion...but since the song has been played for Xmas eversince and not faded into oblivion, we are bound to accept that he has succeeded with the former. But there is no doubt the latter came soon after else his career would have ended!!
It's not a bad song. It's recorded badly. Way too much frequency modulation from that damned synthesizer will damage your speakers if you turn it up. I have heard it covered by a couple artists, and it's nice when done right.
With sincere respect for all of your great content, I must STRONGLY DISAGREE with your take on Paul’s classic holiday tune. When the season arrives and I hear those opening synth notes I am filled with joy. The song takes me back to a special period of time when we were still able to appreciate the distinct harmonies of Denny and Linda.
I love Paul McCartney's wonderful Christmas time. I feel a lot of Joy when I hear this song. So I do really respect you professor of rock. But I disagree about this not being a good song. Maybe cuz I'm a gen xer LOL. I love your channel. I hope you have a fabulous Christmas and happy New Year.🎉🌲🎁.
@@serendipityshopnycit takes some serious willful misinterpretation to make it creepy. It's an innocent, harmless song, and for anyone to interpret more says a lot more about them than it does the song.
I actually did fall asleep on the phone with a guy (I worked 80 hrs a week), and when I woke up in the morning (4-5 hrs later) I found the line still open - he had stayed awake all night just to hear me breathing.
I'm 47. One of my earliest Christmas memories is hearing WCT while decorating with my small family. I loved it then and I still do. I also remember getting a new De La Soul album in 2001 and losing my shit when Simply came on and recognizing the sample.
Add me to the list of those that enjoy "Wonderful Christmastime". I was 9 when it was released. I have memories of hearing it on the radio on the way home Christmas Eve or Christmas night. It just gets down to this basic good feeling I had as a kid around Christmas, and as the song says, "simply having a Wonderful Christmastime."
Wonderful Christmas Time is great! It was one of the first songs my children learned. Now they are 25 and 19. We still sing it, very off-key on purpose, every Christmas. It is a great sing-along.
i could go the rest of my life without this song. it figures that its Diane Warren. she should be locked up for what she has done to music and forced to pay the royalties to a class action fund. i cannot stand that woman's music.
Seriously? We're not going to talk about the "I need your sperm" aspect of All I Want To Do...? "Imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes. Please understand I'm in love with another man, and the one thing he can't give me is the one little thing that you can?" I can't even imagine what the same lines would have meant in a male voice.
I have never let others tell me what I should like. I proudly say that I like songs everyone loves, and songs nobody else seems to love but me. I laugh that Prof is so hard on a few of these in this video, claiming the artists should have passed on them when most of these songs were big hits. It can be argued on their artistic merit, but pass on something that so many people actually seemed to enjoy and made the songs hits? Anyway, with all due respect to Prof and other critics, I will continue to like what I like regardless of what others feel about it. 🙂
"Zooropa!" I totally understand the hate this song/album gets, as U2 was heading down strange artistic paths in the mid 90s. Can I offer a different take? I think the futuristic and shallow vibes are completely intentional and do work on some level. (Was "Zoo Station" from Achtung Baby *that* much of a better song?) What's missing in "Zooropa" is exactly what needs to be missing: humanity and depth. It's supposed to be as haunting as it is flashy. This vibe continues, with stronger currents of human desperation to feel and be felt, through "Babyface," "Numb," and "Lemon" before cresting in the beautiful "Stay (Faraway, So Close)" at the album's center. The second half of the Zooropa album is admittedly forgettable by U2 standards, but the songs continue to explore the broken humanity beneath all the futuristic, flashy neon. "Dirty Day" is particularly interesting as an uglier spiritual B-side to their classic "One." It isn't nearly as grand or articulate as "One" but it's every bit as angry and wounded. And don't forget the last song, "The Wanderer," sung by Johnny Cash in the voice of an aimless (possibly senile) drifter forever lost in that soulless, futuristic world. .... Can we just say that "Zooropa" planted a flag in territory that Radiohead would explore much more deeply and unforgettably 4 years later in "OK Computer"? I think that's fair.
I dunno, Professor... "Wonderful Christmastime" puts me in a good mood every time. I've always thought that Wham kinda borrowed the synth line from it for its song, "Everything She Wants"...
Of course .It's a simple Christmas song and alot of fun too. My top 5 would be happy Xmas by John Lennon Billy Idols Rocking zChristmas Eve simply having a wonderful Christmas Time Paul Mc Cartney and Whams This Christmas. If I could hear all i want for Christmas by Mariah Carey as a a duet with Ronnie Spector it would become my very favorite. I hear them singing it together in my head.
Norm Macdonald comming in fast and hard with Holiday negativity! Cheers Norm RIP! 🤘 PS Jeff Porcaro played drums on 57 Channels?!! That's like having Da Vinci paint a Easter Bunny on a Mc Donald's window!
I never cared for The Boss or U2. But I don't want to miss a thing was a great song. It was mine and my boyfriend's song and I always imagined Steven Tyler singing that as our wedding song. We were together 22 years but never married. He passed away 5 years ago from cancer, I cry every time I hear that song!! I also look forward to A wonderful Christmas time every year!!
Everyone loves to hate on "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" but it reminds me how precious each moment with my husband is. It often reminds me to stop doing unnecessary activities to spend just a few more minutes with him. We have been married for 33 years, and met in high school. Sometimes it is easy to let computers, or misunderstandings rob us of time together. This song helps me change direction, soften my heart, and improve my mood. I try to imagine Celine Dion, whom I love, sing it, but it can only be Steven Tyler. But I agree the video is pretty cheesy.
12:46 - Yes but Paul's royalties on that song aren't exclusively as song-writer from other musicians performing it. He also gets royalties as recording-artist from his recording of it. And I think that 400 grand is line with that.
Artist that was horrible....well, when Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's did.......wait....Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's NEVER did a bad song....EVER!!! (Just my opinion) Loved everything Tom did....and I'll miss him and his music forever!!
If he didn't write Disco Duck or that song from the 80s about the guy wanting to thank somebody for letting him change lanes, he didn't write the worst song.
Disco Duck has to be on every "Worst Top 10 Songs Ever" List. At least he picked the most overhyped band in history for one of the songs on the list (U2). Seriously, I'd listen to WCT on loop for all of December than listen to U2 for an hour.
I'm so thankful I don't work retail anymore, especially during the holidays. That McCartney song gives me PTSD. I heard it about five to ten times a day, every day, from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve.
@@ProfessorofRock You can do a worst (and best...) rock christmas songs; This one, "Santa Baby" from Madonna, "Back Door Santa" from Bon Jovi. So much shlock could qualify.
Santa Baby and too many covers of Wham!'s Last Christmas are pretty egregious shopping centre schlock. Some of the more modern experimental songs they keep seeming to add in are straight psychological warfare tho!
Amazing that you picked the admittedly weak Christmas song for Paul's annoying song while showing a picture of the McCartney II album that features Pauls actual worst song: Temporary Secretary
I actually have a kind of soft spot for the album Zooropa. I loved the track "Numb." It kind of occurred after several years of U2 overexpoaure, so it was refreshingly different, and allowed them to kind of return to their wheelhouse after.
"Wonderful Christmas time was a good song when it first came out but due to the simple fact it gets a years worth of playtime in 1-2 months it got old REALLY quick.
I don't think Wonderful Christmastime is terrible; it's simply shallow and decorative like a holiday party. If you've ever heard his song "Bahama Mama" you'll know the true power of 'Ugh!'
The Wilson sisters hate me! In 1978, I was a junior in high school setting up tents backstage of their concert. The company truck was a POS! I was parked right next to their tour vehicle. I started it, it belched a terrible cloud of exhaust, that was sucked in by their air conditioning unit. The sisters came outside and said something to me. I don't remember what they said. I wanted to see them, just not like this!
You definitely nailed this list but, I can’t get that terrible Paul McCartney song out of my head now so, I’m just gonna grind it away with some slayer! 😂. Rock on Prof!
Wonderful Christmas time is one of my all time favorites. I cannot bring myself to see how you think this one is a stinker. Sure it's simple, but it is a beautiful, uplifting song.
The Heart song "All I..." reminds me of the terrific version of I Didn't Mean to Turn You On by Robert Palmer. The switch to an aggressive woman pursuing him made it a more interesting song.
My boys had a tape of Rupert and the Frog Song. They loved it (to be fair, they were very young at the time). The tortures we go through for our children. (Oh ugh, I just reworded that sentence because it reminded me too much of "The Things We Do For Love" - another on my "Paul, what were you thinking?" list.)
Come on, "Wonderful Christmastime" is only hated as much as it is because it gets played to death every holiday season. I find it no worse than "My Love" or With a Little Luck." 🤷♂
@@C.O.G. He's written some wonderful songs in his time, some maybe even recently, but the trouble is, because he is Paul McCartney with all that goodwill and fanbase behind him, no one's going to refuse to publish his worst drivel.
Now that stations are playing Christmas songs 24/7, they're playing "Wonderful Christmastime" what seems like every third song. That one's hard on the ears.
To me "57 Channels" was the first song I'd liked by Bruce since the "U.S.A." album. I thought all those songs from that "Tunnel Of Love"/"Human Nature" era were boring crap. But then he proved his immense worth again years later with "Girls In Their Summer Clothes".
Tunnel of Love and Brilliant Disguise are iconic songs, not boring crap. You've proven your immense inability to distinguish a great song from a bad one. Merry X-mas Grinch.
@@ProfessorofRock Lennon lifted the melody from someone else's song.Sorry I can't tell you what it is, but a deep dive somewhere will reveal it. Similar to how Come Together borrows from Chuck Berry but, as the same with that case, someone had to point it out to him. Only IMO but I suspect that is the reason all the proceeds of the single were donated to charity. Avoids the problem of being sued if you didn't make any money out of it. However, most of the subsequent millions have been made by its addition to compilation albums, and presumably that revenue has gone to Lennon's publishing and his estate. It is amazing that they have never sued. It is as good a case as "He's So Fine" and we all know how that turned out for George. Millions $$$ on the table for half a century and no lawsuit. Amazing. Sorry I can't actually give a reference. The info is out there.
I understand that it’s all a matter of personal taste, but “Feliz Navidad” is not only the worst Christmas song of all time, it’s THE WORST SONG of all time. I’d listen to “Wonderful Christmas Time” all day long to never hear “FZ” ever again. I will die on this hill.
When you said "so annoying it causes convulsions", I was CERTAIN you meant "All I Want for Christmas is You". I would listen to "Wonderful Christmastime" a thousand times over, including all the muzak versions, before that other monstrosity.
Some of the obvious ones to me The Girl is Mine by Jackson and McCarthy We Built this City by Starship I was Made for Loving You by Kiss Great episode professor, you'll get flack on a couple but not from me
27 years ago my husband & I danced our 1st dance at our wedding to 'I don't wanna miss a thing!' I absolutely love that song. Everytime it comes up on a playlist now, we dance in the kitchen. Usually music is on when I'm cooking or cleaning in the kitchen. If he hears it come on, he stops what he's doing & comes & grabs me to dance! 😊💚
Sorry, Professor, I love Paul’s Christmas song and always have and I’m not sure how it remotely approaches “bad” - and be honest, if Paul’s Christmas song didn’t exist Lennon’s “Happy Xmas” wouldn’t have the incredible bite and beauty it does…””and what have you done…”
I've always had a disdain for a wonderful Christmas time to me that should have been your number one thanks for your content though I really appreciate it keep up the good work
I, like a lot of others on here, enjoy Wonderful Christmastime. It just makes me smile. Everyone have a rockin' Christmas! Especially you, Professor. Keep teaching.
YYYYYEEEEESSSS!!! Love a Professor intro where he indicates in the opening sentence that he's going to go negative! Especially during the Holidays! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@ProfessorofRock Don't be! I'm being completely serious, not sarcastic. I just wish you had mentioned the uncomfortable fact that even when they hit the target, U2 are the most pretentious, self consciously "concerned with everything" band of all time. 😂🤣😂
Sorry, Professor, but I Don't Want to Miss a Thing holds a very special place in my heart. The song was popular right around the time I was getting married. I met my wife in a foreign country about 8,000 miles away from my home. We got married in her country, and it took a whole year before she was able to come live with me in America. We were 8,000 miles apart for most of that year. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing became our song during that time. We've been married for over 26 years now. It's still a special song for us. My wife accuses me of being cheesy, and I have to admit that I am. However, after all these years, I know she loves cheese even if she won't admit it. 😁
I agree with you! The song expressed my feelings for my husband. My heart would ache when we were apart and the best part of my day was when he rushed home from work. I felt the song was written for us. We had 20 years and 4 children together. While he was dying of cancer at home, I did stay awake just to hear him breathing. I held tight to every moment, knowing that I would have to let him go. That was 11 years ago and my heart still aches with love and grief and gratitude for what we shared. I wish you many, many more years with your perfect love.
@arlenepiddington9039 - So sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had 20 wonderful years together. What a blessing to have a marriage like that! Unfortunately, it seems rare today. I am grateful for every day I get to spend with my wife and our 5 children. Thanks so much for sharing your story. While painful, I'm sure you have many wonderful, special memories. Thank you for your kind words.
@@tedbecker4051 Thank you! Hearing love stories like yours makes me so happy. Knowing that I was part of that "club" keeps me connected to this world. God bless you. 💖
@arlenepiddington9039 - Thanks. I love hearing stories of wonderful, loving marriages, as well. It's one of the greatest blessings we can experience on earth. God Bless You.
I would vote for Kokomo as a horrid song from a group I usually like. Also, if you really want a horrible Christmas song - Santa Claus is coming to town - sung by Bruce Springsteen. Not a bad song, just a really bad vocalist. Personally, I love "Don't wanna miss a thing" but would take Mark Chesnutt over Aerosmith on that.
@@ProfessorofRockhaha....dont hold back, Adam. The thing i love about music is how it affects people differently. I find myself smiling and bopping along to the melody 😂 while others clearly detest it. To each his own. Merry Christmas to you and yours, Adam ❤
@@ProfessorofRockYou’re right far more often than not, so I’m philosophical about this, but I think the Zooropa pick is a swing and a miss. I’m thinking it’s because you were just a tad young to grok the way that first Achtung Baby, then Zooropa, captured the churn and ferment of Europe during those first few years after the wall came down (what has happened since with band and continent is a different story). The sheer cheek of Irishmen MAKING such commentaries is the part I appreciated. Thing is, the other four songs here might rotate the top slot. I just think in terms of ambition, even if Zooropa isn’t great, it’s cut from different cloth, hardly even intended to be a pop song. Thanks for what you do.
Yet you know and remember the song... you just need time till you appreciate its greatness! That 1980 album is fun when you let your guard down about it.
"Get On Your Boots" rocks! I have to say that I like "Numb" and "Zooropa" too. I enjoy U2's experimental phases. Granted, "Zooropa" is no "War" or "Joshua Tree" but what is? But I go more for the feel of a song than the lyrical content, I guess. I first loved "Sunday Bloody Sunday" because it rocked so hard. Even Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" first grabbed me for the driving drum and guitar track.
John Lennon's "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" is the absolute dog shit worst Christmas song ever written. As soon as I hear the opening, "So this is Christmas, and what have you done?" its an immediate channel changer.
When I saw Paul McCartney, I thought you were coming for Temporary Secretary. That's totally a "love it or hate it" song and admittedly an acquired taste.
Um, I'll have you know Wonderful Christmas Time is #30 Best-Selling Christmas Song of All Time! Lol And except for one year in the late 90's where I heard it 1,537 times for some reason, It's right up there with Bing, Dean, Perry, Burl Ives, all the greats! Happy Holidays!! Peace! Love!!!
I can only HOPE that one Christmas holiday will come & go WITHOUT hearing that insufferable song. Now I have the "ding dong, ding dong..." part on loop in my head as my sanity slips by the second. Great episode though. Much appreciated, as always. I hope you're simply having a wonderful Christmas time 🤢 🤮
I don't know, "Wonderful Christmastime" is pretty bad. Really lazy writing for someone with his talent. Somebody will always like it, just like people who love freaking "Alvin & the Chipmunks" Christmas songs!
Honestly, "Wonderful Christmastime" is my favorite. It reminds me of spending Christmas Eve Eve (yes) at my Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Bud's house back when the song first came out. Bud and Evie had an awesome blue flocked Christmas tree and Christmas lights from the 50's. Soft colors that blinked to the "ting-a-ling" of the song. The smell of Aunt Evelyn's cooking comes back in my mind. Plus, that night, with the song playing in the background, was the first time I saw SNL with one of those silly ads with Gilda Radner and Lorraine Newman. Miss that time period but the song takes me back. ❤
Professor, you really don't get it, do you? It's a very simple, but also a very sweet Christmas song. You make Scrouge look like a great humanitarian. It's a wonderful Christmas song. Nothing more. But, also, nothing less. The song reflects the wonderful Christmas spirit. Apparently, you just don't get it. It's not a rock anthem. It's a wonderful and sweet Christmas song. It doesn't pretend to be anything else. I hope that someday, you "get it." Merry Christmas, Prof. PS. God bless us, everyone. Reid.
I think that two of the songs that Paul did with The Beatles, "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" and "Wild Honey Pie" are probably his worst two songs. As you already know, both of those are on the White Album.
I always thought Lennon and Harrison were more interesting in The Beatles. I won't deny McCartney's talent, he's brilliant, but he's also guilty of writing some utter crap - just take that vomit-inducing crap he wrote about the Queen!
@@ProfessorofRock certainly not one of his better efforts but some of my friends at the bowling lanes love to sing along with it. One of them used to click two glass ashtrays every time Ringo hit the anvil.
@@matthewwalker9597 Which album and which song? I would just like to see which one because I don't see any single about the Queen. I only see his protest song "Give Ireland Back to the Irish".
Poll: What is your pick for the WORST SONG of the ROCK ERA?
Tiptoe Thru The Tulips - Tiny Tim
FERNANDO
Gad.........Celine Dion Its All Coming Back to Me.
Safety Dance
@@surlechapeau Yeah, I had that blocked out until you brought it up.
Raise your hand if you worked retail any time from the 80's on and have zero problem believing Paul McCartney makes that much money off the song every year.
Mariah Carey makes a fortune off of " All I want for Christmas is you"
That’s part of the reason why he’s so rich in the first place.
Over here in Japan there are four awful Christmas pop songs on rotation at multiple retail stores nationwide and Wonderful Christmastime is one of them. I’m sure everyone can guess the other three.
Ah! September, that time of year when the christmas CD is dusted off.
I believe Noddy from Slade cleans up pretty good for Merry Xmas Everyone.
Don't care what anyone says, "Wonderful Christmastime" is a nostalgic classic to me. Is it silly...yes. But it evokes a sense of lighthearted togetherness, which to me is what the holidays are all about. Fun with family and friends. I rarely disagree with the Professor, but today is one of those days.
Yes, it's fun and I never understand why it gets such crap and Step into Christmas gets a free pass.
me too
Same here! It might be the only time I've disagreed with "the Professor of Rock" but if so then this is that one time! 'Wonderful Christmastime' is wonderful! Lighthearted, like you said. It's like, for once, let's just lighten up. Sweet & wonderful!
@@valap2 - You're right about 'Step Into Christmas'! That song has never done anything for me. Never particularly liked it at all. But 'Wonderful Christmastime' is sweet & wonderful as far as I'm concerned.
I like this song as well! ❤😟
"Wonderful Christmastime" is a bad song? I apparently did not get the memo when I was a kid. 😂😂😂
Right? I mean, it's not my favorite, but it's a perfectly acceptable song.
Agreed. It’s not Christmas without it.
It seems like a jolly enough of a Christmas song to gather around the tree. Sorry Adam, but this is were you are rarely wrong.
Came to say the same. I’ve been seeing the hate more and more and I don’t get it. lol. If you want to hear a bad song listen to Celine Dion’s cover of Happy Xmas (War is Over).
I probably mailed that memo to the wrong address.
I’ll take Paul’s Xmas song over any celebrated Xmas “classic” by Mariah Carey.
Same here.
Christmas not Xmas
@@charlescollins6510Same thing. The X is short for "Christ".
@@charlescollins6510 Tell that to Slade.
Yep .. I now hear Mariah say “darling” like she always said on American Idol every time she sings now. I think American Idol’s publicity actual hurt her a bit.
"Wonderful Christmastime" transports me back to Christmas 1979 when I was 13. What great memories! I can see how some might find it annoying (including a close friend of mine) but I love it.
I have memories as a kid being goofy listening to the song. Other than that, it's not a great song.
@@momo_genX Literally the worst Xmas song ever made. I HATE IT SO FKN MUCH!!!!!!!!
It brings me back to the '70s as well. My mother would take myself and my two brothers to our aunt & uncle's house on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, we opened the presents and in the afternoon my mother brings out this feast, starting with an antipasto followed by Italian wedding soup (homemade), pasta and meatballs and then either a ham dinner or a turkey dinner. She then tops it off with her homemade Italian cream rolls for dessert. As if you couldn't tell, she enjoyed cooking during the holidays as well as the holidays themselves.
@@captaincarl8230 I'm hungry.
I like the song. I don't think it's a great song but it's happy and I like hearing it at Christmas time.
My aunt absolutely hates the song. So I understand both sides.
Usually what comes to mind for the worst hit song ever is "We Built This City".
Building a city on rock and roll would not be structurally sound. They should have consulted an engineer on that song.
Which is not really a terrible song by the way.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Exactly! How can you criticize a number one hit co-written by Bernie Taupin?
Some people shouted to the four winds that it was a bad song and the sheeple thought that it was and went along with this belief for a long time. We Built This City was a huge hit... period! Like it or not! 😉
In China they build their cities on wok and roll (egg).
"Wonderful Christmastime" isn't even the worst Christmas song by a Beatle. 😂
Yea I actually like that song.
@@maximuskhan2100 Me too. But, to each his own...
Agreed. I actually like it. John's song So this is Christmas is also great
What about George Harrison "Ding Dong Ding Dong"??
Wildfire.... so so so annoying. I wanted to punch my radio any time I heard it.
The guy who wrote about “silly love songs” also wrote about “simply having a wonderful Christmas time” and the latter is a bad song? I’d say they’re both kind of goofy and just what you expect from McCartney. Fun, goofy ear worms from a master!
I agree! Well said. McCartney is the king of writing silly, but happy, catchy songs. Theres nothing wrong with "Wonderful xmas time" .
"Press" is like someone taking a flyswatter to my ears. And I'm a McCartney fan.
sorry but "Wonderful Christmastime" always makes me smile and what is the point of music at Christmas if it doesn't (just don't ask that to George Michael)
He won't answer.
Paul McCartney was trying to do two things when he wrote Wonderful Christmastime. 1. Write a timeless holiday classic and 2. Find out what all the knobs and switches on his synthesizer did. He accomplished one of those things.
But he obviously has mastered the knobs and buttons since. LOL
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Which is the latter one.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Your opinion...but since the song has been played for Xmas eversince and not faded into oblivion, we are bound to accept that he has succeeded with the former. But there is no doubt the latter came soon after else his career would have ended!!
It's not a bad song. It's recorded badly. Way too much frequency modulation from that damned synthesizer will damage your speakers if you turn it up.
I have heard it covered by a couple artists, and it's nice when done right.
With sincere respect for all of your great content, I must STRONGLY DISAGREE with your take on Paul’s classic holiday tune. When the season arrives and I hear those opening synth notes I am filled with joy. The song takes me back to a special period of time when we were still able to appreciate the distinct harmonies of Denny and Linda.
Ok!
I'm with you. That song cheers me up. But we like what we like. I can see where some people wouldn't care for it.
I agree with you 100%. My favorite Christmas song of all time. Sorry Professor you got this wrong!
I love Paul McCartney's wonderful Christmas time. I feel a lot of Joy when I hear this song. So I do really respect you professor of rock. But I disagree about this not being a good song. Maybe cuz I'm a gen xer LOL. I love your channel. I hope you have a fabulous Christmas and happy New Year.🎉🌲🎁.
I like it, but YMMV. I don't think there are any songs that EVERYONE likes.
I totally disagree with you about Wonderful Christmastime. - Dave
I'm not really a McCartney fan (especially post-Beatles), but this is OK.
Even more than that, I totally disagree with him on the Aerosmith song. It's actually pretty great!
@@BillGraperI like that one too
Nowadays it seems like their are 3000 Channel and Still nothing is ON.
True. ON You TuBe alone!
@@ProfessorofRock Weird Al's I Can't Watch This has never rung more true.
Actually, more people dislike Mariah Carey’s all I want for Christmas then Paul McCartney’s “wonderful Christmas time.” overplaying brings contempt
Truth.
Nowadays the creepy "Baby It's Cold Outside" has put a seriously bad taste in people's mouths as well.
I haven’t even heard Wonderful Christmastime yet this year and we’re 12 days in!
@@serendipityshopnycit takes some serious willful misinterpretation to make it creepy. It's an innocent, harmless song, and for anyone to interpret more says a lot more about them than it does the song.
Yup, but I do like Mariah's other overplayed christmas song, "Oh, Santa!", more. 🤷
I actually did fall asleep on the phone with a guy (I worked 80 hrs a week), and when I woke up in the morning (4-5 hrs later) I found the line still open - he had stayed awake all night just to hear me breathing.
I'm 47. One of my earliest Christmas memories is hearing WCT while decorating with my small family. I loved it then and I still do. I also remember getting a new De La Soul album in 2001 and losing my shit when Simply came on and recognizing the sample.
Add me to the list of those that enjoy "Wonderful Christmastime". I was 9 when it was released. I have memories of hearing it on the radio on the way home Christmas Eve or Christmas night. It just gets down to this basic good feeling I had as a kid around Christmas, and as the song says, "simply having a Wonderful Christmastime."
Wonderful Christmas Time is great!
It was one of the first songs my children learned. Now they are 25 and 19. We still sing it, very off-key on purpose, every Christmas.
It is a great sing-along.
Don't wanna miss a thing had me rooting for the asteroid.
Same here!
I totally disagree but had to laugh!
@@vilbos 🤣
Same!
i could go the rest of my life without this song. it figures that its Diane Warren. she should be locked up for what she has done to music and forced to pay the royalties to a class action fund. i cannot stand that woman's music.
Once I saw the title of the video, I knew "Wonderful Christmastime" would be featured.
I say YES to a sequel. This was entertaining!
Seconded!
Oh yes it was
Seriously? We're not going to talk about the "I need your sperm" aspect of All I Want To Do...? "Imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes. Please understand I'm in love with another man, and the one thing he can't give me is the one little thing that you can?" I can't even imagine what the same lines would have meant in a male voice.
It would be a creepy song if sung by a man.
Yes I actually wonder if they added the last bit as that wouldn’t make sense for a man‘s POV at all.
"Wonderful Christmastime" sounds like Sir Paul decided to knock off a Christmas song after drinking a bottle of Bushmills and smoking a joint.
Ha ha. Probably exactly what happened!
another example of “Drugs Are Bad M’Kay”. . . expect in the case of 90s+ Aerosmith. . . drugs would of helped 🤘
@@DC8091 Ha ha!
I love the song! Christmas Time is light hearted and wonderful. Sorry professor!!😅
It sounds to me like it came from a more pure world where booze and drugs don't exist. I think it's great.
Fun episode! I had to cover my ears on "Don't want to miss a thing". Please do more of these.
I obviously don't have an ear for what others consider good music, but most of those "bad" songs I really like.
Same. Except for I don't want to miss a Thing. That one has been on my "Absolutely Awful" list since the first time I heard it.
I have never let others tell me what I should like. I proudly say that I like songs everyone loves, and songs nobody else seems to love but me. I laugh that Prof is so hard on a few of these in this video, claiming the artists should have passed on them when most of these songs were big hits. It can be argued on their artistic merit, but pass on something that so many people actually seemed to enjoy and made the songs hits? Anyway, with all due respect to Prof and other critics, I will continue to like what I like regardless of what others feel about it. 🙂
"Zooropa!" I totally understand the hate this song/album gets, as U2 was heading down strange artistic paths in the mid 90s. Can I offer a different take? I think the futuristic and shallow vibes are completely intentional and do work on some level. (Was "Zoo Station" from Achtung Baby *that* much of a better song?) What's missing in "Zooropa" is exactly what needs to be missing: humanity and depth. It's supposed to be as haunting as it is flashy. This vibe continues, with stronger currents of human desperation to feel and be felt, through "Babyface," "Numb," and "Lemon" before cresting in the beautiful "Stay (Faraway, So Close)" at the album's center. The second half of the Zooropa album is admittedly forgettable by U2 standards, but the songs continue to explore the broken humanity beneath all the futuristic, flashy neon. "Dirty Day" is particularly interesting as an uglier spiritual B-side to their classic "One." It isn't nearly as grand or articulate as "One" but it's every bit as angry and wounded. And don't forget the last song, "The Wanderer," sung by Johnny Cash in the voice of an aimless (possibly senile) drifter forever lost in that soulless, futuristic world. .... Can we just say that "Zooropa" planted a flag in territory that Radiohead would explore much more deeply and unforgettably 4 years later in "OK Computer"? I think that's fair.
This is my favorite Christmas song…
I dunno, Professor... "Wonderful Christmastime" puts me in a good mood every time. I've always thought that Wham kinda borrowed the synth line from it for its song, "Everything She Wants"...
Thanks Flave!
I agree! I really enjoy hearing it every year. 🎄
Of course .It's a simple Christmas song and alot of fun too. My top 5 would be happy Xmas by John Lennon Billy Idols Rocking zChristmas Eve simply having a wonderful Christmas Time Paul Mc Cartney and Whams This Christmas. If I could hear all i want for Christmas by Mariah Carey as a a duet with Ronnie Spector it would become my very favorite. I hear them singing it together in my head.
You might not be wrong.
Norm Macdonald comming in fast and hard with Holiday negativity! Cheers Norm RIP! 🤘 PS Jeff Porcaro played drums on 57 Channels?!! That's like having Da Vinci paint a Easter Bunny on a Mc Donald's window!
Comment of the decade. As a fan of both Norm and the late, great Jeff Porcaro you have made my week.
Props.
When he mentioned the Bono quote, I thought for sure he was going to say "Lemon" was the #1
Zooropa was bad, but Lemon was beyond terrible. I hate both songs with a passion, and I have dozens of U2 songs in permanent rotation on my playlist.
Lemon is the only U2 song I like. 😂
Chuck Berry - My Dingaling, enough said!!
That’ll probably be a good answer at 11:30.
worse that it was his highest charted song.
Yeah that song doesn't go over well these days
I'll be the odd one cause I like it.
That Chuck song is really bad!
I never cared for The Boss or U2. But I don't want to miss a thing was a great song. It was mine and my boyfriend's song and I always imagined Steven Tyler singing that as our wedding song. We were together 22 years but never married. He passed away 5 years ago from cancer, I cry every time I hear that song!! I also look forward to A wonderful Christmas time every year!!
Thank you for sharing such a personal note.
Sorry for your loss. I love Don't Want To Miss A Thing too! And Wonderful Christmas Time.
Everyone loves to hate on "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" but it reminds me how precious each moment with my husband is. It often reminds me to stop doing unnecessary activities to spend just a few more minutes with him. We have been married for 33 years, and met in high school. Sometimes it is easy to let computers, or misunderstandings rob us of time together. This song helps me change direction, soften my heart, and improve my mood. I try to imagine Celine Dion, whom I love, sing it, but it can only be Steven Tyler. But I agree the video is pretty cheesy.
I remember a bit on SNL where they played a bunch of Aerosmith songs without changing any of the music just the words. The gig was up.
Crazy Amazing Crazy!
@@ProfessorofRockI saw Aerosmith in 2002 and they actually played that clip before they came out haha
@@jjwallnutts I have been searching for that clip and can not find it!
Adam Sandler did that bit. I totally remember that! "It's amazing! Amazing. I'm crying. Cuz you're crazy!"
12:46 - Yes but Paul's royalties on that song aren't exclusively as song-writer from other musicians performing it. He also gets royalties as recording-artist from his recording of it. And I think that 400 grand is line with that.
Laughing at and to myself. Have to admit I love wonderful Christmas time
Artist that was horrible....well, when Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's did.......wait....Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's NEVER did a bad song....EVER!!! (Just my opinion) Loved everything Tom did....and I'll miss him and his music forever!!
New material released about 3 weeks ago .. So good ...
Agree 100%❤
Including "Gator On The Lawn," "I Don't Know What To Say To You" and "Heartbreakers Beach Party"?
I loves me some Tom Petty but Peace In LA is his one song that was kinda a miss for me.
I agree tom petty or heart...in my opinion...have never had a bad song
If he didn't write Disco Duck or that song from the 80s about the guy wanting to thank somebody for letting him change lanes, he didn't write the worst song.
Yep!
Disco Duck has to be on every "Worst Top 10 Songs Ever" List. At least he picked the most overhyped band in history for one of the songs on the list (U2). Seriously, I'd listen to WCT on loop for all of December than listen to U2 for an hour.
Wanting to change lanes? What's this one?
Don't forget about the Rodeo song! 😎
Wonderful Christmas Time is my jam!!! I get amped when that comes around the holidays.
I'm so thankful I don't work retail anymore, especially during the holidays. That McCartney song gives me PTSD. I heard it about five to ten times a day, every day, from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve.
THat's what my wife says! She was a make up specialist at the mall in there teens and twenties!
@@ProfessorofRock You can do a worst (and best...) rock christmas songs; This one, "Santa Baby" from Madonna, "Back Door Santa" from Bon Jovi. So much shlock could qualify.
Santa Baby and too many covers of Wham!'s Last Christmas are pretty egregious shopping centre schlock. Some of the more modern experimental songs they keep seeming to add in are straight psychological warfare tho!
The problem is overplaying it
For me it was Mariah Carey with All I Want for Christmas is You.
I heard it a dozen times a day every day from November to January.
Amazing that you picked the admittedly weak Christmas song for Paul's annoying song while showing a picture of the McCartney II album that features Pauls actual worst song: Temporary Secretary
I would much rather listen to 57 channels than his version of Sant Clause Is Coming To Town.
Yea - Blows big time - Pretentious nonsense
Springsteen makes "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" sound like a threat.
I actually have a kind of soft spot for the album Zooropa. I loved the track "Numb." It kind of occurred after several years of U2 overexpoaure, so it was refreshingly different, and allowed them to kind of return to their wheelhouse after.
"Wonderful Christmas time was a good song when it first came out but due to the simple fact it gets a years worth of playtime in 1-2 months it got old REALLY quick.
I actually ike Wonderful Christmas time. Not saying it's his best song, but to me it's quirky and kinda fun.
I like it too 😊
Med to it was a statement and very different from Christmas songs at the time
I don't think Wonderful Christmastime is terrible; it's simply shallow and decorative like a holiday party. If you've ever heard his song "Bahama Mama" you'll know the true power of 'Ugh!'
Ha ha! I've unfortunately heard it!
Thank God I never got to that song yet.
The Wilson sisters hate me! In 1978, I was a junior in high school setting up tents backstage of their concert. The company truck was a POS!
I was parked right next to their tour vehicle. I started it, it belched a terrible cloud of exhaust, that was sucked in by their air conditioning unit.
The sisters came outside and said something to me. I don't remember what they said. I wanted to see them, just not like this!
Maybe they were overwhelmed.
Paul recorded McCARTNEY II (and “Wonderful Christmastime”) in 1979 and Wings performed it on their last tour in 1979- before the Japan incident.
@3:30 It may be a cheesy line, but as a first time father, one of my favorite things was listening to my son breath. It was very peaceful and magical.
You definitely nailed this list but, I can’t get that terrible Paul McCartney song out of my head now so, I’m just gonna grind it away with some slayer! 😂. Rock on Prof!
Do it!
Wonderful Christmas time is one of my all time favorites. I cannot bring myself to see how you think this one is a stinker. Sure it's simple, but it is a beautiful, uplifting song.
Point taken!
I actually like Wonderful Christmas Time!
The Heart song "All I..." reminds me of the terrific version of I Didn't Mean to Turn You On by Robert Palmer. The switch to an aggressive woman pursuing him made it a more interesting song.
Even though he did the same video for practically every song he recorded back then. lol
McCartney was also responsible for the dire"Frog Chorus" song.
So true!
Yeah, but the Frog Chorus is brilliant.
My boys had a tape of Rupert and the Frog Song. They loved it (to be fair, they were very young at the time). The tortures we go through for our children. (Oh ugh, I just reworded that sentence because it reminded me too much of "The Things We Do For Love" - another on my "Paul, what were you thinking?" list.)
@@annphillips1086 That Wasn't him though, was it? I'm pretty sure that was 10cc.
@@magiclantern66 Looked it up. You're totally right. I should give up commenting on music!
Come on, "Wonderful Christmastime" is only hated as much as it is because it gets played to death every holiday season. I find it no worse than "My Love" or With a Little Luck." 🤷♂
Or "Silly Love Songs" (shudder). Talk about trying to spike the totally predictable and justified criticism in advance!
But, I hate those songs too. As far as I'm concerned, Sir Faul can't write songs. Period.
@@C.O.G. He's written some wonderful songs in his time, some maybe even recently, but the trouble is, because he is Paul McCartney with all that goodwill and fanbase behind him, no one's going to refuse to publish his worst drivel.
Wonderful Christmastime is a fun and catchy holiday classic. Not nearly one of Paul's best, but still on my Christmas playlist.
Cool!
Now that stations are playing Christmas songs 24/7, they're playing "Wonderful Christmastime" what seems like every third song. That one's hard on the ears.
That's a good reason to skip radio stations in December.
@@TerrickTerranI have this year.
I agree!
I was put on hold on a phone call this very morning and it was one of the songs that came up. So even avoiding the radio can't always save you.
My workplace has three different versions of Last Christmas.
To me "57 Channels" was the first song I'd liked by Bruce since the "U.S.A." album. I thought all those songs from that "Tunnel Of Love"/"Human Nature" era were boring crap. But then he proved his immense worth again years later with "Girls In Their Summer Clothes".
Tunnel of Love and Brilliant Disguise are iconic songs, not boring crap. You've proven your immense inability to distinguish a great song from a bad one. Merry X-mas Grinch.
@@bastianena Maybe I should listen to some of those songs again. If I can stay awake through them. Peace.
“ Wonderful Christmastime” compared to Lennon’s depressing and political “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)”, i think i’ll take Paul’s cheese…
Really? Well to each their own!
They're both ghastly in different ways. The only thing I'll say for Lennon's is that it isn't such a intrusive earworm.
@@ProfessorofRock Lennon lifted the melody from someone else's song.Sorry I can't tell you what it is, but a deep dive somewhere will reveal it. Similar to how Come Together borrows from Chuck Berry but, as the same with that case, someone had to point it out to him. Only IMO but I suspect that is the reason all the proceeds of the single were donated to charity. Avoids the problem of being sued if you didn't make any money out of it.
However, most of the subsequent millions have been made by its addition to compilation albums, and presumably that revenue has gone to Lennon's publishing and his estate. It is amazing that they have never sued. It is as good a case as "He's So Fine" and we all know how that turned out for George. Millions $$$ on the table for half a century and no lawsuit. Amazing.
Sorry I can't actually give a reference. The info is out there.
I understand that it’s all a matter of personal taste, but “Feliz Navidad” is not only the worst Christmas song of all time, it’s THE WORST SONG of all time. I’d listen to “Wonderful Christmas Time” all day long to never hear “FZ” ever again. I will die on this hill.
An agree to disagree. For me, it's All I Want for Christmas is You.
Ha ha! I consider it novelty so I don't take it seriously!
I will join you on that hill.
It made me scratch at the walls as a kid until a callous of the ears was formed.
I love Feliz Navidad. And Wonderful Christmas time 😂 I never claimed to have sophisticated tastes. 😊
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I love this topic. 😂
Please do more worst of lists.
When you said "so annoying it causes convulsions", I was CERTAIN you meant "All I Want for Christmas is You". I would listen to "Wonderful Christmastime" a thousand times over, including all the muzak versions, before that other monstrosity.
Yeah, worst Christmas song would be a good show for the Professor... There are certainly others than McCartney's I would choose...
@@flavellinator Now that's a great idea for an episode!
I have to agree with you.. that song gives me nervous breakdown!
I feel the exact same way.
Agreed!!
on the topic of Xmas, Springsteen's offering was pure cheese
Some of the obvious ones to me
The Girl is Mine by Jackson and McCarthy
We Built this City by Starship
I was Made for Loving You by Kiss
Great episode professor, you'll get flack on a couple but not from me
@@MyName-pl7zn Funny I didn't realize how much I disagree with my classmates until this 😆. I love We Built This City. Music is subjective.
I never really cared for The Girl is Mine.
@@AnnaTrail-xp8pr fair enough, music is a personal choice. I can see why people like the song
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I thought the lyrics were kinda corny
I was looking someone else to say We Build this City, it is a bunch of nonsensical phrases repeated over and over again
I've heard many Christmas songs..... Most are absolute stinkers. "Wonderful Christmastime", however isn't one of them.
27 years ago my husband & I danced our 1st dance at our wedding to 'I don't wanna miss a thing!' I absolutely love that song. Everytime it comes up on a playlist now, we dance in the kitchen. Usually music is on when I'm cooking or cleaning in the kitchen. If he hears it come on, he stops what he's doing & comes & grabs me to dance! 😊💚
The sad commentary on this is that all of these "awful or bad" songs are still light years better than anything I could pen. Ugh....nice one Prof!
Cool subject and video, Mr. Professor!
Thanks for watching!
You couldn't be more wrong about Zooropa. That's an amazing album! It clearly went over your head!
I agree. Very creative.
Sorry, Professor, I love Paul’s Christmas song and always have and I’m not sure how it remotely approaches “bad” - and be honest, if Paul’s Christmas song didn’t exist Lennon’s “Happy Xmas” wouldn’t have the incredible bite and beauty it does…””and what have you done…”
you're soooooo right, that's Sir Paul's shittiest composition 🤦♂
It's pretty rough.
I've always had a disdain for a wonderful Christmas time to me that should have been your number one thanks for your content though I really appreciate it keep up the good work
Have to disagree about Wonderful Christmas time. It’s fun and festive.
Hey Rich! Thanks for commenting!
I, like a lot of others on here, enjoy Wonderful Christmastime. It just makes me smile. Everyone have a rockin' Christmas! Especially you, Professor. Keep teaching.
YYYYYEEEEESSSS!!! Love a Professor intro where he indicates in the opening sentence that he's going to go negative! Especially during the Holidays! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Sorry!
@ProfessorofRock Don't be! I'm being completely serious, not sarcastic. I just wish you had mentioned the uncomfortable fact that even when they hit the target, U2 are the most pretentious, self consciously "concerned with everything" band of all time. 😂🤣😂
These are always the most entertaining.
Sorry, Professor, but I Don't Want to Miss a Thing holds a very special place in my heart. The song was popular right around the time I was getting married. I met my wife in a foreign country about 8,000 miles away from my home. We got married in her country, and it took a whole year before she was able to come live with me in America. We were 8,000 miles apart for most of that year. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing became our song during that time. We've been married for over 26 years now. It's still a special song for us. My wife accuses me of being cheesy, and I have to admit that I am. However, after all these years, I know she loves cheese even if she won't admit it. 😁
Thanks for sharing!
I agree with you! The song expressed my feelings for my husband. My heart would ache when we were apart and the best part of my day was when he rushed home from work. I felt the song was written for us. We had 20 years and 4 children together. While he was dying of cancer at home, I did stay awake just to hear him breathing. I held tight to every moment, knowing that I would have to let him go. That was 11 years ago and my heart still aches with love and grief and gratitude for what we shared. I wish you many, many more years with your perfect love.
@arlenepiddington9039 - So sorry for your loss. It sounds like you had 20 wonderful years together. What a blessing to have a marriage like that! Unfortunately, it seems rare today. I am grateful for every day I get to spend with my wife and our 5 children. Thanks so much for sharing your story. While painful, I'm sure you have many wonderful, special memories. Thank you for your kind words.
@@tedbecker4051 Thank you! Hearing love stories like yours makes me so happy. Knowing that I was part of that "club" keeps me connected to this world. God bless you. 💖
@arlenepiddington9039 - Thanks. I love hearing stories of wonderful, loving marriages, as well. It's one of the greatest blessings we can experience on earth. God Bless You.
Temporary Secretary by Paul McCartney is BAD
True.
I would vote for Kokomo as a horrid song from a group I usually like. Also, if you really want a horrible Christmas song - Santa Claus is coming to town - sung by Bruce Springsteen. Not a bad song, just a really bad vocalist. Personally, I love "Don't wanna miss a thing" but would take Mark Chesnutt over Aerosmith on that.
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time. Isn't that bad.😊
Yes it is.
@@ProfessorofRock McCartney wrote more than his allotment of lame crap but this one's the worst of them all.
@@ProfessorofRockhahaha right on Prof!
@@ProfessorofRockhaha....dont hold back, Adam. The thing i love about music is how it affects people differently. I find myself smiling and bopping along to the melody 😂 while others clearly detest it. To each his own. Merry Christmas to you and yours, Adam ❤
It's beyond bad. It's awful.
Wow Prof, Zooropa is probably my favorite U2 album! I love them smashing all expectations, and IT HAS THE WANDER ON IT 🤘🤘
I love Faraway, So Close!
@@ProfessorofRockoh HELL YA! That album will definitely grow on you, they certainly showed that they are just”hit writers”, but damn good musicians!
@@ProfessorofRockYou’re right far more often than not, so I’m philosophical about this, but I think the Zooropa pick is a swing and a miss. I’m thinking it’s because you were just a tad young to grok the way that first Achtung Baby, then Zooropa, captured the churn and ferment of Europe during those first few years after the wall came down (what has happened since with band and continent is a different story). The sheer cheek of Irishmen MAKING such commentaries is the part I appreciated. Thing is, the other four songs here might rotate the top slot. I just think in terms of ambition, even if Zooropa isn’t great, it’s cut from different cloth, hardly even intended to be a pop song. Thanks for what you do.
Okay, well I see your "Wonderful Christmastime", and will raise you "Temporary Secretary" also by Paul McCartney. 😂
I can see where you're coming from!
@@ProfessorofRock Lol! To be fair, the song is basically one big meme, and even Paul himself has embraced it. 😆
I love both those songs!
Yet you know and remember the song... you just need time till you appreciate its greatness! That 1980 album is fun when you let your guard down about it.
His Gen Z fans love that song!
Thank you for the post Professor! 🤷♀️❄️☃️🎄✌🏼
Billy Idol's Cyberpunk phase ...
Pretty rough.
Shock to the system is a great song though
"Get On Your Boots" rocks! I have to say that I like "Numb" and "Zooropa" too. I enjoy U2's experimental phases. Granted, "Zooropa" is no "War" or "Joshua Tree" but what is? But I go more for the feel of a song than the lyrical content, I guess. I first loved "Sunday Bloody Sunday" because it rocked so hard. Even Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" first grabbed me for the driving drum and guitar track.
Cool!
I honestly don't get why people like Bruce Springsteen. His voice is terrible and his songs are generic.
I couldn't agree more. He basically just screams songs.
If you had some semblance of a soul and you cleaned out your impacted ear wax, you'd be able to hear why people love Bruce.
I gave you a thumbs up because it was so bad it was good.
John Lennon's "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" is the absolute dog shit worst Christmas song ever written. As soon as I hear the opening, "So this is Christmas, and what have you done?" its an immediate channel changer.
That's How I feel about Wonderful Christmastime!
WHAT??? That's like my favorite one!
It wouldn’t be as bad without Yoko Ono‘s terrible voice chiming in
@@TFEnright5 Yoko could turn any song into an instant hard no.
@@TFEnright5 That was one time I didn't mind her voice. She actually sounded like a woman, as opposed to a cat being strangled.
When I saw Paul McCartney, I thought you were coming for Temporary Secretary. That's totally a "love it or hate it" song and admittedly an acquired taste.
I was tempted!
Um, I'll have you know Wonderful Christmas Time is #30 Best-Selling Christmas Song of All Time! Lol And except for one year in the late 90's where I heard it 1,537 times for some reason, It's right up there with Bing, Dean, Perry, Burl Ives, all the greats! Happy Holidays!! Peace! Love!!!
I can only HOPE that one Christmas holiday will come & go WITHOUT hearing that insufferable song. Now I have the "ding dong, ding dong..." part on loop in my head as my sanity slips by the second.
Great episode though. Much appreciated, as always. I hope you're simply having a wonderful Christmas time 🤢 🤮
I don't know, "Wonderful Christmastime" is pretty bad. Really lazy writing for someone with his talent. Somebody will always like it, just like people who love freaking "Alvin & the Chipmunks" Christmas songs!
Ha ha! Great point.
Definitely need to do another list!!
That lousy ass christmas song is nothing short of atrocious.
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@RobertL_0563 Yes Captain Obvious.
Great episode man
Christmas music was frozen around 1970 and it took Paul and John to create songs that have staying power.
Wonderful Christmastime has ZERO staying power. I throw up in my mouth every time I hear it. It makes me dread the season lol.
@@thomashalterman5231 errr..Slade..Chris Rea..Greg Lake..etc
@@mattsimplex5823You're entitled to your opinion, but the song was released in November of 1979, so that's 45 years of no staying power
@thomashalterman5231 Lol, well...I guess I can't argue against that. But I hate it.
Honestly, "Wonderful Christmastime" is my favorite. It reminds me of spending Christmas Eve Eve (yes) at my Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Bud's house back when the song first came out. Bud and Evie had an awesome blue flocked Christmas tree and Christmas lights from the 50's. Soft colors that blinked to the "ting-a-ling" of the song. The smell of Aunt Evelyn's cooking comes back in my mind. Plus, that night, with the song playing in the background, was the first time I saw SNL with one of those silly ads with Gilda Radner and Lorraine Newman. Miss that time period but the song takes me back. ❤
Professor, you really don't get it, do you? It's a very simple, but also a very sweet Christmas song. You make Scrouge look like a great humanitarian. It's a wonderful Christmas song. Nothing more. But, also, nothing less. The song reflects the wonderful Christmas spirit. Apparently, you just don't get it. It's not a rock anthem. It's a wonderful and sweet Christmas song. It doesn't pretend to be anything else.
I hope that someday, you "get it."
Merry Christmas, Prof.
PS. God bless us, everyone.
Reid.
Its just a very annoying song. The sound is aweful.
Well put. It has its place, and is good for the song type it is.
I love "Wonderful Christmastime". I look forward to it each year!
I think that two of the songs that Paul did with The Beatles, "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" and "Wild Honey Pie" are probably his worst two songs. As you already know, both of those are on the White Album.
And Maxwell's Silver Hammer!
I always thought Lennon and Harrison were more interesting in The Beatles. I won't deny McCartney's talent, he's brilliant, but he's also guilty of writing some utter crap - just take that vomit-inducing crap he wrote about the Queen!
@@ProfessorofRock certainly not one of his better efforts but some of my friends at the bowling lanes love to sing along with it. One of them used to click two glass ashtrays every time Ringo hit the anvil.
@@ProfessorofRock I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer. A very catchy, bouncy tune.
@@matthewwalker9597 Which album and which song? I would just like to see which one because I don't see any single about the Queen. I only see his protest song "Give Ireland Back to the Irish".