Evil Christmas Song of the Day

Today's winner: Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.

This is truly a vile song, from the hideous clanging synthesizer bits that sound vaguely like car horns or laser beams from bad 70s sci-fi, to the banal lyrics, to the absence of anything resembling a tune or a melody. Horrible, horrible, horrible, and yet again...horrible.

And just for equal measure, I believe that the video for this song was equally as horrid. Mostly I've tried to block it from my memory, yet little bits persist in popping to my forebrain every holiday season. I have vague and frightening memories of McCartney banging away one-handed on hat synthesizer, while a dwarf hideously dressed up as one of Santa's elves capers about the room. Not a shred of dignity allowed for anyone involved on that production.