Website goes all Ebenezer on 10 ‘much loved’ Christmas ditties

Think of it as Mr. Blackwell in a Santa hat.

The creators of an Alabama-based entertainment website are taking a similarly acerbic approach to music of the Yuletide season with a list of the 10 worst Christmas songs ever, dissing songs that are ubiquitous at this time of year.

Here’s what Mediajonez.com says about “Let It Snow,” at No. 10: “Oh the weather outside is nowhere near as frightful as this dreck.”

The No. 8 entry, the Band Aid charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is zapped as “a bunch of pompous English rock stars playing do-gooder. Just what the world needs.”

And at No. 3, “The Chipmunk Song,” which makes the list “if for no other reason than it introduced those damn squeaky Chipmunks to popular culture.”

The list is attributed to Ebenezer McGrinchenfuss, but is the work of writer Michael Dumas and artist Andy Spain, who founded Mediajonez.com in 2000.

The site includes reviews of new music, movies, TV shows and video games as well as offering news and gossip from the entertainment world. Spain and Dumas say one of their goals is to help expose emerging artists.

Most entries on the list address the songs themselves, but a few refer to specific recordings, as in the case of the No. 4 worst song, the Pointer Sisters’ version of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”: “Nothing is more grating ... than hearing these boisterous women belting about ‘rootie-toot-toots’ to the tune of some generic session band. How can they tell us not to cry when they make us listen to this?”

The No. 9 song is novelty bandleader Spike Jones’ version of “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,” blasted as “a song made to amuse people who are now dead. Only funny if you still like to watch Milton Berle.”

“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” ranked sixth on the list for its “disturbing tale of a young lad discovering the true meaning of parental infidelity.”

And at No. 1? “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.”

“The idea of an elderly woman in a senility-induced delirium being the victim of a hit-and-run by Father Christmas might have been funny the first couple of times, but ... can we let the poor dead woman rest?”

Ho ho ho? More like oh, oh, oh.