This topic gets revived every year at this time, but it feels good to rant sometimes.
My Christmas Music Hall of Shame:
The Christmas Shoes - Newsong
Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen
Anything from any of the American Idol Christmas albums, and anything by NSync or Justin Bieber
Wham! did the original Last Christmas, and believe it or not, their version is probably the only tolerable one. The Taylor Swift version is probably on hell's soundtrack. She's a great songwriter and I like her as a person, but when she sings a song written by someone else all that's there is that thin, pitchy voice, and that has no appeal to me whatsoever. Ditto her version of Santa Baby (no one should have touched that song after Eartha Kitt).
The version of Sleigh Ride you're referring to is probably Debbie Gibson's. I actually kinda like that one,, but we're all different.