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The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time
(25 items)list by JxSxPx
Published 5 years, 4 months ago
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Christmas/Holiday Rock Songs
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Every year it's an issue: how does one stomach the onset of holiday music? With an endless stream of overplayed pop stars stirring what Sufjan Stevens calls "That Creepy Christmas Feeling," how does one navigate the sound of the season? Back in 2001, Stevens began making annual EPs of traditional carols and songs mixed with his own holiday-themed tunes. With 2006 and Volume 5, he's compiled a perfect gift for the Christmas-inclined indie rockster: all five EPs in one box, separately slipcased, plus a booklet filled with lyric sheets, chord charts, a Rick Moody essay, and more. Yes, Stevens knows that "Jingle Bell
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Manufacturer: Asthmatic Kitty
Release date: 21 November 2006
Number of discs: 5
EAN: 0656605602820 UPC: 656605602820
Release date: 21 November 2006
Number of discs: 5
EAN: 0656605602820 UPC: 656605602820
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The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time (25 music items)"You gotta a love song called "Come On, Let's Boogie to the Elf Dance." Or perhaps, you want to bury it neck-deep in the snow out behind the house where Santa's reindeer take their traditional Christmas Eve pee break. Either way, the Brooklyn indie-pop songster's five-EP set is one of the more imaginative revisionist Christmas records. His takes on the classics are pretty and lovably dog-eared (see his banjo-fied "Amazing Grace") and his originals add wrinkles to the canon. ("It's Christmas Let's"
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