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The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time
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Ah, this is jingle bell rock the way it's supposed to be, with driving guitars, splashy drums, and full stereo separation. The Ventures' Christmas Album just might be the best rock & roll holiday record ever made. The instrumental twang kings deliver pretty much what you'd expect--note-for-note renditions of standards, all dressed up with ubiquitous sleigh bells as well as the requisite reverb. What really makes this disc a blast though is the way the quartet weaves 1960s pop signatures into every tune; warping "Woolly Bully" into "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "I Feel Fine" into "Rudolph
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Manufacturer: Razor & Tie
Release date: 17 October 1995
EAN: 0793018208529 UPC: 793018208529
Release date: 17 October 1995
EAN: 0793018208529 UPC: 793018208529
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JxSxPx rated this 9/10 4 years, 5 months ago
JxSxPx added this to a list 5 years, 3 months ago
The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time (25 music items)"This should be a train wreck at the beach: Sixties surf-rock versions of Christmas songs inanely augmented with jingling bells and other thematic accouterments. But it's quite excellent. The Ventures infuse the predictable playlist with clever rock & roll flourishes – opening their hot version of "Rudolph Red-Nosed Reindeer" with an allusion to the Beatles' "I Feel Fine," giving "Frosty the Snowman" a shot of the Champs' "Tequila" and working their own "Walk Don't Run" into "Sleigh Bells." The"