Product Description

A good Christmas compilation should contain the following things--a selection of old classics to warm your cockles by the fireside, some of the classic pop titles that people always seem to find themselves singing along to in the pub on Christmas Eve and some Carols. The Best Christmas Album in the World Ever manages to fulfil all these criteria--on the classic front there is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" and Dean Martin's "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", on the classic pop front there's Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" and Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday", traditional carols "Silent Night" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" head the field. All in all, The Best Christmas Album In The World Ever manages to live up to its name.--Helen Marquis

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. John & Yoko And The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
2. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
3. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
4. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
5. Elton John - Step Into Christmas
6. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time
7. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
8. Chris De Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
9. Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo
10. The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
11. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
12. The Jackson 5 - Frosty The Snowman
13. Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me
14. Samantha Mumba - All I Want For Christmas
15. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
16. Robbie Williams - Walk This Sleigh
17. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
18. Ronan Keating feat. Maire Brennan - Fairy Tale Of New York
19. Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews - Baby, It's Cold Outside
20. Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby
21. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love

Disc 2:

1. Cliff Richard - Mistletoe And Wine
2. Aled Jones - Walking In The Air
3. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
4. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
5. Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
6. Mud - Lonely This Christmas
7. Matt Monro - Mary's Boy Child
8. Peggy Lee - Winter Wonderland
9. Adam Faith - Lonely Pup (In A Christmas Shop)
10. The Supremes - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
11. Ella Fitzgerald - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
12. The King Singers - While Shepherds Watched
13. Stacie Orrico - O Come All Ye Faithful
14. The Weavers - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
15. The Spinners - Twelve Days Of Christmas
16. Jethro Tull - Ring Out Solstice Bells
17. Steeleye Span - Gaudete
18. Bert Jansch - In The Bleak Mid Winter
19. Sinéad O'Connor - Silent Night Holy Night
20. Norah Jones - Peace
21. Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - Mad World
22. Bing Crosby/David Bowie - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy
23. Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4568 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Not the best
Don't get me wrong, the C.D is reasonable, it has all the classics you would expect. But there are so many re-makes, such as the Ronan Keating version of 'Fairytale in New York', which are just not as good as the originals. You will find all the Christmas songs you can think of on here, and I'm not going to patronise you by saying how good (or generally the opposite) they are, as you know them inside out. Just brace for disappointment if you're especting the original versions.

Could Be Improved...
This is a pretty decent stab at a Xmas party album but suffers from the usual faults ie Because the record company behind it can't obtain permission to use all the tracks they might want, you end up with this compromise. Unfortunately in this instance they've made matters worse by substituting inferior versions of some tracks for the real thing(surely no one actually believes "Fairytale of Newyork" is enhanced by Ronan Keating's contributions).

There is a fairly simple solution:Buy this album AND "Chritmas Hits"(a three CD set that can be got pretty cheaply), although there is quite a bit of over-lap, the two discs together should provide all the material you need to put together a tailor-made great xmas party album.

You'd be daft not to
44 songs for thirteen quid? A "who's who" of Christmas classics going back into out collective memory? Fine, one or two may require judicious use of the skip forward button, but I defy anyone not to start singing along if you put this on at a Christmas party. There's no need to comment on the songs - I bet you know at least thirty of them by heart.
Just as with "Guilty Pleasures", old back catalogues may mean that the album does not cost much for the music company to pull together, but, in the right circumstances, it is well worth their effort. A great idea and a great present too!!!