Like the previous volume, this 2007 collection is being sold as a benefit for pediatric AIDS. This time around, there are a bumper crop of performers resulting in 26 cuts, good value for money. Dave Mellillo kicks things off with a rocked-out version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas," followed quickly by "January," a New Year's cruncher by Tyler Read. (Usually you save the New Year's cuts for the end.) Sugarcult gives the Ramones treatment to "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," It Dies Today gives the thrash treatment to "Feliz Navidad," and homage-style arrangements are featured on Action Action's "Father Christmas," "Wonderful Christmastime" by June, and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by Hot Rod Circuit. Among the original tunes is Spitalfield's "It's Cold Out There" and "Not Giving In" by Rediscover, a couple of Beth Orton-ized acoustic ballads; "Stay" by Down To Earth Approach features the singer apologizing to a Christmas tree for cutting it down; "Gary the Green-Nosed Reindeer" by MC Lars is an acoustic hip-hop romp in which Gary, Rudolph's half-brother, makes his holiday bones when he saves Xmas from Osama bin Laden; and quite a bit more, actually. This was sold mainly as a download from the label only, but the label site is inactive; the album art is linked to 3rd party sellers. CDs remain available in which Vols. 1 and 2 are packaged together. Either way, a good deal for alternative rock holiday music.
A Santa Cause Volume 2, various artists (Immortal)
Like the previous volume, this 2007 collection is being sold as a benefit for pediatric AIDS. This time around, there are a bumper crop of performers resulting in 26 cuts, good value for money. Dave Mellillo kicks things off with a rocked-out version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas," followed quickly by "January," a New Year's cruncher by Tyler Read. (Usually you save the New Year's cuts for the end.) Sugarcult gives the Ramones treatment to "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," It Dies Today gives the thrash treatment to "Feliz Navidad," and homage-style arrangements are featured on Action Action's "Father Christmas," "Wonderful Christmastime" by June, and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by Hot Rod Circuit. Among the original tunes is Spitalfield's "It's Cold Out There" and "Not Giving In" by Rediscover, a couple of Beth Orton-ized acoustic ballads; "Stay" by Down To Earth Approach features the singer apologizing to a Christmas tree for cutting it down; "Gary the Green-Nosed Reindeer" by MC Lars is an acoustic hip-hop romp in which Gary, Rudolph's half-brother, makes his holiday bones when he saves Xmas from Osama bin Laden; and quite a bit more, actually. This was sold mainly as a download from the label only, but the label site is inactive; the album art is linked to 3rd party sellers. CDs remain available in which Vols. 1 and 2 are packaged together. Either way, a good deal for alternative rock holiday music.
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