Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Product Description
Characterized by its Capra-esque quality, this acclaimed holiday recording features an ensemble that joins talents from the hard rock, Broadway musical and classical arenas.
Genre: Christmas Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 15-OCT-1996Amazon.com
Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve and Other Stories a holiday rock opera? Or perhaps just a holiday prog-rock disc? Or maybe it’s New Age? Whatever the case may be, this isn’t your typical Christmas album. Filled with electric guitar solos, plenty of synthesized keyboards, a children’s choir, and lively drumming, Christmas Eve can only be compared to one other record, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s other holiday disc, The Christmas Attic. On this CD, angelic vocal solos (on numbers such as “The Prince of Peace”) are interspersed with driving instrumentals. Sentimental, occasionally bombastic, but as high-concept as holiday albums… More >>
Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Any one who likes anytype or rock or desent guitar playing shouldn’t get this CD, it’s just so Cheesy, it ruins all these Christmas classics.
Rating: 1 / 5
… for the microwave, or under the short leg of your table, or as a shooting target. Tooth-rottingly sugary, pretentious, overblown, commercialized crap from a half-a$$ed sell-out 80′s band.
Rating: 1 / 5
The guitar is overpowering and the actual orchestra is hard to hear over these band members who wish they were part of Whitesnake back in their days of success. The 80′s are over and they should just move on.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m a person who likes lots of music, from bluegrass to avant garde. I was disappointed by this disc. While the arrangements are generally inventive, bringing together lots of unexpected instruments, I think the songwriting is pretty mediocre. There are two or three excellent and surprising tracks—the reinterpretations of traditional songs. Beyond these, the original songs are painful to listen to. Tasteless.
The disc overall is too dynamic (loud/soft) to serve as background music, so it kind of defeats the purpose of Xmas music, doesn’t it?
What I’d like to hear from TSO is a rearrangement of the entire Nutcracker Suite! That would be way cooler than their original cheesy songs.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is not Christmas music, it’s hard rock and that is not music. Give me traditional Chrismas music. Give me classical music. Give me Manheim. This cd wouldn’t be a bargain if they gave it away.
Rating: 1 / 5