Comments on: Christmas Eve and Other Stories

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:56:17 +0000

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

By: drone-head@pobox.com

drone-head@pobox.com — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:46:28 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:15:08 +0000

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

By: Abe Ellape

Abe Ellape — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:54:02 +0000

… 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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:27:17 +0000

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