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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (Original Version)
2. Wham! - Last Christmas
3. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
4. The Pogues Feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
5. The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
6. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
7. Elton John - Step Into Christmas
8. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
9. Boney M - Mary's Boy Child
10. Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born (Album Version)
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Disc: 2
1. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
2. Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
3. Frank Sinatra with the B Swanson Quartet - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
4. Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
5. David Essex - A Winter's Tale
6. Doris Day - I'll Be Home For Christmas
7. The Pretenders - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
8. Gladys Knight - Do You Hear What I Hear
9. Atlantic Starr - Silver Bells
10. Lutricia McNeal - When A Child Is Born
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The first disc of Christmas Hits is dominated by songs from the 70s and early 80s--the golden era of the mobile DJ and Christmas number ones, when people sang about "Father Christmas" or "snow" and couples tenderly proclaimed their love by calling each other "scumbag" or "maggot". And there are plenty of pop songs here that although not ostensibly about Christmas, are certainly in the spirit of things. Just listen to "The Power of Love" (Frankie Goes To Hollywood's poignant last single) or E17's "Stay Another Day" and try not to weep openly through Robson & Gerome's "I Believe", no really, try.

Disc two is more laid back, with classics from Bing Crosby, Elvis and Tony Bennett mingled with some soulful covers of traditional songs like "Silent Night" and modern classics such as "Last Christmas" and "Walking in the Air". Unfortunately, both of the latter are tortured by Human Nature and Declan Galbraith respectively, and its here that the compilation starts to fall apart. Some of the covers are interesting, but often they highlight just how much better the originals were. There have been plenty of great versions of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", not to mention the original so why do we get Michael Bolton? The inclusion of Eva Cassidy's "Over the Rainbow" is also a little confusing. It's poignant sure, but since when has it been associated with Christmas? Still, there's plenty here to keep you amused until its time to put the baubles and tinsel back in the loft. --Jenny Winwood

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

Simply the best Christmas album in the world!, 22 Dec 2001

By A Customer

This Christmas album has everything you could want from the classic songs like White Christmas by Bing Crosby to Westlife's 1999 Christmas no.1 I Have A Dream. As it says on the back of the album, this has definately got 50 festive favourites on it. My favourite being Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby.

I bought this album when it first came out as I didn't have any Christmas albums with popular hits on it and I love it. Definately an album to be played every Christmas!

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

Good Compilation, but..., 4 Nov 2003

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This might sound like nit-picking, but before buying this CD you should be warned that most of the tracks are cut short and fade out long before the song is supposed to end. I guess this is the way they managed to fit so many tracks onto 2 CDs, but I found it quite annoying. Otherwise it's a pretty good compilation, better in my opinion than the "Best Christmas Album Ever".

26 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

An interesting collection, 3 Nov 2003

By	P D Harris "Pete the music and horse racing fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews

Over the last few years, the double-CD various artists compilation has become a tradition in Britain, especially with Christmas albums. There have been many such compilations, often repeating the same songs. This is a good one, including plenty of classics but also a few less obvious selections.

Many classic UK hits are here (and one or two non-hits that should have been), including Merry Christmas everybody (Slade), Do they know its Christmas (Band aid), Fairytale of New York (Pogues and Kirsty MacColl), I believe in Father Christmas (Greg Lake), 2000 miles (Pretenders), Driving home for Christmas (Chris Rea), Step into Christmas (Elton John), Merry Christmas everyone (Shaking Stevens), Stop the cavalry (Jona Lewie), The power of love (Frankie goes to Hollywood), White Christmas (Bing Crosby), Mary's boy child (Boney M), When a child is born (Johnny Mathis), Millennium prayer (Cliff Richard), Last Christmas (Wham), A winter's tale (David Essex) and Santa baby (Eartha Kitt).

Many other pop and rock singers of the eighties and nineties are also represented. There are excellent original Christmas songs by Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen and Gloria Estefan, while there are fine covers of classic songs by several others. There are also a few golden oldies such as Frank Sinatra and Doris Day.

If I have a criticism, it is that four songs appear twice - different versions of Last Christmas, Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Blue Christmas and When a child is born appear on each CD. Given the wide choice of different songs available to the compilers, such duplication could easily have been avoided. Nevertheless, this is a very strong compilation.

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Christmas at its best
I ordered this album and thought it was the best christmas album I have ever bought. The songs are all so christmassy and really put you in the christmas mood. Read more

Published on 11 Dec 2004 by mestesso2004

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