The dB's - Christmas Time Again
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Track List: Christmas Time Again
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- Christmas Time - The DB's
- Home For The Holidays - The DB's
- (It's Going To Be A) Lonely Christmas - Marshal Crenshaw
- Jesus Christ - Big Star
- Holiday Spirit - The DB's
- Christmas Time Is Here - Thad Cockrell & Roman Candle
- Houses On The Hill - Whiskeytown
- The Only Law That Santa Claus Understood - Ted Lyons
- I Saw Three Ships - Don Dixon
- Christmas Is The Only Time - Wes Lachot
- Christmas Light - Keegan DeWitt & The Sparrows
- Santa's Moonlight Sleighride - Ted Lyons
- Sha La La - Cathy Harrington
- The Christmas Song - Alex Chilton
- Christmas Song - Alex Chilton
- Feliz Navidad - The DB's
- O Holy Night - Peter Holsapple
- You're What I Want For Christmas - Chris Stamey & Cathy Harrington
- Silent Nocturne - Brent Lambert
- It's A Wonderful Life - Chris Stamey
- Snow Is Falling - Christ Stamey And Mary Mac
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Album Details: Christmas Time Again
- Release Date:
- 11/21/2006
- Label:
- Collector's Choice
- UPC:
- 617742074529
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Christmas Time Again
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Pro Reviews: Christmas Time Again
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews For fans of smart, hooky pop who imagine the Carolinas to be the musical center of the universe, the Chris Stamey Group's 1986 holiday EP Christmas Time was a truly happening yuletide gift from the former leader of the dB's, and in 1993 the disc was reissued on CD in expanded form, with the track count jumping from seven to 16 tunes. In 2006, Collectors Choice Music has given this album its third incarnation as Christmas Time Again, with three songs dropped from the 1993 version and eight more added, equaling 21 seasonal tunes from various popmeisters for the delectation of aging hipsters everywhere. The tunes comfortably move back and forth between the clever and the sentimental, with "You're What I Want for Christmas," "Sha La La," and "Holiday Spirit" (the latter featuring an enthusiastic chorus of "Gimme gimme gimme") sounding like manna from heaven for power pop fans as Alex Chilton's version of "The Christmas Song" and Don Dixon's soulful take on "I Saw Three Ships" find an ideal middle ground between the traditional and the modern. A number of newer tracks have been added for this edition, including Marshall Crenshaw's great and bluesy "(It's Going to Be A) Lonely Christmas," an alternate version of Whiskeytown's "Houses on the Hill" (which barely has anything to do with Christmas, but sounds fine in this context), a new dB's cut called "Home for the Holidays," and another great song from Dixon, "Christmas Is Saturday." While the ambient and meandering "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Snow Is Falling" close out Christmas Time Again on a less than impressive note, most of this album is good and spirited fun, and who knew the dB's could record a version of "Feliz Navidad" that would rival the seemingly definitive interpretation by El Vez? Good Christmas fun for the new wave guy or gal in your life. - Mark Deming, All Music Guide |
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Along with Let's Active, the dB's defined the Southern power pop/jangle pop movement of the early to mid-'80s. The band's music was a quirky blend of smart pop and psychedelia crossed with the more experimental side of new wave. Though they never rec...Full The dB's Biography
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
Pros: Holiday greetings from Southern roots-rock and jangle pop legends.
Cons: Drat! Only 21 tracks . . . .
In 1986, Chris Stamey�a former member of the cultish alt-pop outfits the dB's and the Golden Palominos�rounded up a Who's Who of '80s jangle pop, including pals Alex Chilton (and his band Big Star), Whiskeytown (with Ryan Adams), influential producer and session player Don Dixon, sometime REM sideman Peter Holsapple, and Marshall Crenshaw, among others, for this one-off holiday album. It's been newly remixed (by Stamey) and remastered for this 2006 Collector's Choice edition. Highlights include the dB's whimsical consumer ode "Holiday Spirit" ("I've got that holiday spirit/gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme!"), Chilton crooning "The Christmas Song," Whiskeytown's country-drenched soldier 's elegy "Houses on the Hill" and Ted Lyon's gunfighter parody "The Only Law That Santa Claus Understood." It's an often irreverent, always hip, rockin' good time�a welcomed respite from the standard holiday fare. ...