Monster Ballads Xmas (2007)

Product Summary Label: RAZOR AND TIE RECORDS/SBME UPC: 00793018915625 Release Date: 9/11/2007 Buy.com Sku: 205117412 Item#: M3QX6F Buy.com Sales Rank: 2060 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Jingle Bells - Skid Row ~ Various Artists 2. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Winger ~ Various Artists 3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Jani Lane ~ Various Artists 4. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Twisted Sister/Lita Ford ~ Various Artists 5. White Christmas - Queensryche ~ Various Artists 6. Run Rudolph Run - L.A. Guns ~ Various Artists 7. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Firehouse ~ Various Artists 8. Naughty Naughty Christmas - Danger Danger ~ Various Artists 9. Blue Christmas - Tom Keifer ~ Various Artists 10. Jingle Bell Rock - Nelson ~ Various Artists 11. Silent Night - Faster Pussycat ~ Various Artists 12. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Dokken ~ Various Artists 13. Happy Holiday - Enuff Z' Nuff ~ Various Artists 14. Winter Wonderland - Stryper ~ Various Artists 15. Christmas Love - Billy Idol ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info The more seriously its participants take their assignments--namely to deliver high-decibel Christmas cheer wrapped in screaming guitar solos and pummeling percussion--the better this compilation of hair metal versions of seasonal songs works. Unsurprisingly, the metal masters Dokken come off best with a classily arranged version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," though you wouldn't object to finding Stryper's rocking "Winter Wonderland" and Queensryche's gloriously over-the-top version of "White Christmas" under your tree, either. As if the hard rock ballad in the hands of a metal band weren't clich?d enough, with this set listeners get the whole enterprise moved even one more step into campy absurdity with hard rock and metal versions of various Christmas songs in a collection perfect for a headbanger's Christmas Eve party. It's difficult not to chuckle and smile as songs like Skid Row's thundering take on "Jingle Bells," Firehouse's galloping "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Faster Pussycat's clattering industrial run at "Silent Night," and Stryper's "Winter Wonderland" go bombasting by with all the subtlety of an anvil being dropped onto a glass table. Background music this surely isn't. In the end, though, it's all the same little joke told the exact same way 15 different times. You laugh hard at first, but eventually the joke is just plain annoying. ~ Steve Leggett As if the hard rock ballad in the hands of a metal band weren't clich?d enough, with this set listeners get the whole enterprise moved even one more step into campy absurdity with hard rock and metal versions of various Christmas songs in a collection perfect for a headbanger's Christmas Eve party. It's difficult not to chuckle and smile as songs like Skid Row's thundering take on "Jingle Bells," Firehouse's galloping "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Faster Pussycat's clattering industrial run at "Silent Night," and Stryper's "Winter Wonderland" go bombasting by with all the subtlety of an anvil being dropped onto a glass table. Background music this surely isn't. . ~ Steve Leggett Producer: Michael Anderson; Beka Callaway; Beka Callaway (Compilation); Michael Anderson (Compilation)   Technical Info Release Date : 09/11/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 7930189156 Label : Razor & Tie Music Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 55m : 40s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00793018915625    Product Image