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Punk Rock Christmas

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Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0081227217426
Label : Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer : Rhino / Wea
Publisher : Rhino / Wea
Release date : 1995-10-10
Title : Punk Rock Christmas
Original release date : 1995-09-05
Studio : Rhino / Wea
MPN : 72174
Number of discs : 1

Editorial reviews

Amazon.com
This is not your father's Christmas music. Or even your little sister's Backstreet Boys sugarplum-fairy dream dancing in her head. But it is a galvanizing collection of 18 cuts deep in the heart of the season, by some of the finest punk bands from rock's '70s and '80s days of rage. As much a profile of the legendary bands that made the music world safe for alternative rock a decade later, Punk Rock Xmas withstands the decibels of time with a number of outstanding performances. The Dickies rant and rave on "Silent Night" and Stiff Little Fingers reprise "White Christmas" with a vengeance, while blokes from the Sex Pistols and Thin Lizzy called the Greedies turn out a blistering "Merry Jingle." Fear spit out a nasty four-letter sentiment that's 45 seconds short, the Ramones weigh in with "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)," and Mojo Nixon, El Vez, and sundry others gleefully reinvent and deconstruct the sound and wounds of the season. A real stocking ripper. --Martin Keller

Customer reviews

review by: music nerd date: 2009-01-06 rating:

Happy Insane Xmas!!
Not your average Xmas music. If you like your Xmas music to be warped, funny, fast, loud, rude, brainless & insane than this CD is for you!
HAPPY EFFIN CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

review by: date: 2008-12-16 rating:

Not for the faint hearted
I collect Xmas cds ranging from classical to punk. This is definitely the harshest Xmas album I own. However, I do enjoy it. Don't plan on playing this at the office especially in the uptight Midwest. Track 3 is one of the few remakes of that song ever done anywhere by anyone. Track 7 is also very unique and wonderfully irreverant.

review by: date: 2008-01-12 rating:

You need this if...
Tired of hearing what he heard, stupid damn bell songs, and white christmas? You need this albulm. Make the season sound like you feel it.

review by: hrlitehouse date: 2008-01-08 rating:

Mosh Pittin Fun
This review is written more for the parent looking for something to buy their punk musically inclined offspring for Christmas. Nutshelling it - if someone likes punk music, they will like this CD. So if you are looking for a Christmas gift for the hard to buy for - this should fill their stockings with glee.

It is a great XMAS album for punk rock fans and any one else with a sense of humor; you do need a sense of humor for some songs especially Homo Christmas which isn't exactly Bing Crosby (although do people still mosh pit? I am pretty uncool). Anyway, this is just what it says - A Punk Rock XMAS album. There are a lot of rockin songs from right off the start, with It's Gonna Be A Punk Rock Christmas by the Ravers to the final version of White Christmas.

review by: trivia buff date: 2003-12-24 rating:

Dee Dee drank our Xmas money
This is a pretty good collection of punk Christmas songs. It opens with a fun novelty song that is not by a real punk band. Then we move on to the real punks. The quality of the material varies, but some of the best cuts are contributed by the Dickies, Sloppy Seconds, the Greedies and (naturally) the Ramones. But my personal favorite here is "Homo Christmas" by Pansy Division, which is hilarious. I have to mention the contributions by a couple of guys who are not usually associated with the punk genre. El Vez, the "Mexican Elvis", performs a surprisingly credible thrash punk version of "Feliz Navidad". And Mojo Nixon performs an unsurprisingly sloppy rewrite of "Louie Louie" called "Christmas Christmas". It's not really punk, and it's not really good. It sounds like an outtake from Mojo's lousy Christmas album, although it's not. If you are a fan of punk, especially "old school" punk, you should enjoy this.

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