Just say meh...

This CD has a wonderful lineup - with Beck leading things off, the Roots, Aimmee Mann, Sonic Youth, XTC, and a half dozen others filling the CD. The only problem with this compilation CD is that only one of the songs actually sounds even remotely like a Christmas song.

The rest sound like decent enough alternative songs, but putting them all together, slapping some Christmas titles on them, and calling them a Christmas CD doesn't automatically work.

And I know, I've done my fair share of listening to Christmas music for a while now - finished up the Christmas CDs (the dozen of them) over the summer. The cds are broken down by genre of music, but this CD doesn't do much other than get one or two mildly interesting songs. There is a nice take on "Amazing Grace", but that's not really screaming Christmas to me, either...

It's much less than some other good Christmas music compilations that I can highly recommend

• Best Christmas Album in the World Ever - its name, not an endorsement
• Christmas Remixed
• Ultra Lounge: Christmas Cocktails and its followup
• Very Special Christmas
• The Edge of Christmas
• Maybe This Christmas
• Wonderland: Cool December

...and a couple that I haven't heard but that look decently promising...

• A Santa Cause
• Phil Spector's Chistmas Album