It's a Cool Cool Christmas

It's a Cool Cool Christmas
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released November 21, 2000
Genre Alternative rock, Christmas music
Label Jeepster Records

It's a Cool Cool Christmas is a Christmas charity compilation album released in 2000 by Xfm on Jeepster Records in aid of The Big Issue.[1] The album includes a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and original songs with a Christmas theme.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland" - Grandaddy
  2. "Little Drummer Boy" - The Dandy Warhols
  3. "Every Day Is Christmas" - The Webb Brothers
  4. "Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas" - Eels
  5. "Feliz Navidad" - El Vez
  6. "Christmas In Waikiki" - Morgan
  7. "Maybe At Christmas Time" - Drugstore
  8. "O come, O come, Emmanuel" - Belle & Sebastian
  9. "Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You" - Giant Sand
  10. "White Christmas" - The Flaming Lips
  11. "My Christmas Prayer" - Saint Etienne
  12. "Christmas Downer" - Departure Lounge
  13. "I Believe In Father Christmas" - Six By Seven
  14. "When I Get Home For Christmas" - Snow Patrol
  15. "Spiritual Guidance" - Titan
  16. "Christmas Boogaloo" - Big Boss Man
  17. "Christmas Eve" - Teenage Fanclub
  18. "Gift X-Change" - Calexico
  19. "Hwiangerdd Mair" - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
  20. "Just Like Christmas" - Low
  21. "In The Bleak Midwinter" - Lauren Laverne

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
BBC (favorable)[1]
RTÉ [3]

Allmusic writer Tim DiGravina described the album as "inspired good fun", calling it "without a doubt, one of the better alternative, holiday collections", and opined that Grandaddy's "Alan Parsons", with its lyric about building a snowman and pretending that it is Alan Parsons, "might be the funniest song from 2000".[2] The BBC's Richard Banks called "Alan Parsons" "a stroke of comedy genius".[1] Scott Miller, in his book Music: What Happened?, suggested that Grandaddy "probably deserve immortality" just for this song.[4] RTÉ called the Grandaddy song "downright silly",[3] while Exclaim! called it "one of our favourite indie rock Christmas tunes ever".[5] Six By Seven's "I Believe in Father Christmas" was described by DiGravina as "some sort of post-modern classic".[2] RTÉ described Belle & Sebastian's "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" as a "beautiful ethereal version".[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Banks, Richard (2009) "Christmas Records, Day 23: It's a Cool, Cool Christmas", BBC, 23 December 2009, retrieved 2011-07-10
  2. ^ a b c DiGravina, Tim "It's a Cool Cool Christmas Review", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-07-10
  3. ^ a b c "Cool Cool Christmas", RTÉ, December 21, 2000, retrieved 2011-07-10
  4. ^ Miller, Scott (2010) Music: What Happened?, 125 Records, ISBN 978-0615381961, p. 201
  5. ^ Thiessen, Brock (2009) "Jason Lytle Releases Free Christmas Album Online, Gets Working on Second Solo Record", Exclaim!, December 9, 2009, retrieved 2011-07-10

External links

http://www.jeepster.co.uk/site/