![Review Sesame Street / Sesame Street: 25th Birthday - A Musical Celebration! [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WGTDQB3QL._SL160_.jpg)
Publisher: Sony Wonder
Release date: 1997-07-02
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £3.69
Review Sesame Street: 25th Birthday - A Musical Celebration! [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sesame Street:
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Tracks Andrea Bocelli - A Night In Tuscany [1997]
- David Amphlett
- Sarah Brightman
- Andrea Bocelli
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.03
Review Andrea Bocelli - A Night In Tuscany [1997] / Universal Island:Part concert, part documentary, part travelogue, this video hit duplicates the success of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's albums and underscores his unique crossover appeal. Critical response to Bocelli has been confined to fusillades of scorn from classical and opera writers, but the bullet-proof superstar is better understood in the context of a mainland European tradition of pop-classical fusion. Bocelli cheerfully ignores the supposed wall between high (classical) art and low (pop) kitsch with his mix of operatic chestnuts, soft pop and traditional Italian songs. Indeed, despite interview segments in which he proclaims his love of opera or proudly recalls an apprenticeship to operatic veteran Franco Corelli, Bocelli comes across as more fan than virtuoso. But if his voice can prompt technical cavils from hard-core opera buffs, the blind singer's emotional directness and relative lack of onstage preening explain much of his populist appeal. Featured songs include warhorse arias, leading off with the "Louie, Louie" of tenor showpieces, Turandot's "Nessun Dorma" and duets with gruff Italian pop-rocker Zucchero and sopranos Nuccia Focile and Sarah Brightman (who buddies up for the tear-jerking closer, "Time to Say Goodbye"). Even with the marquee bonus of those guests, however, A Night in Tuscany gets its biggest boost from the seductive Italian countryside, prominently featured in between-song segments, and in the romantic concert setting, Pisa's Piazza dei Cavalieri. -Sam Sutherland.
Tracks The Black Madonna - Music from Llibre Vermell & Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Los set gotxs
- O Virgo splendens
- A Madre do que a bestia
- Quant ay lomon consirat
- Amours, ou trop tart me sui pris
- Quant voi la flor novele
- Mariam, matrem Virginem
- Cantiga de Santa Maria No.77-119
- Cuncti simus concanentes
- Comencerai a fere un lai
- O Maria, maris stella
- Tanto son da groriosa
Release date: 1998-03-30
Run time: 57 min.
Creator: Michael Posch
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.75
Review The Black Madonna - Music from Llibre Vermell & Cantigas de Santa Maria / Naxos:
Publisher: EMI
Release date: 2007-11-19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.15
Review 101 Christmas Songs / Various Artists:
Tracks F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Lieder Ohne Worte Opus 19
- 2. Andante sostenuto
- 1. Allegro non troppo
- No. 6 in G minor (Andante sostenuto) "Venetian Gondola Song"
- Allegro
- 3. Allegretto
- No. 6. Allegro non troppo in E "Cradle Song"
- No. 1 Andante espressivo in G
- Allegretto non troppo
- No. 3. Andante tranquillo in B flat
- No. 1. Con moto in E flat
- No. 3. Presto agitato in G minor
- No. 3 Andante maestoso in E minor "Funeral March"
- No. 2. Allegro agitato in A minor "Adieu"
- No. 6. Molto allegro vivace in A "La fuite"
- No. 5. Allegro in A minor "Folk-Song"
- No. 4 Allegro con anima in G "Morning Song"
- No. 4. Un poco agitato in G minor "The Sighing Wind"
- No. 2. Allegro di molto in B flat minor
- No. 6 Andante grazioso in A "Spring Song"
- 1. Andante cantabile
- No. 1. Andante espressivo in F
- 4. Andante con moto
- No. 1. Andante un poco agitato in E minor
- No. 2 in A minor (Andante espressivo)
- No. 2. Allegro leggiero in F sharp minor "Lost Illusions"
- 5. Allegro assai
- No. 6. Andante in C "Belief"
- No. 4. Andante sostenuto in D "Elegy"
- No. 4. Agitato e con fuoco in B minor
- No. 5. Allegro vivace in A "The Joyous Peasant"
- No. 3 in A (Molto allegro) "Hunting Song"
- No. 5 Andante in A minor "Venetian Gondola Song"
- No. 4. Presto in C "Spinning Song"
- No. 5. Agitato in A minor "Appassionata"
- No. 4. Adagio in F "Sadness of Soul"
- No. 4. Andante in A
- No. 6. Allegretto in F sharp minor "Venetian Gondola Song"
- No. 2. Adagio in D
- No. 4 in A (Moderato)
- No. 1. Andante espressivo in E flat
- No. 5 in F sharp minor (Agitato) "Restlessness"
- No. 5. Allegretto in A
- No. 1 in E (Andante con moto) "Sweet Remembrance"
- No. 3. Presto in E flat
- No. 3. Presto in C "Tarantelle"
- No. 1. Andante in E flat
- No. 1. Andante con moto in A flat
- No. 5. Moderato in B minor "The Shepherd's complaint"
- No. 6. Allegretto con moto in B flat
- No. 6. Andante con moto in A flat "Duetto"
- No. 2. Allegro non troppo in E flat "The Fleecy Cloud"
- 6. Vivace
- No. 3. Presto in E "La harpe du poète"
- No. 2 Allegro con fuoco in B flat
- 2. Presto agitato
- No. 3. Andante sostenuto in E "Consolation"
- No. 2. Allegro non troppo in C minor "Lost Happiness"
- No. 5. Andante grazioso in D
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Daniel Barenboim
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.08
Review F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Lieder Ohne Worte Opus 19 / Universal Classics:
![Review Andre Rieu / Andre Rieu: Christmas Around the World [2006] (Region 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2ZJD71AL._SL160_.jpg)
Publisher: Denon
Release date: 2006-10-31
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £6.90
Review Andre Rieu: Christmas Around the World [2006] (Region 1) (NTSC) / Andre Rieu:
Tracks 8 Days of Christmas
- Silent Night - Beyonce
- O Holy Night - Williams, Michelle (2)
- White Christmas
- This Christmas
- DC Christmas Medley
- Winter Paradise
- Platinum Bells
- Opera Of The Bells
- Do You Hear What I Hear - Rowland, Kelly
- Little Drummer Boy - Solange
- 8 Days Of Christmas
- Proud Family - Solange & Destiny's Child
- Spread A Little Love On Christmas Day
Release date: 2006-10-30
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.87
Review 8 Days of Christmas / Destiny's Child:I'd never want to visit Destiny's Child's homes for the holidays, if their nonsensically named holiday album 8 Days of Christmas is any indication of what they've got under the tree. Chilly, forced and overdone, this mixed bag of modern classics, tarted-up traditional carols and a trio of tunes penned by Beyoncé Knowles doesn't conjure up a single warm-and-fuzzy image of chestnuts roasting on an open fire or Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Rather, it's just another forum to showcase the band's Gucci bag of vocal gymnastics and crass materialism. The Texas trio takes seasonal classics such as Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy" and embellishes them with its own trills and off-kilter harmonies, overwhelming the songs so that their simple beauty is totally obscured. "On the eighth day of Christmas, my baby gave to me, a pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring," brags Knowles in the title song-which is a take-off on the "12 Days of Christmas"-without ever explaining why they loped off four days. In addition, the band are shamelessly self-indulgent throughout the dozen songs found here, taking untold liberties, such as renaming the "Carol of the Bells", "Opera Bells" and recasting "Silver Bells" into "Platinum Bells", to reflect their multi-platinum status. But the low point of the record is when Destiny's Child hawk their own Hasbro Toy manufactured dolls in the intro of "Platinum Bells": "Ladies remember long ago we asked Santa to give us Christmas Dolls? But this year the dolls are you and me under the tree". Humbug. -Jaan Uhelszki.
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Publisher: EMI
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.95
Review Celtic Woman - A New Journey [2002] / Celtic Woman:
Tracks The Very Best of Janet Baker
- L'Invitation au voyage - Duparc
- Clair de lune - Fauré
- Du bist die Ruh' - Schubert
- Die Forelle - Schubert
- Prison - Fauré
- Linden Lea - Vaughan Williams
- Soir - Fauré
- Geistliches Wiegenlied - Brahms
- Ave Maria - Schubert
- Angel's Farewell from "The Dream of Gerontius" - Elgar
- Du Ring am meinem Finger from "Frauenliebe und -leben" - Schumann
- Wiegenlied (Schlafe, schlafe) - Schubert
- Morgen! - R Strauss
- He was despised from "Messiah" - Handel
- Sea Pictures - Elgar
- Gretchen - Schubert
- Alto Rhapsody - Brahms
- An Sylvia - Schubert
- Befreit - R Strauss
- Ich bin der Weslt abhanden gekommen from "Rückert-Lieder" - Mahler
- Corpus Christi Carol - Britten
- Pretty Ring Time - Warlock
- Bereite dich, Zion from "Christmas Oratorio" - Bach
- O rest in the Lord from "Elijah" - Mendelssohn
- An die Musik - Schubert
- Pie Jesu from Requiem - Duruflé
- Nacht und Träume - Schubert
- On Wings of Song - Mendelssohn
- Mondnacht from "Liederkreis" - Schumann
- Heidenröslein - Schubert
- Auf dem Wasser - Schubert
Release date: 2002-02-18
Run time: 155 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.56
Review The Very Best of Janet Baker / Janet Baker:
Tracks Vaughan Williams: Vocal Works
- Serenade To Music: Five Mystical Songs - Easter
- Serenade To Music: Five Mystical Songs - The Call
- Serenade To Music: Five Mystical Songs - Love Bade Me Welcome
- Serenade To Music: Five Mystical Songs - Antiphon
- Serenade To Music: Fantasia On Christmas Carols
- Serenade To Music: Five Mystical Songs - I Got Me Flowers
- Serenade To Music: Flos Campi
- Serenade To Music
Release date: 1994-07-01
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Amanda Roocroft
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.95
Review Vaughan Williams: Vocal Works / Hyperion:
Tracks Christmas Hits: 50 Festive Favourites
- Doris Day - I'll Be Home For Christmas
- Boney M - Mary's Boy Child
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love
- Wham! - Last Christmas
- Neil Diamond - You Make It Feel Like Christmas
- St Paul's Cathedral Choir - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
- Atlantic Starr - Silver Bells
- Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
- Michael Ball - Happy New Year
- Bing Crosby - White Christmas
- Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
- Human Nature -Last Christmas
- Frank Sinatra with the B Swanson Quartet - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- SWV - This Christmas
- Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
- Linda Ronstadt - When You Wish Upon A Star (LP Version)
- Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas
- Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
- Mariah Carey - O Holy Night
- The Pretenders - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Gloria Estefan - Christmas Through Your Eyes (Album Version)
- Tony Bennett - Winter Wonderland
- David Essex - A Winter's Tale
- The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
- Jewel - Silent Night (LP Version)
- Michael Bolton - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (Original Version)
- The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas
- Barbra Streisand - The Lord's Prayer
- East 17 - Stay Another Day
- Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer
- Lutricia McNeal - When A Child Is Born
- The Pogues Feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
- Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
- Cyndi Lauper - Early Christmas Morning (Album Version)
- Gladys Knight - Do You Hear What I Hear
- Luther Vandross - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Natalie Cole - The Christmas Song
- Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
- Declan Galbraith - Walking In The Air
- 3T - Endless Christmas
- Robson & Jerome - I Believe
- Shakin' Stevens - Blue Christmas
- Elton John - Step Into Christmas
- Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Merry Christmas Baby
- Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born (Album Version)
- Westlife - I Have A Dream (Remix)
- Judy Collins - Amazing Grace (LP Version)
Release date: 2003-11-24
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.82
Review Christmas Hits: 50 Festive Favourites / Various Artists:The first disc of Christmas Hits is dominated by songs from the 70s and early 80s-the golden era of the mobile DJ and Christmas number ones, when people sang about "Father Christmas" or "snow" and couples tenderly proclaimed their love by calling each other "scumbag" or "maggot". And there are plenty of pop songs here that although not ostensibly about Christmas, are certainly in the spirit of things. Just listen to "The Power of Love" (Frankie Goes To Hollywood's poignant last single) or E17's "Stay Another Day" and try not to weep openly through Robson & Gerome's "I Believe", no really, try. Disc two is more laid back, with classics from Bing Crosby, Elvis and Tony Bennett mingled with some soulful covers of traditional songs like "Silent Night" and modern classics such as "Last Christmas" and "Walking in the Air". Unfortunately, both of the latter are tortured by Human Nature and Declan Galbraith respectively, and its here that the compilation starts to fall apart. Some of the covers are interesting, but often they highlight just how much better the originals were. There have been plenty of great versions of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", not to mention the original so why do we get Michael Bolton? The inclusion of Eva Cassidy's "Over the Rainbow" is also a little confusing. It's poignant sure, but since when has it been associated with Christmas? Still, there's plenty here to keep you amused until its time to put the baubles and tinsel back in the loft. -Jenny Winwood.
Tracks Songs for Christmas
- Star of Wonder *
- Come on! Lets Boogey to the Elf Dance! *
- Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!) *
- Hey Guys! Its Christmas Time! *
- Get Behind Me, Santa! *
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- Joy To The World
- Only at Christmas Time *
- Its Christmas! Lets Be Glad! *
- Amazing Grace
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- What Child Is This Anyway?
- We Three Kings
- Silent Night
- Jingle Bells
- Sister Winter *
- Lo How A Rose Eer Blooming
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
- Away In A Manger
- Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
- The Little Drummer Boy
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- The First Noel
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Ding! Dong! *
- Were Goin To the Country! *
- O Holy Night
- I Saw Three Ships
- Once in Royal Davids City
- That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! *
- Lo! How A Rose Eer Blooming
- The Friendly Beasts
- All the Kings Horns *
- Christmas in July *
- The Winter Solstice *
- Put the Lights on the Tree *
- Jupiter Winter *
- Holy, Holy, Holy
- The Incarnation *
- Once in Royal Davids City
- Holy Holy, etc.
Release date: 2007-11-19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.76
Review Songs for Christmas / Sufjan Stevens:
Tracks Christmas Hits
- Dido - Christmas Day
- The Pogues feat Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
- Doris Day - Ill Be Home For Christmas
- Christina Aguilera - The Christmas Song
- Gary Jules - Mad World
- Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
- Bo Selecta - Proper Crimbo
- Music From The Snowman - Walking In The Air
- Natalie Cole - Jingle Bells
- Backstreet Boys - Christmas Tree
- Elvis Presley - Merry Christmas Baby
- Darlene Love - All Alone on Christmas
- Britney Spears - My Only Wish This Year
- Al Green - What Christmas Means To Me
- Cliff Richard - Millenium Prayer
- Steps - Merry Christmas Everybody
- Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
- Darkness - Christmas Time (Dont Let The Bells End
- Luther Vandross - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas
- Linda Ronstadt - When You Wish Upon A Star
- Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
- N*Sync feat Justin Timberlake - I Dont Wanna Spend One More Christmas Without You
- Air Supply - Sleigh Ride
- Auld Lang Syne
- T -Rex - Christmas Box
- Tony Bennett - Winter Wonderland
- Toni Braxton - Holiday Celebrate
- Harry Belafonte - Marys Boy Child
- Aretha Franklin - Joy To The World
- Gloria Estefan - Love On A Layaway
- Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas
- Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born
- Mario Lanza - Oh Christmas Tree
- Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
- Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Westlife - I Have A Dream
- Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
- Judy Collins - Amazing Grace
- Michael Bolton - White Christmas
- Gladys Knight & The Pips - Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy
- The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas
- Brenda Lee - Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
- Neil Diamond - You Make It Feel Like Christmas
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Power Of Love
- Robson & Jerome - I Believe
- Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
- Destinys Child - Little Drummer Boy
- Jackie Wilson - Deck The Hall
- Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow
- Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
- Charlotte Church - Dream A Dream
- Elton John - Step Into Christmas
- Cyndi Lauper - Early Christmas Morning
- Shakin Stevens - Blue Christmas
- Pretenders - 2000 Miles
- Band Aid - Do They Know Its Christmas Time.
- Wham - Last Christmas
- East 17 - Stay Another Day
Release date: 2006-11-20
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.55
Review Christmas Hits / Various Artists:
Tracks The Christmas Album Vol.1
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Silver Bells
- Morning Has Broken
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Holy Night
- O Come O Come Emmanuel/We Three Kings Of Orient Are
- White Christmas
- Silent Night Holy Night
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- You Make It Feel Like Christmas
- Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
- Little Drummer Boy
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Release date: 2004-10-25
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.87
Review The Christmas Album Vol.1 / Neil Diamond:Neil Diamond has always fancied himself a man of many styles, which probably helps explain why he tries to flaunt each and every one of them on this diverse, sometimes dizzying Christmas disc. He plays it relatively straight on "Silent Night" and "The Christmas Song," but really lets loose on a version of "White Christmas" that recalls the doo-wop of his teen years in the 1950s. Diamond even expands his palette to include a choir-accompanied take on John Lennon's pacifist classic "Happy Christmas (War is Over). " It's the kind of intermingling that makes his fans go wild, but casual admirers should watch out for those stylistic U-turns. -David Sprague.
Tracks Merry Christmas
- Jesus Oh What A Wonderful Child
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
- O Holy Night
- Silent Night
- Jesus Born On This Day
- Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Joy To The World
- All I Want For Christmas Is You
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsis Deo)
- Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
Release date: 2004-10-25
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.98
Review Merry Christmas / Mariah Carey:She's been hailed for her multi-octave vocal range-a tool that sometimes detracts from her pop recordings, but actually works quite beautifully in the context of this charming holiday collection. Fans will surely approve of Carey's renditions of slinky secular songs like "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and a nicely subdued "All I Want for Christmas Is You". But where she really surprises is in her unadorned delivery of traditional carols, highlighted by "Silent Night" (which she sings quietly, avoiding the temptation to wail those high notes) and "Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child". Merry Christmas is a must for die-hards and a pleasant surprise for the unconverted. -David Sprague.
Tracks Disney's Princess Christmas
- Im Giving Love for Christmas -Cinderella
- Christmas in the Ocean - Ariel and Sebastian
- Christmas With My Prince - Sleeping Beauty
- The Twelve Days of Christmas - Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Sleeping Beauty & Snow White
- A Holly Jolly Christmas Snow - White, Grumpy, Bashful & Doc
- The Night Before Christmas - Snow White, Grumpy, Bashful & Doc
- Christmas Is Coming! - Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Sleeping Beauty & Snow White
- The Holly and the Ivy - Mulan
- Silver and Gold - Pocahontas
- Ariel's Christmas Island - Ariel and Sebastian
- Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Cinderella
- Holidays at Home - Belle
- The Christmas Waltz - Belle
Release date: 2005-10-24
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.48
Review Disney's Princess Christmas / Disney Songs:
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Publisher: Smv
Release date: 2007-07-02
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.93
Review Backstreet Boys - The Video Hits Chapter 1 [2001] / Backstreet Boys:
Tracks Ultimate Christmas Party
- Agadoo
- Rockin' around the Christmas tree
- I wish it could be Christmas everyday
- Saviour's day
- Wonderful Christmastime
- Have yourself a merry little Christmas
- Hokey cokey
- March of the mods
- Mony mony
- Lonely this Christmas
- Mistletoe and wine
- Little saint Nick
- Angels
- We wish you a merry Christmas
- The loco-motion
- When a child is born
- Walking in a winter wonderland
- Santa Claus is coming to town
- Merry Xmas everybody
- Can can
- Do the conga
- Reach
- I saw mommy kissing Santa's Claus
- The Christmas song
- Let's twist again
- Waterloo
- Saturday night
- Saturday night
- La bamba
- Uptown girl
- Summer nights
- Merry Christmas everyone
- Don't stop the cavalry
- All I want for Christmas is you
- Last Christmas
- Do wop Christmas
- Another rock 'n' roll Christmas
- Thank God it's Christmas
- White Christmas
- Auld Lang Syne
- Happy Xmas (war is over)
- Good King Wenceslas
- Frosty the snowman
- Hi ho silver lining
- Mary's boy child
- Rudolph the red nose reindeer
- Hey baby
- We three kings
- Y.M.C.A
- Delilah
Release date: 2002-10-28
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.43
Review Ultimate Christmas Party / Jive Bunny:
Tracks My Kind of Christmas
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- This Christmas
- Oh Holy Night
- These Are The Special Times
- Christmas Song
- This Year
- Christmas Time
- Xtina's Xmas
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Christmas Song
- Merry Christmas Baby
Release date: 2006-10-30
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review My Kind of Christmas / Christina Aguilera:Like Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera never met a melismatic phrase (that gospel-like elongation of syllables) that she couldn't love. And she deploys more than her share throughout this 11-song holiday disc. Her excessive style is best suited to "Merry Christmas, Baby"-complete with a surprise cameo by Dr. John. When she isn't blowing out her chords with embarrassing emoting, at times, Aguilera sounds like she's shouting. Still, you know that if you don't get this for your teenaged fan, it's you who will get that lump of coal in your stocking. -Martin Keller.
Publisher: Virgin Records
Price: £19.94
Review the best Christmas Album in the world ...ever! / Various Artistes:
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Thats how Chinese police have advised people to respond if captured by terrorists during next months Olympic Games, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday. ›15:42, 18.07 Turn to the Vet to protect your pet: Though shut out from a U.S. tour because of an impending criminal trial in London on charges of assault and false imprisonment of a male escort, the 80s pop icon says he's not going to have a hissy fit. ›18:56, 25.06 GreenDAY: America's first all-organic restaurant: Athletic pups go paw-to-paw, competing in a series of challenging events for the title of 'top dog' in the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. ›18:06, 27.06 Best in show: Which games stood out at the E3 show in Los Angeles? ›08:15 Italian Vogue breaks fashions racial barrier: Dara Torres is off to an unprecedented fifth Olympics but even though she's 41 and the oldest woman ever to make theU.S. Olympic Swim Team, she considers herself just another working mom. The water doesnt know what age you are, she said. ›15:20, 4.07 CBS News boss: Courics job is safe: Job insecurity may be widespread in the media but Katie Couric still has no need to worry, her boss says. ›22:12, 18.07 Stolen $30M Shakespeare book found: When it comes to breakups, most of us prepare for the worst. But according to new research, they tend to be less heartbreaking than we initially fear. Here, Dr. Laura Berman gives advice on how to land on your feet after calling it quits. ›13:41, 11.07 U.S. military wants answers on Afghan attack: A former driver for Osama bin Laden is about to become the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried for war crimes in a major test of the U.S. system for prosecuting alleged terrorists. ›08:23, 18.07 Lonely mom? Try starting a Momtourage: Secrets to building a support system to save your sanity and your social life. Parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice to help moms incorporate some of their own needs into the hectic schedules of family life. ›16:01, 16.07 Diplomats aid Mbeki with Zimbabwe: South Africa's Thabo Mbeki agrees to work with a group of diplomats in an effort to solve Zimbabwe's political crisis. ›23:00, 18.07 McCain adviser Gramm leaves campaign: Phil Gramm, a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, said Friday he is resigning from the role as campaign co-chair after his comments that the U.S. had become a "nation of whiners." ›01:43 One mans trash is another mans fashion: We do it about 215 million times a day, so humans need to stop shying away from discussing sex and the babies it makes to help avert the global climate crisis, environmentalist and author Robert Engelman says. ›14:10, 1.07 Iran meets world powers over nukes: Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said he hoped for "good and constructive" talks when he left Tehran on Friday to meet world powers in Geneva on the country's disputed nuclear program. ›13:11, 18.07 101 20-minute dishes for inspired picnics: Angelina Jolie has gone into a hospital in the south of France where she expects to give birth to twins. ›15:10, 1.07 Little support for NAACP flag boycott: The NAACP this week renewed its call for an economic boycott of South Carolina over its flying of the Confederate flag. But there appears to be little popular support for the push. ›19:57, 18.07 Do dead people watch us? Yes, author says: Concetta Bertoldi, known for being a medium who communicates with the dead, answers some of the most common questions about what happens on the "other side" in her new book. An excerpt. ›21:36, 17.07 Capital Sources: Mike Huckabee, Unplugged: The former Arkansas governor struggles to raise money, lags behind the GOP presidential front runners in the polls and has been maligned by Bushs former counsel. Why he keeps on keepin on. ›18:16, 11.10 Capturing the essence of Mandela: David Turnley spent a quarter century photographing the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. In his book "Mandela! Struggle and Triumph," Turnley shares some of his most stunning photographs, along with the powerful stories behind them. ›14:52, 18.07 Cop fired for demanding free coffee: An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused. ›18:47, 18.07 Fisherman hooks drowning man: A man who was drowning in a Maine river is recovering after getting reeled in with a fishing rod. ›18:52, 18.07 |
