Audio CD review:
Crash Test Dummies - Jingle All the Way

Crash Test Dummies - Jingle All the Way

Band: Crash Test Dummies Title: Jingle All the Way Rating: Release Date: 2007-01-08 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: White Christmas - Crash Test Dummies, Berlin, Irving 2: O Little Town of Bethlehem - Crash Test Dummies, Brooks, Phillip 3: Jingle Bells - Crash Test Dummies, Pierpont, J.S. 4: In the Bleak Midwinter - Crash Test Dummies, Traditional 5: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Crash Test Dummies, Traditional 6: We Three Kings - Crash Test Dummies, Hopkins, John Henry 7: The Little Drummer Boy - Crash Test Dummies, Davis, Katherine K. 8: The First Noel - Crash Test Dummies, Sandys, William 9: Silent Night - Crash Test Dummies, Gruber, Franz 10: Good King Wenceslas - Crash Test Dummies, Neale, John M. 11: The Huron Carol - Crash Test Dummies, Traditional

Great Holiday Album for the Apocalypse For those not wanting to pay the 200 clams on Amazon Used, emusic. Great stuff here, especially the 'Jingle Bells' cover, which just needed a few whip cracks to even it out. com has this offering on the cheap. Add some variety to your Christmas music collection "Jingle All the Way" by the Crash Test Dummies offers some variety to the vocals, and I'm happy to add it to my collection. I love Christmas music but must confess that I'm getting tired of everyone covering all the standards. Wow ... and now for something different. I enjoy it immensely and if you like the low vocals Ben performs then you should enjoy this one too!. I have enjoyed listening to many non Christmas songs from the Crash Test but this one makes me laugh as it is so different from the usual. It gave great light. On that album, they performed the best version of "The First Noel" that I had ever heard (and it's still the best version I've ever heard). I first heard the Crash Test Dummies on the 1991 Christmas compilation album called A Lump of Coal. Cut to 2002, when the Crash Test Dummies finally released a complete Christmas album. It is somewhat disappointing that they didn't write any original songs for the album. But at least they had the sense to include some lesser known carols like "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "The Huron Carol", alongside somewhat overplayed songs like "White Christmas" and "Jingle Bells". Lead vocals are split about evenly between Brad Roberts and Ellen Reed, unlike on a "regular" Crash Test Dummies album, where Ellen almost never sang lead. "The First Noel" is redone here, and while it's quite good, it doesn't quite match the beautiful simplicity of their original version. The songs for the most part are performed in a very lovely style, with occasional silly touches thrown in. Overall, quite an enjoyable Christmas album. Totally gorgeous music! I knew no other work by CTD and was prepared for anything. I fell in love with The First Noel when Kurt Browning skated to it one year, and looked for this CD for ages before I just found it. Well, I THOUGHT I was! I have totally fallen in love with this CD and listen to it all the time! I have always HATED the song Jingle Bells, but find that this version I can actually LOVE! GRYMG is like jazz or soft shoe or something, but is really nice. And I hate almost all jazz, so that is saying something! In the Bleak MidWinter, there just are not words to describe. Angelic and haunting. Just beautiful (it's playing now on repeat)! They do a lot of the verses on the hymns, which is unusual for Christmas albums, and which I love. The other songs are just beautiful; especially WTK and DBoy. The First Noel is stunning. The songs are different in that they sound heartfelt and real. Like it's just people really singing, instead of some big theatrical production for a record. I really love the simplicity. It has a folksy feel to me. I will definitely be giving these for gifts too, and am really glad I found this. I really don't think anyone would be disappointed with this. You can see a complete list of all Crash Test Dummies discography, or go back to the Crash Test Dummies tabs