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The Vandals - Christmas with the Vandals: Oi to the World! Audio CD

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The Vandals Band: The Vandals
Title: Christmas with the Vandals: Oi to the World!
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Release Date: 1996-10-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Gun for Christmas 2: Grandpa's Last X-Mas 3: Thanx for Nothing 4: Oi to the World! 5: Nothing's Going to Ruin My Holiday 6: Christmas Time for My Penis 7: I Don't Believe in Santa Claus 8: My First X-Mas (As a Woman) 9: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies 10: Here I an Lord 11: Hang Myself from the Tree 12: C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S 13: Overture

Holidays Bad? Vandals Good.
Every song must be taken tongue-in-cheek and should be considered unsafe for work or holiday parties with children present. A decent addition to any holiday music library for those with a sense of humor. Not for the easily offended, "Oi to the World" is a fast-paced, sometimes jarring mockery of the Christmas spirit. To their credit, The Vandals have produced something that is not a re-hash of tired holiday carols or a straightforward parody -- it is an in-your-face, cursing and vomiting tirade against Christmas tradition without being preachy.

Fans of The Vandals and other late 80s / early 90s punk will enjoy this immensely. Others probably will not.


Tis the Season
Christmas can not be the same without it. Add this to your collection of music. My holiday tradition is to play "Oi to the World" and "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation" every year. The cd is a creative, hilarious work of art. . . I can see why it is so expensive. I never knew I was harboring a punk collectors item. . . I just got it in 2001 when it came out! Don't hate me :).


Great Album!
It's Christmas music fused with different styles of punk. This is a good example of a great 90's punk album. Every song is different. It's kind of like the white album of Xmas punk. A Gun For X-mas and Thanks For Nothing are hardcore songs. Oi to the World! is Oi punk. Here I am Lord is a catchy, vocally tedious cover done Ska and I Don't Believe in Santa Claus could've come from an 80's Anarcho band. It's not a serious album by any means. I mean, there's a song called Christmas time for my penis. Still, Oi to the World! has some genius in it. .


Get real
I know that this is Amazon. Let's be honest for a change. com and not a music publication, and people only review albums they are totally in love with, but can we dispense with piling on of praise for one of many generally mediocre potential purchases out there? Can writing a review really help if all we do is go ape for any trivial POS out there? 5 stars?!!? That sort of review is for LANDMARK music releases, things like Double Nickels on the Dime, Sgt. Pepper's, Thriller, whatever genre. But The Vandals' Christmas getting 5 stars? Be honest. No way. And this from someone who genuinely enjoys the Vandals. The album is goofy/fun with the occasionally mordant social criticism, but it's nothing to loose sleep over. "Oi! To the World" is my favorite track here, and even it is more than a little dopey, in terms of lyrics. I could make some of my preceding statements about almost anything reviewed out there, but somewhere someone has to say something. A 5 star review would imply that the album is a must-buy. A 5 star review for an album like this makes me wanna go down and start running off copies of the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge.


Christmas Punk...
The Vandals's Oi to the World! is hardly original, there have been punk Christmas compilations since the late 70s, but this one is one of the better punk takes on Christmas. I think every genre of music with the possible exception of death metal has its christmas albums. Each song rings with juvenille humour and sardonic holiday cheer.

Not every song is a Christmas classic, but some that really shine are "Gun for Christmas" and "My First Christmas as a Woman. " Those two songs have concepts that carry them through whatever troubles they might have had. Hell, just saying the words "gun for christmas" will get a chuckle out of many people. "Christmastime for My Penis" is an ode to the organ that has kept our specie alive for the past few million years (even the femenists need to thank it a little).

Some of the songs are medioce, "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" comes to mind right off the bat, but overall, this album is one of the more memborable Christmas albums ever made. OI to the world and everybody wins.


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