Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222298 in Digital Music Album
• Released on: 2005-10-04
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Customer Reviews

Possibly Better Than Their First Christmas CD?
Please ignore the Scrooge reviewing before me. This CD is fun and entertaining. They bring some new sound to some classics that tend to get older each year.

Pretty Good Christmas Music
This is the classic work of Rockapella for all those who know and love their music. However, it is not the best work that they done. I still prefer their album "Christmas" during the holidays. George Baldi's voice is very smooth and melodious, but I think that it will take more time for him to be truly integrated with their unique style. It does have a different sound than their previous work, but their origional songs such as "Little Mary Snowflake", "Love and the Lights" and "This Christmas Day" keeps with their tradition of wonderful music. It is fun to listen to and gets you in the Christmas spirit.

Merry Christmas...sorta....
I have a very hard time giving a bad review for Rockapella, so I can't give it a low rating, but I can't give it a high rating, as much as I'd like to, so I'll simply have to settle with 'It was good, but it wasn't.' Trust me, this review hurts to write. Rambling aside, I'll start with the good points.

"Little Mary Snowflake", "This Christmas Day", "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Snowstar", and "Peace on Earth". Jeff Thacher needs to be more involved in writing and arranging. Seriously. "Peace on Earth" is a beautifully written and performed song and I for one would love to hear more of his work done by Rockapella. Forgive me, Scott Leonard fans, I love his voice and his arranging skills which is why I included several of his songs on the "must have" list, but his songs make no sense. Even Sean Altman's songs, which were on the bizarre side to begin with, had a point. I like the melodies Scott comes up with and I could listen to him sing the phone book, but he obviously didn't take Songwriting 101: If You're Going To Write Lyrics, Don't Confuse Your Listener.

I know it's hard to justify paying $$$ for a CD when you can only recommend 5 songs out of 12, but those make up for the other 7. And there's really nothing *wrong* with the other 7 songs, but I just don't like them enough to give them two thumbs up. My biggest disappointments were with "I'll Be Home For Christmas", "Home For The Holidays", and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree". I disagree with people who say George Baldi isn't a good fit with Rockapella, because I think he is. He just doesn't show it on his solo song. It starts out very well, but it ends badly and went on a few chorus repeats too long. "Home For The Holidays" isn't bad, but it was already done on "Bash" (or was it "Out Cold"? I can't remember offhand.) and was done better. Besides, if you're going to try to imitate trombones, try to sound like trombones. Glenn Miller was turning over in his grave, guys. "Rockin'" has a rather odd tempo and while I adore Kevin, he just wasn't the right choice for this song. I'm not sure Scott would have been either, so I don't know who should have performed it.

"It's A Small World" is sweet and the addition of the PellaKids was great, and that's really all I can say about this one.

Like I said, this review was extremely hard to write, more so as I loved "Smilin'" from start to finish and was expecting to love "Comfort & Joy" even better. Oh well, you can't be perfect all the time, and expecting to be blown away by every new CD is unrealistic. I'll still play this CD, but I'm afraid "Christmas" will probably get more time on my CD player.