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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | 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 a passel 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." A must for diehards, and a pleasant surprise for the unconverted. --David Sprague | |
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| My favourite Christmas CD | |
| | Every Christmas I play this album and love it all over again. I enjoy singing along to it while I drive. My favourite is "O Holy Night" where she sings so beautifully and causes goosebumps. I usually have this song on repeat. My second favourite is "Jesus Oh What a Wonderful Child" where she sings with a gospel choir and they sound so great together. Who knew Mariah could do gospel?! Basically the singing of both the traditional Christmas songs and the non-traditional ones is outstanding. I like the way she adds her unique singing style to the songs. This is a great Christmas album.
| | A pleasantly old-fashioned Christmas album. | |
| | Before Mariah Carey turned to R&B, she was primarily known as a pop artist with a huge voice. It's a good thing that she recorded this album at a time where her vocal range was its top - after all, many Christmas carols feature the most wonderful melodies of our times, and she was in total control of her amazing pipes when "Merry Christmas" was recorded. The result is a pleasantly old-fashioned Christmas album, mixing the secular with the religious and covering all the bases of seasonal music.
This album most notably features "All I want for Christmas is you", a Phil-Spector-like tune co-written by Mariah that just keeps growing bigger with each listen; it's probably the closest we've ever come to getting a new Christmas classic in the last 20 years and features Mariah at her most flexible, starting the song at the very bottom of her range and working her way to the top by the song's rousing finale. This song is exhilarating, instantly memorable and very joyful - if it doesn't bring a smile to your face, it means you're already dead !
The rest of the album is pretty good as well, although it probably won't change the minds of those who do not enjoy Mariah Carey's vocal style. Especially worth noticing are the other two originals songs on the album; "Jesus born on this day" is an appropriate reminder of what Christmas is all about; "Miss you most at Christmas time" is an extremely poignant and emotional song that features one of her most expressive vocals ever, and it will especially ring a bell with all of those who are celebrating Christmas after the loss of a loved one. The classic "Hark the herald angels sing" is breath-taking, "Silent night" and "O holy night" are tailor-made showstoppers for Mariah, and "Joy to the world" is given an all-out disco treatment that makes it irresistibly joyous. In fact, the only lesser moments are "Santa Claus is coming time" and "Christmas (baby please come home)", both of which follow the bluepring of "All I want for Christmas is you" a bit too closely. By the time the album closes with the gospel-infused "Jesus O what a wonderful child", you'll find yourself happy that you bought this album.
| | An absolutely wonderful Christmas album | |
| | Few commercial Christmas albums really appeal to me - too many of them mangle the traditional classics I love, especially the hymns, with all sorts of fancy modern sounds that ring hollow to my ears, and, loving the traditional songs so much, few modern Christmas tunes manage to win me over. Long after its release, though, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas CD remains a perennial Christmas favorite of mine. Mariah's vocal talent puts her head and shoulders above every female vocalist out there, and she injects true feeling and spirit into every song she sings. On this album, she combines the new with the old, making this a Christmas CD that almost everyone can love.
Like many, I was drawn to this CD after hearing the song All I Want For Christmas Is You; I believe it's the best secular Christmas song since Elvis' Blue Christmas. I had to buy the album for this one song alone, but I was also very anxious to hear what Mariah would do with traditional hymns such as Oh Holy Night - my pick for the greatest Christmas song ever written. Many a soprano shies away from truly hitting the high notes at the end of Oh Holy Night, and given Mariah's vocal range, I felt confident she would do the song justice. I was right, as this is one of the best versions of Oh Holy Night I've ever heard. Mariah's voice is equally angelic on Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, and a properly subdued Silent Night. Jesus Oh What A Wonderful Child is a song I was less familiar with, but it makes for a stunning conclusion to an album that does pay real heed to the reason for the season.
Besides All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah co-wrote two other songs on the album: Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) and Jesus Born on This Day. The latter is an especially beautiful song that expresses the true meaning of Christmas. She also throws in an exceedingly fun version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town (and, thankfully, I can now think of Mariah rather than Bruce Springsteen whenever I hear this song). The perfect complement to All I Want For Christmas Is You, though, is Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).
Put it all together and you have a true modern Christmas classic featuring a wonderful mix of religious and secular songs that radiate both the fun as well as the serious aspects of the Christmas season. Anyone who loves Christmas - and Christmas music in particular - really should make this CD an annual part of his/her holiday celebration.
| | Lovely For Chritstmas and any time!!! | |
| | I must admit I liked this CD very much. I even played it after christmas. The Asian Version has 11 tracks. The bonus track is God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. A very nice vocally performed song. Vocally done very nicely with the layering of vocals and is not boring to listen to. In fact most of this album is in her gospel singing. I just love it.
| | | I bough this album last Friday it's amazingi love it
SILENT NIGHT 10/10
Good
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU 10/10
Amazing
O HOLY NIGHT 10!/10
Awesome!
CHRISTMAS (BABY PLEASE COME HOME)10/10
Sad
MISS YOU MOST 10/10
Sadder than "Christmas" I'll give an 11
JOY TO THE WORLD 10/10
Dance hit!
JESUS BORN ON THIS DAY 10/10
I love it
SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN 10/10
It's like "All I want for christmas is you
HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING/GLORIA (IN EXCELCIS DEO)9/10
GoodJESUS, OH WHAT A WONDERFUL CHILD!10/10
Funny
GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN 10/10
Bonus track, it's amazing and beautiful
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