Least and most favorite Christmas albums? [View All]

[bbernardini]

Least favorite: "A Very Ally Christmas", in which Vonda Sheperd and friends massacre 14 holiday classics. The frightening thing is that the high point of the album is Robert Downey Jr.'s cover of Joni Mitchell's "River".

Most favorite: "Sounds Like Christmas" by The December People. Basically Robert Berry and an anonymous cast (rumored to include some prog-rock and classic rock veterans) perform classic Christmas tunes as they might have been performed by artists like Yes, Queen, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Kansas, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. If you don't appreciate any of these bands, then you probably won't care for it, but I think it's one of the most clever tributes I've heard in years.

2nd most favorite: "Spirit Of The Season" by Sean Kelly and Tom Askin. Sean is the front man of The Samples, and one of my favorite singer/songwriters of all time. A few years back, he put out this rare Christmas album with soon-to-be (and now no longer) Samples member Tom Askin. Beautiful stuff.