Christmas Rocks: The Best of Collection | 
| Artist: Brian Setzer Orchestra
Label: Surfdog Records Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 9148
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 512780
UPC: 640424999872
EAN: 0640424999872
ASIN: B001DZDTEA
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Jingle Bells - Brian Setzer, Traditional | | • | Gettin in the Mood (For Christmas) - Brian Setzer, Setzer, Brian | | • | Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Brian Setzer, Rene, L. | | • | The Nutcracker Suite - Brian Setzer, Tchaikovsky | | • | You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Brian Setzer, Hagne, A. | | • | Dig That Crazy Santa Claus - Brian Setzer, Johnston, Albert Jr | | • | Winter Wonderland - Brian Setzer, Bernard, F. | | • | (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag - Brian Setzer, Brooks, D. | | • | Angels We Have Heard on High - Brian Setzer, Traditional | | • | White Christmas - Brian Setzer, Berlin, Irving | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Brian Setzer, Coots, J. Fred | | • | Baby, It's Cold Outside - Brian Setzer, Loesser, Frank | | • | Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Brian Setzer, Cahn, S. | | • | My Favorite Things - Brian Setzer, Hammerstein, Oscar | | • | Jingle Bell Rock - Brian Setzer, Beal, J. | | • | Sleigh Ride - Brian Setzer, Anderson, L. | | • | Santa Drives a Hot Rod - Brian Setzer, Setzer, Brian | | • | Christmas Island - Brian Setzer, Moraine, Lyle L. | | • | Bach's Bounce - Brian Setzer, | | • | Take a Break Guys - Brian Setzer, |
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Product Description
The Brian Setzer Orchestra has established a new standard by which holiday albums are judged. They struck a major chord with audiences everywhere and catapulted the super-charged 18 piece Big Band into a Christmas franchise via their annual sold out holiday tour. This magnificent collection is a combination of the very best tracks from their two holiday releases, paired with two previously unreleased tracks plus two seasonal selections from his 2007 materpiece Wolfgang's Big Night Out.
Album Description
Charge your hot rod into the holidays with Christmas Rocks: The Best of Collection by the Brian Setzer Orchestra! Meow! Life has been grand for the ex-Stray Cat and he shares all his goodies in this album. Brian Setzer has made a career of bucking trends, going against the grain, ignoring popular culture, discarding rational thought, and, all the while, blowing people away. In a Pop music era dominated by twenty-something contest winners and angst-ridden suburban kids, his projects couldn't be any further removed from the mainstream.
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 A Best Of? Please... October 8, 2008
G. Long
11 out of 27 found this review helpful
This is pretty useless. He only has TWO Christmas CDs out, so making a "best of" is pointless. Just go buy the two original Christmas albums and you'll have ALL of his Christmas music, except for the one bonus track (Santa Claus Is Coming To Town), which you can just download here for 99 cents.
C'mon, Brian. Start making real music again.
 Setzer's Annual Christmas Visit - It Swings! October 7, 2008
B. Baldwin
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Brian Sezter Orchestra have come to associate themselves closely with the Chrismas Holidays, having recorded two Christmas CD's and making an annual Christmas concert tour.
This latest offering is, as the subtitle implies, a "Best Of" collection, along with a couple of new tracks. For those that don't have the BSO's previous two Christmas discs, this is a nice compilation of some of the best of the two.
The whole thing is upbeat fun, with Setzer and the boys delivering updated swing versions of some Christmas chestnuts as well as a few original tracks. Could there have been some changes in the track list? I think so, but overall, this is a solid set. The weakest of the tracks has to be "Baby, It's Cold Outside", which features a well past her prime Ann Margaret, who really detracts from what otherwise is one cool yule tune.
I would have liked to have seen some of the "Bonus Tracks" that were found on subsequent re-issues of the BSO's previous Christmas CDs make their way to this compliation, including "Run, Run Rudolph" and "Cactus Christmas". The version of "Jingle Bells" found on this compilation is the one recorded for "Boogie Woogie Christmas" CD.....The version recorded for the movie Jingle All The Way is the superior version, and that would have been a welcome addition to this CD, as would the instrumental version found on the obsure "Merry Axemas" CD.
Is this disc essential? No, especially if you already have the previous two BSO Holiday discs. With a few changes to the track listing, however, that assessment would be different. That being said, this is a great one disc set that will keep the Christmas Holidays "Wild, Cool, & Swingin'!"
A great party cd! November 26, 2008
G. Ubardelli
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this Christmas compilation. You get real value for your money here. Twenty songs on one cd! The band's version of The Nutcracker Suite is worth the price of the cd alone. Angels We Have Heard On High is another highlight which mixes a sort of surf guitar sound with fantastic horns and a choir on the chorus. Ann-Margret duets with Brian on Baby It's Cold Outside. There is also the never been released Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. For me, the only real disappointment is not including Hey Santa! on this compilation, but the songs that are included here prove that this fun, upbeat collection of Christmas songs are done as only Brian Setzer can do them. Dig that crazy Setzer Claus!
Even the Grinch would rock out to this CD December 18, 2008
R. Kyle (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Let's face it, more than a few of us need a little Prozac during the holidays and this disk might just be the ticket. Brian Setzer does a very upbeat Christmas.
This is a compilation of his previous two Christmas CDs, so if you have them, you may not 'need' this one. I have one of the two, so I felt free to buy.
Favorites:
Jingle Bell Rock
Is that you, Santa Claus
To add to all of this, the CD is a very generous 20 tracks which is about twice what we are getting now in this age of iTunes and packaged disks.
Rebecca Kyle, December 2008
Setzer's Christmas Tunes Totally Rock! December 21, 2008
a cali music fan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is quite simply the best Christmas album out there. Our family has owned the other 2 Brian Setzer Christmas CD's, "Dig That Crazy Christmas" and "Boogie Woogie Christmas", and we listen to them non-stop during the holidays every year. This new release pretty much takes the best 20 songs and puts them all in one place at an insanely low price (especially for the MP3 version --I love AMAZON!). You can't go wrong with this one!!
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