Customer Reviews

Christmas With the Kranks

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As soon as I heard that Little Steven was involved in this CD I knew it would rock. Little Steven also wrote the song All alone at Christmas for the Home Alone soundtrack. Great, Great X Mas Album. Crack out the Vino, Krank up the music......

I collect Christmas music, now at the rate of about one CD a year, carefully previewing offering after offering on Amazon. I prefer non-traditional items at this point, although I got the complete Gene Autry CD last year. I'm still not sure I like the film Christmas With The Kranks, although I seem to enjoy it a little more each year.
The point of this long-windedness is that Little Steven, who was responsible for the soundtrack selections, has put together here a sort of "best of" program of unusual (with the exception of Brenda Lee) but strongly listenable Christmas music. I don't think, for example, I would want a whole CD of the Raveonettes, and their MP3 Christmas EP seems uneven, but the selection here is fine.
I put this high on the list of Christmas CDs.

So I just saw the movie (which was just OK) and I caught this cool, almost surfer, 60's version of "White Christmas" during the credits - - turns out to be sung by a verrrry cute girl Tina - - worth listening to - - it just makes ya' feel like you're in a snowglobe and ya' chill.

This was a movie inspired by an excellent book "Skipping Christmas"
Unfortunately the movie was not so good. The soundtrack did'nt fair to well either. There is a few good tracks on it but over all just "OK". "Merry Christmas To All Of The World" by Jean Beovoir is probably the best track along with "The Christmas Song" by The Ravonettes and "Frosty The Snowman" - The Charms. I'm a sucker for Christmas music and it sounded like a decent soundtrack.

This is a very good CD. It contains all the tracks from the movie. Also, almost every soundtrack has its holiday feel. For track 1, good start with its rock Christmas feel. Oh, strange. For track 2, it is okay. For track 3, it is quite relaxing and it is played in the beginning of the movie. For track 4 and 5, they are so-so. For track 6, it is good again. For track 7 and 8, they are good with rock feeling back on. For track 9, it is excellent with the real Christmas feeling. For track 10, it is a bit odd because it doesn't sing well in this version. For track 11, it is long but this really surprise me. It is because it breaks into about 5 phases. From rock to soft and then rock again, during the soft part, it is the traditional Christmas music that I like for all time. So, track 11 is excellent. Finally, for track 12, it is a good conclusion for this soundtrack. So, it is a good CD overall.

(Recommended tracks: All)

(My favorite track: 11)

I got this CD *FREE* when I bought the movie DVD. However, it was nothing spectacular. Just another CD with Christmas music on it. I wouldn't suggest buying it.