Green Days of Christmas: Holiday Tribute to Green

Tribute to Green Day (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Christmas Rock Records
• ASIN: B000OYJQ20
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,402 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Christmas Music Media Type: Compact Disk

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A holiday insomnia cure, December 30, 2007

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Tom Knapp "Rambles.NET editor" (Lancaster, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Days of Christmas: Holiday Tribute to Green (Audio CD)

The theory behind this CD series (also focusing on Metallica, AC/DC and others) is that you can take a hard-rockin' band's signature music and give it a little holiday makeover for all the good boys and girls to enjoy under der Tannenbaum. But the execution is a schmaltzy, sappy reinterpretation of songs including "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Welcome to Paradise," "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Warning" into something you wouldn't even find playing in the lobby of the Hotel Ennui in Dullsville, N.J. Oh, and then they add metronomic jingle bells in the background for that extra holiday oomph.

... Sorry, I'm afraid I started to nod off. I gotta go find something peppier to liven things up -- maybe a little Neil Sedaka or Karen Carpenter would do the trick.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(net) editor

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Instrumental only., December 10, 2007

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Matt Bateman (Somewhere else) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Days of Christmas: Holiday Tribute to Green (Audio CD)

It says "you'll be singing about the Green Days of Christmas" on the product description, but be warned, there are no vocals on this cd. This is basically a cd of Green Day songs recorded with a Christmas sound. Most of the rhythym is provided by sleigh bells, and the vocal melodies have been replaced by chimes and flutes. While they claim these songs would "make Irving Berlin blush," there is really nothing edgy about these arrangements. The only guitars in this album are muted in the background, and the drumming is limited mostly to large orchestral drums. Overall it's not a bad cd, and in some ways it really helps bring out the quality of Green Day's melodies. However, the song selection is so/so and the tempos don't change much from song to song. It's an okay listen, and you can always sing along if you know the words, but after a while this album gets kind of boring and it doesn't really have the feel of a Christmas album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, May 27, 2009

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Heather Bergman "Actively Living" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Days of Christmas: Holiday Tribute to Green (Audio CD)

I thought this was going to be really lame, but it's not at all. It doesn't sound cheesy like I thought it would. This one isn't quite as good as the Metallica version, but it's still really well done. If you're looking for good background Christmas music, something without lyrics, or just a change from the standard, I highly recommend this album.