Why? Simple, it has the most bizzare line up of performers you have ever heard. There really is nowhere you can go to hear fun, Paul McCartney and Rufus Wainwright in the same place. Well there may be but it would be a place with a lot of ruffle.
17 holiday classics that have been tumbled up and redone right in time for your Yule log.
Alternative, folk, electronica and even blue grass is featured in a very short time span. It’s a plethora of insanity.
The guys from fun tech out ‘Sleigh Ride’, Paul McCartney croons “The Christmas Song” and The Shins have the nerve to take on Paul’s tune “Wonderful Christmastime”. Rufus is joined by Sharon Van Etten for “Baby Its Cold Outside”, wonder if they can pull off the sultry tug…hmm.
I suppose it is no different than listening to your local ‘all Christmas’ radio station with its diversity so I’m going to give this a thumbs up. Plus the title is cool as a snowflake.
Holidays Rule Tracklist:
01. fun. – “Sleigh Ride”
02. The Shins – “Wonderful Christmastime”
03. Rufus Wainwright with Sharon Van Etten – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
04. Paul McCartney -”The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”
05. Black Prairie – “(Everybody’s Waitin’ for) The Man With the Bag” [ft. Sallie Ford]
06. The Civil Wars – “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
07. Calexico – “Green Grows the Holly”
08. Ages and Ages – “We Need a Little Christmas”
09. Holly Golightly – “That’s What I Want For Christmas”
10. Irma Thomas with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band – “May Everyday Be Christmas”
11. Heartless Bastards -”Blue Christmas”
12. Eleanor Friedberger – “Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me”
13. Fruit Bats – “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”
14. Y La Bamb – “Señor Santa”
15. The Punch Brothers – “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
16. The Head & the Heart – “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve”
17. Andrew Bird – “Auld Lang Syne