Disc 1
1. Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas Time.
2. Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3. Darkness - Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End
4. Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow
5. Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy
6. Robson & Jerome - I Believe
7. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
8. Judy Collins - Amazing Grace
9. Michael Bolton - White Christmas
10. Luther Vandross - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
11. Neil Diamond - You Make It Feel Like Christmas
12. Shakin Stevens - Blue Christmas
13. Pretenders - 2000 Miles
14. Cyndi Lauper - Early Christmas Morning
15. Gloria Estefan - Love On A Layaway
16. Darlene Love - All Alone on Christmas
17. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
18. Christina Aguilera - The Christmas Song
19. Westlife - I Have A Dream
20. East 17 - Stay Another Day

Disc 2
1. Wham - Last Christmas
2. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas
3. Elton John - Step Into Christmas
4. Dido - Christmas Day
5. Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
6. Gary Jules - Mad World
7. Music From The Snowman - Walking In The Air
8. Charlotte Church - Dream A Dream
9. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
10. Steps - Merry Christmas Everybody
11. ‘N*Sync feat Justin Timberlake - I Don’t Wanna Spend One More Christmas Without You
12. Backstreet Boys - Christmas Tree
13. Britney Spears - My Only Wish This Year
14. Destiny’s Child - Little Drummer Boy
15. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
16. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Do You Hear What I Hear?
17. Tony Bennett - Winter Wonderland
18. Doris Day - I’ll Be Home For Christmas
19. Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born
20. Cliff Richard - Millenium Prayer

Disc 3
1. The Pogues feat Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
2. Elvis Presley - Merry Christmas Baby
3. Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
4. Brenda Lee - Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
5. Linda Ronstadt - When You Wish Upon A Star
6. Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
7. Mario Lanza - Oh Christmas Tree
8. Natalie Cole - Jingle Bells
9. Jackie Wilson - Deck The Hall
10. T -Rex - Christmas Box
11. Al Green - What Christmas Means To Me
12. Harry Belafonte - Marys Boy Child
13. Air Supply - Sleigh Ride
14. Toni Braxton - Holiday Celebrate
15. Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas
16. The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas
17. Bo Selecta - Proper Crimbo
18. Auld Lang Syne
19. Aretha Franklin - Joy To The World
20. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Power Of Love

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One of the best......
If not the best Christmas album out there ..... and beleive me I should know, I've bought pleanty over the years, I say if your looking for a all round, something for everyone Christmas Album get this one I'll be suprised if your disapointed






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wizzard and slade!?
This would have been the perfect christmas CD - but it is missing 2 of the most important songs in popular music christmas history - wizzard and slade! Disappointing.

poor collection
A very poor collection of christmas songs. Why is it so hard to release a CD with all the known favourites on it with originals. Every year i have to make my own.
And since when was Mad World ever a christmas song? Just because it was a christmas number one, doesnt make it christmas in the slightest. What is wrong with these people. Its the same story with East 17 and Stay another day. Nothing christmas about it. Big deal, was number one at christmas and the video had some snow in it. Get over it.

And proper crimbo from bo-selecta. Are they having a laugh at us mugs? It just says it all. And then Steps instead of the original classic!!! That was a novelty song and should not be on a Christmas CD.



Some good songs... a lot of bad covers though!
I feel a little bit ripped off by this CD set... you read the list of songs and it sounds great, but then you play many of them and they're really bland soul-less covers, cheesy pop versions, or versions by no one you've heard before.

I thought I'd found a gem here, with all the great songs, but sadly its not the case. Several of the songs are the versions you DO want, such as Santa Baby and Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, but if you're wanting all of the song versions you know well, this might not be for you.

A Simple Solution.
It is a sad and simple truth that the perfect Xmas album does not exist, since no single record company or collection thereof own all the rights to all the songs you are going to want to hear. There is, however, a straightforward solution.

1)Buy this album. It is, despite its shortcomings, fantastic value(I got my copy for less than a fiver), it is after all a triple CD pack with 60 songs on it.
2)Buy "The best Christmas Album in the world...ever!"(yes there is some overlap but it does feature just about all those missing songs or superior versions that are required).
3)Make the "Most Perfect Xmas Album in the World Ever" by combining the above.If you own or have access to a computer(which I'm guessing you do if you're reading this) then it won't be too hard.

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