Frankly a little disappointing
January 7, 2008
It's one thing for a CD like this to be short--obviously one look at the tracklist and you know that you're buying a special edition CD that won't have a full-length album on it. But the fact is, the quality of these tracks is just not up to the TMBG standard, which makes it an even harder pill to swallow that many of their great holiday songs don't make the disc.
I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
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December 12, 2004
This is a fun, but short, compilation of They Might Be Giants holiday songs. I like all the songs here, but some people might feel that it's overpriced (at ten bucks for five songs). But it's nice to have these holiday songs all on one CD.
Overpriced!
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October 10, 2004
I love They Might be Giants, but this isn't worth ten dollars. It only has 5 tracks (As you can see.) And 2 aren't that great. Santa Claus is a normal, so-so Flans song, and you can see an e-card for it on tmbg.com. Careless Santa has cool music, but it's also just another Flans song. Santa's Beard is good, but it's available on another album. Feast of Lights is the best song on here (It's by Linnell, that explains it.) and it's good, but worth 10 bucks? I found the mp3 on theymightbegiants.com. And O Tannenbaum is a song we already know and don't really need a remake, do we?
Just get their othe albums. (In case you're wondering, I gave them 3 stars because I like some of the music.
The best little Christmas EP you ever did see!
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December 4, 2002
This EP came as part of a bundle off TMBG's official site, so I can't complain about its price. Anyway, I'm a fairly new fan of TMBG, having just recently made my first purchase: "Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants". The "Holidayland EP" is not bad. I like all the tracks on it, my favorite being "Careless Santa", an unbelievably weird tale about (I'm assuming this) a guy hiring Santa to help him rob a bank. It's also got "Feast of Lights", the second song I've ever heard about Hanukah (the first being Adam Sandler's song, of course). I also enjoyed their covers of "Santa Claus" by the Sonics and "O Tannenbaum" in its original German.
More of a collector's item than anything else
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April 15, 2002
This Christmas EP is an appealing package, with cute cover art and a good title. The main problem is that the CD itself contains only five songs, all of which had been released before. Granted, some of them were slightly difficult to come by (most of them were on eMusic's TMBG Unlimited service, but I don't know how many people actually signed up for that), so most people will probably be getting something new, but when two of the tracks are readily available on studio albums, it seems like TMBG could have given us a little more. It's not like they exhausted their supply of holiday songs; there's always "Christmas Cards," as well as "We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime" (never officially released at all) and "Olive The Other Reindeer" (although there might have been copyright restrictions forbidding them from using that last one). This is something that a TMBG fan will probably want to listen to during the holidays, but it isn't an essential release by the band.
