VARIOUS - HEY, IT'S CHRISTMAS!, Vol. 1

1.  Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - The Oceanauts
2.  The Friendly Beasts - European Accident
3.  O Little Town Of Bethlehem - The Silver Fence
4.  Walking In A Winter Wonderland - Danny Leggett
5.  Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-An Introduction To Sunshine
6.  Angels We Have Heard On High - Socrates Perez
7.  She Won't Be Home - Jeff Vylonis & Tia Lisanne Masek
8.  Silver Bells - Moon In The Morning
9.  White Christmas - The Oceanauts
10. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tinsley
11. Silent Night - Mindy & Eric Steinberg
12. The First Noel - Saskatchewan
13. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Kyle Cox
14. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Cole NeSmith
15. What Child Is This? - Greg Perkins

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A nice Indie set, solid clean through if not too much in the above and beyond range.  The best songs on "Hey, It's Christmas", to my mind, are by The Oceanauts who absolutely nail "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and combine Fifties styled piano and 90s styled guitar riffs on "White Christmas", giving the old chestnut a modern indie age make-over.  Tinsley does a nice job on an electronic "Baby, It's Cold Outside"--tough to bring anything new to that one.  And it's always nice to see a couple of different covers, with European Accident giving "The Friendly Beasts" a go and Erasure's "She Won't Be Home" done up nicely by Jeff Vylonis & Tia Lisanne Masek.  Greg Perkins closes the whole thing out with another of the better songs herein, envisioning "What Child Is This?" in a the-good-bad-and-the-ugly-meets-the-outer-limits motif.  Pick this one up free at the Hey It's Christmas site.