The Classic Christmas '80s Album [Vinyl]
Various/Xmas
LP
The Classic Christmas 80s Album This compilation brings together some of the most memorable Christmas rock songs from the 1980s, including some you can't get enough of, and some you'll probably be able to tolerate again only after hitting the egg nog hard (I'll leave it up to you to decide which is which.) - No Christmas compilation, particularly one from the '80s, would be complete without The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping" and Wham's "Last Christmas," and both show up early here. Run-DMC's crossover holiday hit "Christmas In Hollis" was one of the first seasonal songs to be embraced by both rock and rap fans, and "Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You" remains one of the better songs Billy Squier ever recorded. - Whitney Houston ("Do You Hear What I Hear?"), Hall & Oates ("Jingle Bell Rock") and Dave Edmunds ("Run Rudolph Run") are part of every pop-rock Christmas, as is the comedic "Twelve Days of Christmas" by Bob & Doug McKenzie, with the notable refrain, "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me... a beer." Run Time: 52 minutes
Tracklist:
- Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
- Last Christmas - Wham!
- Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
- Christmas in Hollis - RUN-DMC
- Jingle Bell Rock - Daryl Hall & John Oates
- Do You Hear What I Hear? - Whitney Houston
- Christmas Is the Time to Say "I Love You" - Billy Squier
- Run Rudolph Run - Dave Edmunds
- Zat You Santa Claus - Buster Poindexter and His Banshees Of Blue
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - The Pointer Sisters
- Christmas Time Is Here - Ray Parker Jr.
- The Twelve Days of Christmas - Bob & Doug McKenzie
- This One's for the Children - New Kids On The Block
- Slick Nick, You Devil You - Fishbone
- Silent Night - The Hooters