It takes a lot for me to hate a Christmas album. They can be clich\u00e9d and uninspired, but at the core they are still songs I treasure and love. A Twisted Christmas<\/i> takes those sentiments and proves me completely wrong.<\/p>\n
Let the record state I have never listened to a Twisted Sister album and know only a handful of their songs. Dee Snider, the Sister front man, is one of those guys that does interviews for VH-1\u2019s I Love the _____<\/i> series, as well as hosts a weekly radio show playing nothing but bad hair pop-metal hits that should have died in 1990. Yet despite my prior lack of experience with the band, my thinking was along the lines of Han Solos\u2019 \u201cI have a bad feeling about this.\u201d<\/p>\n
I can get past the fact that \u201cO Come All Ye Faithful\u201d is a blatant, intentional reworking of \u201cWe\u2019re Not Gonna Take It.\u201d At least, I hope it\u2019s intentional. The rest of the tunes are those classics everyone knows, such standards as \u201cJingle Bells,\u201d or \u201cWhite Christmas.\u201d There is also the Sister version of the \u201c12 Days Of Christmas,\u201d entitled \u201cHeavy Metal Christmas.\u201d In it, Snider bemoans that he received two pairs of spandex pants and four quarts of Jack from his true love. Har har.<\/p>\n
Unlike records like the Jethro Tull Christmas Album<\/i>, these songs are by the numbers, hardly deviating from their familiar melodies. There is no problem with that usually, but come on, you have to bring something new to the table. Just playing these songs \u201cheavy\u201d has been done before; hell, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has made a successful career out of it. Why else make a Christmas album if one is not going to try anything different?<\/p>\n
In the end, that tells me this record was made for money alone. It gets Twisted Sister back in the \u201cspotlight,\u201d I suppose, but what should have been an amusing, hard-rocking Christmas album is dull and dreadfully clich\u00e9d. It sounds like these guys tried to make a \u201cclever\u201d album. They failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6312],"rating":[11203],"class_list":["post-40100","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-twisted-sister","rating-rating-d-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40100"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40100"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}