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 enlarge | Artist: Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 83043
UPC: 075678304323
EAN: 0075678304323
Release Date: October 7, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | It's the Most Fattening Time of the Year | | • | Toy Sack | | • | Police Stop My Car | | • | Sled Zeppelin | | • | Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! | | • | Parking Spaces | | • | There's a Santa Who Looks a Lot Like Elvis | | • | Jesus's Birthday | | • | All You Need Is Elves | | • | Buttcracker Suite | | • | Hey You! Get off My House | | • | Holidaze (S'cuze Me, I've Got Gifts to Buy) | | • | Rummy Rocker Boy |
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Bob Rivers is in top form here plying his satire-ridden stocking-stuffer trade, serving up note-per-note knockoffs of everyone from Led Zeppelin and the B52s to Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and Tchaikovsky, among others. No lazy satirists, Rivers and company deliver not only grand musical copies but clever and witty lyrics that slum on the gutter side only occasionally ("Buttcracker Suite" being the biggest offender). The rest of the time it's good-natured stuff even ol' Scrooge could like. "It's the Most Fattening Time of the Year" apes Johnny Mathis, "Sled Zeppelin" nails the Plant-Page matrix, and the Beatles' rips, "Jesus' Birthday" and "All You Need Is Elves," also highlight the 13 tracks. But the most inspired cuts are a big-band swing version of the Rolling Stones' "Get off My Cloud" (here retitled "Hey You! Get Off My House") and Hendrix's "Purple Haze," knowingly recast as "Holidaze (Scuze Me, I've Got Gifts to Buy)." If that one doesn't grab yer funny bone, it may be time for that humor-marrow transplant. --Martin Keller
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 You'll be disappointed. December 14, 2007
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
This is the weakest of the many Bob Rivers Christmas albums. There are the usual parodies of Christmas songs, which aren't quite as funny as usual. And then there are the parodies of non-Christmas songs, which are transformed into Christmas songs. They do sound a lot like the performers they are imitating (the B-52's, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix), but the jokes aren't half as funny as they think they are. One peculiar one is a parody of the Rolling Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud", but it is done in the style of Frank Sinatra. Still, it is a moderately funny album. And I do like "There's a Santa Who Looks a Lot Like Elvis".
 Get this one, not the other twisted Christmas album February 21, 2007
Randy Holloman (South Georgia USA)
Really, really good imitations and impressions of famous stars doing Christmas songs. I was amazed.
 Hilarious February 7, 2007
Laura (texas)
Read other reviews about this album as "a great alternative to the same ol' Christmas music" and couldn't agree more. I listen to it throughout the year. Love it.
Second Only To The First "Twisted Christmas"! December 24, 2004
Sally Atman (Redondo Beach, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have all of the Bob Rivers' "Twisted Christmas" CDs, and the original "Twisted Christmas" and "More Twisted Christmas" are still the best. Rivers and his gang do hilarious parodies of actual Christmas songs, rather than just making up funny Christmas songs.
Some people might consider Bob Rivers irreverant, but those of us here love him!
Better music, but the jokes are still lame November 30, 2004
J. Martin (Toledo, OH)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
These songs at least sound similar to the original performer. The jokes are still juvinile and lame.
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