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The Christmas Attic | 
 enlarge | Artist: Trans-siberian Orchestra
Label: Lava
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  91 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 83145
UPC: 756783145208
EAN: 0075678314520
Release Date: October 13, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | The Ghost of Christmas Eve | | • | Boughs of Holly | | • | The World That She Sees | | • | Midnight Christmas Eve | | • | The March of the Kings/Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, | | • | The Three Kings and I (What Really Happened) | | • | Christmas Canon | | • | Joy/Angels We Have Heard on High - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kinkel, Robert | | • | Find Our Way Home | | • | Appalachian Snowfall | | • | The Music Box | | • | The Snow Came Down | | • | Christmas in the Air | | • | Dream Child (A Christmas Dream) | | • | An Angel's Share | | • | Music Box Blues |
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Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber will discover he has a soul mate in one Paul O'Neill, the "conductor" of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A dyed-in-the-wool sentimentalist, O'Neill presents this pop-rock tale from 1998 with all the glitz and glory of a Lloyd Webber Broadway show. Playing to the common themes of the season through a tale about a little angel sent to Earth to leave behind a gift, O'Neill creates a big-sounding production heavy on lead guitars and orchestral filigree. There are pieces of familiar Christmas carols and hymns and a handful of unembellished acoustic numbers to offset the brighter parts of the musical melodrama. While his singers and players are all professional sounding, O'Neill often mistakes sentiment as a grand gesture when it needs to be something less ambitious or noticeable. Nonetheless, there's a TV special or Broadway show wrapped up in this attic and it won't go away until it gets done. --Martin Keller
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 Unusual but Not Quite Up to Expectations November 26, 2008
N. Smith
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the Christmas Canon but the rest of the songs didn't measure up. I should have investigated it better before purchasing it. I think if this was a live performance it would be worth it, but the CD just doesn't cut it.
 TSO is a tradition now November 18, 2008
defcon888 (No. Calif.)
I have been a fan since 1999 and only started going to their concerts in 2006. I wish I wouldn't have waited so long. They are absolutely amazing to see live.
If you are expecting "Jingle Bells" and "White Christmas" or "I'll Be Home for Christmas".......look other places....TSO is not that all. There music envokes emotion of what Christmas is/was or should be.
***WARNING***
There concerts are pretty much the same from year to year. They pretty much do the first album from start to finish....it tells a story...AMAZING.
If you are going to expect to see them preform songs off this album, they do...but, not the whole album. They finish the first album, introduce the band, then for another hour they jam on the other songs...some chritmas, some not (They did "Layla" one year). They also do "Borina" (sp).....WOW!.
Get all 3 albums (XMAS) and the non XMAS one and you will be a fan immediately. I start listening to the XMAS CD's the day after Halloween!
 A little Pachelbel, a little Bach, and some music box blues August 20, 2008
D. COLLIER (Brownwood, TX United States)
THE CHRISTMAS ATTIC marked the second CD release by the Christmas rock-opera sensation, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Most of the good stuff from the first album, CHRISTMAS EVE AND OTHER STORIES, but it seems to lack in substance. Very little of the music herein echoes the astounding quality of CHRISTMAS EVE AND OTHER STORIES. Certainly the exceptions would the very beautiful "Christmas Canon" (a children's chorus singing to the tune of Pachelbel's "Canon in D") and "Joy / Angels We Have Heard on High" (consisting in addition to the latter title, also an electric guitar solo of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring").
Likewise, "Midnight Christmas Eve" and "Appalachian Snowfall" are enjoyable light rock instrumentals, but they have nothing to remind the listeners of Christmas. "The Music Box" is a gentle lullaby as is "Dream Child (A Christmas Dream)".
Nearly all of the songs on this CD are filled with sweetness and sentiment. But what the majority of them are sorely lacking (and what is absolutely essential in a Christmas album) is the familiar. The first album had a fairly healthy mixture of familiar Christmas classics and TSO's own songs to help tell their story. (Perhaps they could have used a few more of those familiar classics, but it was still a great album.) THE CHRISTMAS ATTIC is unfortunately largely void of the familiar carols. And that's what people look for in a Christmas album.
Incredible March 21, 2008
H. Landman (Rhode Island)
TSO is simply the most powerful modern orchestra of our time. If you've never heard them, you must do so. You will be truly moved by the experience.
When you had enough Christmas music January 18, 2008
S. M. Concha (MN, USA)
It is so irritating to me when Christmas music starts to make its way to the airwaves by October that by the time December hits this songs have lost most of their luster. If you feel the same way, give this a try, it is a great rearranging of some Christmas classics with a great overtone of Rock and Roll.
T.S.O. has managed to remake the sounds of Christmas without loosing the Christmas spirit.If you decided to stop buying Christmas music, buy this, or any of the other three recordings.
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