Title: Not Just Another "Merry Christmas" Record
Product review: The album has its share of happy music (including the first recording of The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping"), and even has it nauseatingly sweet tune ("It's a Big Country," a song about a man's widely scattered family). However, some songs in this collection invoke darker moods, moods usually referred to only in talk shows: "No More Christmas Blues" does its best to fight the Christmas Blues the singer seems to be suffering, "Things Fall Apart" (Cristina) talks about loneliness, enuii and memories of forced cheer on the part of the singer and "Christmas Time In the Motor City" (Was Not Was, they also produced Things Fall Apart) goes further and hits upon joblessness and homelessness. The three christmas classics (not on the original release of this) lift the mood of the release in a good way, as they're done straight without being nauseatingly so.
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