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Title: One star, to pull down this extremely high rating
Review: I'm a person who likes lots of music, from bluegrass to avant garde. I was disappointed by this disc. While the arrangements are generally inventive, bringing together lots of unexpected instruments, I think the songwriting is pretty mediocre. There are two or three excellent and surprising tracks---the reinterpretations of traditional songs. Beyond these, the original songs are painful to listen to. Tasteless.The disc overall is too dynamic (loud/soft) to serve as background music, so it kind of defeats the purpose of Xmas music, doesn't it?What I'd like to hear from TSO is a rearrangement of the entire Nutcracker Suite! That would be way cooler than their original cheesy songs.
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