Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Lost Christmas Eve
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Free Music Review: TSO Gets it Right!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you don't have any TSO CDs get this one and "Christmas Eve and Other Stories." It's just what the doctor ordered for what ails you from Shopping Madness, to Seasonal Music Dystopia, to Christmas Blues.
It's Christmas tunes completely modernized but done right. What I mean is this. . .most "modern" remakes of holiday music make me cringe. I'm sorry, but "Blue Christmas" by Elvis just doesn't do it for me. Other remakes by celebrities pop and otherwise have a similar effect. Traditional styles are beautiful but make me glad when the season is over.
This group is different from either style.
This is guitar for the holidays the way it was meant to be. It is both 100% hard rock and 100% holiday spirit. The artists are not afraid to put a loud Marshall amp crunch into a Liszt masterpiece . . . and it's a perfect fit.
The keyboards in "Wizards in Winter" are silvery, ethereal, and palpitating.
The vocals in these CDs range from strictly classical to Maiden-esque. Beautiful, endearing, scintillating, charged, and volcanic.
Paul O'neill and the other artists have tapped into two common threads running through listeners: the need for great music that fires the heart and launches the soul and the desire for holiday music that touches the divine. They also prove there are still artists out there that can write new Christmas material destined to become future classics.
If you haven't bought them yet, now is the time.
Free Music Review: Worthy successor to X-mas Eve and X-mas Attic
Hit: 5 Stars
When I heard on TSO's website that they were finally releasing their third and final christmas album I was estatic. I every album TSO has made and this is certianly a worthy successor in the christmas tradition that is TSO. Is it better than Christmas Eve and Other Stories, not at all, but then I can't name a single album that IS better than TSO's first album! Lost Christmas Eve does include very powerful songs that will certianly stand the test of time like those first songs.
"Remember" is a truly beautiful piece involving a wonderful children's choir that certianly ranks up with Christmas Canon on Xmas Attic. The album really takes off with "For the Sake of our Brother," a lovely, powerful ballad with "O, Come all Ye Faithful" woven into it. "Back to a Reason" was taken from Savatage which is TSO also is. They however redo it wonderfully, adding great lyrics.
"What Child is this?" is by far my favorite song. It starts very chilling, then becomes very upbeat and positive, a nice happy way to end the story. "Christmas Canon Rock" is a remake of the above mentioned "Christmas Canon" from Xmas Attic. Instead of a lone children's choir, we get a wonderful female singer backed up by the full band. Awsome!!!
Overall, I really love this album. Be warned that you are not getting Christmas Eve and Other Stories or even Christmas Attic, instead you are getting an incredible ending to perhaps the greatest trilogy of albums of all time.
Free Music Review: I Heart TSO (And hope I can get an A off of them...)
Hit: 5 Stars
I am taking a music business course in college. We were given the task to choose an artist that is releasing an album in time for Christmas and track the progress of the band and album while doing research about such things as distribution, royalties, and all the work that goes into cutting an album. When I got this album, I was pretty pissed off at TSO because I was writing a paper on them at the time. But as soon as I put it in my Discman, all the anger melted away. Faith Noel, the first track, is much like Christmas Eve Sarajevo from "Christmas Eve and Other Stories": a totally rocking instrumental of a classic hymn. As I am also a guitar student, the use of electric guitars is amazing to my ears. It put me in the mood for Christmas, even though it was the middle of October. Other great instrumentals: Wizards in Winter, Wisdom of Snow, Wish Liszt, O Come All Ye Faithful.
As a theatre student, the songs with singing seem very Broadway-esque, as some of the male singers remind me vocally of Michael Crawford, the Phantom of the Opera. Such intensity, such force, such emotion. Great tracks with lyrics: The Lost Christmas Eve, Christmas Dreams, Anno Domine, Christmas Nights in Blue, What Is Christmas?(They all are awesome, those are just my favorites!)
If you love TSO, dramatic music, or classical music with a rocking twist, get this album...give me something to write about! Happy Halloween!
Free Music Review: One of TSO's Best
Hit: 5 Stars
The Lost Christmas Eve is the final installment in TSO's christmas trilogy. It may be the last, but that doesn't mean the sound is getting old. An excellent comeback from the slightly dissapointing Christmas Attic, The Lost Christmas Eve starts off with a bang, and doesn't let up until the final notes of the last song. The vocals on the album are some of TSO's best, second only to the ones on Beethoven's Last Night. They are best heard on such tracks as "The Lost Christmas Eve", "Christmas Dreams", and "What is Christmas?". The instrumentals are definitely the best TSO has ever done, and none feel repetitive like the ones on The Christmas Attic. They are without a doubt the high points of the album, with such songs as "Wizards in Winter", "Queen of the Winter Night", "Christmas Jam", and "Siberian Sleigh Ride" being the best of them all. However, my personal favorite song and instrumental on the album is the amazing "Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness)", which is Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody", but with electric guitars and incredibly fast keyboards. Also of note is "The Wisdom of Snow", a beautiful piano solo coming in at 2:01. Overall, The Lost Christmas Eve, while maybe not being as moving and meaningful as albums like Christmas Eve and Other Stories, is certainly just as powerful, and is definitely the most fun to listen to.Free Music Review: The Best of the Trio
Hit: 5 Stars
This was the first of the 3 TSO Christmas CD's I bought, and a good thing, too, because it's the best of the 3. The instrumentals in particular are the best of the bunch, led by the riveting (though it's starting to get overplayed on commercials) Wizards of Winter. Christmas Jam, Wish Liszt, and Siberian Sleigh Ride are all excellent instrumentals, and Faith Noel and Queen of the Winter Night are very good as well.
The non-instrumentals are also better than those of the previous 2 albums. What Child Is This is one of the most interesting renditions I've ever heard, and Christmas Canon Rock brings Pachelbel's classic to life. Of the original songs, The Lost Christmas Eve, Christmas Dreams, and Anno Domine stand out to me, though several of the other songs have their moments.
I don't think the reviewer who described the music as "3 power chords" and TSO as having minimal musicianship was listening to the same album I was. The musicianship is phenomenal on this album.
If you like the sound of traditional Christmas music, stay far away. Just pick any of the other thousands of Christmas albums out there; they all sound pretty much the same. For those of us who've heard enough "Rudolphs" and traditional Christmas hymns to last many lifetimes, this stuff is pure gold.