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Track Listings
| 1. Winter Paradise - Sample Father Figure |
| 2. Santa Claus Is Comin To Town |
| 3. Jingle Bells |
| 4. Frosty The Snowman |
| 5. Have A Holly Jolly Christmas |
| 6. Deck The Halls |
| 7. Here Comes Santa Claus |
| 8. 8 Days of Christmas |
| 9. Winter Paradise |
| 10. "A ""DC"" Christmas Medley" |
| 11. Silent Night |
| 12. Little Drummer Boy |
| 13. Do You Hear What I Hear? |
| 14. White Christmas |
| 15. Platinum Bells |
| 16. O' Holy Night |
| 17. Spread A Little Love On Christmas Day |
| 18. This Christmas |
| 19. Carol Of The Bells a.k.a Opera Of The Bells |
| 20. The Proud Family |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
I'd never want to visit Destiny's Child's homes for the holidays, if their nonsensically named holiday album 8 Days of Christmas is any indication of what they've got under the tree. Chilly, forced and overdone, this mixed bag of modern classics, tarted-up traditional carols and a trio of tunes penned by Beyoncé Knowles doesn't conjure up a single warm-and-fuzzy image of chestnuts roasting on an open fire or Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Rather, it's just another forum to showcase the band's Gucci bag of vocal gymnastics and crass materialism. The Texas trio takes seasonal classics such as Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy" and embellishes them with its own trills and off-kilter harmonies, overwhelming the songs so that their simple beauty is totally obscured. "On the eighth day of Christmas, my baby gave to me, a pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring," brags Knowles in the title song--which is a take-off on the "12 Days of Christmas"--without ever explaining why they loped off four days. In addition, the band are shamelessly self-indulgent throughout the dozen songs found here, taking untold liberties, such as renaming the "Carol of the Bells", "Opera Bells" and recasting "Silver Bells" into "Platinum Bells", to reflect their multi-platinum status. But the low point of the record is when Destiny's Child hawk their own Hasbro Toy manufactured dolls in the intro of "Platinum Bells": "Ladies remember long ago we asked Santa to give us Christmas Dolls? But this year the dolls are you and me under the tree". Humbug. --Jaan Uhelszki
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Their fourth CD and yet another classic. No matter which members of the group have enterd or left or whatever, the voices these girls have are direct from god.
Standouts to this album are the following three:- This Christmas, A DC Xmas melody and the final clasing track which has to get them some awards Opera Of The Bells. For future listening their all time best is definatley the first album, follwed by Writing On The Wall and Survivor. Enjoy and have a great xmas, DC will certainly make any old scrooge smile on the 25th.
Standouts to this album are the following three:- This Christmas, A DC Xmas melody and the final clasing track which has to get them some awards Opera Of The Bells. For future listening their all time best is definatley the first album, follwed by Writing On The Wall and Survivor. Enjoy and have a great xmas, DC will certainly make any old scrooge smile on the 25th.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Now, there have been people complaining loads about this album. "It's nowhere near as good as The Writing's On The Wall"! Well, no it isn't, but then this is a Christmas album, and every multi-platinum artist has done one - Mariah, Christina Aguilera, Toni Braxton - so Destiny's Child have given it a go.
Some of the songs are, in all fairness, quite bad, worthy of the skip button on the CD player! But then, it's all about the Christmas spirit, and these devoutly Christian girls sing about something they believe in.
'8 Days Of Christmas' is a great contemporary Christmas track, tearing away from the bore-fests that are 'let's all be happy and sing with sugar sweet voices about love' songs. And each girl gets their own track to sing on individually. At the end of the album, Solange (Beyonce's sister) has a track, 'The Proud Family', the theme from the Disney show which she sings. Yes, it is very clever marketing by Mr Mathew Knowles, but so what?
So to every fan of Destiny's Child out there, this is no masterpiece and it was never intended to be. It's just the girls havin' fun and doing their thing with the Christmas songs everyone knows.
Some of the songs are, in all fairness, quite bad, worthy of the skip button on the CD player! But then, it's all about the Christmas spirit, and these devoutly Christian girls sing about something they believe in.
'8 Days Of Christmas' is a great contemporary Christmas track, tearing away from the bore-fests that are 'let's all be happy and sing with sugar sweet voices about love' songs. And each girl gets their own track to sing on individually. At the end of the album, Solange (Beyonce's sister) has a track, 'The Proud Family', the theme from the Disney show which she sings. Yes, it is very clever marketing by Mr Mathew Knowles, but so what?
So to every fan of Destiny's Child out there, this is no masterpiece and it was never intended to be. It's just the girls havin' fun and doing their thing with the Christmas songs everyone knows.
Format:Audio CD
This CD is one of those Christmas CD's that everyone has to have in their CD collection. Its lovely in my eyes. its great for the Christmas time! Don't pull this CD out in the middle of August u would really be daft! but I think its one those Christmas CD's every1 has to have. Another Gr8 DC3 Album
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Christmas Greed.
"On the Eighth Day of Christmas, my baby gave to me, a pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring,"
The lyrics say it all about Destiny's Child and the so-called R&B genre... Read more
The lyrics say it all about Destiny's Child and the so-called R&B genre... Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2009 by M. Campion
Not typical of what I listen to but interesting
I like many different types of music including pop, rock, country, jazz, folk, classical and R+B. When it comes to R+B, I am mainly interested in the old stuff, particularly of the... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by Peter Durward Harris
on the 8th day of christmas my baby gave to me..............
.............A copy of this great cd, i dare you to buy it and only get it out at christmas! It can be enjoyed the whole year round i mean i was listing to in greece in June! Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2005 by "arron202"
on the 8th day of christmas my baby gave to me..............
........A copy of one of destiny's child's best cds!
Before i got this album i personally had no liking for christmas carols, they were to slow for my taste and... Read more
Before i got this album i personally had no liking for christmas carols, they were to slow for my taste and... Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2005
Destiny Child Does Christmas
I brought the album for a BIG Destinys Child fan for Christmas, and personally found the R'n'B versions of the Christmas classics refreshing in a world where about anyone can get a... Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2005 by "gore236"
So disappointing! Lucky Destiny's child are splitin now!
I was once a HUGE Destiny's child fan and I once believed that every single song that they recorded would be brilliant. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2002 by Aaron Thompson Wilks
Is there anything these girls can not do?!
An amazing album!With the usual destiny flow!Balads which are enough to make you cry to heavy bumpin pure r'n'b tunes! Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2002
CAROL SINGERS MOVE OVER!!!!!!!
Destiney's Child are back with another great album, this time to get you in the festive mood.This is a great combonation of ballads and jingles. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2001
another masteriece
this album is a great x-mas album from the greatest "destiny's child". in this one you'll find alot of x-mas melodies but with a special r'n'b touch by dc, and it sounds... Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2001
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