Shakin’ Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone.Frankie Goes To Hollywood – The Power Of Love.Bing Crosby, David Bowie – Peace On Earth / The Little Drummer Boy.Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?.John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Plastic Ono Band & The Harlem Community Choir – Happy Xmas (War Is Over.Frank Sinatra – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You).Chris de Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling.Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime.Greg Lake – I Believe In Father Christmas.Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.Now That’s What I Call Christmas Various Artists / 3CD set Now That’s What I Call Christmas will be released on CD on 29 October 2021 with the vinyl to follow on 12 November. The white vinyl is appealing, although in truth who wants to faff around with six sides of vinyl on Christmas Day when you want to stay put on the sofa with that tin of Quality Street while enjoying some festive classics. Personally, I’d like to have seen Kate Bush‘s ‘December Will Be Magic Again’, if only in the hope that they accidentally put the rare ‘bongo’ version on here. This is somewhat redundant on a compilation which features both of those songs in full! The bastard bunny’s ‘Let’s Party 2008’ is a Christmas song mash-up which heavily features Slade‘s ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’. The running order mixes up the decades and there’s not too much to complain about, but if you are looking for something then you might question the inclusion of Robbie Williams awful ‘Can’t Stop Christmas’ and you could – should – rant about putting the words ‘Jive Bunny’ on anything. Now That’s What I Call Christmas is available as a 3LP white vinyl set in addition to the 3CD set (click image to enlarge) Admittedly, Shakin’ Stevens’ ‘Blue Christmas’ is replaced by his festive chart-topper ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ but the song is still present and correct in the original Elvis version. In fact, by SDE’s count everything from the very original Christmas Album from 1985 features on here, save Gary Glitter (‘Another Rock and Roll Christmas’) and Queen (‘Thank God It’s Christmas’). Virtually all the ‘essentials’ are present and correct (‘Last Christmas’, ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, ‘Wonderful Christmastime’, Do They Know It’s Christmas? etc.) and a whole lot more. This is a bit more like it, as the compilers offer 68 Christmas songs on the three-CD edition and a still creditable 47 on the triple LP edition, pressed on – you guessed it – white vinyl. Perhaps in an attempt to make amends for the best forgotten Christmas Album reboot from 2016, the Now That’s What I Call Music team have put together a new festive compilation for 2021 called simply Now That’s What I Call Christmas.
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