A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector

Nette Songs, besser als einige moderne Weihnachtslieder. Dann lieber sowas.

It’s a Christmas album

Uncomfortable, felt like christmas at gunpoint.

Just no. All Christmas music is negative 10 trillion stars.

This may be one of the best Christmas albums in existence. Unfortunately, it’s still a Christmas album

Wall to wall Christmas classics. Thanks Phil! Gotta love that wall of sound.

Everything you could wish for in a 1960’s Christmas album.

If o have to listen to Christmas music that’s not being performed by James Brown or Booker T, then this is it. I do love the girl groups of the sixties despite Phil Spector’s hand in their success.

It’s a good Christmas album, but it’s still just a Christmas album

I personally don’t have the nostalgia factor that so many do for this record (my mom strangely can’t stand most girl groups, so this was not a household staple growing up). Additionally, I think the cuts that have survived on holiday radio stations over here for the past 50 years are clearly the highlights, and the others don’t do a whole lot for me. But I totally respect its place in the pantheon of music history and enjoy it well enough when it’s on. Mostly, it just means so much to feel like I have a personalized gift from ultimate good guy Phil Spector, a man who arguably embodied the Christmas spirit more than anyone in history.

3.5/5

The only Christmas record I listen to. Everything is great - skip the weird Phil Spector thing at the end.

Wait, did they purposefully give me this for Christmas? I guess if a Christmas album is on this list, it makes sense to give it in December, not in July.
I was just watching a video about how Phil Spector screwed Darlene Love out of royalties in the making of this album, as iconic as she was in Baby Please Come Home. Phil Spector sketchiness aside, this sounds pretty epic for a 60s Christmas album in the singing and instrumentals. Still, it's a Christmas album, 3*.

Phil Spector is one of the most complicated artists for me in terms of “separate art from the artist.” An abusive, exploitative, murderous man who is also in some part responsible for the sound of all popular music since the 60s. An incredible innovator for sound who touched so many iconic albums. The benefit of an album like“Let it Be” is that you can kind of “forget” about his involvement. Not so with an album that has his name in its title. He haunts this album full of cheery Christmas classics! And even as the album goes on and you’ve nearly forgotten about him, he decides to show up like a dick and mansplain the record to you on the final track. Ugh.

So many of these songs are so endlessly nostalgic, and it’s easy to not realize that many of the song arrangements that are so familiar originated from this album. Some of the sound has aged poorly, but it was revolutionary stuff in its time. The Darlene love tracks are the best—and especially “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” which is one of the greatest Christmas records of all time.

This brought back memories of working retail in a department store. I couldn't turn this off fast enough. Christmas music is horrible. 1.15

A Christmas gift for me? Got the gift receipt? I'll keep the songs by The Ronettes and "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love though...

Love christmas

This saccharine overdose has me reaching for the insulin. The vocalists all deliver brilliant performances, the melodic phrasing remains surprisingly fresh despite the saturation of these songs, and the hit machine soul side of the production/arrangements (horns, swinging rhythms) is in full effect. But I can't stand these damn strings all over every track and, going full Grinch-mode, the songs are truly grating at this point.

Possibly the best christmas album of all time

Even outside the season, this is still a wonder. All classics, lightning in a bottle.

Probably the best a Christmas album can be, and the best representation of Phil Spector’s “Wall of sound” production style. Every song sounds full which is perfect for the holiday. Christmas(Baby Please Come Home) is an all time great Christmas song.