It's probably due to the incessant commercializing of Christmas, but over the years I've developed a slightly involuntary cringe whenever I hear a Christmas carol. Nothing against Christmas - nothing at all - but seriously, do the stores have to all buy the same CD, and play only that one CD endlessly for 2 solid months?
Now that I'm on the subject - I was once in a store buying some shoes around Christmas time, and I heard the same song repeated six times! Can you believe it?
So - because Christmas music can still be fun - here's a short list of great albums that put a bit of a different spin on the traditional carols most of us are used to. Why did I pick 8? Why not? 10 is so over-rated...
There are of course countless Christmas albums out there (seems that nearly any band that's been around more than about 4 years has a Christmas album) so here I've decided to focus mostly on Christmas albums that are guitar or blues/rock based. I mean, what guitar player wouldn't find it cool to have a guitar-driven version of Deck the Halls roaring out of the stereo?
Just as a side note - if you click through to Amazon you can actually listen to samples of each song on each album.
Thus without further ado, I present you 8 Cool Guitar Christmas Albums.