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- Date Released: October 17, 2006
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock, Holiday
- Label: Razor & Tie
Absolutely essential for any headbanger on your gift list.
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We Say...
Christmas Eve won’t be a silent night if these hair-metal dirtbags have anything to say about it. With their amps on eleven and their tongues firmly in cheek — check out the snippets of “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “Hava Nagila” in “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” — Dee Snider and da boys gleefully stomp their way through ten holiday standards. Rock goddess Lita Ford stops by to duet on “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” while “four quarts of Jack” and “two pairs of spandex pants” are some of the treats awaiting you in their heavy metal re-working of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Absolutely essential for any headbanger on your gift list.
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They Say...
Holiday-themed albums need to either be pretty good, horrifically terrible, or completely original to cause even the jolliest head to turn. Twisted Christmas, a ten-track collection of yuletide classics from the band that once writhed atop a convertible singing the song "Burn in Hell" near the end of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, manages to achieve all three. Twisted Sister was always a group that would occasionally transcend their hair metal image with some truly majestic and powerful rock & roll, so it comes as no surprise that they filter the beloved Christmas carol through the same makeup-smeared sieve that brought the world "I Wanna Rock," "Wake Up the Sleeping Giant," and "The Prize." In fact, "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" sounds so much like a reimagining of "We're Not Gonna Take It," the listener can't help but become outraged at all of the injustice in the world. "Deck the Halls" sounds like a Ramones tune, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," featuring guest vocalist Lita Ford, could have launched a thousand lighters at any stadium in the late '80s, and the absolutely embarrassing "Heavy Metal Christmas" ("12 silver crosses, 11 black mascaras, ten pairs of platforms, nine tattered T-shirts, eight pentagrams, seven leather jackets, six cans of hair spray, five skullhead rings, four quarts of Jack, three studded belts, two pairs of spandex pants, and a tattoo of Ozzy") is almost impossible to turn off without seeing it through to its loathsome but charming end.
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| 01. |  |
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
4:48 |
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| 02. | |
Oh Come All Ye Faithful |
4:39 |
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| 03. | |
White Christmas |
3:56 |
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| 04. | |
I'll Be Home for Christmas |
4:08 |
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| 05. | |
Silver Bells |
5:05 |
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| 06. | |
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus |
3:39 |
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| 07. | |
Let It Snow |
3:09 |
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| 08. | |
Deck the Halls |
2:52 |
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| 09. | |
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire) |
3:40 |
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| 10. | |
Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days of Christmas) |
5:14 |
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| 11. |
Untitled |
0:36 |
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11 Total Tracks, 41:46 Total Length
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Credits
- Lita Ford - Guitar // Lita Ford - Vocals // Jay Jay French - Guitar // Jay Jay French - Guitar (Rhythm) // Jay Jay French - Vocals (Background) // Jay Jay French - Executive Producer // Dennis McNerney - Mastering // Dennis McNerney - Mixing // Dennis McNerney - Executive Engineer // Mark Mendoza - Guitar (Bass) // Mark Mendoza - Vocals (Background) // Mark Mendoza - Producer // Mark Mendoza - Mastering // Mark Mendoza - Mixing // Eddie Ojeda - Guitar // Eddie Ojeda - Arranger // Eddie Ojeda - Guitar (Rhythm) // Eddie Ojeda - Vocals (Background) // A.J. Pero - Percussion // A.J. Pero - Arranger // A.J. Pero - Drums // A.J. Pero - Vocals (Background) // Dee Snider - Arranger // Dee Snider - Vocals // Dee Snider - Vocals (Background) // David Richman - Design // David Richman - Cover Art // Hakon Grav - Photography // Brian Bunce - Trumpet // George Marchall - Assistant Engineer // Dan Levine - Design // Dan Levine - Cover Art
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