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8 Days of Christmas |  | Artist: Destiny's Child
Creators: Beyonce, Kelly Rowland
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Seller: abundatrade
Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 122779
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 86098
UPC: 696998609822
EAN: 0696998609822
ASIN: B00005QG8X
Release Date: October 30, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | 8 Days Of Christmas | | • | Winter Paradise | | • | A "DC" Christmas Medley | | • | Silent Night | | • | Little Drummer Boy | | • | Do You Hear What I Hear | | • | White Christmas | | • | Platinum Bells | | • | O' Holy Night | | • | Spread A Little Love On Christmas Day | | • | This Christmas | | • | Opera Of The Bells |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Chilly, forced, and overdone, this mixed bag of modern classics, tarted-up traditional carols, and trio of tunes penned by Beyonce Knowles doesn't conjure 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 like Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," "Silent Night," and "Little Drummer Boy" and embellishes them with their own trills and off-kilter harmonies, obscuring the songs' simple beauty. "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, a takeoff on the "12 Days of Christmas," without ever explaining why they lopped off four days. The band is shamelessly self-indulgent throughout the dozen songs found here, taking untold liberties, like renaming "Carol of the Bells" "Opera Bells" and recasting "Silver Bells" as "Platinum Bells" to reflect their multiplatinum status. But the low point of the record is when Destiny's Child hawk their Hasbro-manufactured dolls in the intro of "Platinum Bells": "Ladies, remember long ago we asked Santa to give us Christmas dolls? This year the dolls are you and me under the tree." Humbug. --Jaan Uhelszki
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Do not buy it unless you hate yourself, and Christmas! December 18, 2009
Ellisa Henley (Nashville, TN)
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse than "8 days of Christmas", along comes "Platinum bells", and the downright unbearable "Carol of the Bells" (so bad that I couldn't stop laughing through the entire song).
Yikes!
The world's worst Christmas album by far December 9, 2009
Steven Guy (Croydon, South Australia)
This album stinks. The music is poorly, carelessly produced. The singing is lazy, self-indulgent, meandering, pretentious, aimless and pointless. Listen to "Little Drummer Boy" if you don't believe me.
I find it hard to imagine the kind of music lover who would like this "music"?
The album has its uses, however - it would make a great "room clearer" when guests tend to stay too long or when unwanted relatives overstay their welcome on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Maybe the album sounds profound when played backwards or if the listener is completely and utterly blind drunk.
Not Horrible (3 1/2 stars) December 17, 2008
tyler
At first I didn't really like this CD. I only bought it because it was on sale for $6, but the more I listened to it, the more it grew on me a bit.
Cons:
- Some of the arrangements do not compliment the holiday season and they sound bland ("Platinum Bells", "White Christmas").
- Some of the lyrics are ridiculous ("But this year the dolls are you and me", "It's Christmas time with the Churren")
Pros:
- These girls can sing and their harmonizing is beautiful. ("Opera of the Bells", title track),
- Each of the girls have solo songs on this CD, which is nice to see because it showcases their individuality. ("Silent night", "Do You Hear What I Hear", "O Holy Night")
- Some of the tracks are really fun ("Winter Paradise" - which creatively samples George Michael's "Father Figure" - and "A DC Christmas Medley".)
Overall, this CD is actually a nice listen during the holiday season. Check it out.
 Great Product and Timely Service November 30, 2008
Consuelo DuConge-Morgan (Atlanta, GA)
The product was purchased as used but was in great condition. The product was also received in a timely manner. I was very pleased.
itz good November 17, 2006
Sara (tx)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
not great but good. of course i am a lil biased considering i praise myself as the biggest dc3 fan in the world lol
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