Christmas With Weezer Review

Released: Dec 16, 2008
Genre: Christmas Music, Power Pop, Alternative Rock
Label: DGC / Interscope
Number Of Tracks: 6
Christmas with Weezer is the first Christmas album by American rock band Weezer. It was released through DGC / Interscope on December 16, 2008.

Sound:	8
Lyrics:	6.5
Impression:	8
Overall rating:	7.5
Users rating:	7.4
Comments:	28

overall: 8

Featured review by: Beam Sword0, on december 19, 2008

Sound: Everything about Christmas With Weezer is explained in the title. Christmas With Weezer is a compliation of six good old fashion Christmas songs with the Weezer sound, and excitement. It's just old skool Weezer playing old skool Christmas songs, and it's amazing. After the summer release of 'The Red Album, ' I never imagined Weezer releasing something this amazing within a year. // 8

Lyrics and Singing: Christmas lyrics are almost always extremely catchy, and Weezer's new songs are just that! Rivers Cuomo is amazing on this album. His voice is basically flawless, but in some songs, it was easy to tell he had a hard time singing high enough. If you want a song that's good, but sounds hard for Rivers to sing, listen to O Holy Night. Good job Rivers. // 8

Impression: Being such a small album, and about Christmas one would think it's not that great, but hey, it sure is a hell of a lot better than Make Believe! The first track We Wish You a Merry Christmas has that Blue Album tone to it, with a nice little solo. The next two tracks are probably the best tracks on the album. The rest of the songs are also good, but I could get throught Christmas without them. The way Rivers sings the songs makes them sound so Christmas-ie. Thanks Weezer for releasing this amazing album of Christmas songs! Looking forward to more next year! // 8

overall: 7

Reviewed by: Paul Carbonella, on december 22, 2008

Sound: Over the years, it has become a growing cliche' for musicians to release Christmas records. It is expected to hear everyone's favorite Top-40 pop-stars wailing AutoTune-happy renditions of "Jingle Bell Rock." But very rarely is any extra flavor added to those covers. What Weezer does on this album isn't some genre-crossing, innovative record by any means. It is simplistic, but does exactly what it means to: deliver the fun and energy that most Christmas covers lack. Whether we're talking about an overdrive-laced "Come All Ye Faithful" or the layers or Power-Pop vocals on the "Silent Night" cover, you won't be bored. Instead, you'll be dancing like an idiot. Trust me on this. // 8

Lyrics and Singing: While the album does a good job with poppy vocals, there's something missing in Rivers Cuomo's vocals. While he does a good job of singing all of these songs note-per-note, he gives us nothing else. Rivers is one of my favorite Pop-Rock singers because of the color he gives his vocals, but this album has none of that. There's no personality and he doesn't sound like he's having fun. He's sounds like he's just singing the notes he reads off some sheet music, and it's the most dissapointing thing on the album. // 5

Impression: Overall, this is a great break from the usual ballads you hear this time of year. This album delivers the fun that Christmas records seem to have lost. It has powerful guitars, and energetic instrumentation. Next time you're at a party, do everyone a favor and play this instead of Josh Groban singing "Silent Night." Everyone will be much happier. // 8

Comments

[Pretty_Much]

That was a really cheesy review.

[Moonman13]

It's not the first christmas album by weezer.

[Teej212]

first full album, they have one other christmas song i thought

[quazitron]

I am loving track five - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. This one really rocks! :

[viper565]

...But I like Make Believe.

[Beam Sword0]

why did they put this up on the main page? i just felt like making a dumb review...

[quazitron]

Beam Sword0 wrote:

why did they put this up on the main page? i just felt like making a dumb review...

LOL! Let that be a lesson to you! ; On the internet, our words haunt us...

I loved your Pork & Beans tab, BTW.

[phillyguitar]

you can listen to the whole album on their myspace rght now, sounds pretty much like you would expect.

Christmas carols with crunchy Weezer guitar hehe

[fender456]

viper565 wrote:

...But I like Make Believe.

yeah make believe rocks.

[Vedicardi]

Dear god if you like make believe for anything more than catchy lyrics, you ought to off yerself

[Rignark]

I gotta agree with you there make believe sucked. old 90's weezer is good in my opinion. havnt heard the x-mas songs but they cant be that bad

[Dilpickle1]

make believe wasnt bad...

[GoldSoundzUKNZ]

haha this sounds awesome! i bet we can't get it in new zealand...

[fenderarmy]

I only listened to make believe twice and it was meh, but the red album is so much worse! the songs i heard were just lists. And Vedicardi, love your vocabulary, i'm pretty sure your mom is mine too.

[xorg3]

weak, not even a track list?

[SOADriff]

sounds like ****in shit.

[Ixthyx]

Make Believe was rubbish, and this is just a novelty item for the hardcore Weezer fans to collect and pull out in 20 years when their kids get curious about 90s AltRock. For the rest it's a waste of time.

[mattb91]

red album was a disappointment. make believe was actually pretty good. at least it sounded like weezer. the red album is just lame.

[ofreena]

viper565 wrote:

...But I like Make Believe.

Me too, I loved that album infact... it was broken by a friend and I bought it..again :|

[atthedrive-thru]

make believe is better than the red album

[Shabalaba]

Beam Sword0 wrote:

why did they put this up on the main page? i just felt like making a dumb review...

Now you look even sillier, good job

[Beam Sword0]

Shabalaba wrote:

Beam Sword0 wrote:

why did they put this up on the main page? i just felt like making a dumb review...

Now you look even sillier, good job

thank you!

[blindfatkid23]

i didn't hear the whole make believe album, but i love the song perfect situation, so catchy and fun to play... on drums lol

[chaoticfables]

GoldSoundzUKNZ wrote:

haha this sounds awesome! i bet we can't get it in new zealand...

iTunes haha

[Bozjoarmstrong]

well really, I was dissappointed by this
theyve not put their own spin on it or anything, just basically the original songs with boring guitar in the background...3/10

[Paul Carbonella]

rivers' singing is so ****ing boring.

[GoToSleep]

Weezer Christmas album = Lame.

[oasis1]

Paul Carbonella :
rivers' singing is so ****ing boring

i actually disagree, i thought his voice was ****in mental on this, its not tht great of a album, but if anything is good on it, its his voice, in o holy night, i think rivcers really shows his pipes