Rugrats Holiday Classics

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The Rugrats have only grown up on select specials at their home base on Nickelodeon, so we shouldn't expect them to rise above the level of the shag carpet, right? On Holiday Classics, they live up to their rep for occasional potty-mouth humor and goofy hijinx, taking the kinds of liberties only these tikes can with standards like "Jingle Bells" (here rendered by Angelica as "Tinkle Heads.") The worm-eating goobers change the Hanukkah classic "The Dreidel Song" into "The Cradle Song" and take great delight in singing about how they filled little Dill's cradle with soup, "and when we try to drink it, it makes us want to poop." There are less graphic displays of the holiday spirit ("Tommy's Silent Night" has sincerity and cuteness to spare), but overall, calling Holiday Classics a cool stocking stuffer would really be a woolly stretch. --Martin Keller

Tracks:

Twelve Days Of Rugrats (Inspired By Twelve Days Of Christmas)
Jingle Babies (Inspired By Jingle Bells)
Tommy's Silent Night (Inspired By Silent Night)
Heck, Why Is Santa Always Jolly?
Toys For The Girls (Inspired By Joy To The World)
Feliz Navidad
We Wish Dat Today Was Christmas (Inpired By We Wish You A Merry Christmas)
The Cradle Song (Inspired By The Dreidel Song)
Oops Santa Got Stuck! (Inspired By Up On The House Top)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Rugrats Chanukah (Inspired By Chanukah, Oh Chanukah)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

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The Rugrats have only grown up on select specials at their home base on Nickelodeon, so we shouldn't expect them to rise above the level of the shag carpet, right? On Holiday Classics, they live up to their rep for occasional potty-mouth humor and goofy hijinx, taking the kinds of liberties only these tikes can with standards like "Jingle Bells" (here rendered by Angelica as "Tinkle Heads.") The worm-eating goobers change the Hanukkah classic "The Dreidel Song" into "The Cradle Song" and take great delight in singing about how they filled little Dill's cradle with soup, "and when we try to drink it, it makes us want to poop." There are less graphic displays of the holiday spirit ("Tommy's Silent Night" has sincerity and cuteness to spare), but overall, calling Holiday Classics a cool stocking stuffer would really be a woolly stretch. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

I Hate When Great Singers Are Forced To Sing Horribly.......2005-05-05

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I like cartoons and I like novelty albums. Since I also like the Rugrats, I thought I would love this album. Boy was I wrong.

The background music isn't holiday music, but some lame hip-hop/dance beats that sound like they came from a Casio keyboard or a samples CD ("Tommy's Silent Night" is the only exception).

Some of the songs have religious themes which shouldn't be there. For example, "Toys For The Girls" degenerates from a toy song to a religious song. All of the songs should be about things babies and kids would think about around holiday time, but sung to the melodies of the classic holiday songs. If I wanted to hear the songs with religious themes, I'd listen to an album of the original versions.

Most of the songs have choruses that repeat too often. Although I like the Rugrats voices, listening to them repeat the same dumb verses to the same annoying music several times within a few minutes time, and repeat that twelve times, is too much for me to bear.

BEST SONGS - "Twelve Days of Rugrats" and "Rugrats Chanukah" (honorable mention goes to "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" because I love how Cree performs it as a sort-of rap).

WORST SONG - "Tommy's Silent Night" (hand down winner). You have Tommy singing in baby-speak about baby Jesus backed by the nice traditional "Silent Night" music, which makes this sounds offensive and sacrilegious. To add insult to injury, E.G. Daily is forced to sing off-key in character as Tommy. I know that she can sing this song beautifully if give the original lyrics and the opportunity.

If you want a great Rugrats music CD, get The Rugrats Movie soundtrack (and possibly the Rugrats In Paris soundtrack - I haven't heard it myself). STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS ONE!

For Fans of the Series........2004-12-10

The Rugrats is one of those pieces of children's entertainment that both children and their parents can enjoy watching together. Kids love Tommy, Phil and Lil, and especially Chucky and can really relate to the adventures the young tykes go through. Parents and adults can appreciate the show on a much different level (beyond that of the poop and pee jokes) which usually brings about at least a smile if not a few chuckles or a full blow guff-faw. RUGRATS HOLIDAY CLASSICS revolves around the concept that first help make The Rugrats such a breakout phenomena on Nickelodeon; taking things very familiar and ordinary and twisting them around into the imaginary world of what young children might be thinking. The album is mostly a collection of classic Christmas and Chanukah songs sung by the babies and Angelica in the way they have heard and interpreted the songs. So, instead of "The Dradle Song" we get "The Cradle Song" and "Joy to the World" becomes "Toys for the Girls". The songs are lively and amusing. However, there are a couple of charmers in the group, too. Tommy's rendition of "Silent Night" is not only cute, but touching and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Klause" isn't touching like "Silent Night" but is just as memorable. Overall, this is fun Christmas album that children, especially those who are fans of the Nicklelodeon, will enjoy. Adults might be amused by it, but will probably be leary that it could turn into a Raffi-type Christmas album.

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