Ranking the tracks of A Very Special Christmas 2 | 12 Days of #108Mas

Last year, I broke out one of the few pieces of Christmas vinyl I have, which is A Very Special Christmas. It’s a pretty darn good album. I decided I’d rank the songs, which you can check out in the blog below:

So I figured for this year, why not go right down the line and go to A Very Special Christmas 2. Now I know there are some bangers on volume 3, but I felt like I haven’t really listened to this one very much. Once I started in on the album. I remembered why, because it sucks. Don’t get me wrong there are some good songs here, playlist worthy even. But this is 19 tracks that probably shouldn’t have been 10. I ranked them below, most of the album falling into the background music category. Even some really good artists just taking a song and making it boring. It’s not good.

I don’t even really like ole John Bongiovi, but in this heap of slow middle of the road xmas music, he’s able to stand out. The closest from jumping out of the background category was Luther Vandross, but you can’t really have people getting ultra horny at your xmas party, so gotta leave that in the background.

But we gotta talk about this Extreme song. It could make it to a list of the worst xmas songs ever. I mean, it’s just turrible. And it’s 5 minutes! Just way too much synth, way too slow, too many parts that are just oooohhhhs and nananas, and gotdammit, there isn’t even a solo. If you told me this was Jimmy Fallon doing a fake ’80s monster ballad xmas track, I would 100% believe it. They must have been paid on keyboard strokes and seconds, because there is absolutely no need for them to start in on noel, noel just to get to 5 minutes.

-Chorizy-E