- christmas music, pop rock, christmas, am pop
- 36 min
- 16 tracks
- Capitol Records
Ultimate Christmas is a 1998 compilation of Christmas music by the Beach Boys released on Capitol Records. It rounds up all of the tracks from 1964's The Beach Boys' Christmas Album in addition to a handful of unreleased tracks from the aborted Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys album in 1977, some of which are alternative versions of songs included on M.I.U. Album the following year.
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Warm, classical in form, effortless and character-led.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Little Saint Nick2:03
- 2The Man With All the Toys1:33
- 3Santa’s Beard2:00
- 4Merry Christmas, Baby2:28
- 5Christmas Day1:51
- 6Frosty the Snowman1:56
- 7We Three Kings of Orient Are4:05
- 8Blue Christmas3:12
- 9Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town2:21
- 10White Christmas2:30
- 11I’ll Be Home for Christmas2:46
- 12Auld Lang Syne1:21
- 13Little Saint Nick (single version)2:02
- 14The Lord’s Prayer2:34
- 15Little Saint Nick (alternate take)1:57
- 16Auld Lang Syne (alternate take)1:21
16 tracks, 36 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Beach Boys
- Label
- Capitol Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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