The Moody Blues, December - 42m 10s

Tracks & Durations

1. Don't Need a Reindeer	3:59
2. December Snow	5:11
3. In the Quiet of Christmas Morning	2:51
4. On This Christmas Day	3:40
5. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)	2:37
6. A Winter's Tale	4:28
7. The Spirit of Christmas	4:52
8. Yes I Believe	4:21
9. When a Child Is Born	3:34
10. White Christmas	3:08
11. In the Bleak Midwinter	3:21

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Review

It was inevitable that The Moody Blues would produce a Christmas record. Why it took this long is the mystery. The group's classical music underpinnings have always been ripe for the Christmas canon and on December they add to it with their own contributions. "Don't Need A Reindeer" is a remarkably sweet little pop song that proves Justin Hayward can still write what sounds like a hit. A fair amount of orchestration shades the rest of the CD, as the band arranges and adds lyrics to a Bach piece (here called "In the Quiet of Christmas Morning") while also taking on "In the Bleak Midwinter," "When A Child Is Born," "White Christmas," and the John Lennon/Yoko Ono classic, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." In the same vein, though less cheerful, John Lodge pens a melancholy meditation on the horrors of the Mideast in 2003. While he's no John Lennon and December is uneven at best, for Moody Blues fans it will be like finding the lost chord.--Martin Keller

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