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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 2572
Released: October 25, 2005 |
| Our Price: $9.94 |
| Used Price: $4.85 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Merry Christmas Track Listing:
1. Silent Night - Mariah Carey, Traditional
2. All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey, Carey, M.
3. O Holy Night - Mariah Carey, Traditional
4. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Mariah Carey, Spector, Phil
5. Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) - Mariah Carey, Carey, M.
6. Joy to the World - Mariah Carey, Traditional
7. Jesus Born on This Day - Mariah Carey, Carey, M.
8. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Mariah Carey, Coots, J. Fred
9. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) - Mariah Carey, Mendelssohn, Felix
10. Jesus Oh What a Wonderful Child - Mariah Carey, Traditional
11. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Mariah Carey, Traditional
12. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Mariah Carey, Coots, J. Fred
Editorial Review:
She's been hailed for her multi-octave vocal range--a tool that sometimes detracts from her pop recordings, but actually works quite beautifully in the context of this charming holiday collection. Fans will surely approve of Carey's renditions of slinky secular songs like "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and a nicely subdued "All I Want for Christmas Is You". But where she really surprises is in her unadorned delivery of traditional carols, highlighted by "Silent Night" (which she sings quietly, avoiding the temptation to wail those high notes) and "Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child". Merry Christmas is a must for die-hards and a pleasant surprise for the unconverted. --David Sprague
Merry Christmas Reviews:
The best Mariah album and one of best X-mas releases 
2008-02-28 - Although I was not following Mariah's career as close as I used to at the time of this release, I was very excited when I learned that the X-mas videos were going to be available for the first time on DVD (or in any format really). I give 5 stars to the Original Album and performances of the original songs. But I really did not like much the hip-hop versions of some of the songs and the animated videos. Otherwise this would have been a perfect package. But I guess they wanted to portrait Mariah as she is now and not the adult contemporary artist she used to be. My only major complaint is the quality of the new booklet. It seems that they lost the original artwork masters because the new booklet was obviously a copy of one from the old CD and the new track information was just added on the blank spaces because it is much darker in color than the rest. Hopefully next time they will have more consideration in doing a quality booklet, Mariah deserves no less.
Merry Christmas requires some work! 
2008-01-08 - One side worked fine as a normal CD.
Then I tried the other side, and was disappointed at first to find that the "videos" were only one picture per tune.
Only later I found that there really were some music videos on the disc, but it takes a little work to find them with the menu system.
So there are really (at least) 3 different ways to play this disc!
I liked the music.
Mariah has fun with it. It works in spades. 4.4 stars.
2007-11-16 - Only reason I give this a higher score than the original is for the DualDisc videos. I paid 11 bucks for this and overall, am satisfied with the 5 outstanding tracks on it.
All I Want For Christmas Is You (Best X-Mas song ever. Made Me tear up twice! No other songs do that!)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) Lovely. The second best song here. It's so sad. Deals with longing for love and loneliness with nothing better to do than to think about HIM...*Le Sigh*
Silent Night
O Holy Night
The only filler is Hark! and Jesus, Oh...
Glad I got it though.
Miss You Most is the second best X-Mas track I've ever heard.
4.4 stars.
Mind Blowing Vocals.
2007-11-03 - An astonishing display of vocal range and artistic perfection,no one can even come close.The singing is obviously superb but the dual disc technology is amazing especially for audio and videophiles. If you love mariah or simply love to have a quality holliday cd,get this version..your expensive multichannel hometheater system will thank you.
Christmas Classic!
2007-02-10 - I love this CD! This is one of my favorite Christmas CD's because there are several good songs. I actually had this on cassette when it was first released and I haven't gotten tired of it after all these years.
