A Very Arcade Xmas

~ Release by Arcade Fire (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

This "Christmas Album" has been repudiated by Win Butler:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2005/01/arcade_fire_upd_1.html

Some track information is here:
http://jeddeth.blogspot.com/2004/12/arcade-xmas.html

It may be better to credit the first four songs as "Arcade Fire and Friends" or "Friends of the Arcade Fire". Tracks 5 and 6 are Jeremy Brendan songs, possibly accompanied by some of the same people. Tracks 7 and 8 seem to be from an unrelated live AF appearance.

The album is also frequently found with four tracks which are indistinguishable from the "2001 demos" disc.

Annotation last modified on 2010-01-02 00:26 UTC.

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1Chestnuts Roasting
cover recording of:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
lyricist:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) and Robert Wells (songwriter) (from 1944 until 1945)
composer:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (from 1944 until 1945)
publisher:
Chappell/Morris Ltd., MPL Communications Inc. (Paul McCartney‐related, NYC‐based company), Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, Warner Chappell Ltd. and Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) (from 1946 to present)
3:09
2Oh Holy Night
cover recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (composer) (in 1847)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
4:30
3Jinglebell Rock
1:19
4A Very Arcade Xmas
8:09
5It Clouded Fully
1:01
6The Spartans
2:57
7In the Attic
6:15
8Asleep at the Wheel
4:13
9Old Flame
recording of:
Old Flame
writer:
Win Butler and Régine Chassagne
publisher:
EMI April Music Canada Ltd. and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated)
3:55
10Submarine
2:47
11In the Backseat
recording of:
In the Backseat
writer:
Will Butler (Arcade Fire), Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Timothy Kingsbury and Richard Reed Parry
5:08
12Headlights
4:12