Nick Lowe: Quality Street - A Seasonal Selection For All The Family

Nick Lowe - Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family - LPYEP2330C

Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family

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Release Date: 28 October 2013

Label: Yep Roc

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 805520001144

Genres: Easy Listening

Release Date: 08 November 2024

Label: Yep Roc

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 634457190993

Genres: Easy Listening

Description
Limited Vinyl Edition.

When Nick Lowe was approached by his record label about making a Christmas album, his reaction wasn't exactly one of comfort and joy.

"It was more disquiet and alarm, accompanied by feelings of 'Do they really think I would wish to sully my good name on this tawdry and vulgar commercialism?'" Lowe says with a laugh. "But that feeling lasted about thirty-six and a half seconds, before I came to and thought, 'Vulgar, tawdry commercialism? Yes, please, when do we start?' Seriously, I thought, 'Wait a minute, this could be really good fun.'"

And so it was, Nick and cohorts had an absolute ball doing it.

Nick penned 2 songs for the project, there is a co-write with Ry Cooder, Ron Sexsmith wrote a song and they tackle the Wizzard classic 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day along with several other covers.

You might say it's the kind of record that gives vulgar, tawdry commercialism a good name.

This LP release is manufactured using 180gm vinyl.

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Since its release in 2013, Nick Lowe's holiday album Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family has been critically lauded for "the retro-reinvention of the Christmas album" (Uncut) and was heralded by TIME and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest holiday records of all time. Featuring original tunes by St. Nick himself, such as the witty "Christmas at the Airport" and tender "I Was Born in Bethlehem," to reimagined covers like an ironically bombastic, swinging rendition of "Silent Night" and the rearranging of Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Roger Miller's "Old Toy Trains." Some of Lowe's collaborators and admirers make songwriting appearances on the album as well, including the Ron Sexsmith-penned "Hooves on the Roof" and Lowe's co-write with his former Little Village bandmate Ry Cooder on "A Dollar Short of Happy." Rolling Stone said it best that an album like Quality Street is "worthy of your holiday bonus." This green vinyl pressing of the album is limited to 500 copies worldwide!
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