Christmas Spirit - Donna Summer

Advantages: Good mix of tunes
Disadvantages: Not enough modern material

...Donna Summer has had mixed fortunes over the years, mainly thanks to some alleged homophobic comments Summer was supposed to have made during the mid-1980s when AIDS was first being properly recognised. However, the music has to be priority and this is a good collection of songs. The main styles are disco and pop. Here's a track-listing. 1. Love To Love You Baby (Single Version) 2. Could It Be Magic (Single Version) 3. I Feel Love (Edit) 4. Theme From The Deep (Down Deep Inside) 5. Love's Unkind 6. I Love You (Single Version) 7. Last Dance (Single Version) 8. MacArthur Park (Single Version) 9. Heaven Knows 10. Rumour Has It 11. Hot Stuff (Single Version) 12. Bad Girls (Edited Single Version) 13. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) 14. On The Radio 15. Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger) 16. State... Read review

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Advantages: A good mix of modern Xmas songs and cover versions
Disadvantages: None

...Christina Aguilera appeared on the scene in 1999 when she released her debut album, 'Christina Aguilera'. Since then she has had worldwide success releasing three other studio albums, 'Mi Reflejo' which was a latin pop album, 'Stripped' and 'Back to Basics' which is her most recent album. Her music is mainly pop/soul and r'n'b although her recent album has had hints of jazz music as well. She is a diverse artist and one of my favourite singers. In 2000, following her first album, she released a Christmas album called 'My Kind Of Christmas'. Although it is now 7 years old, I only bought this last year...it was £5 in Virgin, bargain! The album contains a mixture of modern Christmas songs along with some familiar old Christmas songs that I am sure you will recognise! Christmas Time - This song has such a good beat to it, it... Read review

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Advantages: Some lovely songs, Leona has a great voice
Disadvantages: Full of ballads, no up-tempo numbers

...Unbelievably, it has been a whole year since the voice that is Leona Lewis came to our attention courtesy of Simon Cowell's reality TV show, The X Factor. For me, Leona didn't really stand out until the Boot-camp stages, where I realised that the girl really could sing. Her first few live shows were amazing, and Leona cruised to the final, trampling all over runner up Ray Quinn. After winning the show, Leona shot to number one with her debut single, and then seemed to disappear into oblivion after that. She resurfaced again around October of 2007, announcing that her debut album was about to make its way onto our shelves, together with a new single. So 10 months later....was Spirit worth the wait? Sadly, the cover didn't stand out as anything amazing, just a facial shot of Leona, which sort of reminds me of the cover of Britney Spears... Read review

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