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Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer

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Released
  
October 23, 2007

Length
  
48:15

Release date
  
23 October 2007

Recorded
  
2007

Artist
  
Relient K

Label
  
Capitol Records

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Let it Snow, Baby... Let it Reindeer (2007)
  
The Bird and the Bee Sides (2008)

Genres
  
Christmas music, Pop punk, Christian rock, Alternative rock

Similar
  
Relient K albums, Christmas music albums

Relient k have yourself a merry little christmas


Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer is the second Christmas album by Christian rock band Relient K. It was released on October 23, 2007, selling 4,500 copies in its first week. The album is a re-release of the band's Christmas EP, Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand, but with seven new songs and some other changes, such as track listing and a new ending to one song. The details were announced by Jesus Freak Hideout on August 21, 2007, and by IGN around the same time. The album peaked at No. 96 on the Billboard 200 list in its fourth week.

Contents

A re-issue of the album was released on iTunes on November 18, 2008. It included Relient K's renditions of "Silver Bells", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and "O Holy Night", as well as a music video for the band's version of "Sleigh Ride". The songs were eventually pulled from iTunes, but have since then been added to Gotee's 2010 Christmas compilation CD: 'Tis The Season To Be Gotee.

Music video

The band's video for "Sleigh Ride" was made by Funny Pages Productions. It is an animated video, and the band had mentioned in recent years that they always wanted to do an animated video. It features all of the band members as rabbits in winter. The Matt Thiessen rabbit fails to get the attention of a girl rabbit, which leads the other four band members to steal Santa's sleigh so that he can impress her. After the two take off in the sleigh, Santa tries to get it back by using a giant snowman. After some close calls, the other band members build a snowwoman to draw the snowman off. In the end, they give Santa his sleigh back, and the Ethan Luck rabbit sneaks a present from Santa's sleigh for Matt to give to the girl rabbit. The video was released in November 2008.

Track listing

All tracks public domain, unless otherwise noted. New verses on tracks 6 and 11 written by Matt Thiessen.

Tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16 appeared originally on the 2003 release Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand. Track 9 originally on the Apathetic EP.

Personnel

Relient K

  • Matt Thiessen – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
  • Matt Hoopes – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Brian Pittman – bass (2003 tracks only)
  • Dave Douglas – drums, backing vocals (all tracks except 2008 re-release tracks)
  • John Warne - bass, backing vocals (2007 and 2008 tracks only)
  • Jon Schneck - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2007 and 2008 tracks only)
  • Additional production

  • Ethan Luck - drums (2008 re-release tracks only)
  • Mark Lee Townsend - producer
  • Davy Baysinger (formerly of Bleach) - artwork
  • Songs

    1Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas2:12
    2Sleigh Ride3:33
    3Merry Christmas - Here's to Many More3:51

    References

    Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer Wikipedia