Christmas At Home Palatine IL

Christmas At Home

Donny Osmond

Epic / Legacy Records, 1998

REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 12/24/1998

Being Christmas Eve and all, you would think that I'm fully in the Christmas spirit, feeling all happy and fuzzy warm all over.

Think again, sucker. For some reason, I have not gotten into the spirit of the holidays this year. I can't explain why this is so, but this is the first Christmas in years that I've not been overtaken by holiday joy.

Even the latest holiday release from Donny Osmond, Christmas At Home, didn't help. I won't go so far as to say that it made my mood worse at times, but while some of these songs capture the mood very well, others fit about as well as snow in Hawaii.

It would be easy to say that the difficulties with this album were split along the lines of traditional carols and newer songs. However, there is both good and bad in each of these camps. Osmond knows how to exploit the good in a positive way, but when these songs are off the mark, look out.