Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| BBC | (favorable) |
| RTÉ | |
Allmusic writer Tim DiGravina described the album as "inspired good fun", calling it "without a doubt, one of the better alternative, holiday collections", and opined that Grandaddy's "Alan Parsons", with its lyric about building a snowman and pretending that it is Alan Parsons, "might be the funniest song from 2000". The BBC's Richard Banks called "Alan Parsons" "a stroke of comedy genius". Scott Miller, in his book Music: What Happened?, suggested that Grandaddy "probably deserve immortality" just for this song. RTÉ called the Grandaddy song "downright silly", while Exclaim! called it "one of our favourite indie rock Christmas tunes ever". Six By Seven's "I Believe in Father Christmas" was described by DiGravina as "some sort of post-modern classic". RTÉ described Belle & Sebastian's "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" as a "beautiful ethereal version".
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