A Christmas Album (Bright Eyes album)

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A Christmas Album

Released

December 1, 2002

Length

32:03

Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
(2002)

A Christmas Album
(2002)

One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels
(2004)

Alternative cover

2013 reissue cover

A Christmas Album is the fifth album and first Christmas album by Bright Eyes released in 2002.^[1] The proceeds of the album go to the Nebraska AIDS Project.^[2]

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" appeared in the films Imaginary Heroes and Krampus, and "Blue Christmas" was featured in an episode of The O.C., entitled "The Best Chrismukkah Ever". Initially released only online as a CD through the Saddle Creek website,^[1] it was released on 180 gram white vinyl in 2009.^[2] In 2013, Pitchfork described the album generally positively, stating that it sounded "like a field recording from chilly church basements [in Omaha]."^[3] It subsequently has been widely celebrated and re-released numerous times, including in 2023 by the indie label Dead Oceans.

This album is the 48th release of Saddle Creek Records.

Track listing

*A Christmas Album* track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Away in a Manger"	2:48
2.	"Blue Christmas"	2:20
3.	"Oh Little Town of Bethlehem"	2:58
4.	"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"	1:53
5.	"The First Noël"	2:30
6.	"Little Drummer Boy"	2:35
7.	"White Christmas"	1:36
8.	"Silent Night"	3:14
9.	"Silver Bells"	3:54
10.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	4:08
11.	"The Night Before Christmas"	4:08
Total length:		32:03

^ ^a ^b Sanneh, Kelefa (6 December 2002). "Holiday Albums; Bright Eyes". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bright Eyes: A Christmas Album". Saddle Creek. Archived from the original on 29 November 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
^ "Bright Eyes: A Christmas Album". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

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Studio albums	A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997 Letting Off the Happiness Fevers and Mirrors Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground A Christmas Album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Cassadaga The People's Key Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was Five Dice, All Threes
Live albums	Motion Sickness
Compilation albums	Noise Floor
EPs	Bright Eyes / Squadcar 96 Every Day and Every Night Insound Tour Support No.12 Oh Holy Fools Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page There Is No Beginning to the Story One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels Four Winds
Singles	"Motion Sickness" "Lover I Don't Have to Love" "Lua" "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" "When the President Talks to God" 'First Day of My Life" "Easy/Lucky/Free" "Hot Knives"
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