Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer
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{{Infobox album
| name = Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer
| type = studio
| artist = Relient K
| cover = Relient K - Let It Snow, Baby, Let It Reindeer.jpg
| alt =
| released = October 23, 2007
| recorded = 2007
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Christmas, Christian rock, pop punk,{{cite web|last1=Leahey|first1=Andrew|title=Let It Snow Baby... Let It Reindeer Review|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/let-it-snow-babylet-it-reindeer-mw0000583003|website=AllMusic|publisher=All Media Network|accessdate=2 April 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620220650/http://www.allmusic.com/album/let-it-snow-babylet-it-reindeer-mw0000583003|archivedate=June 20, 2012 |date=2 April 2016}} alternative rock
| label = Gotee
| producer =
| prev_title = Must Have Done Something Right EP
| prev_year = 2007
| next_title = The Bird and the Bee Sides
| next_year = 2008
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/let-it-snow-babylet-it-reindeer-mw0000583003 |title=AllMusic Let It Snow, Baby...Let It Reindeer album overview |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=December 30, 2014}}
| rev2 = IGN
|rev3 = Jesus Freak Hideout
|rev4 = Sputnikmusic
|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/40321/Relient-K-Let-It-Snow,-Baby...-Let-It-Reindeer/ |title=Sputnikmusic Let It Snow, Baby...Let It Reindeer album review |publisher=Sputnikmusic |accessdate=December 30, 2014}}
}}
Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer is the second Christmas album by Christian rock band Relient K.
Release
On August 22, 2007, Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer was announced for released in two months' time.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/25201/relient-k-plans-christmas-album|title=Relient K plans Christmas album|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=May 30, 2022}} 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.{{cite web |url = http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/LetItSnowBabyLetItReindeer.asp |title = Jesus Freak Hideout - Let It Snow Baby...Let It Reindeer Review |accessdate = September 2, 2007 |date = September 2, 2007 |publisher = Jesus Freak Hideout}}{{cite web |url = http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/news/default.asp |title = Jesus Freak Hideout - News - August 21, 2007 |accessdate = September 2, 2007 |date = August 21, 2007 |publisher = Jesus Freak Hideout}}{{cite web |url = http://music.ign.com/articles/813/813864p1.html |title = IGN - Music - Relient K Bring Christmas Early |accessdate = September 2, 2007 |date = August 20, 2007 |publisher = IGN - Music |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070822115938/http://music.ign.com/articles/813/813864p1.html |archive-date = August 22, 2007 |url-status = dead }} The album peaked at No. 96 on the Billboard 200 list in its fourth week.
"Silver Bells" was posted on the group's Myspace account on November 7, 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_5056|title=Relient K post "Silver Bells"|work=Alternative Press|publisher=Alternative Press Magazine, Inc|date=November 7, 2008|accessdate=July 27, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/TisTheSeasonToBeGotee.asp |title=Tis The Season To Be Gotee review on Jesus Freak Hideout |publisher=Jesus Freak Hideout |date=December 26, 2010 |accessdate=December 30, 2014}}
=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 not written by Matt Thiessen are public domain. 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.
{{track listing
| total_length = 48:15
| title1 = Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
| note1 =
| writer1 = Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
| length1 = 2:11
| title2 = Sleigh Ride
| writer2 = Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish
| length2 = 3:32
| title3 = Merry Christmas, Here's to Many More
| note3 =
| writer3 = Matt Thiessen
| length3 = 3:51
| title4 = Angels We Have Heard on High
| writer4 = Edward Shippen Barnes
| length4 = 1:55
| title5 = Deck the Halls
| writer5 = Thomas Oliphant
| length5 = 1:21
| title6 = 12 Days of Christmas
| writer6 = Frederic Austin
| length6 = 3:33
| title7 = Silent Night/Away in a Manger
| note7 =
| writer7 = Joseph Mohr, Franz Xaver Gruber/William J. Kirkpatrick,James Ramsey Murray
| length7 = 2:18
| title8 = I Celebrate the Day
| note8 =
| writer8 = Thiessen
| length8 = 3:17
| title9 = In Like a Lion (Always Winter)
| writer9 = Thiessen
| length9 = 3:44
| title10 = I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas
| writer10 = Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett
| length10 = 1:39
| title11 = We Wish You a Merry Christmas
| writer11 = Unknown
| length11 = 2:12
| title12 = Santa Claus Is Thumbing to Town
| note12 =
| writer12 = Thiessen
| length12 = 2:43
| title13 = Handel's Messiah
| note13 =
| writer13 = George Frideric Handel
| length13 = 1:09
| title14 = I Hate Christmas Parties
| note14 = performed by Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes
| writer14 = Thiessen
| length14 = 4:34
| title15 = Boxing Day
| note15 =
| writer15 = Thiessen
| length15 = 3:37
| title16 = Auld Lang Syne
| note16 =
| writer16 = Robert Burns
| length16 = 2:53
| title17 = Good King Wenceslas
| note17 = hidden track
| writer17 = John Mason Neale, Thomas Helmore
| length17 = 3:17
}}
{{track listing
| headline = 2008 iTunes re-release bonus tracks
| title1 = Silver Bells
| note1 =
| writer1 =
| length1 = 3:04
| title2 = God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
| note2 =
| writer2 =
| length2 = 2:05
| title3 = O Holy Night
| note3 =
| writer3 =
| length3 = 2:34
}}
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