As a rule, few holiday albums are tougher to endure than the ones recorded by cutesy vocal groups trying to be funny, and Too Many Santas!—the fourth album by the California band The Bobs—is no exception. With songs like "Mamba, Santa, Mambo," "Mrs. Claus Want Some Lovin'" and "Santa's Got a Brand New Bag," Too Many Santas! is full of butt-obvious jokes and an equal mixture of shrill vocal goofing and treacly crooning. Though not as impossible to stomach as those hideous Bob Rivers Christmas things that get all the holiday Top 40 airplay ("The 12 Pains of Christmas" remains the all-time most annoying holiday song), it's pretty intolerable stuff—even for fans of self-consciously quirky holiday camp.
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