All songs are quite samey; most sound like children's tunes treated with the same "wall of sound" sauce. I like the sound and some songs are half decent but more variation would be good. And it's still a Christmas album, for Christ's sake (pardon the pun). A 2 is as far as I can go for a Christmas album until someone puts The Pogues, The Waitresses and the few non-annoying Christmas songs in existence on an album.