It’s back to the land of the fetid novelty cash grab, as Broken Records takes on the two biggest franchises of all time; Star Wars and Christmas!
What genius would have thought to put these two goliaths together? None other than producer Meco Monardo, a Star Wars superfan, who had previously recorded Star Wars and Other Galactic funk, a dubious 1977 cash grab that inexplicable reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Sniffing dollars, this marked a point in George Lucas’ career where he began to embark on systematically destroying the science fiction world he created with tacky merchandise, thus concluding his trajectory from ‘promising young film director’ to ‘Star Wars merchandising maverick’. Strangely, a Christmas themed Star Wars album seemed like A GOOD IDEA(!) to Lucas and he agreed to lend the talents of the cast to the album, before scarpering from the project, sticking his fingers in his ear and laughing all the way to the bank.
Mark Hamil, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were smart enough to spot a terrible idea and declined to appear on the album, but no such luck for Anthony ‘C3PO’ Daniels, who delivers classic Christmas carols like a monotone robo-nanny, delicately cooing over R2-D2 and condescendingly taking an entire song to explain what bells are.
The worst thing about Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album, is that despite its demented development, it’s not only naff but deathly dull, barely managing to elicit a chuckle out of Steve or Remfry. It’s crap but it ain’t funny, but where will it rank on our list of the worst albums of all time?
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