It's a Cool, Cool Christmas is a Christmas charity compilation album released in 2000 by Xfm on Jeepster Records in aid of The Big Issue. The album includes a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and original songs with a Christmas theme. The album was reissued on vinyl by Jeepster Records in November 2021 in aid of War Child (charity) in the UK, with the blessing of all original artists.

Reception

Allmusic writer Tim DiGravina described the album as "inspired good fun", calling it "without a doubt, one of the better alternative, holiday collections." According to DiGravina, Grandaddy's "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland," with its lyric about building a snowman and pretending that it is Alan Parsons, "might be the funniest song from 2000". The BBC's Richard Banks called "Alan Parsons" "a stroke of comedy genius". Scott Miller, in his book Music: What Happened?, suggested that Grandaddy "probably deserve immortality" just for this song. Ireland's public broadcasting network, RTÉ, called the Grandaddy song "downright silly", while Exclaim! called it "one of our favourite indie rock Christmas tunes ever". Six By Seven's "I Believe in Father Christmas" was described by DiGravina as "some sort of post-modern classic". "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", contributed by Belle and Sebastian, was described by RTÉ as a "beautiful ethereal version".

Track listing