Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life

Infobox Album
Name=Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life
Type=studio
Artist=Cyndi Lauper


Released=Start date|1998|10|27
Recorded=1998
Genre=Pop
Length=41:59
Label=Epic
Producer=Cyndi Lauper, Jan Pulsford, Junior Vasquez, William Wittman
Reviews=*Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=E1B2E2A87F00DA4BB3756C94CA231393E12AA85B8A03DBA3&sql=10:jbfexq8jldfe~T1 link]
Last album="Sisters of Avalon"
(1996)
This album="Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life"
(1998)
Next album="Shine"
(2001)

"Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life" is the sixth studio album released by Cyndi Lauper. It combines original compositions by Lauper and collaborator Jan Pulsford with traditional Christmas songs. Reportedly much of the vocal was recorded in Lauper's cedar closet as it had a reverb that she liked. "Feels Like Christmas" previously appeared on Lauper's 1993 album "Hat Full of Stars".

The album peaked at number seventy-five on the Japanese Album chart.

Track listing

#"Home on Christmas Day" (Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper, William Wittman) – 4:06
#"Early Christmas Morning" (Lauper, Jan Pulsford) – 5:07
#"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (Johnny Marks) – 2:45
#"Christmas Conga" (Lauper, Pulsford) – 3:31
#"Minnie and Santa" (Lauper, Pulsford) – 3:55
#"Feels Like Christmas" (Eric Bazilian, Hyman, Lauper) – 4:30
#"Three Ships" (Traditional) – 2:08
#"New Year's Baby (First Lullaby)" (Lauper) – 4:27
#"December Child" (Lauper, Pulsford) – 3:11
#"In the Bleak Midwinter" (Gustav Holst, Christina Rossetti) – 4:02
#"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr) – 4:18

Release history