YMMV / Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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• Awesome Music: Has its own page.
• Complete Monster: Mephistopheles. See that page for details.
• Epic Riff: Numerous, but one in "Mozart and Memories" is an epic violin riff.
• First Installment Wins: Christmas Eve and Other Stories is their most celebrated album and the one most frequently chosen for the centerpiece of their annual Christmas season tour. "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" is included on the album.
• Glurge: Some of their lyrical work and the narrations on the Christmas albums can border on this. It's not as bad as some examples, but things like God sending down his littlest angel to bring back word on humanity and a rhyming poem about a guy learning to love Christmas again after reuniting with his adult son in a nursery for babies born addicted to crack DO read like a forward from Grandma. They keep from being unbearable by (in the case of the angel) reading like a childrens' fairytale rather than a self-serious sermon and (with the man who hates Christmas) focusing on the earnest reunion between two characters rather than throwing a message in your face.
• Memetic Mutation: Setting Christmas lights to "Wizards in Winter".
• More Popular Spin-Off: Of Savatage.
• Narm Charm: Some of their lyrics (especially on the Christmas album) are a little cheesy; but they're sung so earnestly and set to such great music it's fun not to love them. Plus just the right amount of cheesiness is what makes us love Christmas songs anyway.
• Signature Song: "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" is their most popular song, one of the few songs by them that's played on the radio, and likely the song you'll think about when you think of the band (That or "Christmas Canon", which is pretty much the only other song of theirs you're likely to hear on the radio). In fact, it's so signature that they have even played it twice in concerts (during the story portion and as the Grand Finale). To a lesser extent, "Wizards in Winter", though mainly because of its Memetic Mutation status.
• Tough Act to Follow: The Christmas trilogy as a whole. Beethoven's Last Night is the only non-Christmas album that gets a fair amount of recognition, though not to the extent of the trilogy, due to it being the only one released before the trilogy was completed. The two post-trilogy albums are mostly ignored and only have a handful of songs that get played live due to the band usually only touring during Christmas season, though Night Castle did go platinum in 2013 due to it being a double album.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: So much that they have sold more concert tickets than albums.

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