"There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight," Red Red Meat (Sub Pop)

From the 1997 album of the same name, I single out the title song because it's the only remotely Christmas-oriented tune on the album, a sort of Middle Eastern electric folk rock ballad asking Jesus to give out with some luck at the gaming tables. A little dark perhaps, but so is midnight mass. The band is mostly broken up today but its members still work together, and their albums remain available.